Grasshopper and Spatial Practices Final Portfolio

liz liberatore arch 5423: grasshopper and spatial practices final portfolio

this project, I analyzed a map of my hometown, Baltimore, Maryland, and the availiability and project 1 Inpromiximity of amenities, showing how tourist-friendly the city is. I drew the street as a curve and placed a point along the curve to serve as the attractor point. Each amenity, which includes restaurants, parking, hotels, and shopping, is larger and a cooler color according to the location of the attractor point on the street.

project maps the programs of buildings of a city through Open Street Map data according to project 2 This the distance from a point on the street. I studied the distances from tourist amenities and residential amenities to help determine what kinds of programs are needed in certain areas, as my studio project site is in New York City. The distance from the sphere on the street is shown with a dotted line and the buildings change according to the proximity to the sphere.

project 3

This project studies different paving patterns on a flat area. This block of New York City is the site of my studio project and experiementing with paving patterns is useful in determining the plan of a building or the landscape of the site. Each of these definitions divdes the plot into a grid and arranges shapes based on the centers of the grid.

Some plots have curves running through them and size the shapes depending on their proximity to the curve. Other plots have overlapping shapes which result in overlapping shapes or morphing into one large form on the site.

project 4

This project was based on creating and dividing a plot of land and creating a pattern or structure based on the plot. Three of the plots contain an overlapping rectangle paving pattern that varies in size and frequency,, one plot contains trees and shapes varying in size and color based on the proximity of the trees, and two plots contain buildings created from the plots- either by rotating/twisting the plot or by creating two curves and tweening them. The definition allows for the change in floors or rotation in the buildings. This project experiments with different ways of transforming flat curves and surfaces in to 3D objects.

project 5

This project takes the same plots from Project 4 and creates complex facades on the buildings. Both buildings are created by rotating the plots and adjusting the number of floors and heights. The building surfaces are divded into smaller panels to highlight the structure and to create windows on each panel. One building contains circles that vary in size based on the location to a “sun� or attractor point.

The other building contains extruded boxes that vary in color, rotation, and size based on the distance from the attractor point and correspond to the boxed windows above and below the box. This project explores different and dynamic ways to create a facade of a building based on different kinds of data, in this case, distances from a point.

project 6

This project breaks down images and transforms them into surfaces or projects onto 3d objects.

With the same plot, 5 plots contain different images that have varying colors and value and represent the image through a pattern of shapes that vary in size depending on the value. One plot contains a structure based off of the values projected from an image. This project explores different ways of representing an image through 2D and 3D shapes and forms through clearer methods such as creating a pattern of shapes with the building colors, or more subtle methods such as projecting the values onto a surface. I chose to image sample paintings from the Abstract Expressionist movement, an art movement where objects were rendered in a non-representational way.

This assigmnent goes with the Abstract Expressionist movement in that it uses a different mode of representation to render an object or idea.

project 7

This project places buildings on a topography from USGS and Open Street Map while rotating and removing them based on the slope. I chose the topography of Juneau, Alaska, a city built at the base of a very steep mountain and bordering water. I removed the buildings on the steeper slopes, which leaves most of them at the base of the mountain and at the top, much like they are actually built. This project is useful in studying how cities with challenging topography plan their buildings.

project 8

This project slices a topography and tranforms it into a “waffle” form, which can be laser cut and assembled. With the same Juneau topography, this definition manipulates the number of slices, the thickness and height of the slits, which were dependent on the material, and the layout of the waffle pieces for printing. This project develops a deeper understanding of a site’s topography through dividing, slicing, and laying it out through the definition, but also through physically assembling it,

project 9

This project transforms a mesh surface into pieces that can be cut and assembled by hand. The first definition creates individual mesh pieces based on the complexity of the mesh. It also manually creates tabs and has a dashed pattern to indicate where to fold them. In this definition, I also created triangulalar openings that were sized based on the distance from the mesh to an attractor point. The second definition uses the plugin, Ivy, to create the mesh pieces and tabs, which were grouped together depending on the complexity of the mesh and given numbers on the tabs to orient the pieces physcially.

