Here’s my starting point: the truncated icosahedron, one of the thirteen Archimedean solids.
Next, each face is augmented by a prism, with squares used for the prisms’ lateral faces.
The convex hull of the polyhedron above yields what can be called an expanded truncated icosahedron, as shown below:
Could these faces be made regular, and the polyhedron still hold together? I checked, using Stella 4d‘s “try to make faces regular” function. Here’s the result:
As you can see, the faces of this polyhedron can be made to be regular, but this forces the model to become non-convex.
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