PARAMETRIC FACADE OF NANJING INTERNATIONAL YOUTH CULTURAL CENTRE

Architect : Zaha Hadid Architects
Location  : Nanjing, China
Year      : 2018

*Photo by Hufton+Crow

Breif 
A decode of the logic of complex facade system, analysis and definition of the computational process behind it.

Pseudo Code


Development

1. Creating a diamond grid on the wall surface.          2. Dividing the curves for attractor points.
   


3. Culling the triangular panels.
4. Calculating the distance between the                   5. Scaling the panels based on the distance.
   attractor points and panel centroids.

 6. Culling a set of panels adjacent to the curves.       7. Creating frames and extruding them.


Iterations

A. Reversing elimination limits                          B. Reversing scaling factors

C. Reversing both elimination limits & scaling           D. Changing the shape of the attractor curve
   factors

Final Iteration Render


Parametric Facade of Nanjing International Youth Cultural Centre is a project of IaaC, 
Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia developed at the Master in Advanced Architecture (2019/2020) by:
Student: Vinay Prabhakar
Faculty: Rodrigo Aguirre, Mohammad Elatab

Assistant: Ivan Marchuk