Turning Tower - Practice

 

The aim of this exercise is to practice the generation of shapes from base points, and from that make vertical, rotative arrays. Then convert the extruded shape into an external structure grid for a tower.

Script steps:

1.- Generate the points of the vertices.

2.- Generate the outline of the shape.

3.- Generate the vertical array, set parameters, and axis of rotation.

4.- Generate the extrusion of the parts.

5.- Generate the parameterized pattern of the external structural grid.

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Holocaust Memorial - Daniel Libeskind Practice

 

The Holocaust Memorial is a project in Berlin made by Daniel Libeskind. Remembering the Jew's deaths under the Nazi extermination politics in World War II. He made a grid of parallelepiped with some variation on their inclination and heights.

The aim of this practice is to use Coding language C# on a grasshopper script component to replicate the Memorial design basis.

This script is component into three parts.

1.- Boundary shape with a polyline.

2.- The script coding on C#.

3.- A Surface doing as a floor to replicate the topography variations of the site.

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Hello World!

In the programming world, the first app you may have to program and run is a Hello World printable app, it's a spontaneous tradition that I want to call here.

     As an architect, I learned how to imagine and create from my thoughts in a graphical way, understand how our world works, the role of the geometry in nature, the knowledge in the structure of the universe, and so on. My curiosity always drives me in the field of the unknown and encourages me to research, learn, and improve myself. In this way, I am researching about how the programming world is helping the manner how architects are communicating their ideas. I believe Architecture is a multilayer career, if we want to succeed in our aims we would need to learn several skills from different fields, be capable of collaborating with our counterparts in other fields of knowledge. Explore how the affiliation between differents careers and architecture can bring us better projects is a subject that in my particular case I am always intrigued about. Architecture and programming working together not only in the sub-layer that the software represents but in one layer that is deeper in the creation process of thoughts. Gets a better insight of that is the aim that I proposed of this blog. Now the question.

How Computer Science can help the architects to get a better insight into how we can improve our skills in order to boost our design process.

    However, in this blog, I want to save my shares of my projects, the new ideas I create, and the most important to share my passion for knowledge and curiosity. Also, I will start researching some fields about the issues that afflict the world from an Architecture perspective and maybe from an Architect-Programmer sight. I hope this blog can help you with your doubts and encourage you to learn more about the world.

Thanks.

Jose Rodriguez