Category: Spring 2013

Edeline, Seal, and I met this week to combine our initial ideas to form three project concepts to present today.

One is a canopy to hang over a bench. The canopy would have a pattern of cut-outs which would cast a pattern of shadows on the bench and its inhabitants:

Here are some ideas for the Form Found project:

A pattern could be created using hexagons with rectangular cut-outs. Using grasshopper, we could have sliders to control the number of cut-outs in each hexagon, as well as the size of each cut-out:

When arranging the hexagons in a pattern, we could create a gradation of transparency:

We could also make the pattern more dynamic by rotating the hexagons so the “grain” of the rectangular cut-outs would change direction. The rotation could be done in a pattern or it could be done using random components in grasshopper:

This could be used either as a dividing screen or as the surface of some sort of enclosed space that people could stand in (sort of like a semi-private “conversation bubble”):

OR the gradation screen could be used as a lighting element. We could create a hanging structure to sit below one of the fluorescent tube fixtures. If we used reflective mylar as a material, it could create some interesting lighting effects:

Here are some ideas for the Form Found Project for my group. Tomorrow in class we will present the combination of all of our ideas.

Hi Ben,

I cant seem to find the video on the next step for the hexagon trusses on the blog. Can you post it please if its not in here? if not can you tell me where it is?

Thanks!

I continue the Truss Assignment on the Offset Curves by Distance to Attractor Point, but I don’t think it suppose to look like this? (the is no void in the middle of the triangle) I unhidden all the parameters and hide them one by one but still can figure out what is wrong?

Here is my development of the Truss Assignment. First, the truss demo is different from the file that we got on class. I try to change the process of Grasshopper so it looks the same to the demo. But for some reason I don’t understand why the Rhino projection of the inside triangle are not in a void, it looks that is a complete surface instead?? Can some one help and tell me what I did wrong?