Hello! I’m new to rhino and it’s plugins. For my university assignment I have been tasked to model a building (Eastlands town square melbourne) I have attached some photos. It must be created using grasshopper, does anyone have any tips on what components i would use and how I would go about modelling this? Any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you!
What is the final output? Those goals will determine how you approach this.
We can only help so much, if it’s your homework : )
Sometimes, attacking a shape/project, is really allowing yourself to see it. It’s made of shapes. Yes, many of them are strange, but that’s the whole point. Many times, the most time-consuming part–as well as one of the most rewarding part of modeling things–is in the learning how to make it. Often coming up with an attack that works takes longer than most of the implementation, so please don’t get discouraged.
Seeing that it’s probably not part of the homework that you are supposed to do, when I look at the planter bed/seat thing, I see a constant profile that’s angled inward, which likely could be extruded along a curve path. When I see the building in the background, I see a box, with column’s, forming window openings, each divided into separate self-similar panes/lights that are inset.
What shapes do you see and identify in the building?
If you were a giant large enough to tear the building apart in the largest chunks, what would each piece look like?
What needs to change parametrically, and what does not?
How would you, or the future client, or professor, like the building to be adjustable?
As far as making the building adjustable, a lot of that will be affected by how the large chunks that you, as a giant, tore apart. So, look at the seams and interfacing for clues on how one part affects another.
As far as the process, and I am no expert in Grasshopper, but I, as a challenge to myself have made things such as building facade from a single point. Though…
You might be able to use an outline of the building?
Or you could contain the building in something like a box?
The building could have other constraints, or features which need to be incorporated.
As for the components, if you took a piece of paper, and sketched say the windows, on the building behind the one you will make, think about how you are getting ready to draw it. Like, I’m drawing a little mark to draw a line to split the window. And, so the steps to draw it in 3D are similar to the drawing it in 2D, but we aren’t used to thinking about it.
[Ironically, it’s not anything iterative, that Grasshopper would be needed over standard NURB modeling, BUT in the end, you should be able to change various aspects of it.]
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