‘Land of fire’ is adopted motto of Azerbaijan. Flame Towers is the best representation of this aphorism in architectural way. Towers are situated in the capital of Azerbaijan- Baku. The three flame-shaped towers symbolize the element of fire – historically resonant in a region where natural gas flares.
The main goal of the project is to create a facade that protects from the sun. In order to decide which parts of building we are going to apply parametric facade we investigated direction of the sun and building plans.
Within this method we managed to find out which places in this building must be protected from the sun most. The parts colored with blue are stairs and public places, so we left this parts out of our facade.
Here are the parts colored with yellow illustrates the sun exposure surfaces, so we are going to apply parametric facade to these places.
The structure of the facade differs in each building depending on sunlight.
These are the grasshopper components of our facade.
Our steps:
- Modeling of existing building in Rhino
- Designing of form of new added facade
- Modeling new facade structure from rhino curves with component Sweep 2
- Division of this surface with component Triangle Panels B, adding number of divisions
- Modeling the supporting element with Hexagonal Structure and pipe components
- Deconstruction of triangle grid
- Moving points to a distance with Evaluate surface and move (each triangle has its own surface and own points)
- Construction of line from the center of each triangle to to a distance
- Extrude point component for modeling each pyramid
- Deconstruct Breb and list item with 3 surfaces to work with each face of pyramid
- Merging this faces connected with Graph Mapper for opening and closing surfaces. (Remap mapper, closest point, Bounds,Construct domain).
- Evaluate surface connected to MD slider for choosing the particular point that will define opened zones of facade
- Baking the surfaces to Rhino
Our result
Computational Design- Basics – Responsive Parametric Facade
Students: Sabina Javanli / Angelina Ovsyannikova
Faculty: David Andres Leon / Ashkan Foroughi Dehnavi
Assistant Laukik Lad / Uri Lewis Torres