Graceful forms made from tesselated flat panels

Architect Skylar Tibbits has been working out a scheme for "flat panel tessellation derived from complex surfaces" — big graceful structures made from snap-together panels. The results are documented in loving detail on the Tesselion blog.


Tesselion is a project by Skylar Tibbits which proposes a system of flat panel tessellation derived from complex surfaces to enable ease in constructability and a directly evolved spatial environment through lighting, programmatic adaptation and structural simplicity. Each panel's uniqueness is afforded by the efficiency of digital fabrication while coded parametric relationships allow an emergent structural efficiency, from a single panel to the complete adaptability of the surface as a whole.

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(via Beyond the Beyond)