By placing three circles and drawing the tangent lines connected to the tile’s predefined edge canals, we managed to create a  chaotic   grid system of intersections. Piping the lines with variable width provides the desired water flow effect, while the complexity of the final outcome makes each tile cooperate with its adjacent ones, in a way that their edges are diminished.

The basic concept behind the whole design was to have dynamism in a vertical design by using one single element, and the possibility of this element to either move in the vertical axis so as to either merge the vertical rods inwards or expand them outwards or rotate the element in horizontal axis creating a spire effect in the vertical rods.

The Structure consists of two basic joints 3-D printed. One of which is a spherical egg shaped joint which is made by joining two hemispherical pieces together. The hemispherical pieces have ten holes in each piece which allow the vertical rods to go through making it possible to move this joint in the vertical axis, both the hemispherical joints get locked into each other providing the rotational flexibility in the horizontal axis.

There are five more identical joints which tie two vertical rods together under the spherical joint, the main function of these joints is to make the joints rigid or flexible near the base, which can be done by moving these pieces in the vertical axis. The closer they are to the base, greater rigidity the vertical rods have in the base, as you move these pieces farther away from the base, the vertical rods become more flexible near the base. this causes the vertical robs to either concave in or convex out near the base.

We were able to achieve a composition which is vertical in nature, but which can be able to change its geometry ( Straight vertical members or Spiral), height and radius.

The project initiated with the pentagonal base-sides 30 cm (given). The very idea of understanding the properties of 3 mm thick plywood i.e bending, twisting, stretching etc through the joinery details. The pentagonal base is extruded (given) up-to specific height, which is then twisted in to clockwise and anticlockwise directions in order to determine the bending and twisting properties of wood. The bending curves are extracted from the twisted – extruded pentagon. These curves are further extruded by a triangular geometry to understand the carrying capacity of the base. These extruded triangles are then proliferated by series of planar triangles which act as ties for the extruded curve from the vertices of triangles. The base is proliferated with  more triangles allowing stability to the structure. As we go up the density is reduced to provide lighter structure whose only aim is to act as ties.In order to achieve the structure of height 2400 mm the strips are connected by lock and key joints which is clipped by ‘C’ joint in order to restrict the movement. The intersecting strip are connected by sliding joint and clipped in opposite directions controlling the diagonal movement.  The base triangles and strips are interconnected via lock and key joint to achieve more stability. Since the direction of each strip is distinctive , 90 unique  strips were fabricated and connect through joinery to produce a dynamic structure keeping in mind the material possibility.