Less Shape, More Geometry

As a warm-up project my fall quarter of third year, and to introduce us to Grasshopper, an algorithmic modeling software in Rhino, my professor had us make complex geometries by adding and subtracting primitive shapes such as boxes, cones, pyramids, cylinders, and spheres. The motto for this studio was, “less shape, more geometry”!

 

Throughout the process, I made study models by laser cutting and stacking chipboard, folding bristol, and 3d printing. It was helpful to be able to get out of the computer and see the shapes in real life.

After a lot of iteration, I settled on using pyramids because they have straight sides so they are easier to build but more dynamic than boxes.

 

I constructed the form out of laser cut bristol. I also made the void of that form out of rockite.

The final step in the project was to create a site for one of the previous models, so I used the rockite void as my model. I took the lines from the model and cut them out of stacked chipboard. The void became a bridge.

I learned so much in this short project and I am really happy with the results.

 

If walls could dream… they’d dream of less shape and more geometry!