I imagine the shelter I made as something that might occupy a public park! It would be a space for people to take shelter from the sun, and enjoy their recreational time by reading, meditating, or picnicking. For this reason, I wanted it to remain very open to allowing for natural ventilation, and for some sunlight to still enter.
I started by creating lines that would define the boundaries of the structure. This is only for one-half of the structure as I go on to use a mirror function. As you can see there are sliders that allow for the parametric control of the height, length, and width of the structure.
Next, I created what I refer to as “ribs”. These are composed of adaptive components to which a Revit family can be assigned. I made use of the list and list transpose functions in order to accomplish this goal.
After creating the ribs I went ahead and mirrored the geometry to reduce the amount of code that I would need to write. I was proud of this solution as it was not presented in the modules.
Next, in order to create the actual surface portion of my structure, I defined the surfaces by points. If I were to re-do this I would try using the curves to define the surfaces, as I did not get a perfect fit with the ribs.
Finally, I created the panels by creating a grid and then uploading more adaptive components! These have the appearance of glass, which fits my original concept for the design!