Architectural Design Studio: Air

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Joonil Kim = 387116

ContentSite Analysis___________________________________________3-4

Design Narrative__________________________________________5

Case of Innovation________________________________________6• Architectural Discourses___________________________________7-8• Computing in Architecture__________________________________9-12• Contemporary Scripting__________________________________13 14

Research Project: CUT__________________________________15-16• Matrix by CUT Definitions__________________________________17-20• Case Study: Reverse Engineering_____________________________21-24

Design Concept__________________________________________25

Fabrication__________________________________________26- 28

“Crumpled, folded, rounded show-off “wow” buildings will become increasingly commonplace—but they’ll no longer be designed by the stars. The only true stars will be the guys who design the parametric software.”

Karrie Jacobs

Site AnalysisLocation of the siteAccording to the figure above, the driveways adjacent to the sites run in two directions, there are highway toward the city facing the east, and west toward the country. The road between site A and site B takes the most traffic. The best view for installation to catch the most views for people who enter the city is the site A and Site B, which is one of the major highway between the interchange of entering city and country.

View port controlThe site plan above, shows the view from 2 perspectives of the gateway installation from the East and West side of the high way road, it is crucial to locate the project on a central point so that most the vehicles can observe it.

Location of the siteAccording to the figure above, the driveways adjacent to the sites run in two directions, there are highway toward the city facing the east, and west toward the country. The road between site A and site B takes the most traffic. The best view for installation to catch the most views for people who enter the city is the site A and Site B, which is one of the major highway between the interchange of entering city and country.

View port controlThe site plan above, shows the view from 2 perspectives of the gateway installation from the East and West side of the high way road, it is crucial to locate the project on a central point so that most the vehicles can observe it.

Design Narrative

Client’s aspiration:Wyndham city is known for the way in which it has preserved and developed its attributes to create a prosperous and exciting place in which to live and work. (Wyndham City, 2011-2015). One of the vision of city planning of Wyndham city is to create a city image by improve Wyndham’s gateways, open space areas and streetscapes to enhance the aesthetics and amenity for residents, businesses and visitors, in the same time its improve the visual appearance to encourage a sense of pride and as a place to live, work and invest in Wyndham City. (The Quality Community Plan 2007)

Intended for:The installation for Gateway in Wyndham city is intended for local resident, visitor and motorist that travelling along the Princess Freeway and the urban precinct of the municipality.

Design Intention:•Avisualsenseforthesite.•Aneye-catchingandiconicinstallationthatcreateawarenessofexistinggateway.•Interconnectionbetweenthehumanandnatureenvironment.•Exploringawaythatarchitectureisthecatalystinwhichpeopleexperiencethisperpetuatedjourney.•Focusesonhowthejourney,lighting,patternandmovementaffectsitsusersandappreciatetheexistingexperienceas well as the destination.

Function:Function as a Public Art along the way to Princess Freeway. Public art providing opportunities for artistic self-expres-sion, community dialogue, education and enjoyment, inspiring participation in appreciation and creation of art, and enhancement of the physical infrastructure and environment. Public art is specifically designed and created for display in the public realm that enhances the natural or built environment.

Case for Innovation

CASE FOR INNOVATION

Case of Innovation

The Water Cube, or Beijing National Aquatic Centre, it is an eye-catching Olympics architecture designed by Australia’s PTW Architects in 2008. $200 million was invested on this project to become China’s elegant and light-weight rectangular box that covered in iridescent bubble wrap. The design of this fabulous architecture associates water as a structural and thematic leitmotif that is important in Chinese mythology. The undefined cluster of foam bubbles in façade symbolizes a condition of nature that is transformed into a condition of culture.

ETFE, Ethylene tetrafluoroethylene, is the main material used in bubble construction in Water Cube. The 100,000 square meters of translucent EHFE allows the bubble cladding to receive much solar heat, therefore, it makes easier to warm the building. At night, bubbles are lighting by the futuristic LED inside that creates aesthetical feature in this architecture.

Overall, Water Cube is a symbolic architecture that provokes the hope to the limits and potential of parametric design and digital fabrication. This example proved that the complexity can exist within very simply designed form, the cuboid of Water Cube, therefore, it will encourage us to ap-proach easier to the complexity in design for Wyndham project.

Water Cube, Beijing

Architecture as discourse

The Water Cube, or Beijing National Aquatic Centre, it is an eye-catching Olympics architecture designed by Australia’s PTW Architects in 2008. $200 million was invested on this project to become China’s elegant and light-weight rectangular box that covered in iridescent bubble wrap. The design of this fabulous architecture associates water as a structural and thematic leitmotif that is important in Chinese mythology. The undefined cluster of foam bubbles in façade symbolizes a condition of nature that is transformed into a condition of culture.

