ARCH 653 Project 1 Midterm
30 St. Mary Axe (The Gherkin) October 29th, 2017 At the heart of the City, at 30 St. Mary Axe, the headquarters of the Swiss Reinsurance Company is not only an unmistakable landmark on the London skyline, but also the first skyscraper built with British capital ecological criteria. The Gherkin 1. Renderings: Rendering 1 Rendering 2 Rendering 3 2. Modeling 1) Creating five reference circles based on the information about radius of specific floors. Reference Circles 2) Creating geometry by create solid form based on these five circles. The shape of the mass can be changed by changing the value of elevation and radius of different reference circles. Equations 3) Dividing the mass surface, then apply "Rhomboid" pattern for the facade. Divided Surface Facade 4) Creating an adaptive family and load it into the mass family. The adaptive family is made up by three different adaptive families, which are structure, frame and glas...