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Module 3 - Give Me Shelter
This design approach was inspired by the public architecture I saw while living in Washington, D.C., with a slightly futuristic spin. I envision this functioning as an above-ground metro platform shelter, but it can be resized to fit other purposes. The features are as follows:
- The roof of this structure is defined by a sinusoid, with flexible parameters including the number of waves, the offset from the base wall height, and the amplitude.
- The number and spacing of supports can also be flexed dynamically, allowing for the structure to be made longer or shorter, and also to be made more support-dense or less support-dense.
- The window patterns on the sides of the structure and the aperture patterns of the roof can be changed as well, primarily by changing the list parameter that governs “TakeEveryNthItem” and “DropEveryNthItem”.
- The number of panels in the vertical direction can also be flexed.
- Finally, the various parameters of the aperture panel and glazed window panel can be flexed. For the aperture panel, this is the wall thickness and wall angle, and for the glazed window, this is the frame width for the sides and top/bottom frame pieces.
