Helios House Knowledge Pattern

For this case study I mimicked the design of the helios house in LA. On my first attempt, I simply triangulated a column, but there was not as much differentiation in the surface as in the surface of the helios house. I then replaced the triangulation with a pyramid shape, which is not exactly the same as the helios surface, but looks similar to it because of its roughness.

Knowledge Pattern

Here is the first knowledge pattern which I created from the Paramod tutorial.

Document Templates

For this tutorial I create a tube which is defined by four points at each end. The thickness of the tube is proportional to its length - the shorter the tube the thicker it is. The ratio of thickness to length is controlled by global parameters at each end, so the diameter of the opening can be different at each end of the tube. I ran into a few problems when I tried editing the original framework, and when I updated the original parameters. In one instance, I changed the framework in a way which caused some of the components to turn red. Also, after saving the product and reopening it, all of my parts had lighting bolts next to them in the tree, and would not update with the global parameters.

Power Copy - Yas Hotel

For this assignment I modeled the facade of the Yas hotel, which consists of a series of diamonds. I first set up two overlapping grids which created a diamond pattern, and then projected that onto a curved surface. I created a diamond shaped surface between the points, and gave it a parameter which allowed it to open on one side, like the panels in the yas hotel facade. I then power copied this shape across the entire grid.

Dynamic Tower - part 2

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So here is my model of the assembled parts I created in my previous post. For some reason I am having errors with my constraints when I save them. The modules should all rotate at the same angle. This was working when I first set the relationships up, but when I saved the file and reopened it it read the parameters differently for some reason. I also ran into an issue with output features. When making my parts, I would use output features to generate the solids, but sometimes the output features would disappear after they had been used to generate a solid. This created a problem because i could not use them to create other solids or pockets.

Dynamic Tower

This week I chose to make the dynamic tower, which is composed of a series of core modules stacked on top of each other, with floor plates which slide over them. I modeled the core and floor module, and then created a variation of the core module which will allow the tower to bend.































After making these parts I created a product and am currently working on assembling them. I am linking the floors to the core with a angle parameter, so i can control the rotation, and the angle of the bending cores is controlled by a parameter in the part, so the amount of bending can be controlled.

Tutorial2 - Burj Dubai

This week I chose to model the Burj Dubai instead of continuing to work the the Toledo Glass Museum. I felt like this was a better choice for this assignment because the Glass Museum does not have much sectional variation. I first drew the plan, and then created three other sketches which contained the splines for the different towers.


















Variation 1
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In the first variation, I set up a series of relationships between the heights of the towers. Each tower's height is set to a formula which makes it equal to the height of the tower behind it, but divided by a factor parameter.














Variation 2
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With this variation, I kept the parameters from the previous iteration, but adjusted the height of the tallest tower, instead of just changing the factor parameter.






















Variation 3

In this variation I set the height of the towers to be inversely proportional to the width of each tower's base.




























Variation 4
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Here I set up relationships between the height of the towers on the left and the height of the towers on the right. The height of each of the towers on the left is equal to the height of its corresponding tower on the right side, but divided by a factor. Variation can be created by changing the factor, or by manually changing the heights of the towers on the right.























Variation 5
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In this final variation, I kept the same parameters as variation 4, but edited the formula for the heights of the towers so that the towers on the left are inversely proportional to the height of the towers on the right.