Jigoku-Gumi in grasshopper?

[Micah2 (Micah)]

I don’t even know where to start with something like this but my next architecture project for school is meant to focus on tectonic connections so “interlocking hell” seemed perfect. does anybody have any direction to give on making something like this in grasshopper? https://architecture-tokyo.com/2017/07/28/2013-sunnyhills-kengo-kuma/

[Edr (Eddard)]

You could try by starting from diagrid and weaving patterns. There are many topics in discourse to search.

https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/relative-item-diagrid-missing-last-grrid/74156

Weaving Pattern Simple

Hi there, this is a simple way to create a weaving pattern without any plugins only using lists in Grasshopper. The weaving pattern is modeled by constructing points and evaluating them from the built surface. First, the vertices are „moved“ to provide the doubled lists for the points of overlapping of the two weaving directions. After that the lists are first „shifted“ and then „dispatched“. Shifting happens 1 step vertically and 1 step horizontally to create a diagonal. The original point…

Looks like this facade needs two surfaces where diagonals connect them.

Probaby there are amny approached. But one example would be : Start from a grid with a tree structure. Where columns or grids are in separate branches. Use relative item to create a diagrid (rhombus shapes). For diagonals you need to match two grids and you use relative items or split tree and move.

Something like this.

facade_Jigoku-Gumi.gh (26.2 KB)

[Micah2 (Micah)]

cool! very informative, thank you.