Generating the basic formation of the building
Esplanade theatre, Singapore
CAD Logic iii
DIA/ Winter semester 09/10
Brief description of Esplanade Theater: The Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay is a waterside building located on six hectares of waterfront land alongside Marina Bay near the mouth of the Singapore River, purpose-built to be the centre for performing arts for the island nation of Singapore. Taking its name from the nearby Esplanade, it contains a 1,600 seat concert hall and a 2,000 seat theatre for the performing arts. The library@esplanade is located on the third floor of the building. There are outdoor performing centres, and retail and food space at the Esplanade Mall. There is an outdoor open space on the fourth floor of the building. The building was designed by two architectural firms working in conjunction: by DP Architects (DPA) of Singapore and the London-based Michael Wilford & Partners (MWP).
Computer program used for the re-modeling: We have used Rhino and ParaCloud to regenerate the model of the Esplanade theater. My software for this course is ParaCloud. ParaCloud deals with pattern modeling. The Esplanade theater has a specific “pattern” of its shading devices. If we import a “mesh” surface ( in case of Esplanade it is the glass shell) in Paracloud and populate the “component” (in case of Esplanade it is The shading device) on the mesh, it would be convenient to get a good result accordingly. That is why we used ParaCloud to regenerate this building. We used rhino to create the”mesh” and the “component” because it is easy and perfect to get a “faceted” surface using UV degree and point count in Rhino. That is why we used Rhino as well.
Abul Fazal Mahmudun Nobi
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CAD Logic iii
DIA/ Winter semester 09/10
Fig : top view of the bldg.
Fig : basic form in rhino
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Fig : mesh: from NURBS control polygon Abul Fazal Mahmudun Nobi
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Fig : Obj exporting Abul Fazal Mahmudun Nobi
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Fig : component(shading device) of the bldg.
Fig : basic component in rhino
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Fig : paracloud interface: importing the mesh Abul Fazal Mahmudun Nobi
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Fig : offset. Blue mesh: inner surface. Red one: extension boundary of the component Abul Fazal Mahmudun Nobi
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Fig : component. Blue rectangle: inner surface. Red one: extension boundary of the component Abul Fazal Mahmudun Nobi
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Fig : population Abul Fazal Mahmudun Nobi
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Fig : component(shading device) of the bldg.
Fig : generation of components in paracloud
Abul Fazal Mahmudun Nobi
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CAD Logic iii
DIA/ Winter semester 09/10
Fig : component(shading device) of the bldg.
Fig : generation of components in paracloud (other side)
Abul Fazal Mahmudun Nobi
Student No_ 4050165
CAD Logic iii
DIA/ Winter semester 09/10
Fig : different views of the components in paracloud
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Student No_ 4050165
CAD Logic iii
DIA/ Winter semester 09/10
Responsive skin The real building has a responsive skin. shading devices change the direction according to the rotation of the sun. In paracloud this “responsive” state could be generated thru the use of “ echo by target” command. The shading devices could be gradually bigger/ smaller/ semi open/ closed thru the use of this command. This is delineated in the next pages.
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Fig : importing the mesh again
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Fig : offset
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Fig : selecting target points
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Fig : echo by target Abul Fazal Mahmudun Nobi
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Fig : echo by target: the aperture gradually becomes smaller/ bigger
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Devices are gradually closing
Devices are gradually opening
Fig : output Abul Fazal Mahmudun Nobi
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Remarks/ Conclusion: In fact, ParaCloud is pretty convenient to generate this kind of repetitive components. But all the time it is necessary to take care of the size, shape and the “direction” of the component in ParaCloud. One can use “bleeding” and “Flip XY”/”Flip YZ” tools for this purpose. And after population one can export the file into any rendering software for greater perception.
Appendix ParaCloud website: www.paraclouding.com