Chuting Sun

Journal Entry For
Module 5 - Flex Your Form
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  • For 2 or More Units: Creating Forms with Revit Conceptual Masses

In the first part of the design, the overall height, the radius of the upper and lower surfaces, and the degree of twist can all be changed. But the radius at the middle position is calculated based on the radius of the upper and lower surfaces. In the second part of the design, the overall height, the radius and twist of the top and bottom graphics can be adjusted. The middle part can also be changed freely, but I think it will be more beautiful if there is a certain pattern.

  • your flexing and testing one of the provided example building forms
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  • your flexing and testing your new, original building form
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  • For 3 or More Units: Creating Forms with Dynamo or Grasshopper Geometry

    • In this section, the middle radius, the number of sides, the top radius, the middle rotation, the bottom radius, the top rotation, and the overall height are all adjustable. We used Dynamo to generate the building instead of the one already generated in Revit. We can customize fixed nodes to create fixed-shaped buildings. Automatically importing excel can save us time and effort in seeing the data.

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  • For 4 Units: Summarizing the Testing Results

    • In this part, the radii of the top and bottom of the building, as well as the height, can be adjusted at any time. It is worth noting that the input value of list.map should be the overall result of building generation, not a single result, such as GFA. We use list.map to calculate additional values. The min and max values obtained here should be a sequence.

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Point to Ponder: What’s the advantage of exporting the values to Excel?

Through these data, we can see the changes in values intuitively and more efficiently, which helps us make appropriate choices, such as when there are certain restrictions on the area range.

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Point to Ponder: Which of these inputs tested has the biggest effect on creating a desirable building form?

Base radius has a greater impact than top rotation. When the base radius is constant, the impact of a change in top rotation by 10 is only about a thousand. However, when the top rotation remains unchanged, every time the base radius changes by 10, the GFA changes by nearly 3,000.

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Point to Ponder: Which of these pairs of input values gives the most desirable result? Which building form would you recommend to the developer and why?

The fourth set seems to be the most ideal result, and I recommend taking the fourth set. This is because, with similar construction difficulty, it seems more cost-effective to build more area. Increasing the base radius is easier to build than increasing the torsion of the building.