My selected building for project 2: The Kimbell Art Museum by Louis Kahn. A modest, dignified building. The floor plan is easy enough to cad out...
...but the real fun comes when cadding out the elevations. You see, the roofs aren't exactly semicircular, they're cycloidal.
Which entails constructing the shape by an annoyingly complex process. Ugh.
For some reason, the method only works for the outer cycloid. When the method was used for the inner ones, they turned out distorted.
Eventually cheated by using an ellipse. Finally, done.
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