Images from the completed installation,
Tesselion: Adaptive Quadrilateral Flat Panelization.
A new era of digital technology has emerged to enable freedom of design expression. Increasing complexity in surface curvature through rapidly developing digital techniques has enhanced an age old design problem of constructability of non-standard surface geometries. Along with the software for creating this complexity, intelligent capabilities for construction can be utilized through algorithmic and parametric logic. Simultaneously, improvements in fabrication technologies are clearing the way for a fully unified design and construction process. Simultaneously, the possibilities for both design and fabrication are reinvigorating the professional role of the architect.
Tesselion is a built project which demonstrates a system of flat panel tessellation derived from complex surfaces to enable ease in constructability and a directly evolved spatial environment through lighting, programmatic adaptation and structural simplicity. Each panel’s uniqueness is afforded by the efficiency of digital fabrication while coded parametric relationships allow an emergent structural efficiency.
Recently the development of planar quadrilateral meshes has become a strong interest in the architectural community due to their potential ease for constructing complex surfaces. The project responds to this problem and proposes a method for flat panelization of free form surfaces which provides large scale, efficient and economic construction from flat sheet material.
Tesselion is located at the Philadelphia University Architecture & Design Building & will be up until October.
Address : 4201 Henry Ave. Philadelphia, PA 19144
Feel free to visit & take photos (send me any images & I will post them on the web)!
Material Sponsor: Alliance Metals ( www.alliancemetals.com)
Fabrication Sponsor: Jared Laucks & Continental Signs ( www.continentalsigns.net)
Many Thanks: Jared Laucks, Marc Fornes, Adrienne Yancone & everyone else for the generous support!
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SJET was initiated by Skylar Tibbits, as a catalogue and source of inspiration for work in experimental computation + design. SJET remains open to growing opportunities that provide for investigation in architecture & design, fabrication, computer science, robotics, media, art, electronics, fashion...
SJET is a direct result of an endless search for more.
Education:
BArch : Philadelphia University
Current : Design + Computation, MIT
Work Experience:
Point b design
Asymptote Architecture
Zaha Hadid Architects
SKIII Space Variations
Email: SJET [at] sjet.us www1.flickr.com/photos/13624120@N05/
SJET has been featured on/in:
SEED Magazine : Revolutionary Minds, April 2008 http:revminds.seedmagazine.com www.theverymany.net www.scriptedbypurpose.net www.dezeen.com
www.notcot.org http://blog.wired.com http://generatorx.no/ http://dataisnature.com/ http://aesthetechtonik.com/ http://node08.vvvv.org/ www.boingboing.net www.suckerpunchdaily.com www.archinect.com www.archispass.org/ www.fffound.com www.stumbleupon.com www.pinc.us http://blog.noahkalina.com http://livearchitecture.net/ http://blog.chaotic.co.uk http://andreagraziano.blogspot.com http://dimitrie.wordpress.com www.solidsmack.com www.core.form-ula.com www.rightbrainterrain.com
Many thanks for the generous support from our material/fabrication sponsors who have made all of this possible:
Alliance Metals Inc.
Todd Roberts & Bill Yorston
( www.alliancemetals.com )
Continental Signs :
CNC Fabrication
Mark, Andrea and Jared Laucks
( www.continentalsigns.net )
Quadrant EPP : Advanced Engineering Plastics
Kress Schwartz
( www.quadrantepp.com )
Harbec Plastics:
Rapid Protoyping
Bob Bechtold
( www.harbec.com)
Anyline Laser cutting
Jose Gonzalez
Michael Szivos
(www.anyline-ny.com)
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May 8, 2008 at 9:26 am
Congratulations!!!
Your work is very good, and should be praised.
Smart, with economy of means, doing a great effect with less, and with a good approach to constructive build ability.
Your approach differs from other good installations, finished recently, that tend to require a lot of investment resulting in a kind of “technologic show off “– and in this sense your installation is smarter. Congratulations, thanks for sharing.
Gonçalo Henriques – Portugal
May 30, 2008 at 3:57 am
Oologically says : I absolutely agree with this !
April 17, 2009 at 12:11 pm
hey!!
would you be able to create a similar double curved structure without using variations of modules..but instead use one module and one joint system to create the variation in shape?
BTW…do u run any tutorials online? =.=…i would really like to see your process of thought~