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The building I choose for parametric model is the Münster City Library designed by Peter Wilson, Julia Bolles-Wilson and Eberhard Kleffner.
INTRO
The library is split into different areas. As the interior spaces of the library are literally shielded from the outside by two large copper surfaces, the central monumental axis of the Buchereigasse is reinforced as a place of movement with no physical from the inside, yet on the outside they are only partially so; the angle in which they are built is almost vertical and parallel to the walls, they stand somehow in between two conditions of wall and roof, in an obviously ambiguous situation of continuously shifting readings.
MODELLING PROCESS
1. Create wall, floor, roof, ceiling, windows
2. Apply the material according to the actual building appearance
3. Add site and trees
4. Create part of the interior space, add furnitures and lighting
5. Rendering
PARAMETRIC PROCESS
The parametric modeling I developed on this project is the “zig zag” shape roof wall. There are two supposed fixed points of the roof wall on the right side of the above picture: the top point connecting to the third floor and the bottom point connecting to the ground floor. The roof wall can be divided into 3 pieces for the both side.
The parametric model I was thinking is that changing the angle relationship of the 3 pieces of the roof wall to affect the perception of the atrium space. 2) Using the same formula from previous method to create both roof wall for the left part and the right part.
1. Set East elevation view as work plan
2. Copy more reference lines according to the real scale
3. Draw the "zig zag" wall by using reference line
4. Lock the 2 fixed points to reference lines
5. Add angular dimensions and add parameter for the angles
6. Set the "zig zag" reference line as work plan, draw reference rectangular and then create form
7. Add length parameter for the form to control the length of the wall
8. Change parameter to form the two pieces of walls and load into project
PROBLEMS
At first I set four angle parameters for the "zig zag" wall, and then I found there existed very complicated relations between these four angles. When one angle changes, the range for the other three angles becomes very limited. And I cannot change them at the same time.
After that, I tried to simplified it into two parameters and add some constraint for the angle. I lock them to the reference lines and let them only move on the reference lines. However, because of these constraints, there came out some new problems. Then according to those problems I created the formula.
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