This project was made for Printemps, a French department store, according to a design by UUfie - Canadian . The manufacturer was Sipral, a.s., the Czech company which created the proposal and can manage production facades of buildings from steel or aluminium materials. The superstructure represents a facade of the Parisian department store Printemps Haussmann Verticalité.
My role in this project involved creating a precise CAD model based on 2D documentation from the author of the origin design - UUfie. Authors documentation in DWG. format just contained a sketch of petal-shaped holes. Firt of all I imported this document to SolidWorks, after that I make front surface into which I created holes based on 2D sketch. The next step was split the surface to eleven segments. For every segment I add solid
The main problem were two ending segments. Solidworks is not designed for making flat-pattern from flanged sheet with coplicated shape of holes. But explode shape is The solution required wit and considerable effort.
Photo by Michael Denance.
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