This is for Jacqueline...who keeps complaining i havent updated in a while...

So I ran into some weird setting in DP that of course only happens to me. Fixed the bug...and have no commenced working with my parcel...

What I am creating is a relationship of pedestrian pathways and distances to building heights. This is only the first step, but it should move fairly quick once I get going.
The pathways are separated into two 'webs.' the are constrained to one another, as well as two the edges of the parcel. The interaction or intersection of the two will determine building footprints. The building footprints are constrained by running parallel to the pedestrian pathways. The edges of the footprints are also all set 30' from the pathways. So as you move the pathways joints, the building's footprints shift in size.

Next, I plan on making the height of the buildings a relationship with the size of the footprint...or possibly a relationship of one of the footprint edges...something simple.

So as edges of the pathway move and expand or shrink...buildings change height.

to be continued. now stop bugging my about it Jacq! haha

still workin at this...

still attempting to find a way to work the strip idea into the site plan...the more im working on this tho, the more im thinking there HAS to be a better way to address the site than using the 'strip' theory.

Attempting to Create Site...nottttt really happening

This is stage two of what i am trying to do. First off, im not entirely sure how to organize the individual strips. But what i found out that using splines (much like my issues with my structure for the FOA building) ends in the project being over-constrained. I have now broken up the curvature of the structure and im using straight lines and hoping that this will at least create a connecting and somewhat fluid movement...

if anyone else is approaching this a different way and has some helpful info for me, please share...i feel like im mentally drained thanks to this week.

project two...the site

site relationships

the exoskeleton

still not perfect, still not how i wanted it to turn out...but i suppose this is a step.
dont know how much more i will have done by tomorrow, but at least im really understanding the powercopying command.



pretty sexy if i do say so myself...

failed structure attempt

using powercopies, i created the structure using 16 points placed on the circle both above and below. then i created a tube, and using planes and the intersect tool, i was able to pull several circles off the tube.



i then placed points on those circles that had been created, and began the process of powercopying my powercopy into the tube structure. for some reason...it failed as you can see here. so i am now working out the kinks and attempting it again. possibly as just individual powercopies and not a multiple powercopy

a busy weekend

In this variation, i placed a set of relationships on the tube. The height always stays the same however the diameters of the circles are 60% of the distance from outside to outside. This way, no matter what the distance is that the circles are spaced, they will always be overlapping allowing for a central core that is stationary at the center of the vertical tube.

The tubes were made into a power copy and based off two base points that define the outer-most points and then those were placed onto a hexagon at the corners. Once that was done, I was able to edit the sizes of each side so that it was no longer a hexagon but rather a 6-sided enclosure. The tubes would all change diameter while keeping that central core.