Façade Analysis at scale
Every span permutation checked in one pass
Every profile, span and support condition runs through a real analysis model, instead of being filled in from a rule of thumb.
- Client context
- Façade product team
- Built with
- Rhino, Grasshopper
What changed
The finished catalogue shows the calculated capacity of each combination instead of interpolating from a conservative case. A new profile can go through the same modelling and table-generation workflow.
The problem
A span table is the catalogue a fabricator's customers read from. Pick a profile, thickness, span and support condition, and the table tells you whether it holds. A complete table has to account for every combination. One product line can require a thousand or more analysis models once the profiles, thicknesses, lengths and support conditions are multiplied out. Running those combinations by hand is impractical, so a common fallback is to analyse a conservative case and interpolate the rest. It is safe, but it can leave usable capacity out of the table.
What I built
I built the analysis models computationally. Every profile, thickness, length and support condition becomes its own model. The workflow solves the full set, then generates the span tables from the results.
Each model includes the mesh and perforations used in the analysis. The number placed in each table cell comes from that model’s result.