Milling exercise as part of our Digital Fabrication course in IaaC.
The exercise had two parts. The first consisted
in reinterpreting the design of the brick. What if the
best brick is not a parallelepiped? 25 teams of 3 asked. The
second part was all 25 groups building a wall installation of
a reinterpreted brick. Our groups’ design had the shape of a
cuboctahedron - a cube with sectioned corners. Cuboctahedrons
allow diagonal and X, Y and Z axis stacking. This gives
vast varietis of wall configurations and much more formal
flexibility than the overused parallelepiped. It uses the same
symmetry of molecular bonds. The cuboctahedron module
is split in two - the positive and the negative with one fitting
into the other.
in reinterpreting the design of the brick. What if the
best brick is not a parallelepiped? 25 teams of 3 asked. The
second part was all 25 groups building a wall installation of
a reinterpreted brick. Our groups’ design had the shape of a
cuboctahedron - a cube with sectioned corners. Cuboctahedrons
allow diagonal and X, Y and Z axis stacking. This gives
vast varietis of wall configurations and much more formal
flexibility than the overused parallelepiped. It uses the same
symmetry of molecular bonds. The cuboctahedron module
is split in two - the positive and the negative with one fitting
into the other.
