Using the Frank Ghery Tokyo Bench as precedent I developed a parametric bench that could be fit to any input planar curve (or at least any that I tried – there is probably a curve out there that will break it.)
The Grasshopper Definition allowed the following parameters to be manipulated:
- Input Curve
- Density of “spine” elements in each section
- Rib count (also number of sections)
- Seat Depth 1
- Seat Depth 2
- Seat Height 1
- Seat Height 2
- Position of defining profiles relative to (t) on input curve
- Range of lengths of protruding end spines
Due to what I am currently guessing is a data matching problem the model runs a little heavy, so I did not animate the parameters. When I have a chance to refactor the definition I will document that process here.
Five Family Members
To keep things simple I only manipulate parameters 1-7 (with the exception of #5 where I went CRAZY)
Parametrics 