Box Island 

Master ︎ Digital Tools and Methods II
Supervisors ︎ Alexander Fillies, Boris Bähre
Tools ︎ Grasshopper, Revit, Dynamo
Place ︎ Faro, Portugal
Year ︎ 2019 

For the task “Floating City”, a container was the starting point for exploring form-finding methods and data organization in Grasshopper. Later a connection with Dynamo in Revit is established, automatizing the family parameters and design of a conceptual building.

Completely parametric, the Box Island project starts with the topography of an island, which is then modified in Grasshopper.

Some points are defined and moved up and/or down. The new topography is then filled with boxes with the size of a container (2x6x2.5m).

Going from Grasshopper to Dynamo, the location points of the boxes are imported, together with a sorted list of faces - free faces receives openings, closed faces walls. And the top faces that are free receive gardens.

In Revit, a parametric container family contains visibility parameters that make it possible to hide and show walls, openings and gardens when necessary.

The Dynamo definition with the imported list from Grasshopper then places the container family on the right points while turning on the right parameters. This way all the boxes are already placed with the openings and gardens on the right faces