Parametric Facade

Aqua Tower, Chicago

The objective of this assignment is to understand and  generate an existing facade using grasshopper as the parametric tool.

Pseudo Code

  1. Start with profile curves to make balcony slabs.
  2. Generate surface from curves.
  3. Generate horizontal contours.
  4. Give thickness and depth to contours.
  5. Create back facade using box command.
  6. Boolean union both  geometries.

Grasshopper Script

 

Render

 

Iterations