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J O U R N A lARchitectURe desigN stUdiO:
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peRsONAl JOURNAl&
expRessiON Of iNteRestyUliUs chAisAR 396604
semesteR 1- 2012tUtOR: JAs & AlisON
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A. cAse fOR iNNOVAtiON
ARchitectURAl discOURse
cOmpUtAtiON desigN
pARAmetRic desigN
B. ReseARch stUdy
OBJectiVes/ARgUmeNt
cRiteRiA
pRecedeNts
cUt mAtRices
cAse stUdies
VORONOi explORAtiON 1
VORONOi explORAtiON 2
VORONOi explORAtiON 3
ReflectiON
c. ReseARch stUdy (ReVised)
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cRiteRiA
explORAtiON Of deRiVed fORm
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desigN diAgRAm
VORONOi
cURVes
f. desigN OUtcOme
g. field Of ReAlisAtiON
BRidgiNg WyNdhAm
cONstRUctiON methOd
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the tower takes its shape after the site’s complex urban conditions aiming to optimize the conditions for its future inhabitants in the
air as well as on the street level. At its base, the footprint of the tower is conditioned by
concerns for two significant neighboring elements, including a 30-meter setback from
the granville bridge which ensures that no residents will have windows and balconies in
the middle of heavy traffic as well as concerns for sunlight to an adjacent park which limits
how far south the building can be constructed
this building has shown sustainability as architectural discourse can be contributed in
modern structure to be more sustain in spaces and functionality
BeAch ANd hOWe st.BigVANcOUVeR, cANAdA
sUstAiNABility As A discOURse
cAse fOR iNNOVAtiONWeek 1
ARchitectUReAs
discOURse
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BiOmimicRy As A discOURse
hydROgeNAseViNceNt cAlleBAUtshANghAi, sOUth chiNA seA
On top of absorbing the solar energy, this flying castle draws its inspiration from the biomimicry technologies and is built in lighter and more resistant composite materials (fibreglass and carbon fibre) in order to reduce the weight of its structure at the maximum. the fitting is thus self cleaning, in nanostructured glass inspired from the lotus leave that does not get wet.
hence, biomimicry building should be more approved therefore its directly has the optimum function. Nevertheless, it also can sustain the space and nature in bothways. those combinations are the most wanted discourse to sustain our world.
digitAl desigN As A discOURse
gehry’s personal and exclusive project of interior design characterized by its forms, colors and materials, offers an authentic avant-garde vision. in architecture, its application tends to depart from modernism in its inherent criticism of culturally inherited givens such as societal goals and functional necessity.
therefore, digital design can be an architectural discourse due to demand from the architecture to explore more in ideas and creativities. for architectures, to achieve such big and complicated ideas in creating building indeed digital design to express their idea to reality.
hOtel mARqUes de RiscAlfRANk gehRy
elciegO,spAiN
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cApitAl gAteAdNc (ABU dhABi NAtiONAl cOmpANy)ABU dhABi
digitAl sUstAiNABlepROJect
capital gate has been built to lean 18 degrees westwards - more than four times that of the
world famous leaning tower of pisa. the design approach results in sustainable architectural
solutions based on first principles and the workshop culture stimulates creative thinking
and maintains the integrity of the design.
computanional system has taking big part to develop this kind of shape. Nevertheless,
using manually hand sketching is impossible to create such detail creation. therefore,
the building has been designed lean over 18 degrees there is no such way the design
without using computation help.v
cAse fOR iNNOVAtiONWeek 2
cOmpUtAiONiN
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cAse fOR iNNOVAtiONWeek 3
pARAmetRicdesigN
cOmpUtAtiON desigN
pedestRiAN BRidgeAmNiOsyA ARchitectURe
AmsteRdAm, NetheRlANd
the idea came from considering the pedestrian bridge as a place of connections and interactions of flow and pedestrian paths, connecting the two banks: the flow of bicycles and pedestrians, according to their intensity, interact, creating dynamic paths. the flow of a pedestrian of a cyclist also vibrates permanently, and these vibrations are vectors of mechanical energy that can be recovered and converted into electrical energy by means of electromechanical transducers.
the shape and curve are manage to be created through cAd. Another advantage from using cAd as a media to transfer the creative idea which hand sketching cannot resolve the problem.