ETFE, Ethylene tetrafluoroethylene, is the main material used in bubble construction in Water Cube. The 100,000 square meters of translucent EHFE allows the bubble cladding to receive much solar heat, therefore, it makes easier to warm the building. At night, bubbles are lighting by the futuristic LED inside that creates aesthetical feature in this architecture.

Overall, Water Cube is a symbolic architecture that provokes the hope to the limits and potential of parametric design and digital fabrication. This example proved that the complexity can exist within very simply designed form, the cuboid of Water Cube, therefore, it will encourage us to ap-proach easier to the complexity in design for Wyndham project.

The Seed Cathedral

Case of Innovation

The Seed Cathedral was a project developed by Heatherwick Studio. It was a project that attempts to showcase the natural roots of the United Kingdom. Underlying the intension of this cathedral is to advertise the region. Since the region has been famous for col-lecting different trees and flowers’ seed. Therefore, Heatherwick Studio decided to use the seeds as an inspiration and basic idea for this project, so the outcome would integrate with the nature. Also, they decided to locate the seeds into the rod, so it may encourage people to come closer and look inside. This project showed that little ideas can develop into such a landmark of a region with the respect for the region’s originality.

For Wyndham Project, we would be encouraged to use computational technique to develop our ideas (although if it is tiny idea) into something grandeur and extraordinary. Moreover, the project’s respect for the region, it would make us to think to consider more and have a respect for the site before the design.

Architecture as discourse

‘Buildings, prior to the Renaissance, were constructed, not planned’

Before the period of Renaissance, most buildings were constructed by craftsmen without proper plans or design ideas. Only the well-trained and outstanding craftsmen were qualified to construct architectures. However, restrict rules and hierarchy among them existed by the pride provoked from training and specialization, therefore, they were slow in adapting new technologies.

Computing in Architecture

Case of Innovation

‘…architects ceased to be technicians…became designers’

Renaissance architects started to do design with scaled drawings which became the primary medium to communicate with builders. Moreover, it enabled designers to interpret their ideas and design approaches to their clients to help them understanding.

Parametric Modelling

Ambitious architectural design has similarity that they often rely on contemporary computational technologies. Para-metric design and freeform surface modelling tools enable the creation of complex geometries that challenge present construction methods. The effort of work and the process of geometry translating into shop drawings, producing construction elements and collecting them on site are multiplied by the numerous different parts and the element variations, therefore, complexity in construction goes up extremely high.

To handle projects in parametric design, drawings and specs are supported and completed by CNC production code, parts labelling and other special strategies. To man-age this various elements and minimization of the variation, documents are normally produced by parametric 3D models which are highly specialized BIM, Building Information Modelling.

BIM

BIM (Building Information Modelling) software are invented and developed only for the people work in architecture and construction industry. BIM software has similarities to CAD software as it enables architects to produce 2D and 3D documentations such as plans and sections, however, BIM contains architectural information which CAD doesn’t. For example, when designers draw a wall in CAD, CAD does not categorize it as a wall (it categorizes it as a long rectangle closed by 4 lines), however, BIM can categorize it, therefore, it shortens the time for architects to produce documenta-tions.

Case of Innovation

BIM

BIM (Building Information Modelling) software are invented and developed only for the people work in architecture and construction industry. BIM software has similarities to CAD software as it enables architects to produce 2D and 3D documentations such as plans and sections, however, BIM contains architectural information which CAD doesn’t. For example, when designers draw a wall in CAD, CAD does not categorize it as a wall (it categorizes it as a long rectangle closed by 4 lines), however, BIM can categorize it, therefore, it shortens the time for architects to produce documenta-tions.

Scripting Culture

The Flux Exhibition was a design exhibition organised and hosted by the students of California College of the Arts in 2009. The description of the exhibition was expressed as an exploration of contemporary architecture and design that forms a connection with new design strategies based in parametric modelling, digital mate-rial fabrication and scripting.

An innovative exhibition has been designed in which advanced software and generative design methods cre-ate an engaging and beautiful structure upon which document briefs merge with the offset planes consisting of design works from professions like architects and designers. By utilizing the computational techniques and digital fabrication tools, this unique and spatial experience in Architecture was able to be constructed.

