Yang Shen - Module 5

Journal Entry For

Module 5 - Flex Your Form

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Yang Shen

For 2 or More Units: Creating Forms with Revit Conceptual Masses

Images/screenshots showing two variations of the input parameters for:

your flexing and testing one of the provided example building forms

your flexing and testing your new, original building form

For 3 or More Units: Creating Forms with Dynamo or Grasshopper Geometry

Images/screenshots showing two variations of the input parameters for your new building form created with Dynamo or grasshopper

For 4 Units: Summarizing the Testing Results

An image of your summary table showing the test results highlighting the maximum and minimum values found

For my design with mass created in Revit, I use SetParameterbyName to adjust two parameter in the mass and use list.join to create different alternative to test.

For my design with mass created in Dynamo, I used my customized node to create a ellipse tower and leave two parameter blank, with the node List.map, to generate the group of data to output.

Your answers to the Points to Ponder questions for each stage of the assignment that you completed.

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

The advantage of exporting the value to Excel is that, excel will be a great place to store and do further processing to the data.

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

The story height has the biggest effect, and the radius at base, middle and top has the second largest effect.

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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 20 degree twist and 650 building height give me the most gross floor area. The twist tower is my recommendation because not only it has a very fancy look, but also it will be relatively space efficient.