Location: Shanghai, China

Architects : Foster + Partners, Heatherwick Studio

Area : 420000 m²

Year : 2017

The bund finance centre is a mixed-use development that occupies a prominent site on

the bund, a waterfront area that runs along the western bank of the huangpu river.

Elevation

Pseudo Code

  • Refer a curve from Rhino.
  • Offset the curve in total five.
  • Using list item separate the curves in two ; three for the façade curtains and two for elevation purpose.
  • Extrude the two elevation curves and apply the custom preview to get the colour.
  • Divide the three curves into points using divide curve.
  • Create wave profile using  graph mapper.
  • Followed by remap number, to give different height for each curtains using construct domain.
  • The curtain movement was achieved by using shift list.
  • Make lines from the points by line SDL.
  • Then create pipes from the lines and apply  custom preview to get the colour.

Grasshopper script

Animation

Render

Bibliography