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pARAmetRic desigN
heliOscOpeeVAN dOUglisORleAN,fRANce
i think scripting has begun one of the style in architectural design. the way it shows the precious and elegant in complicated shaped
have made with more efficient way to produce a design (Burry, 2011).
however, it still produce a great and magnificient piece of art in this modern era.
“scripting can be seen as offering an alternative view of creativity”- mark
Burry
heliOscOpeeVAN dOUglis
ORleAN,fRANce
pARAmetRic desigN
k&A scopeUtilizing artist’s 3-d cAd data,design a fabrication method andmanufacture a reusable fRp mold and onepart for final finish by artist and transport tomultiple venues.
descriptionfRp sculpture usingunsaturated polyester resin and e-glassfiber reinforcement. sculpture is monocoquewith no internal secondary structure and isengineered to fasten to a plywood templatesecured to the ceiling through minimallyvisible connections.
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ARgUmeNt
Wyndham city is seeking design for an eye catching and exciting installation to create a gateway onto the princes highway. Over the years, Wyndham has been striving towards creating and establish-ing a new image through aesthetics and technology. the city tries to focus on the idea of marrying nature with the built environment while pushing their town planning ideas towards the future. the local area is known for its natural significance as it boasts an array of public parks as well as natural features. interestingly, additional information about Wyndham has shown that the natural area has a variety of wetlands and through recent drought conditions; mud cracking has been a recent scene, this in an abstract way form a strong connection point between the past and present. thus, the installation will serve to inform people about the significance of change within Wyndham. it will also serve to inform the community and people about its natural significance.
the project will focus on the possibilites of digital design and in-corporating techniques and concepts examined from the selected cases for innovation to our group’s ideal. We are interested in devel-oping the idea of fusing nature with the built environment (BiOmim-icRy) to create an installation that is abstract in form. furthermore, with the advancement of technology in the field of biomimicry, we believe that the use of digital computation will further enhance the outcome of what the group is trying to achieve. Within nature more specifically, with relations to the mud crack formation of the wetlands, our group is interested in developing it’s possibilities and incorporating its system to our design. As so, the group has chosen to look into working with voronois in a broader context. moreover, the similarities of the formation of mud cracking patterns as well as cell formation systems in nature are researched to be identical to the formation of voronoi patterning.
through merging digital software together with nature, break-through in architecture has been observed; one of the more famous examples is the Beijing Water cube. the project has shown most importantly the use of nature within a built system and expanding it into an idea with the use of digital design. With relation to our project, our technique is to use grasshopper to merge the abstract form of natural and built systems and digital software. grasshop-per, in this case can help us in producing and looking at voronois in terms of concepts as a system of formation rather than individual rings within a plane. to certain extents digital software, Rhino and grasshopper also helped our group understand and produce an ar-ray of patterns and forms in a more efficient manner especially dur-ing exploration process as well as fabrication management. further-more, digital software can substantially aid in pushing our design to the next level achieving form explorations that couldn’t be achieved through traditional drafting by linking definitions of different gen-erated outcomes in grasshopper during the exploration process. Our outcome is formed through experimental and developmental stages.
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pRecedeNts: NAtURe
looking at natural processes and systems enabled us to form a framework in developing an understanding of the natural systems that we are looking closely at, this is more relevant in terms of voronoi formation and pattern-ing. from this, we identified that voronoi occur in various triangulated, hexagonal shapes and work on an attractor point system. in terms of aesthetics, we are interested in untilizing this system as well as the pattern.
this is to form a final out-come that is simple in a poetic and visual sense but could be able to blend with our ideals and as an outcome convey the char-acteristics of Wyndham.
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cRiteRiA
After forming the argument, we have adopted a rule-based approach in design
(kalay, 2004) and identified three crucial parts of to our concept developments,
they are:
-the Natural system,
-the Built environment and
-the combination of Natural and Built sys-tems.
these 3 main concepts will act as a guide within our matrices exploration process, this
is to ensure the production of a appropriate and definite final outcome for the Wynd
-ham city project.
