Jinzhao Wang

🏗️ Design Approach for Parametric Building Form Evaluation

🔹 Stage 1 – Part 1: Testing Example Conceptual Mass Form

✅ Step 1 – Setup and Manual Exploration

• I imported the Twisting Tower form from the Google Drive example library.
• Initial manual testing was conducted to determine the height required to meet the minimum Gross Floor Area (GFA) criteria.
• The building was placed in a new Revit project (Default Template) with location set to Dubai for accurate solar analysis.
• Mass Floors were added at each level to calculate GFA.
• Manual variations of height were tested while observing the resulting GFA.

🔁 Step 2 – Dynamo Graph Logic to Flex Height Parameter

• Created a Dynamo Graph using the EvaluateSingleInput node.
• Defined proportional relationships to maintain consistent form:
• Height/Base Width = 2
• Height/Mid Width = 5.5
• Height/Top Width = 3
• The graph flexed the Height parameter across a range of values and captured resulting metrics.

🔹 Stage 1 – Part 2: Creating and Testing a New Mass Form

🧱 Step 4 – Creating a New Parametric Conceptual Mass

• I created a new conceptual mass family using the “Twisting Tower – 3 Profiles” template from Google Drive.
• The building form was constructed by lofting between three parametric profiles, placed at different levels.
• Parameters were linked using formulas to maintain proportions.

🔁 Step 5 – Flexing and Testing New Form via Dynamo

• Used the same Dynamo graph logic to flex height.
• Maintained shape consistency by enforcing:
• Height/Base Width = 1
• Height/Mid Width = 1.1
• Height/Top Width = 1.5
• Evaluation metrics were recorded using List.Map and exported for comparison.