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In this tutorial, we continue our series of recreating buildings from famous architects. Today, we’re all about Media Library St Paul, located in Saint-Paul city. This building were designed by Peripheriques Architectes.
We start from a simple rectangular base and build up a fully parametric system – from stacking geometry and generating attractor points, to remapping distances and shaping dynamic wave openings on the facade. You’ll see how to use the Range component to distribute geometry vertically, populate a surface with random points, control their placement near edges, and set up attractor-based movement using distance remapping and Graph Mappers for smooth, controlled deformation.
The key challenge comes at the end: when creating 3D frames with Sweep1, you’ll encounter a “Sweep could not be created” error because Sweep1 doesn’t work with closed curves. The solution is using the Shatter component to split curves at two pointss, creating two rail segments that Sweep1 can handle successfully. By the end, you’ll have a fully parametric wave facade system that can be adapted to any project. This tutorial is perfect for architects and computational designers interested in parametric facade design.
In the EXTENDED version of this tutorial, we are going to continue building up our project. We are specifically going to create different wavy opening sizes on the façade, which requires more advanced Grasshopper skills.
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