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pRecedeNts: NAtURe + BUilt
flat tower - 2011 skyscraper competition, yoann mes-cam, paul-eric schirr-Bonnans, xavier schirr-Bonnans
these examples mainly serve as a basis for our explora-tion outcomes, these examples of applying very direct connotations from the natural environment in terms of patterning and shapes into built outcomes. Our case study exploration is heavily influenced by these designs as they convey to us the concept of forms that highlights the use of biomimicry to draw attention of the viewers to the built form. their form though simple has a consistent and direct theme in which the viewers can relate, this we think is relevant to what we want to achieve for our proj-ect outcome.
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pRecedeNts: BUilt
from looking at the built examples, we delved upon the possibilities of manipulating the patterns within the natu-ral systems into various forms and volumes. the examples listed are a few of the known examples within sustainable architecture but common themes are also the use of ap-plying biomimicry into their design development pro-cess. the common characteristics of these built examples lies in the use of one occurring technique and exploring it with motives such as depth and gradient in which we are particularly interested in exploring. these elements as said provides us in terms of understanding the limita-tions and possibilities of our design and with relations to the project we would apply these concepts of exploration and motives as they are relevant to the advancement of design aesthetics and technology which Wyndham is as-piring to be.
ReseRch stUdy
overlapping patterns + surface grids + data driven shading
curve attractor + using sets
overlapping patterns + data driven rotation
surface grids + using sets + data driven rotation
surface grids + data driven rotation
overlapping patterns + sur-face grids + using sets + data driven shading
curve attractor + data driven rotation
overlapping patterns + surface grid + data driven rotation + data driven shading
mAtRices
R e s e A R c h s t U d y
m A t R i c e s
mAtRices
curve intersections + using surface normals + image sampler
multiple maths functions + data driven extrusion
using surface normals + data driven extrusion
curve intersections + multile maths functions
overlapping patterns + mul-tiple maths functions
using surface normals + mul-tiple maths functions
image sampler + multiple maths functions
curve attractor + image sampler + multiple maths functions
arbitrary points + attractor points + data driven compo-nents
arbitrary points + maths func-tions + data driven compo-nents
arbitrary points + stream-ing text files + data driven components
boolean patterning + at-tractor points + data driven components
boolean patterning + maths functions + data driven com-ponents
arbitrary points + boolean patterning + attractor points + maths functions + data driven components
arbitrary points + boolean patterning + attractor points + maths functions + data driven components
arbitrary points + boolean patterning + attractor points + maths functions + data driven components
mAtRices
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AiRspAce, tOkyOstUdiO m/thOm fAUldeRs ARchitectURe
Airspace tokyo designed by faulders studio strike us in the sense of its simple form but complicated pattern solid yet vivid façade. the digitally-generated overlapping voronoi pattern that rep-resents the biomorphic cells of vegetation, suits our preferred digital technique exploration – biomimicry. lightings are the es-sential effect for both external and internal space. through the pattern, views are fragmented and create a unique experiment through different angles. At night, the interior lightings passing through the perforations of overlapping voronoi make a mysteri-ous feeling as it seems to move as we move.
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ReVeRse eNgiNeeRReVeRse eNgiNeeR
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OVeRlAppiNg VORONOi
taking the concepts from our matrices exploration, we came up with a technique to produce an overlapping voronoi by generating random points of various cen-ters within the voronoi mainly through multiple maths functions. the outcome is similar to that of our case study, Airspace tokyo.
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explORAtiONexplORAtiON
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cUBe VORONOi
After the reverse engineering of the façade of Airspace tokyo, we tried experimenting and viewing the voronoi as a volume rather than a 2-dimesional form making this con-cept cohesive to our argument. Joining the 2-dimesional facades into a cube would be the easiest approach to achieve the stereo-scopic sense of voronoi as a whole. playing with light, the façades of the cube create shadows that overlapped each other and further fragmenting the voronoi.
