AR2524 Final Project (70%)

Deadline: 6pm, Fri 26 Mar, 2021

Overview
The final project must be individual work. Do not work in teams. If you are found to have copied or
shared your work, it will be treated as cheating. Any student who is found to have engaged in such
misconduct will be subject to disciplinary action by NUS.
For the final project, each of you need to start by selecting an existing building (built or unbuilt) as your
source of inspiration. This existing building should have a parametric character and logic. You will then
make a parametric model that is able to generate a series of design variants that have a similar character
and logic to your selected existing building. Your parametric model can just focus on part of the existing
building, for example, the overall massing, the roof, the façade, etc.
Each building can only be selected by one student.
You must register your selection on the LumiNUS Forum for AR2524.
Buildings will be assigned on a first come, first serve basis.
At the most basic level, the design variants should look like they are intentional rather than something that
just got generated by chance for no reason. So for example, there should not be geometric entities just
floating in space. There should be a level of coherence to the family of design variants that get generated.
In order to make the form and logic clearer, you may consider using colour and materials.
Grading Criteria
The grading will focus on three key criteria:

• Coding Style: The dashboard should have a description of the model, and each parameter
should have a description that indicates its intended effect. The flowchart should be well-structure
and have meaningful node names. Your procedure code should be clear, with comments and
meaningful variable names. The geometry that gets produced should clean – e.g. unnecessary
geometry should be deleted, polygons should be facing the correct direction, and duplicate
overlapping geometries should be avoided.

• Parameterisation: Your model must have between three and seven parameters. Varying that
parameters should result in design variants being generated that differ significantly from one
another. The variants should remain feasible for all possible parameter settings. Thus the
parametric logic should not break. The form should also not become excessively big or small for
certain parameter settings. Finally, the total number of geometric objects (polylines and polygons)
should never exceed 25,000. (Less would be better.)

• Differentiation: Each design variant should embody geometric differentiation within its form. This
means that the design should have a level of complexity that would be hard to model by hand
without using some kind of algorithmic process. For example, the components that make the
model may all be different in shape from one another. Or the components may be the same
shape, but configured in a complex way.
Report
You are required to write a PDF report, consisting of 12 slides (4:3), with 800 words in total. The report
should include:
• A description of your selected existing building (with an image).
• A description of your algorithm (with diagrams).
• A set of selected design variants generated by your model (with parameter settings for each).
Your report may include a screen capture of your flow chart with a general explanation, but it should not
explain each line of code. The geometric diagrams should explain the logic behind your model, especially
the relationship between parameters and form. You may also discuss the process of developing the
algorithm, the challenges that were encountered and how they were overcome.

Grading Breakdown
The grading breakdown will be as follows:

• Report: 16%
• Mobius Model (.mob file): 56%
o Coding Style: 18%
o Parameterisation: 18%
o Differentiation: 18%

Submission Requirements
The Report and the Model have to be uploaded to LumiNUS by 6pm, Fri 26 Mar, 2021. The files should
be named with your student ID and you name.
• A12345678B_Patrick_Janssen.pdf
• A12345678B_Patrick_Janssen.mob

Your model will be published online for others to view and interact with.