ARCH 653 Project 02: United Tower- Bahrain

Building Name: United Tower

Location: Bahrain

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Project 02Modeling Steps:

First Step: Creating Outlines for the Building

The twisted building mass of the United Tower is rotated gradually 180 degrees from ground level to the top level. At first, I created a parametric mass family as an outline of the twisted building mass. Also, I created a rectangle outline family for the interlocked rectangle block of the building.

Second Step: Create Building Mass

For creating building mass, I used Dynamo Script for both twisted building mass and rectangle hotel block. Then I joined the two masses by Solid by Union then I run the Dynamo Script. By the Import Instance by Geometry option, the mass of the built form has been imported to Revit.

Third Step: Making Adaptive Curtain Panels

I have made three parametric adaptive curtain panels for the envelope of the mass. One of the curtain panels I inspired by the Al-Bahar Tower parametric facade.

Fourth Step: Create a parametric envelope.

Then I apply those three parametric adaptive curtain panels to the envelope of the building mass and change their number parametrically. After then I apply my three parametric adaptive curtain panels to the mass envelope

Fifth Step: Applying Dynamo to Create Parametric Curtain Facade

After then, I created a dynamo script for the curtain panels of the façade of the rectangular block. In the Script, I added an area to change the façade and run the script, which creates a dynamic curtain wall.