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explORAtiON
to take the design into a further development, the holes and the frame would be inverted as in the holes are filled and extruded while the frame is lowered. each extruded volume is broken into 6 pieces of triangles. And the triangular forms are in different heights that will make a wavy form 3-dimesionally.
the form made before is similar to that of mud cracks, and we are interested by this particular natural geomorphic signs. for the final exploration, the mud cracks particularly the giant causeway in ireland inspires us to build voronoi extrusion into different lev-els.
explORAtiON
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As Wyndham city is seeking design for an eye catching and exciting installation to create a gateway onto the princes highway. therefore, Wyndham city requires a cer-tain achievement in both nature and built environment towards the future. in this project, our group has been ex-ploring through the combination between nature and built environment to form an abstract design. the installation of the design is using certain approach in nature based as precedents. it has been found that Wyndham had natural area of wetlands that can lead onto mud cracking through the soil condition through the drought.
in order to fulfil the goal in creating abstract design be-tween nature and built environment, our group has chosen to use a scripting technique as the media. scripting is one of basic the technique in using computation system in cre-ating parametric design. thus, so many advantages in us-ing scripting technique in creating parametric design such as scripting affords a significantly deeper engagement be-tween the computer and user by automating routine as-pects and repetitive activities, thus facilitating a far greater range of potential outcomes for the same investment in time. in this project, our group has conceptualized and de-veloping the mud cracks as our design. furthermore, rather using in mud cracks as the design we managed to develop it with voronois patterns.
finally, our group succeeded to create a parametric design through scripting technique in using Rhino and grasshop-per as our media to achieve the objectives. With relation to our project, digital software can help us in producing and looking at voronois in terms of concepts as a system of formation rather than individual rings within a plane. Our group found using scripting technique to design our model is very convenient and help us to achieve certain pattern that others cannot be obtained. scripting can also be the antidote to standardisation forced by an ambition to lower production costs, rather than any more sophisticated motivation: the previously elusive opportunities for mul-tiple versioning and bespoke production can now be con-sidered more seriously through the use of scripting. hence, scripting technique has a suitable approach in developing Wyndham city project to maximum possibilities.
ReflectiONexplORAtiON
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ARgUmeNt
Wyndham city is seeking design for an eye catch-ing and exciting installation to create a gateway onto the princes highway. Over the years, Wyn-dham has been striving towards creating and establishing a new image through aesthetics. the city tries to focus on the idea of marrying nature with the built environment while pushing their town planning ideas towards the future. this proj-ect allows Wyndham who is strategically situated directly between the city and the rural outskirts a chance to provide a fresh new image to the com-munity as well as the commuters travelling on the princes highway each day. from looking at the vast possibility within this area, our primary goal is to brand Wyndham itself as a gateway through creating a field of realisation. this field of realisa-tion will serve as a medium to abstractly inform the commuters of the movement from the city towards the rural outskirts and vice versa. every day, there is a considerable amount of population movement along the highway. this alone signifies the shift of people from one destination to an-other. furthermore, there is a stark difference be-tween the population density within the city and rural areas. Our group sees this population repre-sentation as vital information towards expressing Wyndham’s status through linking both the city and rural outskirts. lastly to merge our intentions back to nature, we will look into the structural sys-tems within nature to develop the scope of depth in our project. frei Otto argued that “naturalistic forms are no less a triumph of human design and productive capacity than mechanistic ones.” We believe that these explorations of abstract move-ment and natural systems will serve to symbolize Wyndham’s progress towards the future.
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pRecedeNts
ReseARch stUdy
furthermore, we are gonna push our model not into just some basic voronoi stuck inside a wall
of the building but we are trying to make it looks meaningful and aesthetics with the surroundings.
thus, the precedents have inspired ourselves to create and explore more in our project.
therefore, voronoi itself its a free pattern that can be played into everything. however, voronoi pattern is still their control point that can create
the voronoi pattern itself. placing the point can be one of the issue that we should generate the point
itself rather placing the point randomly in the rhino. As they are relevant to the advancement of
design aesthetics and technology which Wynd-ham is aspiring to be.
pRecedeNts
ReseARch stUdy
from several precedents our group found thorugh researching into some projects and building. We found that some building such as tokyo Air space or UN memorial building. We found applied a voronoi pattern is interesting to explore with grasshopper to develop our model.
therefore, we found similarirty in using voronoi pattern in each building and projects that the voronoi is a random pattern that is seem to be very nature can link to our argument to explore in biomimicry as a nature. these elements as said provide us in terms of understanding the limitations and possibilities of our design and with relations to the project we could apply these concepts of exploration and motives. is aspiring to be.
