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curtain wall sinusoidal panel

 

Still interested in curtain walls I started another exercise using Metric Curtain Panel Pattern Based. I was considering if another family could solve my previous problem but I still couldn't find a way how to keep each bricks rotated individualy, all lying in straight line and keep the rotation formula while changing the dimention of the whole curtain panel. 

For the next exercise I refered to Herzog & de Meuron's Messe Basel New Hall.

I started to create a panel, making reference line on which I put 11 points from which go lines which are the base for panel shape. Next for each point I set the placement on the axis. 

 

I duplicate all the points and add parameter for the offset for each of them. After I was trying to create a formula which give me sinusoidal shape for my panel. I used for that graphing calculator on https://www.desmos.com/calculator. 

 

Next I put the formula in the height parameter for each point conditioning it on point's placement on  the axis, scale parameter allows me to get different geometry.

 

Achieving this shape I noticed that more similar shape to intended, would be if the distance between points and parallel axis is the same, so next I create points with lines linked to them, and for having sinusoidal shape I set the formula in angle parameter for each point in similar way as previously with height parameter.

 

But still the shape didn't satisfy me, because I needed "mild" slope for sticking panels one to each other, which means that the lowest point of sinusoida had to be on the x axis and cut the both axes  in (0,0) point. So I started to look for another formula using graphing calculator, and finally get one which was correct for the panel :

 

Next I set the formula for both variations of shapes of the panel, replacing π with 180° as previously. 

 

Having the skeleton for my panel I could create a form for the panel between the spline line and parallel axis. 

 

After, I loaded my panels to conceptual mass family where I made a simple box with divided facade to try out if the panels are working and what effect I receive. Unfortunately one panel is not working and the other is loaded in rather strange way and I wasn't able to fix this problem...

 

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