VOROSAUR
Materials and Assembly
Carnegie Mellon School of Architecture
In collaboration with our studio under Professor Dale Clifford.
The project explored the material qualities of plywood and built a tower using only the plywood sheets and zip ties.
Our studio team began by examining the structure of bones and observing stronger densities at areas that were under more pressure and less densities in areas of tension. We took this idea and explored the potential of a 3d Voronoi pattern.
Through the use of rhino and grasshopper we were able to model the structure of the tower and then removed the interior pieces in order to make the structure lightweight. Each piece was milled out using the cnc router for precision and then assembled on site with zip ties to form each individual cell.