#facade

This is the continuation of a very old parametric model of a building facade, presented here. I will introduce the basic Grasshopper definitions of several alternative designs. The first one is the rhombus facade. The first part of the algorithm deals with the necessary data collection. We reference a polyline from the Rhino model as the path that the facade will follow. After that, we create vertical lines around the path. Then, we shatter these lines by using a Graph…

Some facade studies as early sketches of an architectural project; all of them are utilizing a similar Grasshopper approach. My favorite “Graph Mapper” generates the overall gridal deformation, then some of them are drawing geometry for membranes, while others are generated to be realized from sheet metal. Hopefully, one or two of these could be further studied: “Below, I am sharing my favorite among these codes. I had to pull off some geometric acrobatics to affect all four facades of…

This is a small project of a facade study in Grasshopper, designed by KAF Architecture, and built in 2013 at Altunizade, İstanbul. KAF Architecture designed the facade with varying holes with an image of a forest. The image was supposed to generate the holes. At first, the office tried to do this manually, placing circular holes on the image in AutoCAD. However, after several hours, they thought that they needed some kind of an algorithm to accomplish this task. Therefore,…

The story of Atatürk Cultural Center (in Turkish: Atatürk Kültür Merkezi – AKM) dates back to the 1930s. Auguste Perret designed the first version of the project and started the construction in the late ’30s. However, war and financial problems halted the construction. The project continued in the early 1950s with major updates and extensions. Faruk Akçer and Rüknettin Güney were responsible for this second version. Hayati Tabanlıoğlu designed the last version of the building. He studied the previous version…