Jing Mian Xin Cheng Spark Architects

Jin Mian Xin Cheng, an eye-catching mixed-use development adjacent to Beijing’s Fourth Ring Road. The development consists of two office towers and a retail podium immediately adjacent to the road, with a protected public plaza to their rear. The inspiration for the ‘pleated’ and ‘woven’ façade was drawn from the former presence of the textile market at the vicinity.

source : 

https://www.archdaily.com/550913/jing-mian-xin-cheng-spark-architects

The main criteria of the design, and thus the main focus of this exercise, was to create the weaving effect from the selected panels: only 2 different types of glass panels ; side hung panels and full height panel of 2400 mm Selected panel is slanted at an angle to form a pleated texture.

The followings is the diagram code for the basic operation :

HERE , USING PULL POINT COMPONENT TO DEMARCATE BETWEEN LOWER AND UPPER SEGMENTS OF FACADE SKIN, dispatch to 2 different groups.

We then list item and call up the index that needs to move through normal vector, when curves are moved, the final loft operation was used.

4 iterations to the original script

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TUTORS: RODRIGO AGUIRRE, MOHAMAD ELATAB

ASSISTANT: IVAN MARCHUK, OANA TAUT