Project One

Leon Auditorium

Technical Data:

Location: Avenida Reyes Leoneses, León, Spain. Architects: Luis M. Mansilla and Emilio Tuñón. Client: Regional Government of Castilla y León, Municipality of León.Collaborators: Andrés Regueiro, Fernando García-Pino, María Linares and Matilde Peralta.Structural engineers: Alfonso Gómez Gaite. Mechanical engineers: J.G. Asociados. Acoustic engineers: Higini Arau. Graphic design: Gráfica Futura. Construction managers: Luis M. Mansilla, Emilio Tuñón and Andrés Regueiro. Quantity Surveyor/Technical Architect: Santiago Hernán and Juan Carlos Corona. Competition: 1994. Design project: 1996. Work completion: 2002. Built area: 9.000 m2. General contractor: Auditorio UTE  (FCC/CRS). Photographer: Luis Asin

Source: http://mansilla-tunon-architects.blogspot.com/

Parametric Modeling

In this project, my goal was to make one of the facades of the Leon Auditorium parametric that enables us to manipulate and observe different design options easily.

Source: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/96/14/b0/9614b0d2602c99cf47d4a0d9f3e1984f.jpg

For making the façade parametric, I started working by creating one cubic module.

This model is mainly consisted of a solid, created by Blend, and a Blend void object. There are some parameters assigned to these objects to make them adaptive to the changes.

Here is a screenshot of a part of the parameters in this level:

Then, the module was loaded to another family. In this step, parameters for controlling the parameters in each level was assigned to the series of modules.

Parameters:

Depth_Series: a “n” digit number that will assign values to the depth of the window in each component, from right to left.

Height_Series: a “n” digit number that will assign values to the Height of the window in each component, from right to left.

Width_Series: a “n” digit number that will assign values to the Width of the window in each component, from right to left.

X_Series: a “n” digit number that will assign values to the X of the window in each component, from right to left.

Z_Series: a “n” digit number that will assign values to the Z of the window in each component, from right to left.

X_Porition: a “n” digit number that will make each X values positive or negative (“1” for positive, other digits for negative).

Z_Porition: a “n” digit number that will make each Z values positive or negative (“1” for positive, other digits for negative).

Heght_n: the parameter that controls the height of the level

Width_n: the parameter that controls the Width of the components in the level

X & Z of the windows are in the center of the window.

Beside these, the user can choose some other options to change the façade parameters:

1.  Increasing the area of the whole components by choosing the relative option and assigning a value to the “Area_Multiplier”

2.  Changing the area based on depth

3.  Putting the values for Xs, and Zs manually.

Next step was uploading the previous family to a new family and creating the whole façade.

Part of the Family Type parameters in this level:

Also, the other parts of the building were modeled, first in mass modeling and then uploaded into the project.

The last step was to upload the façade family into the project.

Sample of instant parameters:

Sample of type parameters:

Here are some screenshots that show the parametric changes:

Interior Render:

Exterior Render:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6tOp5vuDMw&feature=youtu.be

Texas A&M University

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Dr. Wei Yan

Farshad Kheiri