SKY PORTAL X: Station II

SKY PORTAL X: Station II 

A climbable three sided pyramid crafted from birch using precision CNC. The structure comprises a three dimensional network of square panels intersecting corner to corner, defining additional planes that create truncated octahedrons, one of the “Archimedean solids”.

Alone the octahedron requires many tetrahedrons to help fill space, however once truncated it does this autonomously. The load travels along the angular zig zag edges of a network of hardwood ply panels braced in three dimensions by surrounding pods. The base establishes a strong connection to the Earth as it echoes the living systems of cell structure and bee hives, opening to a labyrinth of stairways spiraling upwards, serving as a bridge between the earth and the sky.

The use of these geometric principles in design honors the formations of nature - resulting in a kind of structural organic and infinite architecture. Not only incorporating biomimicry in aesthetic ways, but in structural integrity and utility.