This was a project to up-skill myself in Grasshopper (graphical scripting program for Rhino 3D) and experiment with the lighting qualities created by these two spaces - St Benedict's Chapel by Peter Zumthor and Church of Light bu Tadao Ando.
"Modelling these buildings inside Grasshopper allowed me to recreate the atmosphere authored by these two architects and augment it by searching for the same or similar spatial qualities with different geometric configurations. Variably controlling relationships between; column spaces, window apertures, wall heights and geometry rotations made it possible to create a known space which was able to take on qualities not possible through the temporal nature of light alone in the real life artefact. This enabled an iterative design testing method of atmosphere through digital parametric approaches and daylight simulations in 3ds max: satisfying the aim to experiment digitally with the relationships between material and surface to create similar lighting qualities to photographer’s images in reality, albeit with different geometric configurations".
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St Benedict's Chapel - Peter Zumthor
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Church of Light - Tadao Ando
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Parametric Modeling in Grasshopper
