All Videos Tagged DIVA (Grasshopper) - Grasshopper

Rorschach Shadow Demo

2013-01-03T17:02:18.231Z

Here's a walk-through of the Rorschach Shadow Diagram.

For more info and to download the file: http://lmnts.lmnarchitects.com/parametrics/rorschach-shadow-diagram-implementation/

Optimal Shades - [DvsI] 2nd Parametric Design and Digital Fabrication Workshop @ the Architecture Department [ARC], University of Nicosia

2012-09-30T07:40:56.908Z

Team: Maria Chrysanthou, Antonia Loizou, Stavros Voskaris
Digital Tools: Grasshopper, DIVA

The aim of this project was to develop an intelligent, low tech, exterior shading skin for a hypothetical building that could regulate the annual solar radiation on its facades. The team approached the problem by subdividing the façades of the building into smaller panels and calculating the amount of annual solar radiation on each panel. The group came up with a parametric definition that relates the radiation values on each panel of the façade with the number and size of generated louvers per panel. To facilitate construction, the results were reduced to five categories per facade allowing modularization. Consequently, the East and West facades consisted from panels comprising 1-5 louvers, whereas the south facade consisted from panels comprising 5-9 louvers. As a final step the team calculated the new annual solar radiation on the shaded façades to verify their design strategy.

Rorschach Shadow Diagram

2012-04-03T01:46:33.174Z

We’re developing a set of Grasshopper user objects to generate sun study diagrams using the DIVA sun vector component. This post focuses on the overshadowing diagram, a powerful metric which offers comprehensive analysis for point of interest shading (more info: http://lmnts.lmnarchitects.com/featured/rorschach-shadow-diagram/).