To tell this story correctly I have to go back to the date when I was still finishing my High-school credits and I was getting ready to apply to University. This was one of my first ever test designs where I started experimenting with creating various slices of contours and creating a shape or mass from them in the end. To this, I knew I could place walls to follow the geometry correctly and thus be able to create a very wild and fluid-like shape or set of shapes. This is how I imagined the roof as the ocean or the sea, flowing in all directions in height and contours that are free-flowing.
Those UV Issues
In the beginning, I didn´t have a clear direction on how to properly appreciate the tremendous architecture potential that was this mass that I had created with some hard work, dedication, luck, trial, and error to get the correct shape without running into an issue of UV running into itself or its derivatives. As seen below I tried various different designs whether it was a 3 deck option, flat I beam for the structure and I even tried modeling by hand each individual truss but it did not work as the section I would cut kept altering itself along the Y-plane and thus at that time I was not able to make any further progress.
Sustaina-Pro Concrete
This type of concrete is partly mixed with the following industrial by-products such as metal slag from steel production, fly ash from coal-fired generators, and crushed-up rubber as a percentage of the aggregate. All of these alterations incur a compression weakness that can be addressed with a higher ratio of cement to aggregate and water ratio. These walls also allow a very generous volume of concrete to be filled with reusable materials and also take care of many industrial and post-consumer wastes, such as those mentioned above
Next Chapter
In the next post, I will be discussing the different techniques used to demonstrate how the underlying architecture flowed with the paths for all traffic routes within the terminal and underneath corridors as well as above skyways & shops with a construction simulation or a simulated 5D BIM presentation with cost overlays generated.
5D Involves cost, 4D involves time primarily and the rest is the 3D portion of the project - in this case, I worked up unto the 5D element of scope with the structure generation as well via Dynamo years later.
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