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I M Pei's Unbuilt Hyperboloid enhancement by Dynamo

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The Project 2 is a continuation of the ARCH 653 project. This time, the functionality of the Project 1 Revit model was enhanced using the visual programming extension called Dynamo. The purpose of Dynamo for this project was to: Use Dynamo to enter the height and scale parameters in order to control the entire mass containing all the families. Coloring of the facade: Simple coloring of the facade Create a facade based on an Impressionist painting. Assign color to the building facade based on the sun's position.  The earlier model of Project 1 was improved upon in order to make the mass more 'parametric'. After that the dynamo work was attended to. The mass was brought to a project and dynamo scripting was done without adding the floors, roof and walls. This made the model flexible to changes.   CONTROL OF BUILDING DIMENSIONS Using Dynamo, we can control the height and the scale of the model. The integer slider was used to control the determin
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I M Pei's Unbuilt Hyperboloid, reimagined after 60 years

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Figure 1 Pei's Hyperboloid drafted by author In 1956, I. M. Pei proposed the Hyperboloid, a hyperbolic paraboloid tower to replace the Grand Central Station in New York. The 102 storey tower was to have a height of 1,497 feet eclipsing the Empire State Building. Though, Architectural Record said it "resembled a bundle of sticks," it was a simple geometric visualization of the hyperboloid. The steel exoskeleton was meant to withstand a nuclear attack. In any case, it was a unimaginable for the New Yorkers to see the demolition of the Grand Central Station and the proposal was cost prohibitive. CHALLENGES IN DRAFTING  The biggest hurdle in the drafting in Revit was the lack of information about the building. Wrong dimensions would make the building appear disproportionate. Only the following were available from which the dimensions were derived and parameters formed in Revit.
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