ANALOG VARIABLE TESSELLATION
The goal of this project is to create an Architectural wall finish or decoration through the use of tessellating patterns.
The original idea was a spirialing leaf on an axis. As this was investigated, an orthagonal cube pattern was revealed.
This juxtaposed cube- and- leaf pattern was determined to be the appropriate direction for the next stage of development.
The next stage of development was to create some quick sketch mmodels. an attempt was made to create the model out of a single sheet of paper, but this turned out to be futile.
Eventurally, The original design was pased out and a stripped down version was introduced, bottom right. This version is called the Starfish.
Although not ideal, the Starfish was modelled and completed, but lacked a sigle elementactual tessellation. The starfish was scrapped, and new attempts at the cube-and-leaf design were finally successful.
To try and understand the model on a level of print-worthiness, it needed to be broken down into smaller chunks, which could not happen from the “unroll” function that Rhino offers due to the parabolic nature of the shape. First the shape was broken down into a cube, then a smaller triangle, and finally individual leaves.
Here’s where it all starts to come together. A final approach was settled on, through creating single modules of triangles. These were then printed out and cut to shape, and pieced together like the study model here.
This is the result of putting all the pieces of print out together. There are some changes I would still make, I think the parabolic structures didnt work to fit together as well as I had hoped, But I know with some teaking in rhino I could get them to work. I am pround of py process, I hope you enjoy the renders on the following page, with my design depicted as a sophisticated wall decoratoion.
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