Group Variation - Passage design

After the individual variations of the active-bending grid shells, our group decided to keep the feature of rolling passage. To correspond with our design, the site location was selected at the Rolling Hills which situated within the Yarra Valley and the wine region is located just 45km eat of Melbourne's CBD.

Phsical paper models exploraing the location of landings and openings

Based on our design concept of rolling, several design sketches were generated to test how the opening of the passage grid shell would be to correspond with the topography. Finally, we decided to make the gridshell have serval landing at different height and keep the form as rolling expression.

1. Set the base grid for active-bending gridshell

2. Set the points on the desire mesh

By using this grasshopper script, we found out that the topography made our exploration really complicated. During this from-found process, a rolling gridshell structure which consist a strip shape to touching the grass land was designed. The feature of this structure was the strip shape, but it also brings lots of problems to the stability of the structure.

When looking back to this grasshopper difination, the active bending gridshell can not be simulated using 'points on mesh' component because it did not have the force pushing at connection points. It should be used when generating preformed gridshell.

4. Final result of max displacement.

3. Analysis the structure displacement with two beam sizes.

Further thoughts: the elevation shows the overall shape of the gridshell, but there is no edge beams, the connection is not entirely correct because it need to connected with the ground.