Designing Chester Zoo

This is a good example in which hand modelling was combined with Grasshopper. The free-form "dome" is controlled by six points and a grasshopper definition sweeps a surface through its thrust lines. The curvature of the free-form "dome" had to be as positive as possible which explains all the red.

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Comment by Arthur Mamou-Mani on August 31, 2010 at 3:50am: Hi Taz, it is a big one, 200m long !
The project is going through planning now, waiting for the answer next month hopefully.
The whole discussion about gridshell really helped for its modelling...
It will be all covered by ETFE triangular pillows going from 3m.sq. to 31 m.sq.

The project was just published on OpenBuildings.com:
http://www.openbuildings.com/buildings/the-heart-of-africa-biodome-...

Comment by taz on August 27, 2010 at 5:12pm: I remember seeing this project when the design was annouced. It's ginormous!

Is that also the project you were doing the gridshell modeling for? Is the roof going to be ETFE pilliows?