The Ivy mesh was laser cut and assembled out of cardstock. This definition is useful in understanding a mesh by producing it physically and aseembling it by hand, which develops a better understanding of how it works.

project 10

This project explores different ways of creating a mesh through the Weaverbird and Lunchbox plugin. The first mesh starts with a mesh surface in Rhino and extrudes selected faces into towers. The entire mesh is then divided and punctated with circles and thickened so it can be 3D printed. The second mesh starts with a landform surface, which was made from curves and divded so that it can change based on a point moving along the curves. The surface is then triangulated and thickened through Weaverbird.

project 10

This project explores different ways of creating a mesh through the Weaverbird and Lunchbox plugin. The first mesh starts with a mesh surface in Rhino and extrudes selected faces into towers. The entire mesh is then divided and punctated with circles and thickened so it can be 3D printed. The second mesh starts with a landform surface, which was made from curves and divded so that it can change based on a point moving along the curves. The surface is then triangulated and thickened through Weaverbird.

project 11+12

This project explores creating meshes through the plugins Dendro and Kangaroo. The first mesh uses the Lunchbox plugin and curves set in Rhino to create a space truss. The curve to volume and volume to mesh functions in Dendro transform the curves into a mesh and through Weaverbird mesh thicken, it can be 3D printed. The second mesh starts with a mesh plane and through applying a load and anchoring the mesh to the plane, Kangaroo produces an arch that can be changed based on the strength to the ground plane. It is thickened through Weaverbird so it can be 3D printed. The third mesh is created through the origami definition with Kangaroo.

It starts with a surface plane which is divided into a grid, called valley lines, and triangulated, called mountain lines with Lunchbox. The surface is then trasnformed into a mesh and through Kangaroo, the mesh folds according to points on the fold curves. The mesh is then manipulated in Weaverbird to be divided and produce protruding “spikes� with openings.

project 11+12

This project explores creating meshes through the plugins Dendro and Kangaroo. The first mesh uses the Lunchbox plugin and curves set in Rhino to create a space truss. The curve to volume and volume to mesh functions in Dendro transform the curves into a mesh and through Weaverbird mesh thicken, it can be 3D printed. The second mesh starts with a mesh plane and through applying a load and anchoring the mesh to the plane, Kangaroo produces an arch that can be changed based on the strength to the ground plane. It is thickened through Weaverbird so it can be 3D printed. The third mesh is created through the origami definition with Kangaroo. It starts with a surface plane which is divided into a grid, called valley lines, and triangulated, called mountain lines with Lunchbox. The surface is then trasnformed into a mesh and through Kangaroo, the mesh folds according to points on the fold curves. The mesh is then manipulated in Weaverbird to be divided and produce protruding “spikes� with openings.

project explores creating meshes through the plugins Dendro and Kangaroo. The first mesh project 11+12This uses the Lunchbox plugin and curves set in Rhino to create a space truss. The curve to volume and volume to mesh functions in Dendro transform the curves into a mesh and through Weaverbird mesh thicken, it can be 3D printed. The second mesh starts with a mesh plane and through applying a load and anchoring the mesh to the plane, Kangaroo produces an arch that can be changed based on the strength to the ground plane. It is thickened through Weaverbird so it can be 3D printed. The third mesh is created through the origami definition with Kangaroo. It starts with a surface plane which is divided into a grid, called valley lines, and triangulated, called mountain lines with Lunchbox. The surface is then trasnformed into a mesh and through Kangaroo, the mesh folds according to points on the fold curves. The mesh is then manipulated in Weaverbird to be divided and produce protruding “spikes� with openings.

studio project

My studio project this semester is located in between two buildings on a block in the Bowery neighborhood of New York City. Because of the limited facades and building height, I wanted to create a facade of rotating panels that are oriented to receive the most sunlight. I created a script in grasshopper with dividing the edges of the floor plates and connecting the points to create a panel oriented to the edge of the building. Then, through studying sunlight exposure through a ladybug script found on hydra, I experiemented with the quantity and rotation of the panels to see which orientation would obtain the most sunlight. This informed decisions on facade material and buidling programs facing the street.