
After mainly digital work, we fabricated a physical sample of a bike-frame construction.
Continue readingAfter mainly digital work, we fabricated a physical sample of a bike-frame construction.
Continue readingTaking advantage of the kinematic adaptability of bike frame patterns, gently curved structures can be created.
Continue readingUsing entire bike frames connected at the standard bike joints, 2D lattices can be formed.
Continue readingBased on the Sommerville tetrahedron, part systems using multiple compatible types can be created that produce more differentiated complex aggregations.
Continue readingUsing an aggregation system based on regular Sommerville-tetra cells, bike frame clusters can be connected along edges.
Continue readingCombining the concept of bike frames contained in cells with aggregation systems based on the Sommerville-type interconnected structures can be created.
Continue readingAlongside Hill’s tetrahedra there are also other irregular tetrahedral cell types to fill space, of which the Sommerville 1 tetrahedron is a very promising one regarding our intentions.
The particularity here is, that the No. 1 tetrahedron consist of two “brackets” of each 2 triangles with two edges the length of the square root of 3 and one edge length of 2, connected at an right angle at their edges of the length 2.
Continue readingWhile it is not possible to fill space with regular tetrahedra, there are – according to WOLFRAM – five known irregular space-filling tetrahedral cells, when mirror cells are excluded.
At first we looked at Hill’s tetrahedra and Izidor Hafner “Definitions of Hill’s Tetrahedra” on the Wolfram Demonstrations Project was very helpful in setting up our Grasshopper definitions.
In an alternative concept for discrete aggregation systems that are based on packed volumes, parts could also be defined as individual faces of a solid.
This idea is studied using the faces of rhombic dodecahedrons that can be arranged as a space-filling tesselation.