BEIL0014 Digital Making -- Project 2: The Torus

This is week 3 of BEIL0014 Digital Making.

On this week we are moving forward to a more complicated shape -- a torus.

Material Preparation: Aluminum Sheet. Steel rule & marker.

Step 1: Draw the guideline on the sheet, divide the sheet into 3 equal areas with a margin around the border.






Step 2: roll the primary curve with the stump to get the initial shape.






Step 2: Use melee to hammer down as many times as possible on the central area to get the second curve along the primary curve.






Step 3: To get reverse curves on both edges, use a planishing dolly with a planishing hammer to hammer the edge which follows the curve of dolly.







Step 4: Repeat Step 2 & Step 3 to achieve curves with more radius.









Step 5（Optional）：after serval times repeating hammering between stump and dolly, the surface becomes quite lumpy, so I tried to use English Wheel again to smoothen the surface of the curve. However, I found out the Wheel would flatten the primary curve as I smoothen the surface, so I decide not to do so in order to keep the shape.








Finish Product: