New Design — Karamba Model
From my findings within the previous model, it was decided as a group that the design needed to be changed. Nissie and Dom worked on the overall design and came up with the following concept.
‘The pavilion, named Lamella after the membranous folds found in several species of fungi, is inspired by the biological structure of the lactarius fungi species’.
The script I received from Nissie and Dom had everything I needed highlighted, so I didn’t need to read into the script to get started.
Firstly, I decided to test the structure like the gills were two timber beams, so I could start to understand how Karamba would work with this structure. I feed the top curves into ‘line to beam’ and the start and end point into the supports. These were then feed into assemble, along with the material selection and cross section. I received the following result:
The beams laid flat from the start point to the end point. After some research I found out that I needed to divide this curve, make it into a poly line, and then explode it, for line to beam to work.
I then needed to find the start and end point of the original curve, and only use the points in contact with the ground.
To do so, I restructured the list, found the start and end points, and then removed all duplicates.
I then completed the steps for the bottom curves.
This test received a result of 0.045. The group decided that this was a pretty good result and the displacement should be lower once I had tested the structure with the panels.
Some further research found that the panels needed to be tested as shells. All I needed to make this work was the extrusion, and the supporting points. I already knew from previous experience that I could not take the points from the curves, I needed to find the points within the extrusion for my supports.
I again restructured my list of extrusions, and found the edges of each gill.
I then used ‘list item’ to find the edges on ground level and then found the end points of those lines. All supporting conditions where then locked and the result, along with material and gravity, was fed into the assemble component.
For some reason the displacement value was listed for each individual gill. However, the gills receive a value of between 0.02 — 0.035.
Everyone was pleased with the Karamba results, and happy with the overall design. However, the material was not performing the way it was planned, therefore the design now needs to be changed.
