Please enter the following info in the fields above:
- Your Name (just type your name, then click Create to add yourself to the list)
- Paste the link to your BIM 360 folder in the BIM 360 Link field.
Image of My Model
Paste screenshots of your model geometry here showing your parametric building forms flexed with different input values:
- For 2 units: Part 1 only - one of the provided building forms
- For 3 or 4 units: Part 1 and Part 2 - your original building form
Beginning of loop and extract/formulate input results
Form the flexible tower
Compute the required values and end loop. Write files to excel file.
Image of Your Results
- Part 1: Revit
- Part 2: Custom Form in Grasshopper
Description
For Part 1 I utilized the Twisting Cog tower mass and flexed the Tower height and the Middle Outer Radius. This required altering the custom node BuildingForm.EvaluatePairsOfInputs.dyf to also compute the Gross volume of the Tower. I also created the node to report all the results together to feed into the List.Map node.
For Part 2 I created a custom tower in Grasshopper. The tower was formed using a polygon node with adjustable number of sides and radius. The polygon was lofted twice to form the middle and top polygon. The polygons were rotated and scaled and lofted together to form a closed system. The levels were created using a division of the total height and a range of points at each story. The floor area was calculated using planes that intersect the lofted surface. All parameters of the tower are customizable but the two flexed parameters in this module were the middle polygon scale factor and the middle polygon twist value. The Anemone plug-in was used for the looping structure of the graph to iterate through the iterations. The results of the iteration are above.