OK, eyes hurt. This thing is really simple actually, even though it's taken me ages to work out how to draw what was in my head. All it is is a 4m wide, 500mm thick slab, folded around itself so as to be a star shape when viewed from above. However, I stipulated that the verticals should be pitched inwards toward the centre at 30 degrees off the vertical. Also, I decided the corners should be curved to appear as natural as possible. Very simple rules, but quite a lot going on geometrically. There is a very slight problem due to AutoCAD 2002's limitations with 3D polyline smoothing, in that the 3D spline produced from the jagged line was circumscribed, as opposed to being a best-fit line through all the points. This is what causes the slightly abrupt fold where the curve joints join onto the straight sections... Ah well. I'm already a bit bored of this project. It does have exciting implications later when glazing is added to the roofed sections, however. There are two skewed parallelogram prisms intersecting, but the floor those sections are "open", which either means less floor or glass floors. Also, the design generates an excess of terraces and balconies, which may mean that these areas are asking to be treated in a material other than glass or wood, or conversely, that these sections should be enclosed in a more transparent way than the main vertical cladding material. Hmm...
