Stefano Arrighi

This artwork explores the interwoven structure that emerges when the golden rhombohedral tiles of a three-dimensional aperiodic quasicrystal packing are replaced by continuous thread-like elements. Instead of solid tiles, the geometry traces directional paths through the tiling, connecting adjacent tiles through shared face orientations and forming a dense network of intertwined trajectories. The underlying packing contains 15 possible orientations corresponding to the faces of the rhombic triacontahedron. In this realization, six orientations are selectively materialized, producing continuous strands that traverse the structure without collisions and reveal the hidden directional order of the aperiodic grid.

This artwork explores the interwoven structure that emerges when the golden rhombohedral tiles of a three-dimensional aperiodic quasicrystal packing are replaced by continuous thread-like elements. Instead of solid tiles, the geometry traces directional paths through the tiling, connecting adjacent tiles through shared face orientations and forming a dense network of intertwined trajectories. The underlying packing contains 15 possible orientations corresponding to the faces of the rhombic triacontahedron. In this realization, five near-vertical orientations are selectively materialized, producing continuous strands that traverse the structure without collisions and reveal the hidden directional order of the aperiodic grid.