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Solar Veil

The aim of this project was to provide a governmental building icon that would transmit a message of efficiency and elegance. Therefore, the project mass has a curved recess shape to provide shade to the public convention terrace and ground atrium. Within this idea, the tower is a curved recess mantle, from the atrium to the top. What’s more, a parametric solar radiation screen was implemented to achieve the most effective shading to the glass openings, while reducing heat accumulation. Finally, this achieved the most openness toward views of the Persian Gulf, while covering the solar heated parts of the facades.

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Vertical Dune

This competition proposal for an organic shaped 40 storey tower presented a challenge to deliver area optimization and facade efficiency. In response to this challenge, I created a workflow integrating scripts to successfully tackle the following issues: massing modelling, environmental analysis, view analysis, panelling and solar radiation assessment, interior design, 3d printing and laser cutting, and area calculations output.

Because the script originated for the competition and later, the project, we were able to reduce the direct solar radiation gain to 68% in the final design proposal and to optimize the marketable floor area with an shareable excel output. This studies, paired with careful and experienced design skills were crucial to the positive outcome of

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Structural Skin, skyscraper façade parametric modeling tuning structural, solar radiation and view variables.

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Evolutive iteration

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Gallery Thesis

An evolutive approach progressed during the research. In other words, each time a new prototype was concluded, new questions about the scope of the combination of structural design with other variables arose, as well as the need to create a different and evolved prototype. An example of this experience was the evolution between the first and last facade models. In the previous, the overall and partial structural topology optimization were first implemented. In the latter, solar radiation, view analysis and digital fabrication were added. The thesis explored the opportunities allowed through a bottom-up approach, from working with algorithms and parametric tools. The research located  practical work considerations while disciplinary discussions included “tall building” topology. The thesis situated the prototypes between the modernist, the postmodern and parametric styles of office tower paradigms. The results showcase an array of facade alternatives that evolved during the thesis process, leading to a parametric synthesis of facade performance variables.

Urban Occlusion

Urban Occlusion is an original script, I wrote entirely on Grasshopper ,based on Benedikt (1979). Isovists made in Grasshopper were used to measure the amount of vision over an array of cone angles from a given facade. This is an attempt to imitate human vision from the inside of a tower. This is possible by the addition of five vectors towards a 3D city model of Santiago de Chile, and their comparative index. Consequently, functional data is obtained to compare prototypes and design alternatives in order to open the facade toward the best views.

Solar Radiation

Solar radiation can be measured as the amount of energy a surface receives during a given time period. Due to the current global energy crisis, and the amount of energy used in cooling tall buildings, measuring heat gain is a pressing design variable. What’s more, early design strategies for solar radiation can significantly reduce this impact. Therefore, In the final prototype, direct solar radiation gain was reduced using the structural facade as a shading device over the glass facade with data-controlled openings towards city views

Structural Topological Optimization

The previous process informed the final wall voids and restraint conditions render by structural topological optimization. This is performed by the combination of two algorithms, a complete facade script developed by Chilean academic research (Fondecyt 2011) and façade-level size by Millipede/Grasshopper plug-in (Sawako & Panagiotis). Finally, the outcoming geometry was discretized into an array of 25 shapes to be cut by CNC machines for concrete casting constructive parts.