Inspiered by the work of Gramazio & Kohler, I plugged together a grasshopper definition, that generates a perforated brick wall from planar curves. Similiar studies in wood have been made recently at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard
The structure of this shell is woven from isocurves and geodesic curves on a surface. Geodesic curves are also called plank lines, they can be build from straigth, but twisted planks. Mårten Nettelbladt studied them on his blog.Geodesic shells build in wood have been studied at the laboratory for timber construction of the EPFL.
Planks generated from lines on a surface with this script: TwistedBeams.zip
The (straight) bamboo strips of this chinese hat are following geodesic lines. Photo by drs2biz.
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 Its a private and non-commercial website, and the content isn´t updated any more, so please forgive broken links and outdated information.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.
Tracking the tip of a dreidle with processing, and then sending the coordinate data via udp to grasshopper. 
Dreidle City in time lapse. Inspired by parmetric urbanism.
Inspiered by the work of Gramazio & Kohler, I plugged together a grasshopper definition, that generates a perforated brick wall from planar curves. Similiar studies in wood have been made recently at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard 
(c) by Gramanzio & Kohler
The structure of this shell is woven from isocurves and geodesic curves on a surface. Geodesic curves are also called plank lines, they can be build from straigth, but twisted planks. Mårten Nettelbladt studied them on his blog. Geodesic shells build in wood have been studied at the laboratory for timber construction of the EPFL.
Beams around lines, aligned normal to surface 
BeamsOnSurface.zip
Reciprocal grid, example from Cecil Balmond's book, p. 143
Created with gifery.com
