Façade: Cloaked in Bricks

‘Cloaked in Bricks’ is a façade designed for a residential building by Admun Studio located in Tehran, Iran.  Elements that affected the actual design of the façade included the sun, traffic noise, privacy and the view. All these parameters resulted in the individual rotation of the bricks. An apparent effect is that the bricks create a light or shadow depending on the rotation and on the sun position.

Credit: Archdaily

For this exercise a black and white image is the source for the effect that the bricks create. The bricks rotate depending on the position of the sun to maintain correct shading.

Credit: Archdaily

Pseudo Code

1.Create point.

2.Create a vertical rectangular surface.

3.Extract horizontal rectangles within previous rectangle.

4.Hole surface with these rectangles.

5.Divide resultant surface into a grid of points.

6.Create horizontal boxes at each point.

7.Analyse input image at every point and extract grayscale value.

8.Calculate angle of deviation of point with respect to the surface normal.

9.Remap angle to control strength, resulting in bounds for rotation.

10.Remap grayscale values to angle of rotation based on bounds found previously.

11.Rotate boxes by their respective mapped angle values.

Renders

Three black and white image sources with their respective outputs.
   

Difference in rotation based on the sun position to maintain same shades.

Reference:

“Cloaked in Bricks / Admun Design & Construction Studio” 11 Oct 2015. ArchDaily

Parametric Facade is an exercise of Computation Design at IaaC, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia developed in Master in Advanced Architecture 2018 by:

Students: Vinay Khare

Faculty: Rodrigo Aguirre, David Andres Leon

Assistant: Danil Koshelyuk