Parametric Climbing Walls

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The Parametric Climbing Wall

Desktop application for the design of Parametric CLimbing Walls by the end user

Visual feedback on the slopes and angles of the wall

File2Factory production - The 3D model = the build result

Visual feedback on the slopes and angles in the shaped tesselation

Assembly of mass-customized elements creates a free-form shape

Parametric Climbing Walls promotional video by Digitale Expressie for Mountain Network

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Facts

Year: 2013

Typology: Product

City: worldwide

Client: Mountain Network

Budget: N/A

Floor area: N/A

Awards:

Wood Innovation Award 2012

Parametric Climbing Walls is a fully integrated design system that faciltiates the design of freestanding triangulated woodstructures of virtually any shape and size within the constraints of the system. This concept has been applied to climbing walls, in close cooperation with Mountain Network. The design system is directly connected to an automated production system, which allows for seemles production and realization of any given design. The system is setup to allow the end-user to freely create limitless variations and shapes that can be build almost immediately.

In order to facilitate active participation of the end-user in the design process a desktop application was developed that allows the user to design the basic outlines of their solution, after which a designer in cooperation with a climbing expert can fine tune this setup and prepare it for production.

The geometrical output that is produced by the parametric design scripts developed by ONL [Oosterhuis_Lénárd] is formatted in such a way that it directly drives the proprietary production process, realizing a fully integrated file2factory solution for customized free-form timber constructions.