Spring 2016 - Gabriel Fries Briggs

Above The Finished Floor

This project originated from forming a pile of rocks inside of a acrylic cube, documenting with plans and elevations. As an exercise to move into the realm of more complex NURB modeling, individuals were asked to formulate a watertight nurb in which we would then use as our base model,

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What intrigued me most about my formation of rocks, was the void spaces that it created. At no point were any of the rocks touching at more than 4 points due to their irregular shapes. I took this inspiration and created a wire frame that highlighted these points of interest. From there, I transposed my object into a lattice structure which in a sense was the friendliest representation to the idea of void space.