Corridor Tiling
by Tuğrul Yazar | June 12, 2023 00:03
This project was about a unique tiling pattern inside a multi-story residential building’s hallways in Grasshopper. While drawing the construction documents of the project, it was necessary to apply some coding here, as each floor had a different shape to be tiled. The problem statement included one sketch with a zigzag-shaped tiling pattern. Thus, I tried to implement this pattern on multiple floors with different shapes. I call this definition corridor tiling.
First, I’ve imported the geometric boundaries and the “middle curves” of the designed tiling pattern. Then, I extended the division points for either side of the middle curve to the outer boundary curves. This is easy in Rhino. But in Grasshopper, extending and trimming curves can be painful sometimes. The design was a simple one, yet to be handled carefully. After several attempts, I found an efficient combination of solutions. After solving an example boundary like the one you see below, the Grasshopper definition generated all tiling solutions for the remaining hallways very quickly. This saved lots of time. Finally, I added a final touch to the definition. I made a planar boundary surface and split it using the pattern. Then, I generated the wireframe polylines of these surface pieces. This enabled each cell of the pattern separately.
[1]You can re-build the definition by looking at the image above. However, if you want to download and use the working Grasshopper file; would you consider being my Patreon? Here is the link to my Patreon page [2]including the working Grasshopper file for the Corridor Tiling, and many more.
- [Image]: https://www.designcoding.net/decoder/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/2023_06_12-corridor-def-scaled.jpg
- Here is the link to my Patreon page : https://www.patreon.com/posts/corridor-tiling-84443305?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link
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