Month: February 2015

Might be a small thing but on page 27, they switched the wireframe preview and the turn off preview. Should be the other way around

 working through the steam chair model on changing the number of slats

more slats (which crashed my computer the first time):

less slats:

size is changeable too

larger:

smaller:

Hi Everyone, I decided to make a street Bench

I have never used Rhino before, don’t Know how to render but I did screen shots and  I’ll try to explain how I didi it.

1-I started creating CURVE shape according to shape and then LOFT

2.Made multiple LINE to divide the shape equally and PROJECT to apply lines to object.

3-Then I selected only the curves,  made SURFACE and EXTRUDE

     

Cool project I found… Living Architecture

So I attempted to recreate the Bertoia Diamond Chair… It was definitely a struggle, considering that I have never, ever used Rhino before the start of this class.

I was pretty happy when I achieved the model this far. However, it was missing the most important factor: the diamond shape.

I began with constructing the general shape of the chair.

After more fiddling.. I was able to achieve a close resemblance:

Unfortunately, the seat is still a solid plane with no “mesh,” like the original.

The factors that I would like to edit are the seat’s deepness (where the person sits), the height of the “arms,” and the length of the chair.. If the gap between the mesh could also be edited I think that would be interesting. (not sure what my limitations are!)

  Original chair by Eames  In progress

 variation of bench, tea table, and lamp

Design Drive:

1. Use of Multiple CPlanes tools to construct multi-dimension lines and curves
2. Make chair legs by constructing planes and mirror them
3. Mesh-like structure with ‘curve from cross section profiles’
4. Use of sweep the make tubes

Here is the Original Chair…

Here is a simplified version of the chair modeled in Rhino and Rendered in Keyshot.

Design Parameters:

1. Play with the number of legs

2. Alter the shapes of the legs.  Both base geometry and overall size.

3. Build on the “center explosion” and play with other types of configurations for the legs. (“imploding”, “falling rain”, multiple “explosions” and “drop and shatter”)

4. Different bounding shapes