Jaco Booyens Architect
  • Projects
    • Buffelsdrift Gold Medal Domus International Restoration Awards
    • Contemporary Mud House Buffelsdrift
    • Buffelsdrift Renovation
    • Buffelsdrift Staircase
    • Buffelsdrift Pumproom
    • Subsistance Farm Rysmierberg
    • Damaraland Clay Project
    • Big Tiny House Glencairn
    • Project Phoenix
    • Walvisbay Container Terminal Entrance
    • CAM Plywood Structure
    • Fort Haasbroek Swakopmund
    • Rammed Earth Desert House Swakopmund
    • Off the grid house Prieska
    • New BP Green Headquarters Cape Town
    • African trade mission in Rome
    • Vertical Village on the River Tyber
    • Staircase house du Plessis
    • Olijven Hof brick vault Montagu
    • Cape Town Offgrid Scyscraper
    • Gate to industrial park
    • Furniture design
    • Thesis 1996 - Emergency center for earthquakes
  • Design Philosophy
  • About
  • Publications
  • Sketchbook

Cape Town Off Grid Scyscraper

I have been working on a concept for a cluster of freeform offgrid multi storey structures exploring possibilities in Rhino and Grasshopper. The model is fully parametric in terms of 
-floor to floor heights
-number of floors
-twist factor
-the density of the space frame
-density of the secondary mesh
-this enables the parameterization of both skins, outer breathable and inner skin weatherproof
 the inner skin can be used to fit the weatherproof envelope while the outer skin can be used for the fixing of solar cells, micro wind turbines, water harvesting systems and       green walls in their appropriately orientated positions. 
-the distance between the spaceframe and the inner skin

-the diameter of the pipes in the space frame
-the scale relation between following floor slabs
-the edge can be manipulated by sinus curve to increase floor slabs for a few storeys and then decreasing in size to give the building a silhouette with a plant like character.

# Conceptual Skyscraper Cape Town

#rhino#grasshopper#archicad#parametricdesign#capetown#skyscraper#designinspiration#architecture#parametricarchitecture#solar power#wind turbine#selfsustainable#selfsustainablearchitecture#permaculture#netzeroenergydesign#SOM

​Algorythmic design
Rhino & Grasshopper Mc Neel and associates

Grasshopper is a visual programming language and environment developed by David Rutten at Robert McNeel & Associates, 
that runs within the Rhinoceros 3D computer-aided design (CAD) application. Programs are created by dragging components 
onto a canvas.    

While CAD and Algorithmic design features enabled architects to design complicated forms, CAM made it possible to build 
such complex products by using digital fabrication machineries. Various techniques have developed to utilize CAD/CAM 
technologies for fabrication of architecture.Different types of CNC machines with multiple heads, drills and beams helped 
architects to digitally fabricate their products in pieces and assemble them together to realize digitally-made objects. It is 
now becoming common to set up fabrication strategies of the project from early stages of design and embed their 
considerations in design algorithms from scratch (Menges, 2008):



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  • Projects
    • Buffelsdrift Gold Medal Domus International Restoration Awards
    • Contemporary Mud House Buffelsdrift
    • Buffelsdrift Renovation
    • Buffelsdrift Staircase
    • Buffelsdrift Pumproom
    • Subsistance Farm Rysmierberg
    • Damaraland Clay Project
    • Big Tiny House Glencairn
    • Project Phoenix
    • Walvisbay Container Terminal Entrance
    • CAM Plywood Structure
    • Fort Haasbroek Swakopmund
    • Rammed Earth Desert House Swakopmund
    • Off the grid house Prieska
    • New BP Green Headquarters Cape Town
    • African trade mission in Rome
    • Vertical Village on the River Tyber
    • Staircase house du Plessis
    • Olijven Hof brick vault Montagu
    • Cape Town Offgrid Scyscraper
    • Gate to industrial park
    • Furniture design
    • Thesis 1996 - Emergency center for earthquakes
  • Design Philosophy
  • About
  • Publications
  • Sketchbook