Can you have a look on my files that I just uploaded? I have been working on this tower for the past whole week. However, I still have problems. I couldn't get the floor slabs to follow the vector force.

Do you have any ideas?

Thanks,
Mohamed

Tower Vignette
Definition Vignette

You can then move it to the other end of the definition and input it into the component you need.

It is a good way to avoid clutter.

-Nate

One is a parametric tower Grasshopper routine which twists and tapers an ellipse as it rises vertically. Core, structure and glazing systems are applied. A louvered shading system (via nGai's insolar louver system is layered on the facade exterior in response to an annual solar analysis on the controlling geometry mesh. The ellipse could easily be swapped out for another polygon within the slabs group of the Grasshopper routine.

The Grasshopper files can be downloaded here:
Elliptical Tower with Annual Solar Response Louvers
Diagrid Panels on Surface

Feel free to extract or modify components to help develop your tower vignettes.

I like the idea of diagrid piping. I will continue working on my tower with this grid instead of the cross one.

My next step that I had in mind is the same as your, which is to taper the tower as it goes up using a graph mapper. I will work on that as a next step and most probably I will continue working on the same tower for the rest of the topics.

Thanks for your addition!

I built off your tower definition to get a diagrid piping on the exterior skin. I applied some of the space-truss definition structure where you previously left off. You can see some images and get the amended definition at my page.

Diagrid Skin

I really liked the flexibility in your definition to apply any polygon for the floor plate. The next element I would like to explore is using a graph mapper to exponentionally "decay" or reduce the floor plate square footage as the tower gets higher. This could result in a tapered form similar to many of the ovoids out there such as Foster's 30 St Mary Axe project.

In order to get a diagrid-like structure out of your set-up, you will need to organize your points into two separate lists. One list will stay how you have it… the other list shifts the points up one floor. When you connect the two lists with a line component GH will draw vertical lines…. then you can shift the points of one of the lists to get diagonals.

Have a look and see if that gets you where you want to go….

-Nate

You can check my product's images at My Page

Any ideas on how to connect those points together ?

Mohamed

This builds on the tower definition we assembled together. There is nothing new here that we haven't gone over in class…… look closely at the JPEG….

I will post my file when there are a few attempts or responses.

Remember, I expect to see some tower-related ideation/evolution on your labs page by next week

Have a good weekend!