Journal Entry For
Module 5 - Flex Your Form
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Then, share your Design Journal entry here including:
- Screenshots of your building form geometry from each stage of the assignment that you completed:
- 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
- A brief description of your design outlining the parameters that can be used to flex and dynamically change your building form
- Your answers to the Points to Ponder questions for each stage of the assignment that you completed.
Point to Ponder: What’s the advantage of exporting the values to Excel?
- An advantage of exporting points to excel is that one can easily make plots or analyze the data in Excel.
Point to Ponder: Which of these inputs tested has the biggest effect on creating a desirable building form?
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?