- Hoberman effortlessly fuses design, engineering, art and architecture. His formation of the HAI (Hoberman Associates, Inc) was founded with the primary aim to design behaviour, to create objects with living qualities.
- Focuses on a dynamic relationship between product and user. Subsequent design explorations including rapidly deployable tents, miniature medical instruments and juvenile products.
- Places emphasis on the notion of transformable design: objects, structures and spaces that can change size and shape through the respective movement of their parts
- Expanding sphere & iris dome can be considered as prototypes, later adapted for multiple uses
- Development of controlling surfaces defined by geometric transformation, with zero material thickness has been combined with the rigorous design and engineering of hinged and folding mechanisms capable of expanding and contracting
- Mechanism designer
- Transform from original form
Expanding fabric Dome
“The Expanding
Geodesic Dome blossoms open from a 14” cluster to a 48” dome when pulled open
from its base. When deployed it has the same shape and triangulated pattern as
Buckminster Fuller’s static, geodesic dome, taking this seminal historic
structure into the 21st century.
Originally exhibited
at the Centre Georges Pompidou in 1997, the Expanding Fabric Dome was more
recently included in the exhibition Living Form, The Transformable Work of
Chuck Hoberman held in the POLA Museum Annex, Tokyo, Japan.”
(http://www.hoberman.com/portfolio/pompidou.php?projectname=Expanding+Fabric+Dome)
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