Algorithmic Architecture Assessment Two Portfolio

Algorithmic Architecture BADP2001 Assignment 2 Portfolio

Jarrod Haynes440173788 Ellen Ryan440327820

Hyde Park Having a view can greatly increase property value and can create more pleasant and desirable places. There have been studies confirming that a view of vegetation can greatly improve ones productivity in the workplace, and has also been know to help mental health and well being.

The right to a view is not lawful however a view has great importance, and the neighbouring buildings must be considered so that their view has minimal impact, so that the city as a whole can move towards being a healthy place to dwell and not just one particular building.

Hyde park has been taken as an example of how to balance between buildings accessing certain views and the same buildings blocking the view of others. Certain building info (see in pink) have been taken to be analysed on their view of both Archibald Fountain and the ANZAC Memorial (seen in blue).

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Grasshopper Algorithum

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Step 1 Depending on the site you wish to analysis you need to extract the information of, particularly, buildings. There are many ways to do this. For Hyde Park the Mosquito plug-in was used. The location was uploaded to the plug-in and a radius surrounding the location was inputted and buildings and streets were pick up accoringly.

Because the plug-in does not store building heights or the amount of levels a buildin has, adding adding height to a the building has to be done manually. A source for Sydney building heights was found (http://www.skyscrapercenter.com/city/sydney), dividing the height by the levels for ceiling height. Levels were extruded and stacked on top of each other.

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Step 2 Before Ladybug View Analysis is used the context and view points need to be established. The context in list of Breps that need to be seperated into the bas surface only while disregarding the others, this is achieved by flipping the matrix and grapping the same branch with all the base surfaces for all Breps.

The fountain and Monument are what we are analysising the view by so the top points of the Brep are used as their point of reference. The vertice tree is grafted and then split to grab specifically the points on the higher pane on the y-axis.

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Step 3 The resulting context surfaces are fed into the view analysis are both the geometry and the context. The monument and the fountain vertices are together fed into the view points. The step proves that the algorithum is functioning and can now process onto the data driven design.

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Step 4

This step is creating the building that we wish to adjust according to data. It starts cording to the z axis. The resulting Brep is then caped and arrayed, again in the z sired location. The Brep's are then deconstructed so that from the tree branch that being sourced. The surfaces will act as the geometry that will be analysed according

with creating a rectangle as the base then extruding it acdirection (to create levels), the rectangle is moved to a dehas been retrieved,only the base surface of each Brep is to its view.

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Step 5 The subject building from the previous step is fed in geometry while this time only the context Breps (not surfaces) are fed into the context.

This helps counter the fact that the previous analysis the buildings could see through each other due to no solid vertical element. The view points from step two remain the same.

Galapagos Fitness input is used to take the average veiw percentage of the view points and used to determine the amount of levels (or amount of times the subject building Brep is arrayed in step 4) would best suit the location the building is located to give the best percentage.

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Further Development This algorithum can help determine where in the building the monuments in the park can be veiw from. The algorithum could be altered to change the location of the building and/or the shape while also considering the impact on the view of the surrounding buildings. Eventually the algorithum can be developed to be turned into a tool to make applicable to different inputs, and therefore a different subject in a different context.

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