Shiva Prasad Kaitha_ARCH 653 Project 1: ARCH 653 Project 1

Project 1

I designed "Torre Agbar", one of the biggest towers in Barcelona, Spain. It was designed by the architect Jean Nouvel and built by Dragados. This tower marks the gateway to the new technological district of Barcelona. Height of the tower is around 474 feet and consists of 38 floors. Out of 38 floors, four are underground. Design of this tower was inspired by a mountain called "Monsterrat" near Barcelona. This consists of around 30,000 offices and it cost around 130 million Euros to build. The outer structure of the building is as follows:

This building consists of around 4500 windows and made up of glass and concrete. The pictures of the interior floor plan, sectional view and windows is as follows:

As far as my design is considered, from the floor plan, it can be seen that the tower is of circular shape. As the height of the tower increases, the floor size gradually decreases. But, it can be seen from the picture that the size of the floor remains same up to a particular height. Based on this observation, I designed the mass model by selecting 5 floors whose height and radius can be changed parametrically.

After the mass model, then the curtain panel is made by selecting the family "Curtain Panel Pattern Based" and a rectangular curtain panel was created whose size can be changed parametrically.

Then this curtain panel is loaded into the existing model by dividing the surface and placing it on its face. Then by selecting the panel, the material parameter is given as type parameter, so that the material of the panel can be changed after loading the mass model into the project.

Mass model with loaded curtain panel

After placing the curtain panel on the surface of mass model, it is loaded into the project. Mass floors are created in the project by creating the desired number of levels with the help of array tool in the elevation view. By selecting all the levels, mass floors are created and then the concrete floors are created. Once the floors are created, interior plan on the first floor is designed. Then the lights are placed on the level 1 ceiling plan.