Our 4th assignment concentrated on using a structural frame system (bones) to hold up a cladding system (skin). We first started by making a simple surface in Rhino and extruded a frame out of an overlayed grid. The frame was laser cut from a 2-dimensional CAD file and assembled by hand. We then took the same shape into grasshopper and divided it into ribbons of material that would seem to flow in and out of the structural frame. The ribbons were 3D-printed as a single piece. On this panel, we wanted to create the effect that the structure is both exposed and hidden, depending on the z-coordinate of the ribbon. Together, these two pieces look like a wholistic unit.
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