Background:
Yoruba architecture is a courtyard-based, community-centric building form which was popular in ancient Yoruba empires. While the building form is not a common building practice in southwest Nigeria anymore, I want to explore it’s applicability to urban Lagos, which is bulging with a huge population.
Objective
To evaluate the “optimal” shape and form for the application of the courtyard structure in urban applications. Specifically considering the number of inhabitable units (function of building area), potential for ventilation and natural lighting (calculated through building perimeter) , and building cost (function of both area and perimeter).
Modeling
My goal to to model the building at a base geometry and then extruding into a solid. For the purposes of this analysis, I only modeled the building as two rectangles. In the future, I will like to do create a 3D parametric structure.
