The goal of this project was to develop a viable, double skin enclosure that uses opposing tension and compression to hold its form as opposed to relying on a traditional frame and panel relationship.
This solution exhibits a viable structure of complete elegance. Every material component is both structural and aesthetic. As hoped, it is more like a material than a structure. It exhibits a quality that is much different from traditional man-made structural systems in that it is shaped and formed by the size and shapes of its components, not by an outside force or frame. This aspect of the material is more like biological tissue which is grown one cell at a time with each cell’s size, shape and function determining the shape of the greater whole. It was created with a simple Visual Basic gradient script, through which manipulation of very simple input parameters determines the component gradient and frequency, dictating the entire assembled shape.
