B1.0 ARCHITECTURAL PRECEDENTS VOLTADOM // SKYLAR TIBBITS
VoltaDom is an installation that utilses tesselation to populate a glass hall way. The structure spans across a corridor, and was designed for MIT’s 150th Anniversary Celeration & FAST Art Festival. [1] The design is made up of hundreds of plastic vaults, that ‘intensify the depth of a doubly-curved vaulted surface’. [1] In order to fabricate these curved surfaces, each oculi is unrolled as a strip of material, and bolted together on the under edges of each of the vaults. [2]
In order to create this kind of tessellation, a series of shapes have been clumped together, with the overlaps trimmed off. Creating the installation in this way, allows each of the vaults to be unique, unlike in 2D tessellation when the pattern is often formed by the repetition of the same shape.
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