Abstract
Artikel på CD-Rom 8 sider. The quasi-crystal (QC) type of material was discovered in 1983 by Dan Schechtman from Technion, Haifa. This new crystalline structure of material broke totally with the traditional conception of crystals and geometry introducing non-periodic close packing of cells with fivefold symmetry in 3D space. The quasi-crystal geometry can be constructed from two different cubic cells with identical rhombic facets, where the relation between the diagonals is the golden section. All cells have identical rhombic faces, identical edges and identical icosahedral/dedecahedral nodes. The purpose of the paper is to investigate some possibilities for the application of Quasi-Crystal geometry for structures in architecture. The basis for the investigations is A: to use the Golden Cubes (the two different hexahedra consisting of rhombic facets where the length of the diagonals has the Golden ratio) as basic elements for aperiodic 3D geometries and B: to raise aperiodic Penrose tilings and its binary substitutions from their 2D basis into 3D QC geometries and describe the structural behaviour for these spatial configurations.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | IASS International symposium on theory design and realization of shell and spatial structures |
| Publication date | 2001 |
| Pages | 300-301 |
| Publication status | Published - 2001 |
| Event | IASS Symposium - Nagoya, Japan Duration: 30 Jun 2010 → … |
Conference
| Conference | IASS Symposium |
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| Country/Territory | Japan |
| City | Nagoya |
| Period | 30/06/2010 → … |
Artistic research
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