British Museum Great Court Roof Parametric Modeling
The intent of this study is creating this emerald-like glass roof as displayed in the British Museum Great Court, with regard to its beautiful truss structure (reference below). The structure is composed of enormous line segments that look like elegant free-form curves connecting the central dome to the rigid rectangular architecture. It contains an algorism problem: how to use even triangular grid to approach a circle from a rectangle shape. Video Presentation 1. Form the grid The grid is started from 1/4 of the rectangle and the circle. Divide them into equal segments and use line node to connect. Divide the lines again to get the intersection point for the web structure. The next step is to find ways to connect those points. The divided points will be in different lists, belonging to the line it comes from. That inspires me that I can use line node to connect different lists. The connection method include: 1) connect list(n) to line(n+1) directly to get straight lines; 2) connect