Creating Models For Development Analysis With Grasshopper

Learn how to create a development analysis tool with Grasshopper and export data to Excel.

What you'll learn
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Any good architectural design should always start with a proper assessment of the site´s development potential.
Parametric modeling can assist early on these tasks by allowing the designer to sketch models based on location restrictions quickly. From these early models, we can extract relevant data from the site area, building footprints, site usage, the number of levels, etc. all of which can be used to evaluate the feasibility of the project and inform later design phases.
On this course, Jaime Sol will walk you through the whole process of how you can create an analysis tool with Grasshopper to perform a complete development potential study.

Take Aways:Learn how to create bounding volumes based on site restrictions
Sketch and place floor plans into a study model
Extract all the necessary information for a Development Potential study
Export data from Grasshopper to Excel Spreadsheets

Overview

Lecture 1 Creating bounding volumes based on restrictions

Lecture 2 Sketching floor plans layouts according to program

Lecture 3 Modeling forms and voids to define our massing

Lecture 4 Extracting information from floor plans

Lecture 5 Sending analysis data to Excel spreadsheets for presentation