The Diamond, Deconstructed

The Diamond is a building of Sheffield University in the UK, by Twelve Architects, who’s facade consists of fractal Diamond Panels of varying sizes.

Below is the parametric strategy for the facade design, deconstructed using Grasshopper, with accompanying pseudo code and renders to show 3 deviations with varying parameters.

PARAMETRIC DEVIATION ONE

PARAMETRIC DEVIATION TWO

PARAMETRIC DEVIATION THREE

The Diamond, Deconstructed is a project of IaaC, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
developed at Master in Advanced Architecture in 2018 by:
Student: Megan Smylie
Faculty: Rodrigo Aguirre, David Andres Leon, Danill Koshelyuk