Thursday, May 13, 2010

Parametric sun-shade installation based on solar radiation map

This is another example of bitmap image based model which is applied on actual architecture world.
I tried to get optimal sun-shade pofile based on the solar radiation map by converting into grayscale bitmap image.

Here is what i did.

First, I got a mass and solar radiation map from model.



Then, converted this image into the grayscale.



Then, I made a parametric sun-shade model with grayscaled lengh sun-shade.



Now, applied this patterned curtain system on the mass.


Final step, applied grayscaled solar radiation map into this model.


this is not that much dramatic but it is meaningful we could get optimal sun-shades for green bldg rather than just putting shades aesthetically whereever designer wants.
Many possibilities....

1 comment:

Ahmed Khalifa said...

could you tell me more details on how did you make the panel family to respond the grey scale ?