Building Form #1
Building Form #2
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Workspaces: Pt1
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Results for Pt. 1:
Results Pt. 2
Highlighted Areas show the scenarios that are eligible for the construction project because they meet the floor area expectation between 1200000 sqft-1500000sqft of floor area.
Description Regarding Approach:
For this initial task for the San Francisco building, I wanted to make sure that the building would have enough unique design aspects while keeping in mind the economic advantages of creating more surface area lower on the ground vs. higher on the ground. We specifically looked at several mass families, the first one was the World OTM mass family where we experimented with various top heights and rotations. We would recommend going for a 60 rotation regardless of the height since this variable guarantees the most surface area possible.
In the second scenario, we created our own geometry and we specifically experimented with the base radius to see how small we can make it while still reaching our surface area goals. The rotation value played a key role in the overall result of the available surface area. Lastly, we figured we would calculate from the surface area how much would be available for solar panels. We divided the values by 6, assuming 1/6 of the building’s SA could be available for solar modules.