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explORAtiONOf deRiVed fORms
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cRiteRiA
ReseARch stUdy
After looking at a number of precedents, we are interested with the possibilities of Voronoi pat-terning and their abilities to convey design intents and abstract representations through exploring depth, gradient and movement. We are interested in using these languages of voronoi algorithm and placing them in the context of creating a buffered space (a field to realisation) and thus, we have set out a number of criteria to explore ways to develop these voronois to merge with our argument:
phase 1: in order to clearly show the realisation of movement, our group looked at ways to achieve a system in which the voronoi points are placed, these systems are then expanded to achieve an outcome that is most related to the group’s ideal.
phase 2: to represent movement and gradient, we will look into ways in which a curved surface can be manipulated to fit with the site context.
phase 3: merging these two intentions to produce a justified outcome.
phase 4: expanding this justified outcome with transformation definitions to give the voronois a more complex outcome, this phase will be experi-menting with layering, depth and to allow the eyes to be attracted and slowly guided to a intended vo-ronoi frame.
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geNeRAted VORONOi
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this the result of our generated voronoi as to show the different the population between the urban and rural area.
the definition of the generated voronoi.
thiNkiNg pROcess
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this process show that we already manage to gen-erate point using point attractor to generate from 1 points into many random points rather we poke the point on the Rhino. Nevertheless, we control the point using the boundary from Wyndham city as the reference for the point to generate. hence, we succesfully to create and generate point using the definition
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cURVes
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the curves we created is based on the site itself. We think it is better to make the surface from the site thus it will be more sense rather to put it in random surfaces. the curves surfaces generated from com-bination of the site A, site B, and site c.
fURtheR explORAtiON
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this the result of our generated cURVe into the surface. however, this shape still does not satisfy enough to be fabricated.
the definition of the generated voronoi on curve.
VORONOi ON sURfAce
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fURtheR explORAtiON
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this the result of our generated cURVe as to show the base for the voronoi to be placed onto it.
the definition of the generated curve.
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fABRicAtiNg methOd
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the method we are going to use is contouring the-curve surface to be the based for we to cast the piny-sil into the voronoi. however, we assumed this method will be work for our model. therefore, we have not yet get the model.
VORONOi ON sURfAce
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this is the final exploration we made and seems to be successful and link to our argument. therefore, we manage to combine our concept with definiton which is to place the voronoi into the curve surface. however, we found that putting in the voronoi into the curve surface is very challenging. hence, we manage to create the tunnel of voronoi as in move-ment from rural to urban and urban to rural area.
deVelOpiNg i d e A s
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fAiled Attempt
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this is the first attempt we fabricate our final exploration model. hence, we failed to fabricate it because we found that using contouring method is a mistake. We found our pieces splash into very small pieces and we can’t construct the model as well.
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cRiteRiA
We are interested with the possibilities of Voronoi patterning and their abilities to convey design in-tents and abstract representations through explor-ing depth, gradient and movement. Using these languages of voronoi algorithms we have set out a number of criteria to explore ways to develop these voronois to merge with our argument:
phase 1: in order to clearly show the realisation of movement, our group looked -at ways to achieve a system in which the voronoi points are placed, these systems are then expanded to achieve an outcome that is most related to the group’s ideal.
phase 2: to represent movement and gradient, we will look into ways in which a curved surface can be manipulated to fit with the site context.
phase 3: merging these two intentions to produce a justified outcome.
phase 4: expanding this justified outcome with transformation definitions to give the voronois a more complex outcome, this phase will be experi-menting with layering, depth and to allow the eyes to be attracted and slowly guided to a intended vo-ronoi frame.
ARgUmeNt fOR WyNdhAm cOUNcil
focusing on the idea of marrying nature with the built environment while pushing town planning ideas towards the future, our project allows Wynd-ham who is strategically situated directly between the city and the rural outskirts a chance to provide a fresh new image. from looking at the vast possi-bility within this area, our primary goal is to brand Wyndham itself as a gateway through creating a field of realisation. this field of realisation will serve as a medium to abstractly inform the commuters of the movement from the city towards the rural outskirts and vice versa. Our group sees popula-tion representation as vital information towards expressing Wyndham’s status through linking both the city and rural outskirts. We believe that these explorations of abstract movement and natural systems will serve to symbolize Wyndham’s pro-gress towards the future.
