I ended up switching to doing variations of the Berlin Memorial due to the fact that my laptop was unable to run the grasshopper script (the file was getting too large because there were way too many meshes and breps in the model). So I switched to the Berlin Memorial.
I decided to use the concept of attractors for the Berlin Memorial Variations. Attractors in grasshopper are used to vary certain properties of elements to a degree proportional to the distance from the attractor. For instance we can make the elements get smaller and smaller with increasing proximity to the attractors (which in this case are a series of points on the perimeter of the site.
The Museum’s design is somewhat processional. As you move through it you go from one extreme to another. You become increasingly submerged in the field of steles. This idea, can be explored in other ways. For instance, we can create a space that goes from it being less navigable to it being more navigable. We can create a procession from order to disorder just by varying certain parameters of the blocks to a degree proportional to their distances from the site’s perimeter. The same number of blocks are used.
Variation 1: Scale Attractor
Variation 2: Rotation Attractor (X-Y Plane)
Variation 2: Rotation Attractor (Z-Y Plane)
Eisenman: Bi-Valency (Temporarily Incomplete)
