Form-finding and Form-making

Louisiana State University

2019

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Description: This is a four-week project on a series of exercises on form finding and form making. The students started physical form-finding by using Heinz Isler's hanging fabric design methodology for designing thin shell structures. They continued the exercise by conceptualizing discrete and panelized surface representations for the form-found surface. Afterward, they used Rhino and Grasshopper to recreate those surfaces before they make a detailed model of the structural system.
 

Credits: Aaron Bacon, Alexis Cook, Austin Copete, Claire Duncan, Kristin Fontenot, Kelsea Glorioso, Madison Harrison, Willie Kirts, Cornisha Lyons, Rebecca Maples, Bahareh Mohammadzadeh Moghanjooghi, Sarah Stafford, Neel Vyas, Molly Woods.