Technics

MORPHOLOGY: HEX TILE MODULE

Dr. Haresh Lalvani and Prof. John Gulliford Collaboration with SeokYoung Jung

This project required us to be open to failure and learn from it to proceed. Explorations usually resulted in more problems and questions instead of solutions. We conducted multiple tessellating brick studies on doubly curved topological shells.

I used hexagon tiles as the tessellating bricks. Using one milled minimal surface mold, we explored multiple tiling methods to create a module and solve its edge conditions. Once a tiling method was deemed a success in a 3D study, I explored different edge conditions and possibilities of connections via 2D studies and further resolved them to make a physical final model.

One big module consists of 9 identical small hex modules that connect edge to edge. The one big module can continue infinitely.