The Eden Project.
Skills.
Adaptive Components
Architecture Modelling
Tools.
Autodesk Revit
Period.
Academic Year 3 Semester 1 (May 2022)
Category.
Botanical Garden
Creating components that can flexibly adapt to unique contextual conditions.
Site: Eden Project, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom
Architect: Nicholas Grimshaw
The Eden Project and its components
The project involved the use of Revit's adaptive families to construct the massing form of the Eden Project — comprising Rainforest and Mediterranean Biome. This comprise adaptive components for:
i. Typical Ethylene tetrafluoroethylene(ETFE) Panels
ii. Typical ETFE Skylight Panels
iii. Typical Glass Frame at Ground Floor
iv. Truss system with gutter
Typical ETFE Panels
Typical ETFE Skylight Panels
Adaptive Typical Glass Frame at Ground Floor
Adaptive Truss system with gutter
Rainforest Biome Conceptual Mass
Mediterranean Biome Conceptual Mass
Final Form
