project05:Prototype
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m2shaper
To shape the spaces in the warehouse and play around with the floor plan in an interactive way a self-developed tool for creating areas with a pre-defined number of m2 was used.
This grasshopper definition takes a spreadsheet file (.csv) and creates the necesary space within an adjustable created shape in Rhino. Upon adjusting the shapes to fit in a specific architectonic idea of a floor plan, the definition ensures the m2 from the programme are still included.
landscape shaper
physical landscape prototypes
lasercutting
cnc milling
configurator
After experimenting with the m2shaper and introducing an organizing pattern (inspired on a voronoi pattern with random nucleus points to allow for non-hierarchical sequence of spaces), we decided the ground floor should not be defined as one optimum arrangement of spaces, but rather a few cores (fablab, mediaspace, classroom, etc) and a lot of cells around it which can be open, closed, single or joined to other cells.
To be able to do this, a system of dynamic separating membrames must be introduced. These membrames - or walls - can be moved around the cells exteriors and form a barrier. However, because of the sloping roof landscape, these membrames sometimes bend because of the landscape overhead sloping down. At the point of bending the membrame can choose to bend in or outward.
The grasshopper definition written to simulate the bending of the membrame takes some points (defined by the cell exterior lines) and detects wether the desired membrame height (controlled with a slider) can be fitted under the roof landscape.
