How to make curving walls n windows that also vary in height

[Anonymous]

Hey,
I am currently working on a case study on the Wall House #2 (Bye House) by John Hejduk and I am having some real difficulty in attempting to make the windows and ceilings for some of the spaces he has designed. If you take a look at a picture it will probably help to see what i am talking about.

http://i-eclectica.org/wordpress/wp-content/my%20images/architecture/Hejduk/Wall%20House%202-5.jpg

Anyway what would be the best way to achieve these forms in archiCAD any help would be most apprecciated.

Thank you!

[Karl Ottenstein]

The walls are just curved walls. Top walls is just trimmed to the roof surface.

The windows, being true curves, have to be modeled with walls and/or custom objects. The top story is easy - just model the entire wall, sill and window as one complex profile, then add dividers.

Bottom story looks like a flat surface. Create a custom freeform window using slabs, including the curved sill.

Karl

[Anonymous]

the g/f is still so difficult to be done,

can anyone achieve it and explain further more?

[Erika Epstein]

angus wrote:
the g/f is still so difficult to be done,

What is "g/f"?

[Anonymous]

Erika wrote:
What is "g/f"?

Ground Floor, I expect!

angus wrote:
can anyone achieve it and explain further more?

You can draw a custom window of any shape on plan using slabs and walls, and define a separate slab as the actual wallhole that cuts the opening. Simply change the slabs ID to "wallhole" and save the whole lot as a window.

For full details do a search for 'wallhole'. It has been discussed many times before. It is also described in the ArchiCAD help file.
Press f1 and go to - 'Virtual Building : Parametric Objects : Graphic Creation of Custom Objects'

Hope that helps!

[Anonymous]

yes i mean ground floor


but after having a window opening, how can we place a window into it? use curtain wall???

[Djordje]

angus wrote:
yes i mean ground floor


but after having a window opening, how can we place a window into it? use curtain wall???

You can. Also, you can model the window with the wall tool.