C-chair

 

A collaboration with Prof. Aaron Sprecher, Technion & O-S-A. The first iteration toward modelling as an organic whole is the C-chair, a simplified model which encapsulates the design objectives of surface and structure. It is composed of points, lines, and planes, arranged spatially in two different systems - surface and support. Surface points are placed in concentric circles, and are partitioned by an interconnected K-means clustering algorithm. Support branches are informed by the layering of center points of the clusters and are modelled as tapered tubes. Ground points are randomly placed on a flat surface.

 

Parameters:

• spatial distribution of a random number of surface points

• shape of the surface

• size and shape of the "floral" caps

• number of levels of the tree structure

• number of clusters

• Branch network connected by interpolation

 

Generative element:

By varying the parameters, a population of forms (phenotypes) was generated, and two basic forms emerged. One had a relatively uniform distribution of branches, and the second had a single main branch and several smaller branches. This was caused by many points clustering in one area of the random distribution of the surface points.