Tower Pieces
coral-inspired tower slots
role: conceptual researcher, fabricator
software: rhino 3D, grasshopper
timeframe: 2 weeks
inspiration
Building off of coral-inspired buildings such as the Coral Tower in Sydney and Ezri Tarazi’s research on 3D printed coral reefs, I sought to remake a coral-inspired tower piece for the second portion of the tower exercise.
process - sketching
pseudo code
logic v1
tower pieces v1
failed prints due to model quality lead me to completely redo my logic and instead focus on manipulating uv’s driven along the surface.