Icosidodecahedron Glass Succulent Terrarium

This comission was the first attempt at making a geometric glass terrarium. Biggest lesson; make the templates geometrically spot-on and cut the glass panes as accurately as possible. Second lesson; cut more glass than needed so you can pick pieces with the cleanest snap lines. Do the first two things and the icosidodecahedron shape just goes together naturally.

The Construction

Twenty equilateral triangles and twelve pentagons make up the faces of an icosidodecahedron. The two shapes were layed out onto card stock using geometric methods, a pencil, compass dividers and a stright edge, at whatever size would result in a final shape of the desired height.

...this deep dive is a work in progress, check out the Durer's solid glass geometric terrarium in the mean time.

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