For Wyndham project, the use of software, especially rhino and grasshopper scripting, will encourage us to design something looks more flexible and repetitive that would provide opportunities to architecture to give a sense of movement and also to provoke beautiful light effects.

The Flux Exhibition, California

Case of Innovation

RESEARCH PROJECT

CUT

Research Project: CUT

Input: Using Surface Normal

Associations: Image Sampler/Point Attrator/Math Function

Outputs: Rotation/Sphere Component

Throughout the number of experiments with given grasshopper definitions, I was able to create various matrix. Some of them were very much similar to each other, but some were looked much more complex and different. Use of extrusions with other shapes instead of

circle, such as rectangle, hexagon and sphere, produced various and interesting outcomes. However, the rotation component (Output definition) was the best output to me among other definitions that the connection of rotation component to XYZ Vector component in different

slider values for each produced fabulous and interesting matrix.

Input: Using Surface Normal

Associations: Image Sampler/Point Attrator/Math Function

Outputs: Rotation/Sphere Component

Research Project: CUT

Input: Boolean Pattern

Associations: Image Sampler/Math Function/Multiple Math Function

Outputs: Rotation/Extrusion/Rectangle Component

Throughout the number of experiments with given grasshopper definitions, I was able to create various matrix. Some of them were very much similar to each other, but some were looked much more complex and different. Use of extrusions with other shapes instead of

circle, such as rectangle, hexagon and sphere, produced various and interesting outcomes. However, the rotation component (Output definition) was the best output to me among other definitions that the connection of rotation component to XYZ Vector component in different

slider values for each produced fabulous and interesting matrix.

Research Project: CUT

Input: Overlapping Pattern

Associations: Image Sampler/Math Function/Curve Attractor/Multiple Math Function

Outputs: Rotation/Extrusion

Research Project: CUT

Input: Surface Grid

Associations: Image Sampler/Math Function/Curve Attractor

Outputs: Rotation/Extrusion

Research Project: CUT Reverse-Engineered Case Study

Airspace Tokyo [Faulders Studio]

Airspace Tokyo by Faulder’s Studio is four multi-family dwelling units located in the Kitamagome Ota-ku district in Japan. The extraordinary façade was designed by Thom Faulders, and then developed in collaboration with digital technologists to make it exist in real life. The façade design was inspired by the abundant vegetation that previously existed site; the façade comprises 4 different overlapping organic patterns. Each screen has an air gap of 15cm in-between; however, the thick-ness of the screen is visually enlarged by the effect of the compressed patterns making the screen a dynamic buffer of shadows and oddly framed views.

VORONOI PATTERNVoronoi diagrams are commonly thought of in terms of a set of points. Given a set of points {Pi}, you cover the plane with disjoint convex tiles {Ti} such that Tk contains all the points in the plane which are closer to pk than any other pi. This has many practical applications, and there are well-known algorithms for finding the Voronoi diagram of a set of points.

Grasshopper Defi nition

Reproducing by using grasshopper

Research Project: CUT

Grasshopper Defi nition

Research Project: CUT

Threshold of a New JourneyThreshold means the starting point for a new state or experience. The interchange of the highway road between the direction towards to the city and urban town represent the different pathway, experience and direction in a journey. The idea of threshold is to show the transition of spaces, environment and moments in the process of entrance to the Gateway, a journey of exploration for the user.

Elements that existence for achieve the sense of experience and journey based on the expression of interest.

Light and ShadowLight and shadow work in tandem to configure the visual sense in spaces. The light plays as a perpetual dance, its swift and fleeting and the shadow act as a spatial dynamics which transfigured our perceptual orientation. To create an eye-catching installation, play of lighting in daytime and night time, when the sun rise on the east side on side, and sunset on the west, it create a sense of rhythm and continuity. In night time, the light will be shown by artificial light, based on the case study of Casalgrande ceramic cloud, Kengo Kuma.

MovementWhen driver pass through the installation with the pattern shown on the picture below, the pattern consist of density from large pattern to gradually smaller pattern create dynamic movement. This creates a motion and kinetic movement based on the pattern when motorist pass through the site along the Princess Freeway, with a speed limit of 100km/h in site.

Design Concept

PatternsThe pattern shows repetition work and function as decoration in the site. Based on the case study, we intended to use the pattern of Voronoi as the parametric design for the installation of Public art on the gateway site in Wyndham city. The solid and void in the surface layer of Voronoi, creates the light and shadow, and it is flexibility in creating movement and dynamic, playing of material and texture.

Digital Fabricating now...

Research Project: CUTFabrication