Free Grasshopper File: Ladybug Responsive Facade (Chris Mackey)
Original title: Responsive Environmental Facade with Ladybug and SkinDesigner (Hydra example)
Overview
Chris Mackey submitted this example to Hydra, the web platform for sharing Grasshopper and Dynamo example files, and it is tagged as one of the Ladybug example files. It shows how to generate a fully-detailed responsive environmental facade using a Ladybug solar radiation benefit study and SkinDesigner.
The facade gets larger openings where there is more helpful winter sun energy than harmful summer sun energy. The zip on GitHub contains the .gh definition and a site massing .3dm, and the listed dependencies are Ladybug and SkinDesigner.
What You Can Learn
- Driving facade openings from a Ladybug solar radiation benefit study
- Sizing openings by helpful winter sun versus harmful summer sun
- Generating a fully-detailed facade with the SkinDesigner plugin
Access: Free direct download
