LINCOLN PARK PAVILION

Architect: Studio Gang Architects

Client: Lincoln Park Zoo

Project Area: 4 acres Project Year: 2010

Photographs: Beth Zacherle and Studio Gang Architects

Our second exercise for Computational Design this semester is that of a parameteric pavilion. We’ve gone about coding it in Grasshopper so there is no geometry linked from Rhino in this method of doing.

SITE CONTEXT AND FEATURES

SCHEMTIC DIAGRAM

AXONOMETRIC DETAIL

The following are concise steps to follow in grasshopper :

STEP 1
FORM CURVE / SEMI CIRCLE
ALONG Y AXIS
RADIUS OF PAVILION – SPAN
STEP 2
EXTEND CURVE IN Y DIRECTION
CLOSED CURVE

STEP 3
EXTRACT SURFACE

STEP 4
SUBDIVIDE SURFACE

STEP 5
INTERMEDIATE POINTS
JOIN CURVE

STEP 6
EXTEND CURVE IN PEPENDICULAR DIRECTION
FORM SURFACE

STEP 7
MAKE CLOSED OBJECT
MRROR

STEP 8
LINEAR ARRAY
LENGTH OF PAVILION

RENDER 01

RENDER 02

ELEVATION (SHARED)

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