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Originally Posted by staff
Very nice. I love Snöhetta (but I don't like the Oslo Opera House).
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Actually i was impressed by it when i finally saw it in reality, since i didn't like it much either. But they could have done so much better if this was a different country!
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Originally Posted by Dequal
This is a very nice design. But I was wondering that all those small triangles at the side of the towers would be windows (picture 5) or that the whole side was some kind of translucent (picture 3)?
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Here is an article about facade, though these renderings doesn't show the final design which can be seen in the newest renderings i posted at the first post here.
Facade study, The Gateway Project
A facade study investigating cladding concepts for the shell-surface of The Gateway Project in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE.
The shell-surface is populated by a generative component. (2x2m) This component is driven by a set of rules. Each instance of the generative component analyses its own global orientation and position on the overall geometry of the structure and changes accordingly.
The component has two variables; its aperture (view and daylight) and its depth (shading). The aperture and depth of the component decreases towards the edge of the structure to facilitate a clean cut. Maximum aperture occurs when the component is vertical and facing north. Minimum aperture occurs at edges and when the component is horizontal, reflecting the more intense solar heating. The size of the aperture is also driven by program requirements. The aperture is gradually changing across the surface between these extremes creating subtle changes and interesting micro contextual variations of the pattern.
As this is an associative parametric model, all the instances of the generative component change, in real-time, according to changes made to the overall geometry. The rules driving the generative component can also be changed or adjusted at any given time resulting in a real-time feedback in the viewport. When the model is properly set up, one can easily investigate an array of different options without doing any additional modeling.
Due to a high degree of complexity, (all instances of the generative component are unique) this cladding concept turned out to be too expensive to implement in the project.