Announcing the Diamond Lattice Tower

On Wednesday, 2025 January 8th at the Joint Mathematics Meetings in Seattle, Studio Infinity will be facilitating a group build using Giant Octablocks. If you follow our projects, you might recognize them as the trunctated octahedra from the TOWARD build at Harvey Mudd College or from a freestyle build at Open Sauce 2024. This time we will be leveraging the fact that the hexagonal faces of the blocks are at the perfect angles to build within a diamond cubic crystal structure if we restrict ourselves to a subset of four of them per block. The end goal — a Diamond Lattice Tower:

The structure will stand roughly five meters (17 feet) tall, making it the tallest planned Octablock build yet. If you’re at JMM, we’d love for you to join us in the exhibition hall and help construct it. We will be building during the Exhibition Hall Opening reception, from 6pm to 8pm. If you miss the build, the finished structure should be quite hard to miss once you enter the exhibit hall. Drop by, say hi, and take a selfie!