some progress

almost have all the pieces cut out!

kevin's connection detail

art of detailing

my latest revision for the art of detailing project - I plan on making this out of wood and aluminum.  I would like to use a mahogany but cedar is my fall back.  The aluminum will be milled, sand blasted, then polished- I really liked this finish on the some test pieces I did.  Going to start buying materials today!  Can't wait!

spaceframe - full parametric adjustability

all points are on the face of a sphere - radius adjustable in grasshopper

six segments- each internally symmetrical

first and second layers of framing

these couple actuators show more connections between first two layers

skewed connection- used to join rings with differing numbers of actuators

design methods preliminary model

these are some images of our new 16"x16" panel design

the shingled glass will get attached to the backside of the curved profiled wood pieces- we are going to experiment with some finishes on the shingled pieces of glass.

the vertical shaded panel are going to be a fiberglass mesh

the pics below are some material studies that we worked on today- pretty happy with the progress so far.  

materials testing

these are some modeling test we did using fiberglass mesh- the pictures don't really show the fine texture of the individual fibers.  I think it is going to work well in our model.

this is bad picture of the curved piece of mdf we cut out- we came up with a fairly efficient system for cutting out double sided objects on the mill.  Can't wait until we can get back at it tomorrow.