Collection: NODES

Vector based, OCTO II demonstrates the fortuitous actuality that when two planar linear parts with opposing 45 degree angle slots in their ends are engaged at 90 degrees to one another, the result is a 120 degree angle. This OCTO has been extended with top and bottom octagonal prisms, cubes and truncated octahedrons are also available shapes. The center form is a truncated cube-octahedron, its octagonal component is made possible by the addition of a 90 degree slotted part.

Materials: Latvian birch plywood

Dimensions: 12’ high, 9.5’ dia.

The Caterpillar has only two basic parts, square panels or portions of same, with 45 degree corner slots, and hexagonal panels that fit in between as all of the square panels are pinned together. The Caterpillar is about transformation, in this case, not a butterfly but a building system for a different life to emerge from the cocoon. It is an assemblage of truncated octahedrons oriented with the hexagonal faces horizontal, an embodiment of hierarchy and movement. The use of geometric principles in design honors the formations of nature resulting in infinite structural organic architecture.

Materials: Latvian birch plywood

Dimensions: h 13' w 27' d 7.5'

A segment of closely packed 'soap bubble' like truncated octahedrons, one of the only three polyhedric forms capable of infinite 3D tessellation. When placed on their hexagon faces, they are a structural framework for molecular growth.

A Truncated Octahedron has 6 square faces and 8 hexagonal faces. The square faces become panels that meet corner to corner with other square panels, their planes at 90 degrees to one another. When six panels are linked circularly this way, a hexagonal opening is formed between adjacent truncated octahedrons. Continuing results in truncated octahedrons ad infinitum, one pathway on the roadmap to infinite architecture.

Materials: Latvian birch plywood

Dimensions: h 72” w 88“ d 130“