Megan Ochalek

Journal Entry For
Module 5 - Flex Your Form
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Megan Ochalek

For the basic conceptual mass:

building height (F)
Gross floor area (SF)
100
15,108
150
27,429.69
200
27,421.25
250
33,404.41
300
39,375.22
350
45,336.55

height of 150ft:

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height of 350ft:

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for my conceptual mass:

it’s hard to tell in the pictures, but my mass is a rotating quadrilateral. I can control the length and width, as well as where the ‘center’ of the quad is.

building height
gross floor area
100
151,426
150
208,027
200
264,353
250
320,641
300
376,797
350
432,836
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For creating my own form, I flexed its overall height and the dimension of the middle profile.

Height 1
Height 2
Height 3
Middle cross section 1
628 SF
1103 SF
3282 SF
Middle cross section 2
801 SF
2343 SF
4054 SF
Middle cross section 3
1054 SF
3838 SF
5221 SF
Middle cross section 4
1462 SF
5452 SF
6419 SF
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for a narrower middle and higher top:

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for a fatter middle and lower height

  • the input with the biggest factor depends on what metric we are using for ‘desirable’ - for maximizing floorspace, this is height and width
  • when we export values to excel, they are stored very neatly and are saved.