Intended users
The intended users are the designers and mass timber structure companies who want to design multi-story mass-timber buildings. My solution can provide affordable and optimal structural components to clients by inputting grid size.
Need you’re trying to provide a solution or support for
These days, as interest in environmental issues grows, the demand for tall buildings made of mass timber has been becoming higher and higher. Fig 1 shows the example of mass timber member size depending on the grid span. I am going to design so that dynamo code creates the structural model based on input grid size.
Inputs
<Configurator>
Grid Span Length - X, Y
Number of Grids - X, Y
Floor Height
Number of Grids
Cost of Mass Timber Components (input in family parameter)
<Fixed Inputs Numbers>
Density of Mass Timber
Member of Mass Timber
Underlying logic of the model you’ll implement
As figure 1 shows, the member of mass timber varies depending on grid span. So, when the grid span length was input, the node will choose the optimal member size of beams. For example, if 28’ is input as grid span, 8-3/4”x30” beam will be chosen. With this strategy, the mass timber structure will be created and its total cost will be calculated.
Outputs
Total Cost
Total Cost / SF
Total Cost / Volume
Total Cost / Weight