Flexagon grid: a novel method of creating dynamic spatial forms based on the synthesis of tritetraflexagons

In this paper, we describe the method for the formation of spatial mechanical structures of flexagon grids, which aims to improve the technical and constructive qualities of dynamic mechanical systems and enrich the design practice of designers and artists with new materials that harmoniously combine both technical and expressive properties. This method can be regarded as an attempt to respond to the social demand of the modern consumer to surround himself with objects and things of a new reality that, due to the introduction of a dynamic component, at a qualitatively new, including aesthetic level, would satisfy his need for visual and physical comfort. The described structures can be appropriately focused on the improvement of the shape-forming and aesthetic qualities of design products, architectural forms and, in general, the filling of the object-spatial environment with objects with a dynamic component in its functionality and aesthetics. Flexagon grids must be attributed to spatial and plastic solutions, implemented in the framework of the kinetic direction in design and art, with the underlying idea of shape movement.