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Please include:
- A screenshot of your model geometry from each part of the assignment that you completed:
- For 2 or More Units: Modeling a Parametric Structure
- For 3 or More Units: Transforming Your Geometry
- For 4 Units: Appyling Your Form at Different Scales
- A few sentences describing your modeling approach
- A brief description of your design outlining the parameters that can be used to flex and dynamically change your structure
Modeling a Parametric Structure
Transforming Your Geometry
I wanted to design an overhang for a bus stop but as I created the parametric overhang, it looked like it’d need structural support on both sides. So, I pivoted to designing covered walkway. I wanted to explore asymmetry and geometry that increased in height as the length propagated to create a sense of build and drama.
Flexible parameters include (but are not limited to):
- Bottom position of support beams
- Number of tiles and support beams
- Variables that transform the sinusoidal curvature of the overhang in the x and y directions (e.g. amplitude, periodicity and vertical shift)
The profile of the construction curve that propagates is defined by a sine function that is transformed in the z direction with a second order polynomial equation. In transforming the original design, I experimented both with changing the magnitude and sign of the amplitude. The original curve had an overall concave shape whereas the transformation explores a convex shape.
That curve profile is then repeated, with each instance being slightly higher in the z direction. This adjustment is controlled by a 3rd order polynomial equation. The amplitude of that has to be really small of that to have reasonable proportionality/scale, but in theory it could continue building forever, approaching infinity.