Shaped beam suspended ceiling

Abstract

A suspended ceiling system including shaped beams coupled to connecting blocks that enable a variety of geometric configurations of tiles. The beams may appear to be structural members of an ornate fixed ceiling in a building, and may have any desirable cross sectional shape such as a V, a U, or other custom shape. The beams also include ledges for supporting tiles. The connecting blocks are suspended from the fixed ceiling or other structure and include a plurality of beam interface surfaces that couple to the beams. The connecting blocks may have any desirable cross sectional shape to provide a desired number and geometric arrangement of beam interface surfaces, so that the beams form a desired geometric configuration such as a triangle, square, a pentagon, a hexagon and the like. Tiles are cut to match the geometric configuration and placed on the ledges of the beams.

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