“Japanese design group Amano has followed up Dear Ginza, a nine-story commercial block with a faceted aluminum facade resembling a crumpled sweet wrapper, with Dear Jingumae, which is smaller scale but has an equally dramatic facade.

 

 

 

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‘We aimed at a design with a soft expression that would be favorably accepted by passers-by, while standing out from the surrounding buildings that tend to have physically hard expressions,’ said Amano.”

https://www.onofficemagazine.com/architecture/item/2963-amano-revamps-tokyo-office

 

Grasshopper code is a basis for creating the variation of the existing facade.

 

       PSEUDOCOE

  • Create a Curve
  • Divide the curve
  • Duplicate the points and distribute vertically
  • Move the points using the wave function ;
  • Shift the waves
  • Create guiding curves vertically and horizontally
  • Create the surface 1 form curves. Contour the surface 1
  • Extrude the division
  • Create the surface2 from the divisions
  • Deconstruct the brep (x2) from surface 1
  • Create the curve by listing the first edge
  • Create the curve by listing the third edge
  • Shift one of the lists
  • Construct a pipe between each two points
  • Deconstruct the brep (x2) from surface 1 once again
  • Shift the other list
  • Construct a pipe between each two points

 

Facade designed by group Amano was an inspiration for exploring a parametric design world.

Computational Design
IaaC, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
Faculty:  Rodrigo Aguirre, David Andres Leon
Assistant: Daniil Koshelyuk
Student: Maria Fechner