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WEEK 5 S2: Transparency, Parametric Roof & Design Development

Updated: Feb 28, 2019

The space will be open and transparent. I want it to be be able to display the production to the outside world. So that those who may be passing through the site are able to be attracted by seeing what is going on inside, with a sense of intrigue. With this in mind, I began to consider that I would like the space to have a tensile structure roof overarching the whole complex. As a way to connect the different spaces. I have been inspired by several precedents. Firts of all, the Louvre Abu Dhabi by Jean Nouvel:


View from the sea

Floor plan arrangement

Zoning of the elements of the building

I also considered the original intentions of the Millenium dome, how it was designed to be a space with many other buildings within:

Below is the experiment that I conducted creating a parametric roof structure using Grasshopper and the Kangaroo plugin:






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