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Component Design & Aggregation Solid Geometry

Tetrahedron

In this phase I picked a known solid geometry ,the tetrahedron.

By understanding the configura-tion and angles of the shape I was able to build a Grasshopper definition based on points, lines, and planes.

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Component Design & Aggregation Geometry Alteration

Tetrahedron

In this phase tried to understand how the tetrahedron attached to itself.

Realizing the tetrahedron has a very limited face to face connec-tion I altered the shape by trun-cating the points.

This created three new faces making the unit have seven faces instead of four.

This allowed for more aggrega-tion oppurtunities

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Component Design & Aggregation Aggregations

Tetrahedron

This comparison shows how the original tetrahedron tends to ag-gregate vs the new irregular tetrahedron’s tendency to aggre-gate.

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Component Design & Aggregation Perspective

Tetrahedron

This perspectival view describes some of the spaces that occur inside and around the new trun-cated tetrahedron.

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Component Design & Aggregation Fabrication Idea 1

Tetrahedron

This diagram shows a possible joint for the aggregation of the new unit. A Lego like system of openings and protusion that fit into one another

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Component Design & Aggregation Fabrication idea 2

Tetrahedron

The is a fabrication method using an eggrate system. The unit is cut up into contours which are then extruded into planes. each peiec has a notch to math up with another plane.

This eggcrate uses planes that are run in the x znd z directions.

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Component Design & Aggregation Tetrahedron Block Project

Tetrahedron Block Project wasa failure due to a bum saw and the small size of the pieces. The plan was well set forth by model-ling a step by step procedure in Rhino and coming up with a jig that would help hold the blocks while they were being cut.

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Component Design & Aggregation Fabrication Idea 3

Tetrahedron

This new component uses a series of different joints.

Two different pieces a common piece and a locking piece are used to form the component.

The unit will rely on friction and the plasticity of the plywood to hold together.

Common Piece Locking Piece

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Component Design & AggregationNew Component Fabrication Process

Tetrahedron

This diagram shows how the unit is to be assembled.

First two common pieces are fitted together. Then the third must slide into the one and rotate into the other slot. Here the material will be deformed slightly but its resistance to de-formation will create the friction needed to hold the parts to-gether.

Lastly the three unit are locked together by the locking piece.

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Exploded View

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Component Design & Aggregation New Component Aggregation

Tetrahedron

The unit will be able to receive other components from 4 differ-ent faces.

Notches are used to create fric-tion to hold the units together.

One uni is composed of two face types. One where all three common pieces meet. And the other where two common and one locking piece meet.

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Component Design & Aggregation Fabrication 1

The first production was succes-ful but some problems were found.

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Component Design & Aggregation Fabrication 2

In the second batch micro ad-justments were made to allow for tolerances and increase the modules strength and usability .

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Component Design & Aggregation New Component Aggregation

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Here a single module is applied to a surface condition in a panelled manner. The shape does not conflict with itself as it is placed in convex and concaved situations due to the strong taper of the unit.

This is a larger module placed onto a surface condition. The form is less natural and more panelled than the single module surface condition.

With smaller scale interac-tion with aggregation is intimate. The aggregation creates form but is subject to the shape it fills. It is not experienced from within but is experienced through its texture and feel.

The aggragation here is not creat-ing space to interact in but is part of another space. It is bounded by the walls and ceiling of a museum and limits itself for paths. Here it is an object to perceive to move around not within.

Here the aggreagation begins to form space to be interacted with. In a barren landscape it seems to grow as naturally as the tree besides it. The aggregation reacts to the tree and to the path, but has almost no obstacles in this landscape.

Here the modules scale is ques-tionable without any known scales to compare. With no surrounding objects the aggrega-tion is only subject to the surface condition of the landscape.

This scale is appropriate for human interac-tion. It forms itself but its shape is subject to its surroundings It creates a canopy over space in which a filtered light passes. Interaction and mood changes with the time of day and amount of sun penetrating the canopy. In a park like setting the aggre-gation seems to lead you from one place to another making a physical and symbolic link through alternate places throughout the park .

Here the aggregation begins to cover a portion of a city. The object seems infectious. It does not conform to minor changes in landscape only the larger surface condition of the land. Objects in the landscape are overpowered and become lost in the aggregation

Aggregation in limitless space. The form created is natural and unabiding. It does not conform to any space. At this scale it also seems to make a viable link between the earth and moon. Now it creates spaces and links spaces as well.