Thursday, February 09, 2006

Hypar houses

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I’ve been playing around with “hypar” shells again: thin shells made of a doubly-curved surface that equalises stresses across the whole surface, which and can be generated out of straight lines (as you can see from the bottom pics)–easy to construct, and so expressive.

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The car is there to give the models a sense of scale.  And some style.  :-)

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