atraylor – Looking Outwards – 03 – Section B

A project that caught my eye was Benjamin Dillenburger and Michael Hansmeyer’s Arabesque Wall which is a 3D printed ten foot tall structure, that exhibits extreme detail and intricacy.

It took four days to sand print the separate parts of the structure, which were later assembled into the final form. The geometric, folding motifs were inspired by arabesques present in Islamic art and generated using iterative algorithms and custom software.

I’m inspired by this work because it incorporates styles that are traditionally achieved by human labor and makes them extraordinarily complicated, so much so, that a piece like this could take decades to finish. In the article, the artists discuss how architecture should “surprise, excite, and irritate.” I believe that they were successful in fulfilling those endeavors in this piece.