Give Me Shelter Stage 1
This time, my approach started by defining the concept I wanted. I’m proposing a shelter to serve the outdoors tennis courts in West Campus with a cantilevered tension canopy. The concept to develop the rib supports is inspired by a tennis racket, with a main curve to represent the head, a backpost strut for the grip, and the tension cables simulate the throat. I started by identifying the points that would define the structure and assigning sliders for each of these parameters. Then, I used line elements to represent/audit the components in dynamo. After that, I used the adaptive families that would bring the structure into Revit. The most difficult part for me was to define the different point lists that could delineate the boundaries for the panels. My design’s dynamic parameters include: length, number of ribs, height, strut length, canopy drop, and support offset. These allow for an array of different configurations on space but maintain the racket concept.
