MaterialConstraints_Edwards

Our lab this week asked us to examine how material constraints can become design constraints. We studied several pieces of art that bend and move to their respective material's limits to create interesting rhythms, patterns, and forms.

This lab utilized the Grasshopper plugin for Rhino. Setting up the script was difficult, as it was a three part process. First, we needed to establish a curve in Rhino that we then manipulated into a cantenary arc through Grasshopper. We then began working on the second part of the script. After building a torus in Rhino, we spliced it in half and made a wireframe version of it that was taken into Grasshopper and further manipulated. The end result was a series of alternating wire frames that were independently manipulable with Grasshopper.

Once we finished the second part of the script, we plugged the original cantenary arc into the second part of the script to create fillets on the joints of the wireframes. Then we baked the finished product into Rhino, and extruded forms based on those frames.