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desigN diAgRAm
looking at site movement and population growth and translating it into grasshopper
plottting out the population change abstractly onto the site
convert these population representation into a vo-ronoi shape and palce it on the top of the site.
d e s i g Ne x p l O R A t i O N
VORONOiexplORAtiON
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desigN diAgRAm
final Outcome of the Voronoi tunnel on the site.
desigN diAgRAm
form derived from the landscape and created us-ing rhino and grasshopper to adjust the the form
manipulating the curves extracted to the experen-tial change leading to Wyndham
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desigN explORAtiON:cURVes
Zooming down from looking at broader mel-bourne, to achieve the form we looked into the site and manipulating our final form. this picture has shown the progress from the initial curves devel-oped into the final curves for the voronoi to sit on.
desigN explORAtiON:VORONOi
to justify our voronoi points, our group extracted maps of Wyndham, the city and the rural area over-laying them into a body of statistics, translating and reconnect them back into grasshopper. the four voronoi patterns are to show the various stag-es of formed vovonois when the slider pulled and the final pattern is the most representing our argu-ment and our group agreed to use the last pattern as the final design.
fiNAl OUtcOmeOf
VORONOi tUNNel(ReNdeRed)
d e s i g NO U t c O m e
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impression of vastness towards the rural region
height of structure decreases as the commuters move past
desigN explORAtiON:VORONOi
SITE PLAN scale 1:400
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cONstRUctiON methOd
voronoi density increases as commuters travel towards the city
EXPERIENTIAL SECTION DETAIL scale 1:1000
impression of confinement towards the city region
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cONstRUctiON:cAse stUdy
to translate it into a built form our group has researched a selection of mega structures and merging their constructional method into our
form.
cONstRUctiON:pRecedeNts
Olympic stadium
london
populous
guggenheim museum Bilbao
spain
frank gehry
Beijing National stadium
Beijing
herzog & de meuron
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cONstRUctiON:piNky-sil tRiAl
the trial of pinky-sil is to show that our model is build-able into the real life. We made casting place to pour the pinky-sil in, and then we pour half of the pink-sil and then we put wires 1.5mm, and pouring the rest pink-sil and wait it to dry. Afterwards, we bend the model as it is one of the section of our model and it seems to be success-
ful and by the way it is 1:200 section model.
fiNAl OUtcOmeOfVORONOi tUNNel
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1.INDIVIDUAL PREFABRICATED STEEL TRUSS COLUMNS2.LIGHT WEIGHT SECONDARY STEEL BEAMS 3.BRUSHED STEEL CLADDING4.TENSION CABLES5. PILE FOOTINGS
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PERSPECTIVE CONSTRUCTION SECTION DETAIL scale 1:1000
Our form will be built through prefabricated steel trusses forming into a lattice structure and clad-ding brushed steel over the form. these are all construction method that has been extracted from
our precedents and developed from the case study.
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feedBAck
After the final presentation, our group got several feedback from the crits about our panel and our presentaion as well our model. the feedback such as:
data not readable? does it translate to form?
is it a good piece of data to use?
what is the realisation?
focus on the speed and density aspects of the form
ReflectiON
the main task of this subject is to create an in-novative yet creative abstarct design in certain criteria. therefore, Wyndham city has propose to develop the city into a modern and sustain-
able city. thus, to achieve such great obejectives our group assigned to use a scripting program
to approach such criteria. thus, so many ad-vantages in using scripting technique in creat-ing parametric design such as scripting affords
a significantly deeper engagement between the computer and user by automating routine
aspects and repetitive activities, thus facilitating a far greater range of potential outcomes for the
same investment in time.
finally, our group succeeded to create a para-metric design through scripting technique in
using Rhino and grasshopper as our media to achieve the objectives. With relation to our
project, digital software can help us in produc-ing and looking at voronois in terms of concepts
as a system of formation rather than individual rings within a plane. Our group found using
scripting technique to design our model is very convenient and help us to achieve certain pattern that others cannot be obtained. script-ing can also be the antidote to standardisation
forced by an ambition to lower production costs, rather than any more sophisticated mo-
tivation: the previously elusive opportunities for multiple versioning and bespoke produc-
tion can now be considered more seriously through the use of scripting. finally, we made it
to achieve the final model and using 3d printing to create our meshes.hence, scripting technique
has a suitable approach in developing Wynd-ham city project to maximum possibilities.
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