Parametric Design in Landscape Parque La Mexicana
In this project we chose the park located in Santa Fe in Mexico City and we simulated that before it was built, the slab below it was flat and planar. The idea would be to place the polystyrene formwork cavities below of different heights and the algorithm would give us the exact amount of pieces of the different heights we would need in order to obtain those heights.
With Ladybug and Honeybee plugins for Grasshopper we get the Contour lines and existing buildings of any place we want in the world. In there we also analyse elevations, slopes in each face of the mesh or through a single line the different slopes.
At the end we also added the algorithm of water drainage to the file, adding random points of water absortion for rain and we get the exact points where all the water in the terrain would lean to go, getting an approximation of liters per squared meter in the most critical points.
In this video we can see all the work that was done in the park in terms of buildability and analysis. The colours tell us the amount of cavities we would need to install underneath in that specific planar slab if it was built from scratch. Then we analyse the slopes between each two random points, the slope between each quad of the mesh and the drainage most dramatic points.
