Facade panelisation

Hi all,

We are currently working on a 40 storey residential tower in London, have traditionally used Grasshopper for this sort of thing but are using GC in the office (in my view its awful). Considering reverting to Grasshopper to model the facade. Hoping for some guidance to get us started.

We want to generate the facade from a series of arcs (see image attached).

This geometry would then govern the size of the panels.

The question is could you then start to insert pre-modelled panels into this geometry?

The important thing is that they do not just get stretched to fit the geometry but instead are fitted more intelligently. i.e. the mullions should always have the same profile and the glass size should be the variable. I guess that is the tricky bit and where we come unstuck.

Any help very much appreciated.

Thanks,

Oli

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Permalink Reply by Jonathan Lynn on January 24, 2014 at 5:02am

Its may not solve all of your problems but have you looked at the Paneling tools plugin for GH and Rhino? They have a few ways of paneling facades according to flat pre-defined lengths. It will still require some cleaver working for maintaining the mullion profile but it could be a good place to start.

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/panelingtools

Permalink Reply by olileech on January 24, 2014 at 5:58am

Jonathan,

Thanks for your quick response. I am familiar with paneling tools for Rhino - and have used it for a similar scenarios before.

I guess that is the big question that at the moment I cannot find an answer for - how to intelligently fit each panel into it while keeping mullion profiles etc the same?

Will have a play again with PT, but if anyone has done similar please let me know.

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