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Chameleon Biomimetic Mixed-Use Office Building
WWF Architects Designs
"The ‘chameleon’ is a prize-winning competition proposal for a mixed-use office building by Dubai-based wanders Werner Falasi consulting architects. the design was developed after a thorough site analysis and is predominately concerned with principles of bio-mimicry. for example, the hexagonal shapes that dominate the façades are derived from cell structures. the office also draws from, as you may have guessed, the chameleon and its highly-adaptable skin." ( design boom)
"The latter has several connections to building elements, including nighttime LED illumination and integrated thermo-regulation. climate control is accomplished through smart façade units — i.e. the hexagons — which mechanically adapt to the sun’s trajectory. when receiving too much heat, each component closes to seal the structure. likewise, when too cold, or dark, they open." ( design boom)
"The office has fixed PV nano cells located in portions of exterior walls that collect sunlight throughout the day. the energy that isn’t expended for the building’s daytime needs is used to illuminate thousands of LEDs at night. this is regarded as a mirror of the structure’s dynamic inner activity, the animal itself, and on a more conceptual level, the collective, constantly changing mood of its inhabitants. " ( design boom)
To see the images and renders of the project please click on the supporting links:
chameleon bio-mimetic mixed-use office building
chameleon bio-mimetic mixed-use office building
The module has to be trimmed properly to be mapped and replicated on any surface without any gap.
The same process is done to make the Structural frame and the glass frame.
WWF Architects Designs
Office Building For 3D
First prize winning competition project
Dubai
Year: 2015
GFA: 17,716 m²
Use: mixed-use building, office
Architecture Team:
Facade Design: Wisam Allami | Hatem Al Khafaji
3D Visualization: Hatem Al Khafaji | Josephus Taboada"The ‘chameleon’ is a prize-winning competition proposal for a mixed-use office building by Dubai-based wanders Werner Falasi consulting architects. the design was developed after a thorough site analysis and is predominately concerned with principles of bio-mimicry. for example, the hexagonal shapes that dominate the façades are derived from cell structures. the office also draws from, as you may have guessed, the chameleon and its highly-adaptable skin." ( design boom)
"The latter has several connections to building elements, including nighttime LED illumination and integrated thermo-regulation. climate control is accomplished through smart façade units — i.e. the hexagons — which mechanically adapt to the sun’s trajectory. when receiving too much heat, each component closes to seal the structure. likewise, when too cold, or dark, they open." ( design boom)
"The office has fixed PV nano cells located in portions of exterior walls that collect sunlight throughout the day. the energy that isn’t expended for the building’s daytime needs is used to illuminate thousands of LEDs at night. this is regarded as a mirror of the structure’s dynamic inner activity, the animal itself, and on a more conceptual level, the collective, constantly changing mood of its inhabitants. " ( design boom)
To see the images and renders of the project please click on the supporting links:
chameleon bio-mimetic mixed-use office building
Grasshopper modeling of the Project:
The project paneling starts with a module of 3*3 hexagon cells that contains 54 triangles. the triangles are then scaled and moved based on their centers' distance from an arbitrary attractor point.
The project is challenging in terms of creating an appropriate data structure to reach the desired result.
The project is challenging in terms of creating an appropriate data structure to reach the desired result.
The module has to be trimmed properly to be mapped and replicated on any surface without any gap.
The same process is done to make the Structural frame and the glass frame.
The same process is done to make the Structural frame and the glass frame.
The last step is to map and replicate the modules on the desired surface. In order to solve the problem on the edges on one hand and control the whole model parametrically, on the other hand, the plan curve needs to be a curve without knots. and the surface needs to be detected as one whole surface. In this case, all edges are filleted to match the rule. The module could be mapped and replicated on any surface that has the mentioned characteristics in a parametric way.
All the modules are connected into the morph_box component.
The proportion of the V and U are dependent on the proportion of the bounding box and the proportion of the length to hight of the surface (building). Then everything could change parametrically.
