Populating a portion of the existing lower Manhattan city grid using a simplified testing version of the city generation definition. The goal is to test the robustness of the definition when working with unoptimized base geometries. In this case map data imported directly from the Openstreetmap API.
Testing The various Building Types: Each of the building definitions is tested for compatibility on a number of different base conditions.
Four different iterations of building_variation_02.
Active Parameters:
- Height 01
- Height 02
- Height 03
- Height 04
- Number of Floors
- Floor to Floor Height
- Column Spacing
- Curtain Wall Bays/Column
- Parapet Height
Inactive, Available Parameters:
- Curtain Wall Type (1, 2, 3, and 4)
- Column Profile
- Fin profile
- Column Offset
- Fin Offset
- Beam Depth
- Slab Depth
Prototyping code using Rhino+Grasshopper. As soon as I have a good number of definitions and plug-in variation components I will be posting them in the downloads section along with annotations and instructions.
Testing random distribution of building variations (in this case, ellipse, circle and rectangle+null) and applying a distance affector/attractor that directly links the allowable maximum height of a building to its distance from a riverbed (here indicated by the path of an arc).
One of many process and storyboard sketches exploring interrelated parametric hierarchies from building to urban scales.
“Nobody knew why the universe suddenly wasn’t there. A few people were left on the even fewer islands of reality that for some reason hadn’t winked out of existence, but they didn’t know. Some had theories, but there was nobody to ask, and nowhere to look to for a clue. Only a mind-bending expanse of absolute nothingness.”
“Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.”
Infinicities remix, "Delirium No. 9" is currently on show at the Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York City as part the POP: Protocols, Obsessions, Positions exhibit, alongside works by architectural luminaries including Bernard Tschumi and Yansong Ma. Show runs through July 26th. Go check it out!
