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4_4 PROLIFERATIVE FOLDING

Hyoung-gul Kook — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 07:39:34 +0000

Folding Surface is one of the most attractive geometries in contemporary architecture. This one is a surface geometry which is based on ‘proliferative’ folding. The number of folding is proliferating and the scale of folding is going down. Absolutely, the number of foldings and divisions, folding depth and base geometries are all parametric. It could be applied to various architectural elements; canopy, dom, wall, … etc.

It started from a simple tree structure of points like this below.

And it could be applied by using path and profile curves.

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PROJECT : THE SPIRAL

Hyoung-gul Kook — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:57:08 +0000

This is one of my projects using spiral components of this website. Basically, the building is composed of double spiral surfaces which are generated from the inside spirals. The height and area of each floor keep changing parametrically according to the controlling geometry (See ‘density spiral’ and ‘geometry controlling geometry’ examples). And one spiral is enveloped with mesh structure using diagonal connection (See the diagonal connection examples).

6_4 PYRAMID STRUCTURE

Hyoung-gul Kook — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:55:18 +0000

This is an example of structure using Triangular Grid in the new version of grasshopper. Tri-Grid has a lot of potentials for new structure. Pyramid would be one of the great advantages of Tri-Grid. It can be tessellated and deformed like this example.

6_3 TRANSFORMABLE STRUCTURE

Hyoung-gul Kook — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 09:52:57 +0000

This is an experiment about transformation using grasshopper. By using Theo Jansen’s Mechanism, I tried to test transforming objects without deformation. It can be another possibility of grasshopper as 3d simulation program. Please, play the animation below. The definition is just using series of Circles and Intersections, and ’Evaluate’ functions.

This section and part of definition would be helpful to understand how to build the structure. Once you build unit structure, you can add more as you want just with changing ‘Evaluate value’. (Use ‘Save image as’ on definition image if you want to see the detail of definition.)

This definition below was produced by using previous version of GH.(But the logic and components are all same.) I uploaded it again responding to someone’s requests.

6_2 THREE POINTS TRUSS (OCTET TRUSS)

Hyoung-gul Kook — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:58:56 +0000

This is a similar example of space truss using triangles. It is also useful to generate triangle surface panelings on any surfaces.

The logic is the same with 4-Points Truss. But it is a little complicated because it is coming from rectangular grids using ‘mid points’.

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6_1 FOUR-POINTS TRUSS

Hyoung-gul Kook — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 04:33:25 +0000

This would be a pretty useful definition for everyone. It generates a space truss for any kinds of Rhino surface. Of course everything is adjustable easily.

I used simple points organization for this definition. This is the basic principle of points organization and connection in grasshopper.

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