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Project 2- Melbourne Rectangular Stadium

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PROJECT 2 | Professor: Dr. Wei Yan Karla Padilla (M.Arch Student) Texas A&M University  MELBOURNE RECTANGULAR STADIUM  Melbourne Rectangular Stadium Parametric form (mass and skin) For project the mass and skin of the stadium were created using a script that had a lot of repetition and in my opinion extra steps.  For project 2 I decided to optimized the script for a more parametrically controlled model. The structure nodes for the seating stayed the same, I wanted the facade (skin) to 'follow' the seats if the field change dimensions. To do that, I used the area of the field and used its corners as starting points for the facade.  Overall the creation of the facade (skin) stayed the same as project one, however, I did go over and deleted extra steps or nodes and simplified it achieving the same result. (see image) Figure 2 Analyses Truss One of the main components of the stadium facade is a truss that connects each panel, I wanted to create a truss that will also follow th
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Project 1- MELBOURNE RECTANGULAR STADIUM

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PROJECT 1 | Professor: Dr. Wei Yan  Karla Padilla (M.ARCH Student) Texas A&M University  MELBOURNE RECTANGULAR STADIUM, AUSTRALIA The total cost of construction was over $250 million, construction began in 2007 and finished in 2010. The stadium was designed by architect Philip Cox and the ARUP group and it has a capacity of 30,000.  The structure of the stadium consists of a lightweight steel bio-frame roof design. MASS  STADIUM SEATING  I started the modeling of this project with the field and stadium seating. Using grasshopper and the TORO plugin I created a typical soccer field. Also, TORO provided a node that allowed me to determine the number of rows and seats. (see image below) With TORO I am also able to change the type of bowl (rectangular, oval, round) Figure 1 | TORO plugin SKIN Melbourne Rectangular Stadium has a geodesic dome roof, to model this I started with four points at the corners (short side) (long side) (corner).  Using offset and setting a midpoint as referenc
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