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PARAMETRIC PAVILION

GRASSHOPPER MODELING EXERCISE

GEOMETRIC MODELING
Graduate Elective - Winter 2020
Professor Mark Meier
University of Michigan

SOFTWARE USED:
Rhino 6
Grasshopper
Weaverbird
Kangaroo
NGon
VRay 3 for Rhino
Adobe Photoshop CC 2020

The goal of this assignment was to better understand and experiment with Rhino 6 and Grasshopper. Working only with meshes for the assignment, we were tasked with design a pavilion using the plugins listed. The first iteration served primarily as a formal investigation and was imagined to be located in an arid or desert climate. Developing the form further in the second iteration, I took the design and generated a script which would translate the formal geometry and into planar hexagonal assemblies. These planar hexagons could then be cut on a CNC making the complex form easier to fabricate. The script could be potentially developed further to layout the panels for cutting, etc.

NICOLAS J GARCIA

ARCHITECTURE - DESIGN - FABRICATION

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