Question about how to make the facade of MAD's Taichung convention center

Hello! I have lurked around this wonderful forum for a while and trying to learn Grasshopper, great inspiration here! Now I have a little question :)

I wouldn't even know where to start but I was wondering if anybody know how to make these facade elements thats in the Taichung Convention center by MAD architects.

Here is a picture of what it looks like:

The building

And here is a link to the project site on i-mad.com

project page

I am a total newbie on grasshopper and rhino but what I am trying to achieve is to make a surface (either from a loft or a surface edited with "cage edit" and load that into GH and then make this kind of pattern that follows that surface, here is a good image of the interior the facade creates:

interior

It is for learning purposes and maybe to be incorporated in my next school project in some way.

I would really appreciate your help on this!

Thank you!

With regards

Isak Bergwall

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Permalink Reply by Dedackelzucht on January 27, 2011 at 2:08am

this shows quiet good the principles of the facade! Top and Botton are a triangle geometry. start with that!

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Permalink Reply by Luis Fraguada on January 27, 2011 at 2:44am

It looks like the base for the geometry could have come from an electric field solver like the one David put together a while back...it has been used in countless design research projects to generate 'space.'

Permalink Reply by Isak Bergwall on January 27, 2011 at 8:30am

Thank you so much for your input this will certainly make a great starting point the electric field solver seems very interesting and thank you Deda for that image!

When getting the pattern the next step would be to "attach it" over a surface and then find a way to give the "field" a thickness and volume.

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