ELYTRA PAVILLLION // ICD STUTTGART
Elytra Pavillion
PROJECT – ELYTRA PAVILLION BY ICD STUTTGART
DESCRIPTION –
The Elytra Filament Pavilion comprises 40 unique hexagonal components that have been robotically fabricated from a combination of transparent glass fibre and black carbon fibre. The web-like design of each component is based on the fibrous structure of beetle’s forewings – named elytra.The pavilion is designed and produced by architect and researcher Achim Menges, in collaboration with architect Moritz Do?rstelmann, structural engineer Jan Knippers and climate engineer Thomas Auer.
PSEUDO CODE : –
- Create a hexogonal grid and define a curve in rhino and set it to grasshopper .
- Using Curve closest point , get the grids closest to the curve and move it up to get the desired height .
- Rotate and scale the hexagons between the 2 heights to achieve a twisting shape.
- Interpolate the points on the hexagons to get the curves .
- Now with the use of hexagons at the top , use evaluate points to get a point of each curve.
- Divide the curves and join it with the evaluate points to create the interlacing pattern .
- The patterns are converted to mesh to get the depth
Animated Systems_ Elytra Pavillion //Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia developed at Master in Advanced Architecture, in 2018/2019 by:
Student :- Deepak Mudikondan Sundaram
Faculty: Rodrigo Aguirre and David Andres Leon
Student Assistant: Daniil Koshelyuk
