

but in our case we’ll use Dynamo to programmatically place our components so it’s even easier. the reason for choosing an adaptive family as opposed to a curtain panel family is that generally, adaptive families allow for more advanced and complex geometry, since they’re not dependent on a planar curtain wall to be deployed, the user can deploy them however they want with four clicks (once for every adaptive point). We’ll start by creating the adaptive component family. Ordinary adaptive components not corresponding to the sun… Result: Smart panels that adjust according to sun’s position… Step 1: modeling the adaptive component Adjusting the adaptive component’s “openness” value based on it’s orientation and it’s angle with the sun.Extracting orientation data from each instance of our panels family.Using the ladybug package to calculate the sun path and sun’s angle of incidence on our building.Collecting Geo-Location, date and time data from Revit and importing it into Dynamo.Applying the facade elements to the building mass using Dynamo and Lunchbox.Modeling the kinetic facade units as an adaptive component inside of Revit.it’s dynamic facade can be changed and altered in accordance with the external weather conditions, as well as individual user preference. Kiefer Technic Showroom located in Bad Gleichenberg, Austria. so without further ado, let’s get started. in this blog post we’re going to explore the idea of kinetic architectural elements inside of Revit by creating a solar responsive facade that takes Geo-location, time and date information from our Revit model and adjusts itself in accordance to these parameters. another extremely well known example of kinetic architecture is Al-Bahar Towers in Abu dhabi, UAE.

this kind of design allows for higher flexibility during the building’s design phase, as well as providing well studied and deeply optimized solutions to the natural lighting and thermal comfort design problems. apart from the aesthetically interesting and visually pleasing collective form of the external parametric shading devices, the building’s smart facade also play a tremendous role in regulating the amount of solar radiation that the building is exposed to throughout the day, and all year long. One such example of a kinetic building is the Kiefer Technic showroom located in Bad Gleichenberg, Austria. With the latest technological advancements in the field of smart building and kinetic architecture, today we’re able to design and document and erect buildings that are not only aware of their surrounding climactic and geographical context, but are in fact able to analyze and intelligently respond to those factors by a variety of ways, including physical modification of their individual architectural components for higher levels of optimization.
