Design is defined as a sketch or plan. With every plan, unexpected things will happen. Yet, these unexpected things are what makes the design great.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Our second project in ARC 411: AutoCAD was to write a script in Grasshopper to create an architectural feature inspired by our precedent building or a piece of our studio work.So, I continued to work with the O-14 Tower. Grasshopper is a parametric software, which allows for a lot of experimentation once a model is built. However, getting a model to work is another story. I was able to get a nice, working model after several iterations. What the script does is make the unique filleted polygon holes that are in the O-14 facade. The script lays out the shapes on a triangular grid, then extrudes, caps, and booleans the shape from a mass. The script works great! The photo doesn’t show any detail but if anyone is interested in the files, I’d gladly share them with you!
