Project 2

1. Entrance Curve

In project2, I am going to develop the model of project1.

This is the result of project 1, using Kangaroo to create the entrance curve. However, this is not smooth yet. Therefore, I tried to use another way to create it.

1-1. Cage Edit in Rhino

There is "cage edit" component to create what I want in rhino.
By moving these four control points, we can get the curved surface.

1-2. Weaverbird in Grasshopper
We can get what I want in Rhino, but I tried to create it in Grasshopper to change the shape automatically.

Convert the lofted result of project 1 to mesh.

Deconstruct mesh to get vertices of each mesh. Then, bake them in Rhino and select points I want to move.

Calculate distance between points I selected and the other points because the shorter the distance is, the further points move. Connect that data to Graph mapper to change the shape of the entrance.

Connect "Influence Range Slider" and "Bump Intensity Slider" to that data as a horizontal and a vertical factors to change it. Convert that data to vectors with "Amplitude" and move that points.

The result is not smooth, so connect them weaverbird nodes.

This is the outcome. We can change the smooth level with the slider.

To convert from mesh to surface, deconstruct mesh to get vertices and create interpolate curves.

Duplicate the first interpolate curve, and rotate 180 degrees to get a closed smooth loft. We can get a complete shape as one "Surface".

Connect it to what I created in project 1. This is the final shape.

2. Sun Path Analysis in Ladybug

Find the EPW file of Beijing, and copy and Paste URL onto panel and connect it EPW node. By doing that, you don't need to download it.

Connect that data to sun Path node in Ladybug, the graph is shown automatically.

3-1. Radiation Analysis

Mesh has a orientation. Originally, orientation mesh I created is inward so flip it to outward.

Make the surrounding building.

Set epw file to get sky matrix.

This is radiation analysis.

3-2. Radiation Analysis 2
Exterior material of this building is glass. Hence, I found a certain rotated degree to minimize the total radiation with garapagos.