Intention

By creating a strategically asymmetrical part, the aggregation of many would produce a form with structural complexity on the inside and a smooth regular diamond pattern on the outside.

Components

Aside from the intention to differentiate the inside from the outside, the most important factors that influenced the development of the part were structural stability and the necessity of transmitting molten bronze from one to the next without trapping air during casting. The shape to the right illustrates the final asymmetrical part that is half diamond, to produce an outside pattern and half structural connectors for the interior structure.

Aggregation/Mutation Strategy

This system is composed of dissimilar parts with a constant connection strategy. Each part was shaped so that, when cut from a wax sheet and folded, they could be fused to each other at three points to produce a rigid structure. To take advantage of the potential of this developing complex system and push the resulting form to extremes, the individual parts were adjusted before assembly to disrupt the potential uninteresting repetition of similar parts. As the parts were drawn digitally and organized into rows, each row was scaled to produce a size gradient from small to large and back to small. This strategy might have produced a rather expected form but, combined with the extreme variability and inconsistency of the wax to bronze process, the resulting system was very surprising.