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Additional, Jayant - Module 5

Additional, Jayant - Module 5

Journal Entry For
Module 5 - Flex Your Form
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Jayant Tanwar
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Creating Forms with Dynamo or Grasshopper Geometry

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Tower Polygon Node:

I created a custom node to take parametric inputs and calculate Gross Surface Area, Gross Volume and Gross Floor Area. It has the following parametric inputs:

Top Height (Mid Height = Top Height/2)

Base Radius (Top Radius)

Mid Radius

Base Polygon Number

Mid Polygon Number

Top Polygon Number

Base Rotation

Mid Rotation

Top Rotation

Story Height

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Modeling Methodology:

  • To begin with, I decided parameters to be used as variables: Mid Radius, Building Height
  • Then I used List.CartesianProduct node to pair the parameters.
  • Then I defined other Parametric Parameters that I am not using as variables.
  • Then I created a TowerPolygon Node to calculate the gross surface area, gross volume and gross floor area.
  • Then I created a list of all input and output
  • Then I used Data.ExportToExcel to export the results.
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Summarizing the Testing Results

In this stage I just added the node for calculating gross floor area / gross surface area and evaluated the test case to find minimum and maximum values that gives this new metric

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