Making the Final piece

I thought that this method was now producing nice enough forms to create the final piece in this way too. So I made lots of repeats of the pattern, and began joining them together.

Joining them together Part 2

The pieces were expanding well, so I then tried joining them at different edges to see what forms this created.

Joining them together

I think I am happy with the way the forms are turning out using this method now. Therefore I made several more and started stapling them together to repeat the pattern and form bigger pieces.

Back to square one

I decided to scrap the idea of the cut out strips, it wasn't going in the desired direction. The method of scoring curves and then pleating them seemed to be the best option at this point. So, I repeated this but started to fold them in different ways.

Whereas before I started scoring from the corner and expanded outwards. In this test I started scoring from the centre and then folded it in this position too.

Experimenting with 3D - A different route....progression

I liked the turn out of the previous method, but the overall strength of the paper once parts had been cut out was quite weak. Therefore I tried this way again, but instead of cutting actual strips out, I just cut lines into the paper, with different widths in-between each section. This produced an overall stronger form but when the paper was bent into its final shape, the spread of the spirals wasn't as effective.

Experimenting with 3D - A different route

I thought about how I could create spiral patterns in a different way and came up with the idea of bending separate strips of paper. To do this, I drawn out parallel lines onto an A3 piece of card, and then cut out individual various strips, leaving some paper still attached, but some cut out. Then by bending this into different shapes, the strips of paper that were left in could freely move and created these spirals and curved forms. I tried to bend and staple the sheet into a shell type form, but it was very flimsy.

Experimenting with 3D shell forms

Taking into account that my inspiration is coming mainly from shells and spiralling patterns, I began making pleated curved pieces by scoring curved lines and spirals into paper and then folding along the creases, similar to a pleat.

I preferred this outcome most, the structure was more solid but still could be manipulated easily by joining them together at different places in order to create various final shapes.