This pentagonal tesselationis called cairo tiling.
3D2REAL: A wall based on the cairo tesselation, designed and build by ILEK students.
Extension of the congress center Davos, currently under construction. The roof structure is based on the cairo tesselation. By Degelo Architekten, Engineer: Dr. Schwartz Consulting
The cairo pattern seems to be a blend of a diamond pattern and a chinese pattern.
On this blog I documented some of my findings, ideas, and projects from the years 2009-2013. Its a private and non-commercial website, and the content isn´t updated any more, so please forgive broken links and outdated information. I keep it as a personal archive.