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Rifat Tabassoom Tumpa_ARCH655 Final Project

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  The project was aimed to develop an efficient facade system for buildings in a specific climate to provide enough shading while ensuring necessary daylight in the building floors.  The process was divided into two phases. The 1st phase concerns with the selection of optimized area and location for shading surface and the 2nd phase was focused to develop an efficient shading pattern on the surface.  Phase 1: For this experiment, a simple cylindrical building was developed with 10 floors. The shading surface was generated from the curvature of the building mass. The area and the location of the shading surface can be changed. Also, the offset distance of the surface from the floors can also be changed.  A Genetic Algorithmic tool Galapagos was used for the optimization process. The "Genome" or parameter input is shown in the picture below.  For the "Fitness" or the performance evaluation, the Solar Irradiance (kW/m2) metric was used. The goal was to minimize the ir
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Rifat Tabassoom_ARCH655 Project -1

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Introduction: My project is based on the Al Bahar Tower at Abu Dhabi, UAE. This project is a successful example of climate responsive design.  In extreme high temperature of Abu Dhabi, the dynamic facades of the towers respond towards the sun exposure to protect indoor environments from heat gain and glare irritations. The facades are inspired from "Mashrabiya", an architectural element, which is typically used in traditional Islamic architecture to provide shading and privacy to indoor spaces with latticework over windows and terraces.   Project Workflow: In my project, I created responsive facade mechanism with dynamic shading device, similar as Al Bahar Tower.  The Grasshopper scripting was divided in several steps as following: Creation of the form and floors of the tower. Creation of diagrid structure around the tower. Selection of parts of the facade for dynamic shading device. Paneling over the selected parts of the facades and generation of modules from the panels. Cr
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