Hello everyone,
I am a beginner with Rhino and Grasshopper and I am currently working on a parametric model of a mountain refuge building.
My project is inspired by the Refuge du Goûter in the Alps.
At the moment, I am struggling with the parametric integration of solar panels and windows on the building’s faceted envelope.
More specifically, I have difficulties controlling their placement and orientation on the different facades while keeping the model flexible and fully parametric.
I have attached:
Any advice, workflow suggestions, or example definitions would be greatly appreciated.
I am especially interested in best practices for managing facade subdivision, panel distribution, and orientation-based selection.
Thank you very much for your help!
Best regards,
Thomas Deschamps
Refuge 211225.gh (22.3 KB)
I wouldn’t use a tiny scaled polyline for the top most curve.
Instead of dividing ellipses, I’d start with a mesh sphere or a normalized section to have more control over the shape:
Refuge 211225.gh (17.1 KB)
Thank you very much, this is very interesting.
What are the ‘planar’ and ‘bounds’ modules used for?”
And do you know how I could add different “coatings/materials” to the facets, and how I could parameterize them ?
To verify if the faces are planar.
But I’m not looking to use a texture. I want to create separate solar panel and window models and place them randomly on the surfaces.
Deconstruct the brep extracts the faces and then you can orient whatever you want on them.
Sorry, I wasn’t precise enough at first. I want to place 3D elements on the faces of the surface, and I’m looking for a logical way to position them, including their orientation and size (for example, solar panels) but I’m not sure how to approach this.
Hello
you are in the domain of parametric architecture and you are at the commands. You must find some algorithm and parameters you want. For example,
Some parameters
Minimum/Maximum energy provided by panel on a whole year, on a day …
Number of windows on whole building, by pieces …
Area of windows …
Then you have a tool to place (randomly) windows and solar panels and another tool that says if it is OK or NOT …
What are you struggling with? You can use Orient the same as you do in Rhino - but placing objects on a surface is the subject of so many tutorials that I’m confused what you’re stuck on?
