SplineGraft was developed as a collaboration in the Krets research group in 2006.The SplineGraft project sets up a reactive environment in which sound
dampening panels are continuously reshaped by a network of actuating
devices, triggered by user movement. The panels are grafted into an
existing environment, supported by structural racks allowing a range of
different configurations. SplineGraft can be set in different overall
shapes independent of its behavior. The different parts are grafted
onto each other; the profiled polyurethane panels are articulated by
the configuration of the structural racks. The texture of this primary
form is reshaped in real time by the control system integrated in the
structural racks; a continuous form finding process with emergent
patterning effects. In return, the spline ridges of the panels disperse
these transformations horizontally.
