Project 2

Bird's Nest in Dynamo

Final Model

Video

Ellipse

I used dynamo to create the ellipse to begin my form. I used a length and width I had used for my final in project one to create the outer ellipse shape and created a model curve using the dynamo curve. I took the length and width and divided by 2 to create the inner ellipse shape and repeated the step of making a model curve from the dynamo curve.

Ellipse in Dynamo

Ellipse in Revit created from Dynamo

Mass

I duplicated the ellipse file to begin the mass. I created the section by hand and used the ellipse to create the form for the stadium. The height was determined by the actual stadium height as discovered in project 1, and the section was improved upon, especially in the curved areas. I used parameters to create the section shape, but some are not friendly once the form has been created.

Section for Form

Final form mass

Adaptive Component

I started with a three-point adaptive component and a circular section to create the nest form. After I began the process of populating the nest, I discovered a four-point component would be better, so I adjusted the family. I also changed it to a square to match the actual stadium, and created parameters for the size of the square and material.

Adaptive Component Parameter in Dynamo

Envelope

After my mass was created, I used dynamo to create divided surfaces using my mass faces. I did it in three separate pieces due to the different sizes of the faces. I turned on node representation and loaded in the adaptive component. By hand, I placed the adaptive component nodes onto the UV nodes of the mass faces until I was satisfied with how it appeared. I attempted to create my roof in this same file, but it was not showing up when dynamo closed, so I waited until I went to the project file.

Divided Surfaces in Dynamo

Final Envelope

Making the Nest

Project

I loaded the envelope family into the project file, the same that had been created for project 1. I started with making a roof in dynamo by using my mass faces. This failed because it would not created a roof out of two sets of polylines (using outer ellipse and inner ellipse), so I had to create one roof for the outer ellipse and one for the inner ellipse. I tried a package that was supposed to turn the inner roof into a void form, but it did not work, and the roofs could not cut each other. I had to dispose of this dynamo file and create the roofs by hand using the mass by faces option. I tried to create the walls in dynamo, but it did not work either. I finally used dynamo to create my floors. This worked because I was able to change the height of the inner ellipse to go over the outer ellipse. The problem with this file is that the floors align with the edges that were used to create it, despite the level that was prompted in dynamo. Once the floors are created, I had to turn it to manual run and change the level offset of the floors to zero. I tried using dynamo again for the nest parameters that I had created in the adaptive component file. I was able to successfully change the dimension parameter of the nest components, but was unsuccessful in using dynamo to set the material. I ended up changing the material myself, and chose a brown gradient to represent a real nest.

Floors created in Dynamo

Veras

I attempted renders in the Veras IA program. With the adaptive components, it was very confused and didn’t understand what it was viewing was the outside of the stadium. I finished the project with enscape renders instead, but the Veras renders are available to view as well.

Captions as inputs for AI