Laboratory for Visionary Architecture Snowflake tower

This is a presentation about the parametric setup of LAVA's Snowflake tower. The parametric concept was developed almost one year ago, in one of the first versions of Grashopper. I thought it could be interesting to see how grashopper is already being used in some offices as a daily work tool, making the design process more efficient.
The parametric definition is based on the concept of a "Snowflake".
The Model allowed us to tweak the tower design on both micro and macro scale. Apart of just studying the width of balconies or radius of the core, we were also able to generate completely different shapes.
In a later stage, we rebuilded this model using a formula/script to describe the snowflakes.

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Comment by Lee Souder on November 29, 2013 at 11:58pm: my god

Comment by tjh on June 26, 2011 at 7:44am: good job

Comment by teroso on May 20, 2011 at 8:38pm: very nice,thanks for your sharing~~

Comment by Rodrigo Medina on November 8, 2010 at 11:15am: Awesome Work !!

Comment by oladayo on September 16, 2010 at 4:18pm: good work Gilles

Comment by Rodrigo Culagovski on March 27, 2010 at 1:10pm: That's amazing Gilles. I really like seeing the work you're doing.
Will be showing this to students in a new G.H. course starting next Monday at PUC.

Comment by Christopher d. Faulhammer on November 19, 2009 at 3:39pm: that is cool.... can you help answer a question? how did get the different geometries to points on your main spline? Thanks if you can help...Cheers

Comment by Gilles Retsin on November 19, 2009 at 3:08pm: Hey Christoph, I'm sorry but I can't share the ghx file with you as it's not my property. I made it for LAVA.

Comment by Christopher d. Faulhammer on November 12, 2009 at 8:53am: Was wondering if you would be willing to share the ghx file. I love the thought process of putting the tower together and want to try experimenting with it. Thanks for your help.

Comment by Michal Sistik on October 14, 2009 at 1:20pm: thanks for sharing, this kind of using grasshopper make sence for me and is inspirating for me..thanks!