Viaronic Snow-Hill

Please enter the following info in the fields above:

• Your Name as the Card title
• The link to your Module 5 folder in our Autodesk Construction Cloud project

Please also type the first few letters of your first name into the Link to Student field, then hover over your name from the list of matching records and click the blue plus sign to link this entry to your Design Journal.

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
• For part 1 of the design, I chose to play with the “Tower Top Flat Side 1” parameter. This was chosen as I thought it would be interesting to see the impact on the form going from a more narrow top to a broader top. As a building form, the latter is less interesting and feels like a big block with a unique detail at the edge where the top corner should meet. This detail flows down to the podium, which is a thick block. The intermediate iterations of the form however, did offer more promising shapes of the tower. But these variations were only slightly different and overall maintained a similar aesthetic to the original design. Once decided upon the form, I constrained the podium height parameters and the overall height of the tower to ensure that my Gross Square footage was in compliance with the site and budget restrictions.
• For part 2 of the design, I chose to play with the associated parameter created for my mass, “Plane 2 Diamond”. Similar to part 1’s parameter flexed, this parameter change the top of the building’s form. The impact to the gross square footage was monitored, and observed to result in minor changes in square footage growth. The profiles lofted was meant to have a more elegant form than the blocky form shown in part 1. A square profile was used for the base along with a diamond profiles of varying sizes for the intermediate and top portions of the tower.
• Your answers to the Points to Ponder questions for each stage of the assignment that you completed.
• The largest advantage of exporting directly into excel is the ability to quickly capture the data from iterations. I also noticed that the file resaves every time the code is ran. This acts as a safe guard against forgetting to save the file. If utilized properly (i.e. specifying the columns and rows where data should start), you can completely customize the data’s presentation. Once the file is set how you’d like you can run iterations without having to worry about reformatted the file.