TOWERMAKER: stepbystep
One third of the final system.composing my thesis project.
1. Base point for individual towers, slant, and friendliness given, height and count derived from site fitness calculation.
2. Axis subdivided gathered together when within set distance, and lean apart to rebalance. Additional shift to provide view of/from closest urban epicenter.
3. Profile curves based on footprint, proportion, and tapering, potentially n-gon (though in later versions like this one, I've stopped including the parameter). Oriented to superblock at base, toward focus point at zenith.
4. Massing through profiles can be either 0:stepped, 1:bent, 2:smooth (shown here, bent)
5. Core transfers established mediated condition between tendency for continuity and deviation of massing geometry.
6. Cores sized appropriately for floor area. Cores beyond 30 floors are stacked and include additional express elevators.
7. Required elevator calculator, floor area and height determine number of passengers, expected stops, winding cycle, etc...
8. Core location is extracted at each floorplate
9. Pseudo-convex hull operation captures cores which are not directly connected to a floorplate.
10. Tower intersections are resolved to prevent overlap
11. Floorplates converted to slabs, transfer floors are created on a separate layer (limited application of program sorting).
12. Stairs added to stair cores.
13. Glazing added between floors (more complicated than you'd expect since each floorplate has a different number of vertices-as a result of the pseudo-convex hull-and sorts them in a different order-as a result of tower intersections)
14. Structural diagrid at facade
15. Facade cladding, increased transparency with elevation.
more inclusive graphs are here and here, this diagram as a flowchart here.
TOWERMAKER: stepbystep
One third of the final system.composing my thesis project.
1. Base point for individual towers, slant, and friendliness given, height and count derived from site fitness calculation.
2. Axis subdivided gathered together when within set distance, and lean apart to rebalance. Additional shift to provide view of/from closest urban epicenter.
3. Profile curves based on footprint, proportion, and tapering, potentially n-gon (though in later versions like this one, I've stopped including the parameter). Oriented to superblock at base, toward focus point at zenith.
4. Massing through profiles can be either 0:stepped, 1:bent, 2:smooth (shown here, bent)
5. Core transfers established mediated condition between tendency for continuity and deviation of massing geometry.
6. Cores sized appropriately for floor area. Cores beyond 30 floors are stacked and include additional express elevators.
7. Required elevator calculator, floor area and height determine number of passengers, expected stops, winding cycle, etc...
8. Core location is extracted at each floorplate
9. Pseudo-convex hull operation captures cores which are not directly connected to a floorplate.
10. Tower intersections are resolved to prevent overlap
11. Floorplates converted to slabs, transfer floors are created on a separate layer (limited application of program sorting).
12. Stairs added to stair cores.
13. Glazing added between floors (more complicated than you'd expect since each floorplate has a different number of vertices-as a result of the pseudo-convex hull-and sorts them in a different order-as a result of tower intersections)
14. Structural diagrid at facade
15. Facade cladding, increased transparency with elevation.
more inclusive graphs are here and here, this diagram as a flowchart here.