Paneling

Although it appears simple, Goldberg Polyhedra in Grasshopper became a tough challenge, which I like a lot. I spent about 24 hours attempting to generate these polyhedra. I started with Goldberg’s original method. This creates an equilateral triangle using coordinates denoted as m and n…

It is not possible to cover a double curvature surface with planar quads. Here is one method that overcomes quad tiling on double curvature by pulling one vertex of the quads to the plane defined by the other three. This method was used in architecture…

Here is a simple pavilion design I call the Turtle Pavilion. It was exceptionally easy. The planar shapes placed on the sphere continue to be planar after the ellipsoidal deformations. I was amazed when I first noticed this, for some reason. With Grasshopper’s Facet Dome…

As the design of free-form architectural surfaces becomes easier, questioning and foreseeing the feasibility of the construction of these surfaces becomes important. Such an inquiry requires sufficient knowledge of architectural geometry besides the knowledge of materials and structural systems. In this article, we present a…

Back in 2011, one of the first posts on designcoding explored how to divide a surface in alternative ways. I called this Grasshopper definition a semi-regular surface tessellation. Although the term isn’t entirely accurate -since the pattern is neither planar nor made of equilateral shapes-…