Xinhee Design Center

it as a building with skin-and-bones

Parametric Designer

Xiamen, Fujian, China

60 000 m²

Ma Yansong
Dang Qun
Yosuke Hayano

A bird-view presenting building and its innovative facade.

to find a design solution compromising: load capabilities and construction costs;
to ensure the client that the proposed conception could be realized;
to keep the shape of the rationalized facade as close to the initial surfaces as possible;
to present as many variations of facade pasterns as possible in limited time;

A view into bone structure of the building.

Liaison between the consultant and the client to make sure they both accepted the design.
Code a Grasshopper script that would optimize the membrane facade and be ﬂexible to quickly changing the design.
Develop multiple design options to be presented to the client.
Send a design package to the client and the consultant in order to explain the design, levels of rationalization, and proposed facade patterns.
Use genetic algorithms to optimize the accepted design option.

A complex script used for optimisation of the facade.

A perspective from inside the building, presenting membrane-like effect of the facade.