Experimenting with the code

REVIT API : Project 2
Experimenting with the code


This project taught me many new concepts I didn't know about, or was too afraid to learn.
C# express is a completely new, intriguing and very interesting new language that I found myself wanting to know more about.

In this project, I first started experimenting with a sample template that allowed us to control color and thickness of different elements randomly.

I started by creating a simple mass, or panels. I assigned each one a different component:
1- Curtain panel by patterns
2- A surface with adaptive component decoration
3- Curtain system wall







After finishing experimenting with the simple panels, I tried to create the same effect on a more complex and parametrically modeled project.

After running into many errors, I was able to realize different effects on the surface of my form.
First, I started by creating big panels and assigning different thicknesses and colors to each one of them.


Then I decided to make the grid smaller, increase the number of panels and decrease their sizes.

Here is a representation of the different codes I applied to the same object.

BIM Project 1- ARCH 653

BUSAN OPERA HOUSE COMPETITION-KOREA Designed by Peter Ruge Architekten

Architects: Peter Ruge Architekten
Competition Team: Peter Ruge, Matthias Matschewski, Hyesook Ahn, Kayoko Uchiyama, Barbara Kubicka, Zubin Daboo
Location: Busan, Republic of Korea
Client: The Busan International Architectural Culture Festival Organizing Committee
Program: Opera and theatre building including landscape design
Status: Open international competition, 2011
Site Size: 34.928 sqm
GFA: 54.000 sqm

Conceptual Mass: Methodology

Method 1:

I first started by analyzing the building. It has a glass bubble envelope surrounded by 55 different concentric curves. The whole structure is enclosing 2 buildings. I started experimenting using horizontal and vertical circles and ellipses with different dimensions, heights and levels.

The first method I used is create vertical reference planes at different levels and separated by different distances. Then I drew vertical ellipses on each reference having different lengths and heights and created a solid.

Method 2:

2 reference planes were with the Z reference plane perpendicular to profiles of the building and the X reference plane being parallel. The closest point to the Z reference plane of each profile was named point 1, and the farthest point was named point 3. Using the scale on the image, the distance of point 1 and 3 for each frame were measured as a distance from the Z reference plane. The distances measured were put in a table in Excel and sorted based on their distance from the X reference plane. A graph for each set of points was plotted with the X distance on the y-axis, and the Z distance on the x-axis of the graph. A trend line for each graph was added and the closest fit was found to be a 5^th order polynomial. This equation defines the X distance for each point from the X reference plane as a function of the distance Z from the Z reference plane. In Revit, this equation can be plugged in for each point so the X distance for each point is defined by the Z distance from the Z reference plane.

Method 3 :

I chose 6 curves at equal distances

I measured the dimensions of each curve and created an ellipse with the same parameters.

I found a correlation between the height and the width.

Formula: Length= Height x 2.5

2.5: correlation factor