Professional

CHAM

Cham, Switzland

Context

GRUNER&FRIENDS took part in an extensive urban study focusing on the potential of the site "Cham North". The site occupies 26,231sqm and  is characterized by a gentle slope towards the Lorze steam.

"Cham North" lies along the Knonauerstrasse, where the future Cham - Hunberg bypass will begin. Thus, the area is directly related to the transit system and acts as a town gate in to Cham.

Role

For this project, I assisted the design team to formulate scripts that generate and evaluate massing models based on different approaches, and optimizing desirable views while respecting the project specifics, such as site context, and views from neighbour buildings.
Computation Designer
Site AnalysisPresentation Graphic
2019
| GRUNER&FRIENDS
Status
| on-going
Area
| 26,000 sqm
Type
| mix-used
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Site

The project started with 8 beginnings

Computational Approach 0 - Strategy

From the get go, the Grunner&Friends knows that they want to explore the opportunities to take on a more algorithm approaches to the problem.

The conversation started from discussion on which task can leverage the computer, while maximized the design team.

Computational Approach 1 - Envelope

We started out on identifying the parameters as a team and worked out the maximum envelope that the design can explore.

Final Building Envelope

Computational Approach 2 - Approaches

The projected started with 8 different approaches, and then we decided to go with 3. The challenge here is to find ways to script these approaches, record data and analysis them.

The diagram on the side shows the Snake as a example, some of the key parameters that offers control and insights includes:

if can the Snake can be Spited, number of points, width, total length.

To analysis the outcomes that we generated, we used Octopus, a multi-objective Evolutionary Optimization for the problem, as there are multiple goals at once, Visibility, Volume.

Computational Approach 4 - Interface

An interface was designed for the process as we decided to on-screen record the process for further study.

The interface shows the current solution on the right, some Key statistic of the current solution on the left -

Volume - indicates in green if it is within expected +/- 5%.

Pie Chart - shows the split of the visibility score of the units.

Plan view with the site boundary