EOI Client’s aspiration The purpose of this design: It is to create an attractive view on freeway. It intended to address the issue of Werribee’s image by upgrading the condition and aesthetics of its streetscapes. The audience: Drivers and passengers on road, this includes people from different background. Form low educated to high educated, young to old. How do you satisfy the client’s aspiration? City culture: This design will be a piece of art that engages with the residents of Werribee city. This is achieved by ways such as reflecting the culture/ history/ feeling of Werribee city. Eg. The lighting of this design will reflect the mood of Werribee’s citizen: everyday, the citizen rate their mood, a program summarise the information, and send it to the architecture, if the city is happy, the architecture appears to be green, if the city is unhappy, the architecture appears to be red etc…….. Sustainable: To be sustainable, this design will take advantage of solar/ wind power on the site to generate energy, this energy will be used to operate the lighting designed within this architecture, if there are exceed energy, it can contribute to local energy supply. Landmark: This design will be a landmark of the local city. When the drivers see this landmark, he/she realised immediately it is Werribee city. Safety: This design shouldn’t distract drivers’ attention to avoid traffic accident. How do you deliver the design?
Viewpoint (Aimee) Our design will differentiate from 2 aspects, which are the far/close distance view as well as the day/night views. The gateway should be significant and attractive to audience, hence scale of the project should be striking but not beyond the budget. Computation technology can help us visually experience the spatial relationship of the project within the site. Due to the high speed of transportation, the shape will be visually shortened. Therefore, we tend to design a long form rather than centralized/ isolated form. While moving towards the project, our viewpoint alter, thus the element of our design might be separated/ discontinuous in order to form an animated effect. (Refer to below pictures)
To achieve better result in aesthetic matter, electrical lighting will be applied to our design whose energy is self-‐supported. According to the condition of the site, wind energy or solar energy will be the main source of energy. This will be further discussed in sustainability discourse.
Inspiration of pattern (Anna):
Discover rules exist within the hypothetical ‘pre-‐material’ state that influences its movement into the realm of the material. Tooling can be broken down into seven techniques: spiralling, packing,
weaving, blending, cracking, flocking and tiling, which can describe and simulate certain natural phenomena in the world and turn it in to logics for construction. Patterns can be generated by those tooling methods, like Bentley’s snowflakes, the source of wonder behind one crystal is not the storm it came from but rather the elusive internal logic that remains resolute and unmoving through all crystal. For the gateway project, once we decide a central concept, it can be any object or natural phenomena for example: flowers, DNA patterns or rainbows, etc. Relate to the historical background of Werribee city, the name Werribee is an aboriginal name meaning "backbone" or "spine". It is thought that this name was given as the shape of the Werribee River valley and the landscape look like a backbone. The initial design concept could be a ‘backbone’ for instance and by experiencing seven tooling techniques we could trace the natural movement of backbone, and then go beyond it to produce new patterns or shapes.
Transformation of Pattern (Jack). The structure / pattern of the design We approach the design from a very simple shape, this could be a shape extracted from ‘backbone’ for instance. The shape will then grow and transform by repeating, spiralling, packing, weaving, blending, cracking, flocking and tiling, as mention above, to achieve an expected outcome. The transformation will follow certain logic. This logic will be one inspired form nature, biology, or physics ... Refer to the examples below. Software such as rhino will be used to see the visual effect. Grasshopper will be used as tool to control parametric for transformation.
1, Logic of Growth in vegetation：Growth in volume as well as internal development.
2, Logic of Cell Division: Growth by spliting and repeating.
3, Logic of movement of atoms: Rotation of sub-‐elements to create dynamic form.
SUSTAINABILITY(zhengzhi) Energy efficiency will be our one of the major focal point, we will consider the energy cost and energy generation in terms of special form and pattern, for this particular project, solar power is a concept we can adopt to our design through combining environmental analysis tool( ecotec) and parametric design. In the digital simulated environment, the sun direction, solar gain and shade can be calculated and analysis the changes during a day and a year, then a photovoltaic system will be considered in this project related to the proposed complex and dynamic forms, how to achieve the balance between most energy efficient and best aesthetic. Energy saving-‐Solar power For energy aspect, the solar power can be used to service the project itself by creating visual lighting effect during day and night time as well as delivering back to city for emphasizing the social and natural meaning .
Environmental Indicator-‐ water Water are also a discourse we are going to explore in term of sustainability and energy efficiency, there is no water supply in the site, but rain water can be collected to used to create visual effect in static or dynamic form through parametric design, furthermore, transparent material provides the media that collected rain water can be viewed through the structure or pattern, it will indicate recent rain fall that imply agriculture and environmental purpose, this is another opportunity using sustainable design to enhance structural aesthetics and social meaning Construction, Fabrication technique A sustainable and energy saving construction process is also our focus area. a factory prefabricated modular minimizes energy embodied and material waste typical to site, computational tool is helpful to adopt pre-‐fabrication techniques into a dramatic form or pattern in order to achieve minimal transfer, fast installation and easy maintenance. Constrain: people are viewing the design at a speed of 100km/h. 1, design must be in fairly large scale, can be easily viewed from a certain distance or in a high speed passing by. 2. Not too flattened, can be viewed from various of directions. 3. No electrical connections. Solution, self-‐powered. 4, no water supply. 5, Discourage graffiti: solutions, 1, high 2 from material, 3, can get in. 6, Daytime &night time viewing. This design should be viewed in both daytime and night-‐time. Without external electricity supply, this required to use fluorescent light material or self-‐powered. Design Outcome: This piece of art engages with its audience in history, culture, social and natural aspect. Different people can have different resonance. For example, it might remain a truck driver about elements of nature and remain