GINA innovates conventional car design, not by the use of fabric per se, but rather through the idea that dynamic form is able to produce a variety of characteristics capable of expressing a series of emotions—similar to a dancer whose body acts as a generic basis for multiple vocabularies that are defined through choreography. Fin.0 is interested in motion, but not in terms of interpolation between states A and B; it does not explore the representation of a moving form by the aggregation of single positions, but through the relationship amongst moving elements, their rhythm, and the potential for multiple expressions within one form.

FIN.0 is a design platform comprised of repertoires of robotic motion, material logics, tool customization and real-time cinematic techniques networked into a dynamic interface that allows for the design and evaluation of dynamic surfaces and the motion of form. The use of universal light-weight six axis robots allows for a variety of set-ups that turn the individual robots into one single dynamic system by connecting them with rigid frames and flexible fibreglass poles. In order to control this structure we developed a Maya heads-up-display that updates the geometry of the poles and analyzes their curvature.

Nicholas Barger, Rangel Karaivanov, and Andrew Kragness
Instructors: Peter Testa, Peter Vikar, Jonathan Proto, and Brandon Kruysman
Sci-Arc, Fall 2012
Special Thanks to Chris Bangle and Atsuhiko Yamada

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