FABRICATION STRATEGY This uncannily cute Seagram Building can be built with sheet material. To prove that, these three stages serve as the mock-up prototypes demonstrating how the panels work as the complexity of the geometries increase. They are divided and combined by the finger joints, which offer perfect solution bridging the design and build. The fundamental strategy is dividing the sphere into horizontal strips or panels, A Grasshopper script is developed to add fins along the edges and to guarantee that they are matching side by side. These stages suggest that any space and geometry can be treated as the combination of basic spheres and can be further subdivided into panels. Thus, the whole building can be built in sheet materials. Moreover, the shape of seams, constituted by the finger joints will largely influence the impression as well as the physical performance of the whole building at large.
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