Jiahui Qiu - Module 8

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Jiahui Qiu

Journal Entry For

Module 8 - Make Your Pitch

PBL Island Team - Tropical Transparency

The project is inspired by the collaboration work between architects and structural engineers in AEC Global Teamwork. We want to make our structural system more flexible, scalable and informative.

Intended users

Our intended users are the structural engineers who intensely work with the A and MEP. The tool aims to improve the iterative collaboration process to be effective and efficient. Also, valuable evaluators will not only give to the structural engineering, also other designers.

Need you’re trying to provide a solution or support for

Flexible layout : When working with Architects, it normally involves a lot of back and forth coordination. It’s really not efficient to adjust your structural design with any small changes. Sometimes, it not only affect the design model, but also the analysis model, which makes the process even worse.
Valuable insights : For the whole project, structural performance isn’t only factor. The designer may want to bring more insights to all stakeholders. Is there a possible way to reflect the key metrics (structural performance, cost, LCA, and more) at the same time.
Future Use : As considered the scalable sustainability challenge this year in PBL class, the will is urged to design a structure that can be scale to other similar environment (in our case is tropical area, Philippines, Nigeria, Jamaica)

Inputs

Geometrical Inputs:

Grid layout
Stories & floor and floor heights
# of secondary beams in typical bay.

Structural Inputs

Material Selection
Section Selection
Slab types

Underlying logic of the model you’ll implement

Before going to the details, I want to state that the tool in this stage is designed for one structural system. To be specific, a configuration has some internal patterns (groups for different components, connections, placement spacing, and etc.) In this case, I use my structural design for Island 2023.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nn-oy3FtWzA

Then, the logic can be separated into two parts: geometry generation and further processing.

Like what we learn in this class, the geometry is much more easy to generate and control. Based on our personal structural design idea, we can generate the configuration with variables that we input.

The cost and LCA actually first step further than that, by attaching material and section to the geometrical layout, we can easily get the quantities. With some databases for the unit value, we are able to get the target evaluators. (Here, I use a LCA database and connectors from BHoM plug-in)

The structural performance is slightly different. But, pre-defined groups help to mitigate the difficulties. They incorporate the structural design concepts and I can simply set different conditions for different groups. Then, the dynamo structural analysis demo helps me to get some structural performances very easily.

Outputs