we have begun laying out the standard 3.6m x 1.2m fibre-c sheets against our geometry. the lenght of each section is determined by this sheet size. at the moment, we are going with the 3.6m length, as it makes for a lighter element that can be handled by hand. however, AKT is suggesting that we move to the 5m sheet...that means we would require a crane for assembly, as the weight of each individual profile would be over 25kg, which is the legal limit in the UK for builders to lift by hand...BUT it offers greater structural optimization as we would greatly reduce the number of splices required in joining discontinuous members....
we have also created an intersection network for AKT to analyze, as well as documenting all of the angles of intersection for all of the planes (thanks to the crease angle plugin for Rhino). as you can see below, no two angles are the same...although many are within very close range to one another. 
we'll have more on some ideas regarding how we can deal with these angle variations soon...AKT has a few options they would like to explore, and we are developing a couple as well...
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