Assignment 2: Building Component
Group members:
Liliana Viveros Luz Michelle Lavayen Renata Stefanelli
The goal of the assignment was to study the relationship between information, design and fabrication and implement that data flow into a physical object. We developed a definition to create a data machine that influences a design informed by external climatic or ambient data.
More specifically, we worked with a building component (a skin) that changes its behavior based on climactic forces such as solar radiation. In this example, we tried to figure out the best orientation for solar radiation capture/absorbance of the skin according to its shape and surface.
This eventually would help calculate which is the best possibility for greater amount of energy production (kwh.) This research is very important and useful to our group because we are working with this type of data in the Self Sufficient Studio. The tools used where Rhino, Grasshopper, Kangaroo, Weaverbird, Geco and Ecotect.
