There are three parts to this project, found below.
Part 1 - Precedent component
Refer to the videos and lessons from Week 5.
Assignment
Develop a Grasshopper script that recreates the formal gesture found in your precedent (found below). Try to duplicate what you see, then program it so that you can create parametric variations. Your output does not have to be exact -- you don't need to worry about small details -- but should be reasonably similar.
Method
Design and implement your script using the process explained in class: observation and planning followed by iterative play and refinement. Refer to videos and class notes to provide you with scripting patterns and ideas.
Your final script should strike a balance between expressive capability and efficiency. For example, you should create dependencies between your variables to prevent invalid or unpleasing output within your system. In other words, do not make everything variable and everything possible. Be strategic.
Undergrad Projects (less complicated):
Edogawa Garage Club Renovation
Graduate Projects (more complicated):
Centre for Virtual Engineering
Part 2 - Parametric process diagramming
Refer to the videos from Week 6.
Assignment
Create a diagram presentation of the formal processes undertaken by your script. In other words, explain graphically and step-by-step how your script works. Create a presentation that is clear and free of computational jargon.
Method
Before you do anything, refactor your script to simplify it and make it intelligent. Create dependencies and minimize the number of sliders necessary.
Then, come up with a plan for the story you want to tell about your project. Sketch out your diagrams and agree on a script before entering into production.
Using the methods from the video, output 2D line drawings and basic 3D renderings. Compose these in Illustrator, paying careful attention to lineweights, use of color, and hierarchy. Remember that you are describing a process, so it is important for someone to be able to follow graphically what is changing in each step.
Use clear and simple text descriptions and labeling where appropriate.
Part 3 - Pavilion context
Assignment
Recently, our precedent studies enabled us to replicate specific building forms parametrically. However, these were limited to their original contexts. This week, you will learn how to extend your scripts to work in nearly any context, which will significantly increase the usefulness of your precedent scripts and enable you to use Grassopper more effectively in your 3d models for studio.
Your assignment is to adapt your parametric script to a specific site and form.
This is a composition exercise as much as anything. Everything in the project must work together holistically. Grasshopper is not just wallpaper over the forms.
Criteria
You will need to consider the general form of your site and pavilion, according to the following guidelines:
The site dimensions are 40'x80'.
The pavilion is an inhabitable rectangular enclosure measuring either 20'x20' or 20'x40' and can be 1, 2, or 3 stories (12' per story) in height. The walls of the pavilion are all 6" thick. Consider your precedent when determining the final proportions of your pavilion. For all intents and purposes, it is basically a dumb box. It does not have stairs or furniture or detailing. It is merely a vessel for your intervention.
The pavilion must have a roof overhead and at least a door opening (standard dimensions). Windows are allowed, if they compliment your precedent intervention.
The site also needs an 8' high partition / privacy wall of 8" deep material on a least one side. If you choose a wall on four sides, it must have an opening.
Your intervention is an adaptation of the the parametric process you encoded in the first part of the Project to the pavilion and its site. The location of this intervention could be on the ground, part or all of the wall, the walls / part of the wall / roof of the pavilion, or a canopy. The adaptation and design of the pavilion are an integrated whole and should be considered a design problem. The pavilion must inform the intervention, and vice versa. Consider how your parameters in your script build off of the hierarchy and proportion in your pavilion scheme.
To produce the images you need, your intervention needs to be baked and integrated with the pavilion model in Rhino. It should be a solid, and respect any thickness from the wall or pavilion that it encounters. Some slight modifications can be made to the baked geometry in Rhino, for the purposes of good craft. However, do not rely on Rhino to fix all the problems that you create in Grasshopper!
(NOTE: there are no materials in your scheme. Just leave it all gray)
Method
Watch the first video for the process to create your own pavilion model in Rhino.
Watch the second video for adaptation techniques in Grasshopper. There are specific ideas in this video that will help your groups
Once you have done this, determine how you will adapt the form to the pavilion and site. Come up with a plan for an appropriate adaptation, and modify your script to implement it.
For your submission images, generate appropriate cameras that detail the best and most explanatory views of your intervention.