Creating an Organic Perforated Facade in PARAM-O — Is It Possible?

[369]

Hi!

Would it be possible to create walls in similar shape as the image bellow in PARAM-O in Archicad?

I have no experience with Grasshopper (Rhino) or PARAM-O, so I’ll need to learn one of them anyway.
What would you recommend, and how complicated would this be to achieve?

I feel it might be easier to do it with Param-o, but don´t want to start with the wrong tool from the beginning!

Any other Archicad plugins or software suggestions are also welcome!

Operating system used: Windows

[Nurbs]

No doubt about it, definitely Grasshopper/Rhino.

[Aaron Bourgoin]

or try the curtainwall tool. that would way easier to edit.

[cuba]

This is kind of random shapes  are not possible in param-o at but very easy in grasshopper.

[CosminF]

Hi,

I want to chime in with a free alternative: Blender.

You can easily model a shape and edit it with geometry nodes (this 12' tutorial is all you need). 

Afterwards you can apply everything to the mesh so it becomes an object and you can export it as a collada file, which you can import into Archicad.
Unfortunately, the export will be one element and it will be "frozen" but if you just want to conceptually test out ideas you can easily look into that as well. 

[369]

I was thinking of just doing it directly in Archicad, even if it won’t be fully parametric. Learning Rhino and Grasshopper just for this one project feels a bit overwhelming — but I’ll give it a try!

[mikas]

Definitely ArchiCAD Grasshopper connection, but if not, it could be achieved pretty easily with complex profiles. It would not be that easily changed or evolved, it takes a lot of work, but achievable with basic tools in AC.

I did not bother to line up the edges of the pattern to make the pattern run seamlessly from side to side. That would be needed to make a repeatable pattern out of it.

 

edit. tweaked a little bit, made complex profile mask layer to covet some holes like in your picture. Cloned a few horizontally, and rendered.

[mikas]

As for the original headline or subject line, you could now make a Param-O workflow/object and extrude your made complex profile according to Param-O programming. Rotate, move, or whatever is necessary for your design.

I tried to scratch the surface on this workflow, but unfortunately 3D representation broke on me in the Param-O 3D window. Maybe it's just the presentation but nothing more serious. Need to try to go a little further sometime later.

edit. I don't mean that repetition seen there is an error in 3D, it's not. It's the see through of the profile that is an error in 3D view. I did a multiplication seen in nodes, of 15 degrees (0, 30, 45, 60). That worked as it should of course.

 

[Jp1138]

I wouldn´t invest too much in Paramo, as it sadly completely dead. Better spend your time learning grasshopper or blender 😓

[mikas]

@Jp1138 I sadly have to agree. Introduced in AC24 5 years ago, I'm not sure there's been any updates/upgrades to it.

It's pretty hard to tackle the grasshopper plug-in, which too is a Graphisoft programming, and to me a much more usefull piece of software.

But it's there (Param-O), and maybe more approachable to some users than AC-GH link is. I'm on the AC-GH link right now. Have some lazier times at work right now, and some time to experiment.