Based at the Swiss Federal Institute Of Technology in Zurich, architect and programmer Michael Hansmeyer uses algorithms and computation to generate architectural forms. These are some of his 16-million facet ‘subdivided columns’.
Impressive enough as CG models, these fractals of Satan actually exist in the real world: CAAD printed on 1mm sheets at the university’s Replab, hollowed out to reduce weight and built up in layers, 2.7 metres high.
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