Meiso no Mori, crematorium Kakamigahara

I am trying to recreate the Kakamigahara crematorium and its parametric roof... and I need your help!

So far the problems are two - poor info online (plans, sections, roof) and no idea how can I construct the roof itself via Rhino/GH.

I am attaching some photos + a roof topography plan. How is this plan created?

Thanks for your help in advance and have a nice Sunday!

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Permalink Reply by peter fotiadis on May 10, 2015 at 12:01pm

A very rough AND indicative way to do this:

1. Patch a collection of curves (the boundary and the "column profiles") - keep in mind that path is tricky. You can perform the path either manually (Rhino) or via GH components (tricky) or via C# (my choice).

2. Make a mesh (out of the resulting brep) and let Kangaroo do some "tensile" work - keep in mind that making a "normalized" mesh to feed Kangaroo is also tricky (Plan B: use stuff the likes of MeshLab). I've used the 099 Kangaroo in case that you work with 32 bit stuff/old O/S (new K requires 64 bit and latest .NET that is NOT supported in old O/S). Kangaroo can do a lot of other things as well (like "equalizing" the mesh edges) ... but this def is indicative anyway.

3. Thicken the result (WP that does this is deactivated in the attached def).

PS: test data are not internalized: load Rhino file first.

PS: the actual thing requires 2 patches for the in/out envelope.

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