Parametric Design

Taichung Metropolitan Opera House - Optimization of the building shape based on radiation analysis - In Project 2, I utilized Ladybug and Galapagos, the former one is for radiation analysis and the latter one is for genetic algorithm. These tools optimize the building shape so that occupants can get maximum radiation. I simplified the building model and assumed that curvy walls consist of the whole building and the shape is covered with one big glass box. Sun path 1)  Find weather data URL from Ladybug epwmap  and  put it in "Panel" in Grasshopper  2) From the epw data, we can get the exact annual sun path on the site, Taichung, Taiwan Optimization of the building shape 1)  To optimize the shape of the curvy walls, I chose three layers of Voronoi curves and got two layers of lofted curvy walls. ( Please look over Project 1 page for the process of producing Vor

Taichung Metropolitan Opera House Architect:   Toyo Ito                Site:           Taichung, Taiwan          Function:   Opera House Toyo Ito &  Associates designed an outstanding architecture, which is notable for curved and folded interior shape, in Taichung, Taiwan. The main design was based on a mathematical process, in which Grasshopper and several plug-ins were utilized, and they created the organic shape architecture.                                                        Modeling Process                       *1                                  With Physics Engine Comparing two models, with and without the physics engine, I figured out that the architect might not utilize the physics engine for this building's design, because the curved surfaces without the physics engine were much more similar t