Unfold: Copper Helmet


I used a basic concept of a helmet for my idea, creating planar surfaces and building up a wire-mesh at the same time.








I tried unfolding it a couple of different ways, unfortunately I lost the process of one of the two fold methods but this one felt more ergonomic and ideally will fold a little bit easier.

Side by side this is the three pieces.

I ended up adding a bottom tapering edge to make it feel more helmet like











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