Facade Elements Guide

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Facade element guide

Pattern based family

Adaptive components



DTU Civil Engineering, Technical University of Denmark

The project


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NIELS BOHR BUILDING

CCO architects

http://www.christensenco.dk/projekter/&p=22




The scenario (the project)


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Create a Conceptual Mass (Metric Mass)

4x4x3 meterLock to leve

Divide vertical faces in a 2 x 2 grid

STEP 1




Pattern based (the Element)


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Use This family

template!

STEP 2


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Create five points,

remember to host them to the right adaptive points

Remember to enable “Show Reference Planes”

in the added points





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Set dimensions from adaptive points to points,

Remember to set workplane!





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Turn dimensions into labels (parameters),

remember that ‘Width’ and ‘Height’ is reporting parameters!





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remember that ‘Point x’ and ‘Point y’ is instance parameters!





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remember that ‘Glass Distance’ is type parameters!





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Turn the four corner point offset into labels (parameters),

remember that ‘Frame Depth’ is type parameters!

F d l id





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Turn centre point offset into labels (parameters),

remember that ‘Depth’ is instance parameters!

Now test all your

parameters!

F d l t id





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Create reference between all the five points,

remember to set ‘on face’ and 3D snapping!







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Turn references into solids,

remember to do each solid individually!







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Turn solids offset into labels (parameters),

remember that ‘Glass Thickness’ is type parameters!







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Give solids a material label (parameter),

remember that ‘Glass’ is type parameters!

Now test all your

parameters!







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Now load into proj

Reason for choosing a number parameter

is, when we are going to create a random

number for x, y, z, it will be in the range

= ∈ ℝ 0 ≤ ≤ 1

meaning values from

0 to 1 as a double!

Give all three a value 0,5

Make the formulas for driving:

Point x

Point y

Depth

Using x, y, z

Add three parameters for driving x, y, z, which drives the vertex for the pyramid top.

Remember that they are numbers and instances.

For solving the z-direction,

give it an opportunity to set

length between 0 and 1000 mm.





Massing (the Project)

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Click at the divided surface

Attach your panels

STEP 3

Be sure to save and archive this

version, without detailed

profiles!

We will reuse this version for

testing the visual programming

script.





Adaptive component (the Profiles)

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Use This family

template!

STEP 4






Create two profiles (using adaptive families!)

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Side profile

Top profile

Important!

Reference planes and Reference lines






Create two profile elements (using adaptive families!), for Side frame and Top cover, sta

Frame.

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In Floor Plans “Ref. Level”.

Create a reference line,

remember to set ‘on face’ and 3D

snapping!

STEP 5






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In 3D views {3D}.

Turn endpoints into Adaptive Points,

in the right

Sequence (the sequence you want to

use them in afterword's!)






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Add a third point by snapping to the

reference line, somewhere not centred

(will be moved later)






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Load your profile into the profile

element, set the workplane to the

point, attach your profile.

Test that the profile follows the point,

by changing the placement to 0.5






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Turn your profile into solids, while

selected, change offset dimensions.






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Turn the two offsets into labels (parameters),

remember that Length#1 is instanceparameters!






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Give solids a material label (parameter),

remember that Profile is type parameters!






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Make a dimension set by the reference line, and turn it into

labels (parameters),remember that Length is reporting parameters!






Make the formulas for driving:Length#1

Using Length

For doing the bottom frame, you need to add

opportunities (selectable) for extending the

length of the profile by half the with of the

profile in each end (driven by formulas!).

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Control the visibility for the profile, turn it into labels

(parameters),remember that Show Profile is type parameters!

Now make the top cover in the

same way!






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Load the two profiles into the project, and start assigning them

to the right points!

STEP 6






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The end result for the Element.

This method gives the problem, that profiles will not clean upproperly, and that is accepted for this assignment!





Massing (the Project)

Reload your Element into the

conceptual mass.

Be sure that this is another

version than the previously

saved and archived version,

without detailed profiles!

For the final result we need this

detailed version, but first when

we know our visual

programming script is working

as intended!

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STEP 7





Final result

Load your ‘Conceptual Mass’ into a empty project, and test that everything is working!

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STEP 8

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