Holger Strøm designed the famous IQlight system in 1973. After more than 50 years, it is still a popular, innovative, and smart design. The IQlight is a self-assembly lamp composed of interlocking quadrilaterals. By utilizing polyhedral geometry, you can generate various shapes and sizes. I created a model of one of the most common IQlight designs, fitting it onto the Catalan solid known as the rhombic triacontahedron. This solid is […]

Gyroid is a popular triply-periodic minimal surface. Although it is a mathematical entity, designers and architects like its approximations very much. We used an interpretation of Gyroid in the rammed-earth structure: “Common-action Wall” in 2017. In that project, we utilized its spatial quality of dividing the space into two intertwining and symmetrical volumes. By making one of these volumes solid, I left the other void. So, in this tutorial, I […]

Villa Savoye is an iconic modernist villa in Poissy, France, built between 1928 and 1931. It was designed by the pioneering Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier, often considered one of the most influential architects of the 20th century. Villa Savoye is a masterpiece of the International Style, embodying the principles of modern architecture that prioritize functionality, simplicity, and the use of new materials such as reinforced concrete. I made this digital […]

“Mihr-î Mah” in Ottoman Turkish translates to “The Sun and The Moon” in English. She was the most powerful imperial princess in Ottoman history according to historians. The Mihrimah Sultan Mosque is located in Üsküdar district of Istanbul. It was built for Mihrimah Sultan, the daughter of Kanuni Sultan Süleyman and Hürrem Sultan. It is one of the early works of the architect Mimar Sinan. Sinan supported the main dome […]

Throne of my lonely niche, my wealth, my love, my moonlight.My most sincere friend, my confidant, my very existence, my Sultan, my one and only love.The most beautiful among the beautiful …My springtime, my merry-faced love, my daytime, my sweetheart, laughing leaf …My plants, my sweet, my rose, the one only who does not distress me in this room …My Istanbul, my karaman, the earth of my AnatoliaMy Badakhshan, my […]

Today’s polyhedra is the beautiful icosahedron. It is one of the five Platonic Solids with twenty equilateral triangular faces. Its dual is the dodecahedron, which has pentagonal faces. Here, I explained the process of modeling an icosahedron. After creating a regular pentagon, you should find the “tip” point of the Icosahedron by intersecting spheres from at least three of the corner points with a radius of the pentagon’s edges. You […]