Situ Fabrication worked with artist Sebastien Leon Agneessens
on producing a sculpture piece for B Brian Atwood’s New York showroom.
The sculpture consists of 174 hexagonal, polished aluminum tiles which
form a 30 ft. long serpent-like figure. To fix each individual tile in a
precise location and angle, Situ Fabrication designed a plywood armature
that supported threaded rods with swivel fittings. The positions and
lengths of the threaded rod as well as the angle of the swivels were all
coordinated so that the complex, tesselated form could rise from a
simplified plywood armature.
Grasshopper was utilized to generate a 3D model and manage all of the
CNC fabrication data. The plywood armature and 174 aluminum tiles were
numbered and nested onto cutsheets and a schedule of corresponding rod
lengths was produced. The entire project took three weeks from start to
finish.