The inspiration for the shading system used for the floor 3A of the Ligini’s tower comes from a JSWD Architekten project for the Thyssenkrupp Quarter in Essen. The main feature that impressed me was the possibility of the facade to change according to the sun. 

So, even if in that case this was an office building, I tought I could adapt this idea to my residential plan project for the Ligini’s tower.

In my mind the triangular shading panel should be moved across the rail and rotate around the mullions manually, so this could be suitable with the residential use better than an automatic system.

So, in order to show which the final effect was, I shaped several families. These families could be gathered into three main groups.

Each group is differentiated from the others for the material used for panel. Furthermore each group of panels consists of four families and each family represent the maximum or minimum rotation of the panel’s group.

In particular:

The first group of panels was the less darkening one. This group of panel is made of white oak wood and each panel of the group can rotate 90° from the closed position to the open position.

The second group is made of red oak wood, each panel can rotate 60° from the closed position to the open position. This group is the medium darkening one.

The third and last group is made of teak wood, the panels can rotate 45° and they are the most darkening type.

Then, in order to make it clear that the panels were movable, I shaped three different mullions which each panel was joined to.

To shape each panel and mullion I started from an extrusion. For the panels I drawn the holes and I assigned to each one a reference plane in order to control the gap with a parameter.

At last I shaped the main mullion which have to join to the main structure of the Ligini’s tower and that one every family of the shading system was connected to.

Then I loaded all the elements into the project and I obtained the final result.

P.S. I attached all the file .rfa for the shading system facade in the previous post 

In this post I’ll try to explain how I faced the residential project for the Ligini’s tower.

I was assigned to the third floor of the Ligini’s tower A.

The main issue for me was to divide the floor in order to obtain apartments suitable for the real estate market. So the apartments I tried to obtained are not too big and not too small.

There are three main flat typologies. One flat, the bigger one, is about 110 square meters big, and is designed for 3/4 persons. The second flat typology is the medium one, about 88 square meters big, for 3 persons. The last one is the smaller and it is about 44 square meters, for 1/2 persons.

The existing structure suggests from the beginning the presence of a loggia that runs around the floor and offers to each one of the apartments an open air space where staying in.

Furthermore, there is a distributional space near the main stairs and the lifts. Beside this space there is a common space usable by all the lodgers.  

The design reckon with the emergency stairs on the two bigger sides of the rectangular plan. 

In fact, two filter spaces were thought to divide the loggia from the space in front of the emergency stairs in order to isolate these stairs from the flat’s space.

The first completed flat was the bigger one with the main side, south exposed and with the other two side, east and west exposed. In fact it is for this reason that the glazing surfaces are designed in order to offer the right balance between the light and the heat inside. Moreover, the loggia’s boundary is provided with a shading system to contain the sun radiation trough the windows. (in the following post I’ll explain how was the workflow to create the family component for the shading system).

Furthermore, the design of the flat tries to use wood prefabricated component provided with insulating panels. (In the following post I’ll explain the workflow to create this curtain walls). 

At last I created a family component in order to create several types useful for furnish the flat. So I used these families for the kitchen, the living room and the dining room, the bathroom and the wardrobes in the bedroom. As I said before in the following post I explain how I created these families.