Facade-System

Dancing Screen by @mystery.paintings

Dancing Screen is an architectural render made by Mystery Paintings, a Computer-Generated Imagery (CGI) studio based in Indonesia. The Dancing Screen is an unexecuted project, with no information on it except for this one image. The render was featured on @parametric.architecture and is considered to be the reason behind its popularity today. The earlier post of it is dated back to 2018.

CONTEXT

This exercise’s main task is to decode the Dancing Screen facade system’s logic by analyzing and defining the computational process behind it. Furthermore, to create a dynamic animation that visualizes the form-finding process through a series of sequences underlining the design logic and performance.

DESIGN PROCESS OF THE FACADE SYSTEM

The Dancing Screen’s facade system is broken down into horizontal lines that change their movement and height. Due to a lack of information on this system, only a few know parameters were incorporated into the computed design.

 

Form-Finding

 

This Design Process diagram visualizes diagrammatically the steps of the form-finding process that was explored before creating the parametrized model.

 

PSUEDO CODE (PROCESS OF SINGLE-STEPS)

Psuedo-Code

This Pseudo Code workflow diagram explains the steps of the design process made on Grasshopper 3D.

CODE DEVOLOPMENT

Code-Development

This Code Development diagram visualizes the series of sequences that show the (form-finding) design process and parametrization of the Dancing Screen facade, made on Grasshopper 3D.

 

RENDER

Render

Render of the parametrized model.

VIDEO

This video visualizes the form-finding process through a series of sequences underlining the facade’s design logic and performance. In addition to the same design’s fabrication process on a CNC Milling Machine performed in SO.3 Introduction to Digital Fabrications.

 

 

 

Dancing Screen // Parametric Skins is a project of IaaC, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia

developed at Masters in Advanced Architecture in 2020/2021 by Student: Jihad Al Ojaili, Faculty: Rodrigo Aguirre, Faculty Assistant: Ashkan Foroughi Dehnavi.