Need help to make quasi bricks

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Hi, I’m trying to make this quasi bricks from Harpa Concert Hall to do acoustics simulation. Does anyone have any idea how to make it in Grasshopper? I tried to use Voronoi, but I don’t know how to make it into a uniform pattern like the picture. Any answer would be a big help, thank you!

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See the website for “how was it made”. Below some text from website.
“the quasi brick is a twelve-sided polyhedron consisting of rhomboidal and hexagonal faces. …
Only the main south facades of Harpa employ the three-dimensional quasi bricks; the irregular geometric patterns of the west, north, and east facades were derived from a two-dimensional sectional cut through the three-dimensional bricks.”

If I would do this in grasshopper, I would probably start:

  • studying what are “polyhedron consisting of rhomboidal and hexagonal faces”

  • choose between the 3D and 2D version (I would go for the 3D one).

  • use pictures like this one

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    and measure, draw, untill you have a parametrised version of this. Or this one:
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  • see if you can use move/orient to combine 1, 2, more into a pattern.

Enjoy, nice project!, Eef

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Which part of the project are you struggling with? Modeling the main shape or creating the pattern? The pattern seems uniform, so once you have the shape it should be no more complicated than the silly illustration attached. Obviouly you will be looking for some specific dimensions to make your copies.

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Wowzer, it looks like they site glazed all the steel framed prismatic modules.

It also looks like the steel was fabricated in China.