Facade design

Hi there!

I am extremely new at Grasshopper; so new, in fact, that only in the past few days I have been learning the beginner tutorials and...I'm stuck.

I want to be able to build an external mesh for a building, like the one represented in the picture. My objective is to have the ability to change the thickness, number and orientation of the internal rectangular prisms. However, I don't know where to begin building my definition. Could someone help me?

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Permalink Reply by Hannes Löschke on February 24, 2014 at 3:25pm

The basics is a

- top and bottom line,

- find some random points on those and connect them (lots of ways to do that. Search reparametrize, jitter, evaluate curve)

- find the enclosed spaces. that's the hard part. The problem has been discussed in several threads but I can't find the right thread just now. try some creative combination of keywords like region, curves intersect, boolean curves

- RegionUnion all cells, if you don't get a complete outline

- offset or scale the regions you found to make the thickness

- create a PlanarSrf from all your inner cells and the outline

- Extrude the PlanarSrf to get a volume.

Permalink Reply by João Matos on February 25, 2014 at 9:29am

Thanks for your answer. I'm not sure I will be able to follow your steps, however. I have some doubts, like what do you mean with finding the enclosed spaces?

Nevertheless, I will try :P

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