The main part of the building, named as “vault” is enveloped by the “veil”, a porous, honeycomb -like exterior structre that spans across the block-long third- oor gallery and provides ltered natural daylight.
Key moves: Lifted Corners a facade, constructed of gridded panels, that stretch and deform according to light and position indented wormhole
University of P atras | Depa rtment of Architecture | Pa rametric design
Garefalaki Eirini & Kotzam pasakis Konstantinos
The perforated shell is based on a skewed grid that consists of rhomboid panels. The panels are identical and when arrayed on the grid they produce the nal form. The way we approached the development inside Grasshopper is that we created the grid and the panel seperately and then we combined the two codes in the proccess. This way we can experiment with the grid’s overall size, cells, distortion but also work with exibility on the unit and have mutliple results.
The existing gr id
The panel-unit that produces the grid
CODE DIAGRAM
-The grid development
-The construction of the panel
-The wall and the output
-A troubleshooting code that allows more variables for the grid’s angles.
-And nally the extra modi cations.
Lines A & B
Array the two lines to create the skwed grid. Then use the Multiple Curves intersection component to get the points.
Array
This mechanism constructs the panel-unit.
This is how the wall is produced. It can be manipulated manualy from Rhino.
Using Solid Di erence gives the output.
(if this won’t work in certain modi cations of the code try the Trim component.)
(The sort component can be skipped for a completely randomized version)
(Extrudes at both directions)
All holes are identical
Every hole has a unique random width input
The holes are sorted from bigger to smaller
Changing the x,z factor of the beggining vector we produce di erent results. These versions are based on the same code and the only thing that is changed is the Vectors’ directions.
Using cull pattern to remove random holes and a randomizer for different depths
Using the wireframe view to see the topology of the mesh
Extruding the lofts to both negative and positive directions and then using boolean
Berzier curve
Sine curve
Sum Sine
