13. Residential tower cladding
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The first image i a mockup of cladding intent

The second image shows the geometry elements to generate the base shape. The elements were generated by a script in Rhino.

The base shape for the residential tower as composed of a couple of different geometric primitives: gray - cylinder, green - torus and red - plane. The ambition was to achieve a high degree of geometric repetition in facade elements.

The last image shows tiles of different type: gray - repeated elements, green - highly similar and red - dissimilar. The green tiles were actually bent