Hello, I’m currently looking for a Grasshopper file of the Rolex Center by Sanaa. I’m studying architecture I have never worked on Grasshopper so any help could be useful, even advice on how to proceed.
Thank you in advance to anyone that could help !
A GH file that does what? Structural analysis? Space usage? Lighting? Reproducing the architectural drawings? 3D Printing a model of it to place in your model railway layout? Something else?
Why? What would having such a file help you to achieve? Given this is an existing structure, what benefit is there in having a parametric model when the building could be more easily reproduced by drawing in Rhino?
we just need to reproduce it on grasshopper because we have to extract drawings from it as well as creating new possible structures that are variations of the existing building. So this is why we need a parametric version of it.
Well, I wouldn’t hold your breath. Construction started in 2007, which was the same year the beginnings of Grasshopper first appeared, so it won’t have been used by the original architects, and I can’t see any reason for someone subsequently to produce a viable GH model for it…
I have copies of some of the original surface models from the Rolex learning center, but unfortunately I am not allowed to share them. I can assure you that they are not parametric at all, just a patchwork of NURBS surfaces.
If you search the web you will find lots of images including some plans that you might be able to use to reconstruct your own model… You could do that with Grasshopper, but if you are a beginner, that would not be a project I would want to try learning the basics with.
For example: