Creating a new intersection between mathematics, art, architecture, design and general coolness, Michael Hansmeyer’s cardboard columns are mind-boggling and worth a few minutes of your time this morning.
Cardboard columns
Detail of column – click to enlarge – really spectacular!
The Zurich based architect “explores algorithms and computation as a generative design tool,” merging this with current design processes and ultimately producing an exciting new architectural form. Almost 9 feet tall, they are painstakingly constructed from sheets of thin cardboard that have been individually cut using a mill or laser, then stacked on a pole. Each column boasts between 8 and 16 million facets.
Image of cardboard stack and pole via
His website offers a description of the process and you can read even more about this fascinating process here .
amazing just amazing
That is so amazing… His creativity…left me speechless… what talent… his designs and the process is mind boggling.
Luckily the ‘description of the process’ link makes the whole thing perfectly clear . . . !
Amazing work!Thanks for sharing!
Wonderful work! Thank you for sharing!
The intersection of art and mathematics has always fascinated me, and these are breathtaking! I’d love to wander among the columns in person. Thank you for the link to his web site. I’m off to look through his Platonic Solids project!