Monday, March 24, 2014

ARCH689 Project 1 Main Station Stuttgart Entrance


Project Description --- “Main Station Stuttgart”

Yingzi Zhang

The project is based on the Main Station Stuttgart. It is a continuous shell roof covers the whole underground space, everywhere admitting natural light and ventilation via the chalice eyes. There are two kind of “eyes”. One is the entrance of the station and the other one is the light-scoop eye, lighting the station hall below. And the modeling of them is pretty similar, so, I will mainly focus on the modeling progress of the main entrance.

As starting modeling, I divided the entrance into two parts: the dome and the main vertical circulation.

For the dome part, the basic idea is to anchor the edge of a elliptic mesh and utilize the Uforce and Kangaroo component to make it deform under the  gravity force to give a form in pure tension. Then trim the semi-sphere dome by an ellipsoid to create the entrance.

For the vertical circulation part, create a curve whose end points separately located on two parallel elliptic curves, and then sweep it along them. The curve is defined by the math equation, y3=ax. Since it's a tunnel for circulation, another similar surface is created adjacent to it and the tunnel is cut out by the intersection.
original size picture sharing link


mesh for dome

dome

GH for dome

dome rendering

vertical circulation modeling S1

vertical circulation modeling S2

GH for sweeping curve 

rendering for S2

vertical circulation modeling S3

final entrance rendering 

top view

bottom view

front view

right view

GH for light-scoop eyes' dome  (right one in the upper pic)

perspective 1

perspective 2

perspective 3





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