Rotating the cylinders

I also want the holes to rotate so that they eventually align in their 3m modules. To do this requires some basic maths.... ohboyohboy...

there's 8 layers of cylinders to be boolean functioned.

360 degrees that they cover.

360/8 = 45

each layer of cylinders has 36 cylinders.

45/36 = 1.25

so each consecutive layer needs to be rotated at 1.25 degree increments (1.25, 2.5, 3.75 etc etc) so that when it starts at the next 3m of cylinder, it will line up with the front of the first.

phew.

Rhino modelling

As the post suggests, I'm bringing it into rhino where I've extruded shapes for the cylinder, the structure and later, the path. To create holes in the cylinder, I extruded then arrayed a set of cylinders (36 of them, so they're arrayed out at 10 degrees each) and will booleandifference them from the cylinder.

Final model beginnings

Making the sections in AutoCAD which I will later align with the correct position (the blue original rail is at the right position) using rotate3D and align.

The skin

The material choice is obviously important because of how it interacts with its occupants. I'm going for wood, which can be connected to the circular structure in panels (curved ones). They could also be pre-laser cut in modules like the work shown below.

The first are examples by David Dessens (l) and Daneil Widrig (r). Checkitout at http://www.generatorx.no/20080229/generatorx-20-update-2/



This one is by Tim Shork, you can find more about it at http://www.generatorx.no/20080128/generatorx-20-public-presentations-2/

How it works

In choosing the cylinder, it's left me with some questions about its construction. This is how I would tentatively propose it would work in section and elevation.

Even Sherlock Holmes approves.

Last minute uploads

just bear with me, will be uploading the rest of the process and the final renders now. It's to make it coherent for the A5 booklet as I'll be cutting and pasting it from the blog into indesign.

Cylinder variation

And here's the cylinder version. It suits the curved path more than the rectangle, so I'm going to stick with this one.