Making Waves

Here are some images of the final installation of the Sentinel Ridge deck railing project.

Making Waves

Here are some photos of the various stages of the deck rail fabrication. This project offers a good chance to actually implement scripting into a real world application. As we all know it can be quite rare that these things ever exist outside of the computer screen. We've been fortunate to get to work with the Cincinnati based firm Michael McInturf Architects to conceive and develop this project. The credit for this creation goes to entirely to this firm and it's members - www.mcinturf.com

More explanation and photos will follow...

Making Waves

project: Deck Rail
office: michael mcinturf ARCHITECTS
location: Cincinnati, OH
tools: Rhinoscript and laser cutting

More to come...

Shady Structures

Shady Structures

Back to the grid. This project again looks at the result of interweaving sinusoid algorithms as they proliferate on a large scale. The subject of this study is a simple triangular louver system. As the algorithm progresses the angle of the louvers rise and fall to create a sensuous pattern and some interesting shading effects. This study aims to provide a system for large scale facade and canopy structures seeking to create a pixelated appearance and fluctuating shading pattern. More to come soon.

Fenced in

This proposed project plays with the idea of a traditional wood fence. Back yard fences are a staple in the suburban American home, they provide separation and privacy for owners while simultaneously offering a limited yet intimate connection to neighboring yards. They are both a divider and connector. This script takes the archetypal building unit of a standard back yard fence and injects it with a sinusoid algorithm. This blending effect creates fragmented views which play on the idea of simultaneous separation and connection while offering a novel wood slat pattern. While this concept gives a chance to enhance the mundane boundary between you and your neighbor, it still won't keep him from borrowing your stuff.

Domes

CHICAGO - Happy new year everyone. This week we've expanded a bit on our work with three-dimensional grid systems. Here we have employed the same basic fluctuation pattern within the grid but we've added a Boolean subtraction operation to add depth to the final model. After running a script which adds a set of spheres to the model we ran another script which places another set of spheres that are displaced slightly from the first set. We then subtracted this second set to create a network of domes that interlock and form a very interesting visual pattern.