Tesseract is my final project in my Metals I studio class, in which we were prompted to create a non-functional piece out of aluminum plate, exploring form, shape, repetition, or other design elements of our choosing. I wanted to explore movement through a modular form and create a structure that prompted users to play or interact with the form.
Physical Product
Metalwork Modular Form
Assembly
Tesseract is the culmination of eight triangular geometric cut pieces that are joined at each of their vertexes, all of which have been flattened. My template was drawn initially from an equilateral triangle, which I used to score flat sheets of aluminum. All pieces were cut by hand on the jump shear and attached by hinges and pop rivets. The final piece is an abstract but geometric modular form that expands and contracts.