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Parametric Truss

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Computational Design

2021

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Grasshopper

One of the main advantages of parametric modeling is the ability to seamlessly update complex assemblies (systems with many parts) with new design iterations. This project explores the framing system as an example and implements a parametric truss created from two drive curves.

Parametric Truss

Category

Year

Computational Design

2021

Role

Individual Project

Skills

Grasshopper

One of the main advantages of parametric modeling is the ability to seamlessly update complex assemblies (systems with many parts) with new design iterations. This project explores the framing system as an example and implements a parametric truss created from two drive curves.

Parametric Truss

Category

Year

Computational Design

2021

Role

Individual Project

Skills

Grasshopper

One of the main advantages of parametric modeling is the ability to seamlessly update complex assemblies (systems with many parts) with new design iterations. This project explores the framing system as an example and implements a parametric truss created from two drive curves.

📑Overview

Tectonic framing system in architectural design are a prime example of where parametric affordances can be applied in architectural design. Well planned relational modeling can enable for hierarchy of structural members, automatically generated non-standard joints, and multiple instantiations of systems in varying site conditions. This project takes two drive curves, which could simulate the condition of two load-bearing walls, and creates a truss assembly that spans between them. The truss assembly includes three levels of structural hierarchy, with parametric controls of its height (based on its span) and its spacing.

📑Overview

Tectonic framing system in architectural design are a prime example of where parametric affordances can be applied in architectural design. Well planned relational modeling can enable for hierarchy of structural members, automatically generated non-standard joints, and multiple instantiations of systems in varying site conditions. This project takes two drive curves, which could simulate the condition of two load-bearing walls, and creates a truss assembly that spans between them. The truss assembly includes three levels of structural hierarchy, with parametric controls of its height (based on its span) and its spacing.

📑Overview

Tectonic framing system in architectural design are a prime example of where parametric affordances can be applied in architectural design. Well planned relational modeling can enable for hierarchy of structural members, automatically generated non-standard joints, and multiple instantiations of systems in varying site conditions. This project takes two drive curves, which could simulate the condition of two load-bearing walls, and creates a truss assembly that spans between them. The truss assembly includes three levels of structural hierarchy, with parametric controls of its height (based on its span) and its spacing.

🏗️Structural Hierarchy

The three levels of hierarchy include a diagonal crisscrossing set of curved connectors as the primary structure, horizontal members as the secondary structure, and vertical and zigzagged bracing as the tertiary structure.

🔗Connector

The connectors between the primary and secondary assemblies are generated through taking the end points of the members and forming triangle plates. In this way, the connectors can also update parametrically as the truss grows and shrinks.

✨Project Highlights

✏️Takeaways

This project taught me the strategies to compartmentalize a system and design first within each component and then design the connections between components. Instead of approaching the truss as a whole, I implemented the structure in three levels of hierarchy, which allowed me to further detail out the parametric features within each hierarchy.

© Elise (Xinyi) Wang 2022

© Elise (Xinyi) Wang 2022