CASA Playhouse

CASA PLAYHOUSE

In this project for CASA Playhouse our team took on generative design using Grasshopper and Milipede, a topology optimization software. The only design constraints were that it must not exceed an area of 8’x8’x8’ and that it must function as a fort or play structure for children. To generate the interior columns, we set the floor and roof shapes and assigned loads for each. we calculated dozens of load variations aiming for a balance that provided ample interior space while maintaining strong structural integrity as the exterior skin contributes minimally to the strength of the form. Once we settled on a form generated from Milipede we baked the geometry into Rhino where we rationalized the optimized forms by flattening the branching interior columns so that they could be cut from sheets of plywood on the CNC router.