Atrium Artwork
Year: 2024
Media: Digital graphics
Skills: 3D modelling, visual coding
Collaborators: Aniko Nebozuk
An interior renovation project with a multi-floor atrium called for large-scale, space-defining artwork. Our team wanted to evoke the idea of falling leaves with organic shapes cut from acrylic sheets and suspended from ceiling-anchored cables. But our imaginations ran in too many directions to sketch or model manually. Our solution was a parametrically driven script, with all the variables we wanted to explore built in. The tool we built instantaneously generated new iterations of the geometry as we fine-tuned the parameters towards a final design.
Thinking on paper
The project started on paper, with a sketch of the variables we wanted to experiment with.
Scripting & Visualizing
I wrote a parametric script, connected to a 3D building model, that generated geometry and allowed us to visualize different versions. We were able to vary the shape and size of panels, their density and orientation, and whether panels were arranged in order of size, by colour, or placed randomly. We created and evaluated numerous versions to explore the wide range of forms the parameters allowed.
Envisioning
We selected a preferred version for detailed rendering and presentation to project stakeholders.