Exercise 4.Final Facade Initial Goal My initial goal was to learn more flexible programs beside AutoCad, which is great for drawing plans and creating basic volumes, but way too inflexible when it comes to curved surfaces and volumes as well as changes during the drafting process. I wanted to learn a programm which offers me full control at all steps and makes changes easy. Grasshopper is quite a powerful tool, but it requires a lot of trial and error, but I think that the possibilities are worth it. Since I learned quite quick the basics, it became challenging to create an adaptable sun protection system, which can change depending on the suns postion. So this final facade system consists mostly of different types of sun protection. Sometimes it worked qutie well, but sometimes I could not figuere out how to link the sun protection to the sun move-ment. So for me it was important to understand grasshopper and play with different parametres and dependence. The architectual demand only comes second.in this exercise.
Evaluation During the process of creating the final facade system I came across some problems. After the step of dividing the surface by length, my new surface is a little bit smaller because of the cut off objects, but after that I wanted to create a new surface with the new height and lenght but without the divisions, only the edges of the whole surface. This was important for me because in the further steps to create a sun protection, I needed this surface as a base. Since I could not figure out way to do this, I had to take the basic, undivided surface. Another problem has been the „cull pattern“ to place the „wind bracing“ and the „voronoi facade“ on different areas on the surface. For most times it worked very well except for the last two elements in the bottom right corner. I could not solve this problem either. Another problem was exporting the HI Res Image, it did not work and I got an error, so I had to screenshot the whole script and put it together in Photoshop. In the end, this course was really great and provided us with all the basics we needed to work independently in grasshopper. The pace was also good and questions have always been answered in detail. So I am very satisfied with the course and definitely working more with grasshopper in the future !
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