Aluminium Ventilation Panel with Grasshopper

by Arthur Mamou-Mani

Feb 17, 2011

This is one component from a 4m*2m aluminium ventilation panel which will be part of 80 panels mounted on a University building façade in Hastings, U.K. All the panels will have a 40% opening ratio using circles with three different radii. Link to Video: http://vimeo.com/16060472 Work done at Proctor and Matthews Architect: http://www.proctorandmatthews.com/welcome

  • adrian kumar

    impressive use of galapagos! I'm working on a similar aluminium panels myself for a facade - but with holes of one size. how did this process effect the number of larger holes in comparison to small ones? was it cheaper punch create large or small holes?

    cheers

    Feb 19, 2011

  • Arthur Mamou-Mani

    Thanks Adrian,

    Since the opening ratio always had to be 40% I was limited in the amount of small, large or medium holes to get:

    If the image had a lot of "black" areas or was very contrasted then there would be no middle sized hole and the image would loose in clarity. I often had to make specific elements in the image darker in photoshop to make them stand out. In other words I had to be selective with what to show or not. When the image had little information on it, i had no problem creating a clear pattern.

    I believe using two hole sizes only would be much cheaper as it uses less machine time but it would also reduce the clarity of most images. Are you also showing images through your panels ?

    I will be visiting the factory I hope I will be able to film the process and keep you posted:)

    Cheers

    Feb 20, 2011