PERFORATED PANEL CURTAIN WALL (Delivery4)

In this post I tried to reproduce a curtain wall facade inspired by the one realised by Herzog and De Meuron in their M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco.

As I know, the workflow they used to get this amazing result was longer and more refined than mine. The reason why I let myself be inspired by this project is because I found interesting the relationship between the diameter variation of the holes and the shade they provide inside.

So, I can start immediately to show my workflow.

PERFORATED PANEL

At first I shaped the panel.

I Created a new family> Metric Curtain Wall Panel (in this environment I shaped the component I wanted to be the basic module of the curtain wall facade)

I Saved the file as a family

I Created an Extrusion. In the Exterior view I drew a rectangle> I aligned each side of it to the pre-formed reference planes.

I gave the panel the dimension wanted.

Then I started to draw reference planes in order to have guides when I needed to draw the holes after.

I kept in mind that in order to have a better result when I would have mounted all the panels together I needed to halve the space between the last column and the edge of the panel. So if I the space between two consecutive columns was 40 cm, the space between the last column and the end of the panel was 20 cm.

Then I drew the holes.

As my goal was to be able to control their diameter variation I assigned them a parameter.

I assigned just instance parameters because I wanted to control each panel separately when I would came after in the project environment.

I assigned parameters to the holes’ diameter. 

I made some corrections when I closed the extrusion just to adjust final result.

I created reference plane in the plan view to align my extrusion with. This was the final result.

CURTAIN WALL

So, I created a new project file. New> Project> Template file> none> I chose metric as system of measurement.

I created an architectural wall. Then I edited the curtain wall. Edit type (in properties tab)> System Family: curtain wall> I duplicated and renamed the type.

I added an elevation view. View> elevation> Project browser> elevation

I gave the wall the dimensions needed and then I set as I want them to be.

I drew the grid. Architecture> Curtain Grid.

I loaded into the project the panel previously shaped and it was immediately visible in the families, in the project browser tab.

In the Curtain Wall Type Properties tab I set my panel as the panel for the curtain wall.

At last I tried with some variation clicking on a single panel and varying the holes’ diameter values.