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Flexible Polyhedrons Series
Untitled. Flexible polyhedron tower (folded). Stockholm, 1970-1975. Aluminum, wire, string.
Photograph: Yildirim Arici

Untitled. Flexible polyhedron tower (unfolded).
Photograph: Yildirim Arici


Flexible Polyhedrons Series

Koman has patented his discovery of flexible polyhedron shapes (he is the owner of several scientific patents of this kind registered at the Swedish Patent Office).

These polyhedra get flatter and flatter if they are gently crushed or emptied from content, and could be large towers or platforms that can be flattened to reduce their size for transportation, somewhat like transformer robots!

Koman made these studies also thinking of the space industry, where in space ships the inside “space” (amount of available space within the ship) is a major issue. Making a fuel tank of these structures would permit to gain room as it empties, for example.

Koman discovered these forms while challenging classical architectural dogma based on the accepted concept that polyhedral structures are always rigid and registered the Two Flexible Polyhedrons in 1977 at the Swedish Patent Office.

Scientific phenomena: mechanical volumes, architectural components