This is an update to an older post where the substructure was comprised of slated wooden planks that follow the surface of the entire volume. An illusional sliced layer diaphragm is thus produced. The structure creates a shaded region nearly 90 percent in certain concentrated regions to lower temperature while allowing natural lighting and winds to cool the affected area unaffected surrounding area by the layered effect achieved.
The update is that the legs were finally modeled correctly and optimized to reduce mass while increasing the response to forces applied. They are 3d printed out of recycled plastics and wholly produced on-site.
This has been one of the most challenging and exciting projects to reverse engineer pure geometry to derive a real-world structurally optimized application. Initially, I had an idea how to tackle the problem however the final result did not allow for part of the initial results to be taken into account, and rather a new slate had to be drawn entirely. For this, I had to read more Dynamo manuals and watch some tutorials about some other nodes in order to get the desired effect to work and optimize the inner shells. This exercise pushed me out of my comfort and it was great to learn how to utilize these new tools.
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