Preliminary Sketches

Didn't go into the studio today, so can't use DP (I wonder if it'll be worth it to purchase a student license so I can work from home...) So instead of starting to model, I started sketching out ideas for that model.

First up: thinking about the radii of the indents in the perimeter of the plan. The indentation circles are all tangent to one another and all have the same radius. Their centers for another circle, and the radius of this circle could be used to drive the width/depth of the indentations.


Next up: As the floor area increases/decreases, I see a couple of things that could happen. Either the radii of the indentation circles could increase to maintain their tangency to one another with the same number of circles, or the number of circles could step up/down once a critical radius is reached. This second option would be interesting to test, since the radius of each floor decreases as the floors acend.

Last up: Thinking about the twist of the tower. Again, two possibilities I'm looking at. As overall tower height changes, does it maintain a full 360-degree rotation, or does it maintain the angle of offset between each floor?