SKETCHING PLAN II _ Project 001b

SKETCHING PLAN II _ Project 001b

Project 001

SKETCHING THE PLAN _ Florey Building by James Stirling

After doing the first project with the church of water, I started to do another project which could be more geometrically complex. As a second example, I selected the Florey Building by James Stirling. Simplifying the plan I obtained a rotated square and a series of trapezium that are link between them forming  a serpentine form. 

My first step was to constraint every point and line through geometry. As a result,  I obtained a plan that with any kind of modification only get scale. As in the previous example, I  used diagonals, midpoints, perpendicularity, parallelism and relations between dimensions through the use of formula. This time I also created "numbers" as a factor parameters that I could modify to obtain a variety of outputs.

Thus I wanted to explore the geometrical differentiation of the project, I started to eliminate some of the constraint. Also I created new constraints through the drawing of circles and I used numbers (factors) as parameters to made different relations between them. Then, I started with the rotation of the square. 

Eliminating constraints and creating circles

Rotating the square

I started to change the radius of the circles and see the outputs.

Changing circles radius

Moving circles

Next I eliminated all the perpendicular constrains and change the positions of the square vertexes. 

Without perpendicular constraint

I create some parameters and changed them to understand their relations with the design.

Radius with parameter (factor)

Last but not least, I moved all the axis to observed all the different outputs  that this single action could give me. 

Moving axis