Project 2: Dynamo
Seattle Central Library
In the Project 2, I continued working on the Seattle Library with the program Dynamo based on Revit. My goal is to adding three new materials with different colors to the architecture skin, and this three materials will be arranged by certain pattern which can be control by Dynamo parameters.
Before starting Dynamo, I went back to my panel family to reedit it, for reducing the operating time. And make sure that the material parameters has been added to the panels.
After applying the new panels to the massing, we can start editing the surfaces by Dynamo.
First, I added a new box in Dynamo which is " select divided surfaces family" , chose the surface that we want to work on. Then get three materials in Revit, applied them into Dynamo with the exactly same name I set up. Next step I started working the pattern which is going to be used on the skin.
I wanted three color materials to be arrayed as each color in one row, every three rows to be repeated. Below is showing the parameters and process I was working in the Dynamo.
Final Result:
The same method can be used in all the other surfaces.
Finally, I loaded the massing with new materials into the project, and started rendering.
Project 1: Parametric Modeling
Seattle Central Library
1. Parametric Mass Modeling
Seattle Library is a quite complex architecture model, but through the previous case study, I found it could be simplified into very basic architecture forms, and it has very simple architectural logic. The building is stacked up by 5 boxes, 13 levels, the skin is connecting the edges of the every two adjacent boxes from bottom to the top.
So by understanding the architectural logic, I started creating a mass model in revit. So fist step is to draw the floor plans on each level and setting up the parameters for the length, width. From the second floor, I have to add offset value on both x and y axis for the movement of each volume.
The floor plans and the parameters added to the length, width, height and the offset value of each floor.
2. Creating the form to get the general volumes
The building models is stacked up by the five boxes and the volumes in between.
3. Dividing the surfaces to get the skin pattern.
Press the Tab, add all the surfaces, divide them by 3'*1.5' modules.
4. Creating the parametric architecture skin
Start a new family model to create the module we are going to use into the skin pattern.
Adding the parameters to the module
Load the family we just created into the project, start applying this pattern to all the surfaces we divided in the previous step.
Now we can go ahead to check how the parameters controls the building form.
Apply different values to the offset parameters and the width parameters to see the transformations of the model.
5. Creating a new architectural project, and rendering
