Martin Siegrist Industrial Design

Climbing Volumes

Volumes are boxes with all kinds of sloping angles screwed onto a climbing wall to temporarily change the profile. Plywood is the material for volumes with planar faces. Organic shapes are mostly made of glass fibre. More recently, some manufacturers have been heat molding thermoplastic sheet material…

I created an algorithm to quickly design and explore plywood volumes. At the push of a button, plans or data can be exported for cutting with hand tools or 5-axis CNC machines. Metadata is streamed to Excel for cost calculation.

Volume plan for manual cutting with hand tools.
Screw angle and position on 18 mm panels.
Simple Sketchup components saved with the option to align to any geometry so they can be dragged onto a climbing wall model for route planning.
Volume disc.
Crazy volume study.
My algorithm can be used to export volume parts as 2D DXF for direct import in WoodWop.
The imported part in WoodWop with all CNC operations defined in Rhino / Grasshopper.
Early attempt for an algorithmic volume hole pattern.
The first iteration of my Grasshopper definition dates back to 2013. A lot has changed in the meantime.
Volumes with steel frame baseplates bolted to the walls M10 t-nuts at Camp5 1Utama in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, back in 2010.

All projects in the category “Volumes”.