Towards plates...

Whilst trying to get my TS idea together - reading up on innovative brick structures through the ages and trying to find an interesting approach to creating a new kind of brick skyskraper - I'm working on the corner where the building meets the ground. 48 fairly rough and stupid sketches (no thinking, huh?) yielded a kind of parti sketch showing four moments or conditions that I would like this particular corner to achieve: a manipulation of the ground plane (effectively opening up a larger volume beneath the building, a kind of faceted layering of smaller corner moments, an opening of the entire building (entrance) on the corner itself, and finally the external (brick) braiding that I've discussed over the past couple of weeks or so:



Simultaneously tweaking the Grasshopper brick course code to be able to model the 'in-between' (generic) façade moments. I can now adjust brick size in three dimensions, joint spacing (both directions), and rotation of brick. I'll add more as soon as there's time. A bug cost a few frustrating hours yesterday that I probably should have dropped, but I really wanted to make it work. Here's a spread showing different iterations that were done using this code:

Hoping to get the following up during the night:

Corner plate(s)
Case studies (non-reinforced brick, reinforced brick, brick veneer) - probably with placeholder images for now
Timeline
Tech manifesto/statement
Manufacturing process

That's too much, of course, but hey! if we don't at least aim to get them done, it's probably not going to happen.