students: Anastasia Fragkoudi, Bagia Pantou
The aim of the scripting seminar was the students to get familiar with the logic of scripting and the potentials that it can offer in the design process of a project. The final assignment of the seminar was to create a roof for the installations of the Iaac institute. Our initial thought about the final assignment of the scripting seminar was to create a surface that would relate to the exterior environmental conditions. Orientation and sun radiation were taken into consideration from the very beginning of the design process. Relating the project also to the interior space other factors had to be considered such as the existing elements of the space; the fab lab installations, the complot space, the kitchen area, the lecture hall, etc. Starting designing the roof surface our aim was to create a skin that would act both as structural element and as shading device. Our first attempts involved the designing of a surface created randomly in order to start experimenting with script variations. By developing further the script our decisions started changing and more parameters started affecting the outcome of our project. Our intentions began to shift to another direction when we decided to create two individual skins; one acting as structural element and the other as shading device. This parameter would offer more design variations. Another factor that affected the design was the decision of creating a surface that would be generated from the floor of the space and growing towards the outer frame of the building. In that way the interior space would open to the exterior and vice versa; the exterior environmental conditions would be present in the interior of the building. These parameters were inserted into the scripting process.
By analyzing further the potentials of the script and the use of the space new parameters started being involved in the design process. Considering the function of the main space of the institute, which actually serves as an exhibition room and an event hall, lighting orientation should be taken into account. Exhibition halls need stable amount of light orientated towards the north. That parameter affected our scripting intentions in the sense that orientation should be included into our design. The entire roof surface would have dense points gathered on the south-orientated area in order to minimize sun radiation and less dense points on the north-orientated area so as stable natural light enters in the interior space of the building. An additional parameter for the next step would be the implementation of metrical units; height, width and length of the space, calculation of volumes and surfaces. Translating these parameters into scripting certain alterations occurred. The initial surface this time is designed according to metric parameters meaning the height, the length and the width of the space. The script divides the designed surface and curves are formed. On these curves, according to orientation, circles are formed with different radiuses. The pipes are formed through the lofting of these circles. After creating the structure of the skin of the roof a random division of the same initial surface occurs. On the curves generated through this division, circles of different diameter are formed according to orientation. The circles are lofted again in order to create pipes. These pipes are acting as the shading device of the skin of the roof.
In the link below you can find the script and the rhino file of the project
http://www.box.net/shared/sn7ranfcco
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