KING FAHAD NATIONAL LIBRARY // GERBER ARCHITEKTEN

The aim of this project was to deconstruct a facade in the main componants and to create a grasshopper script based on algotithmic design logics. The main software tools of the course are McNeel’s Rhinoceros and Grasshopper3d.

REFERENCE FACADE

The King Fahad National Library, one of the most important cultural buildings in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, was completed and went into use for its intended purpose in November 2013. This project sees Professor Eckhard Gerber and his Gerber Architekten team accomplishing one of the most important urban development and cultural projects in the capital, Ryiad.

FACADE DETAIL

DECONSTRUCTING THE FACADE

SCRIPT 

ANIMATION SCRIPT

RENDER

CATALOG OF CONFIGURATIONS

ANIMATION

Animated Systems // King Fahad National Library is a project of IaaC, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia developed at the Master in Advanced Architecture in 2020/2021 by Student: Stefanie Eleonore Thaller
Faculty: Rodrigo Aguirre | Faculty Assistant: Ashkan Forough