Holographic Construction from Steam Bent Timber

[gwyll]

Hi everyone,

We’ve just finished building a pavilion for the Tallinn Architecture Biennial that combined the somewhat arcane technology of steam-bending timber with the precision of digital holographic instruction sets streamed to the HoloLens from Rhino and Grasshopper using Fologram (read: shameless plug). A little video showing the fabrication process mixed in with some sexy drone footage is here.

[billytalent.exe (Charles_Collin)]

hi guys,

This is amazing how you pushed the limits of construction and design ! I like it ! Can you please elaborate on how you used Rhino and /or grasshopper ?

regards,
-CC

[ajarindia (BVR)]

Hi,

Fluid Lines Taking shape of geometry

It’s flattering to see people trying to work out how we did this! All of the schematic design was done without any surface modelling at all, using really simple techniques that as Michael mentions we’ve all seen a million times before. We were really just interpolating curves through vector fields (using Nursery https://www.food4rhino.com/app/nursery though I haven’t maintained this for ages). The nice thing about this design approach is you can generate really complex topologies really quickly…

Cheers,
BVR