Paramatric Design using Revit-Project 1: Case study







ARCH653 Project 1

 Phoenix International Media Center
 

Completed: 2014
Height: 55 m
Total floor area: 64,973 square meters
Land area: 18,821 square meters
Building owner: Phoenix Satellite
Designer: Beijing Institute of Architectural Design (Group) Co., Ltd (BIAD) 
Developer: Phoenix Satellite Television



Floor plan of Level 0 and Level 1 (Image from Beijing Institute of Architectural Design (Group) Co., Ltd (BIAD))

Phoenix International Media Center located between the third and fourth ring roads in Chaoyang District of Beijing. The Phoenix International Media Center is a steel torus of structure enclosed with 3,800 glass panels. It was designed by Beijing Institute of Architectural Design (BIAD).
Image from Beijing Institute of Architectural Design (Group) Co., Ltd (BIAD))

I intend to build a parametric model based on the calculation the turning angle of the surface of each section. I found the direct creating a sweep blend is not working. So, I divided the form into several sections with each surface turning a certain degree. The radius of the ellipse is calculated by the radius of the base circle (r).

I first created one vertical ellipse and a horizontal ellipse. This means the ellipse rotated for 90 degrees on the opposite point of the circle.
The shape of ellipse is decided by a0 and b0. I defined:
A0 = r * 0.3
B0 = r * 0.5.


By this means, the whole mass can be changed based on the radius of the base circle.




Then I divided one half of the circle into 10 sections adding 8 ellipse each rotating 90/10= 9 degrees. Ellipses on one half are created and mirrored to another half.

The mass model is made by creating solid forms using the ellipse.



Then I made a triangle curtain panel using steel and glass. The material parameters of the two materials are also passed to the family.




The final mass with curtain panel is shown below:

Then this family is loaded into project to make interior floors and walls.

Exterior and interior rendering is shown below:




The video is posted on Youtube with the following link.
https://youtu.be/3EyIX90G628.

Thanks for reading.

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