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ARCH 655_Project 2_Final

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ARCH 655_Parametric Modeling in Design_Project 1 30 St. Mary Axe (The Gherkin) 1. Introduction 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 building is where once the headquarters of the Baltic Exchange, a company that managed the maritime rents and which dealt with the sale of boats was. When in 1992 an IRA bomb destroyed the building, it was thought possible restoration, but later realized that the old structure could not be retrieved. Only in 2000, however, consent to the realization of a new building began. The integration of the Swiss Tower in the context of the City had to undergo however the rules of the London authorities, who expressly asked were respected identity and style of the other buildings. Swiss Tower certainly does not go unnoticed and is clearly distin
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ARCH 655_Project 1_Midterm

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ARCH 655_Parametric Modeling in Design_Project 1 30 St. Mary Axe (The Gherkin) 1. Introduction 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 building is where once the headquarters of the Baltic Exchange, a company that managed the maritime rents and which dealt with the sale of boats was. When in 1992 an IRA bomb destroyed the building, it was thought possible restoration, but later realized that the old structure could not be retrieved. Only in 2000, however, consent to the realization of a new building began. The integration of the Swiss Tower in the context of the City had to undergo however the rules of the London authorities, who expressly asked were respected identity and style of the other buildings. Swiss Tower certainly does not go unnoticed and is clearly distin
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ARCH 653 Project 2 Final

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30 St. Mary Axe (The Gherkin) November 26th, 2017                                                                     The Gherkin Based on the Project 1, I made some improvements: 1) Rebuild the envelop by using Dynamo. This time the envelop is built up as a whole, which the top part is not seperate as what I did in the parametric mass model; 2) Two types of curtain panel were created and controled by Dynamo; 3) Add color to the facade from an image, and controled by Dynamo; 4) Add color to the facade based on solar orientation. 1. Rebuild Envelop Mass model was created by using series node.  Curtain Panel was created in Project 1, so I just use that Panel with two different types - Tinted & Non-tinted here. Then I linked this curtain panel family to the mass family, in order to creat the envelop. As you can see above, there is a blank row on the envelop. To refine this problem, I rotate and copy another row which next to the blank row f
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ARCH 653 Project 1 Midterm

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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
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