David Norkiewicz: Project 7: Unfold Shape

Statement of Purpose: For this assignment, we were tasked to create a foldable model, and were given a website (korthalsaltes.com)where we could browse and choose a pre-made design. I chose the dodecahedron. A dodecahedron is supposed to be a 4th dimensional object that was composed of right angles. I always found  this fascinating and want to create one.


Modeling techniques: This model require very little effort on my part, because it was provided by the website korthalsaltes.com. They provide several different pepakura shapes that can be used to create paper crafts.

We used adobe illustrator to create curves based on the PDF documents that can be downloaded from korthalsaltes.com. We broke up the lines into two different styles: Mountain and valley folds. After that, the curves were brought into Rhino and cut on cardboard.

The cardboard was stronger than expected, but with patience, and superglue, the model was complete.