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Xinyue Zhou
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CONTENT PART A 04
A.0. Introduction
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A.1. Design Futuring
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A.2. Design Computation
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y name is Xinyue, preferred name is April, the third year student major in Architecture. I am an international student from a small city in the southern part of China, which is Suzhou. My hometown is famous of the classical Chinese Gardens, which is a representative style of the Chinese ancient architectural style.
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hen I was a child, my mother always took me traveled around those historical towns to experience the aesthetics of the ancient architecture. Thus I learned painting over a long period in order to record the beautiful views and building I saw. I finished my high school with the arts major and chose finance when I did my foundation course in Auckland of New Zealand, however, finally I found I still want to learn architecture for the reason that I think it is quite eudemonic to understand, to learn, to image, to create and to build what I like and what I want. After I started my study in Melbourne University, I understood more about this major and learned more skill of architecture. Especially the studio study, I found lots of fun of each program, and the learning from the Master Rem Koolhaas made me understand more about the modern architecture, also the importance about the technology about design and creating. Besides, I really like the modern Japanese architecture style for its clean, simple and functional characteristics. This year is my third year, as well as the last year for my undergraduate period. I really hope I could learn more skills about the grasshopper, the rhino and other technology I should learn for future and better design, meanwhile improve creativity of design.
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INTRODUCTION
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A DESIGN FUTURING
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ccording to the reading this week, both of them pointed out that nowadays ar-
chitecture has more meaning for the culture, the city and the environment. For future, architecture plays more and more important role between human society and environment, which has close connection with the sustainability. Furthermore, to compare with the modern architecture around 1900s, nowadays-modern architecture gives and creates more ideas and meaning to projects. With the improvement of technology and the changes of lifestyle, the idea of architecture becomes more and more creative and not just satisfies the needs of functions.
“Answering the ‘design futuring’ question actually requires having a clear sense of what design needs to be mobilized for or against. Even more significantly, it means changing our thinking, then how and what we design. Equally, it also requires understanding that the ‘ dialectic of sustainment’ is another basic feature of being human.”[1] Tony Fry
[1] Fry, Tony (2008). Design Futuring: Sustainability, Ethics and New Practice (Oxford: Berg), p4
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n 2014, OMA won the competition
of the new office building for AXEL Besides, the location of the
proposals of three renowned firms, BIG,
new building is on the historical
Büro Ole Scheeren. Axel Springer is a
site of the former Berlin Wall
media company that has launched a
what was once a no-man’s
movement from print to digital media.
land. Therefore, nowadays
Thus the competition’s task was to
this building has more mean-
create additional space for the com-
ing not just for its function,
pany, especially for its digital offers and
but also for its representation
design a workplace fit for the future of
of the company, even it has
online media. The new office building
important significance for the
for the company, is not just a place
media area, or it can be a
for working, but both a symbol and a
new landmark for Berlin for its
tool for the transition that from print to
special location.
digital media.
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OMA AXEL SPRINGER CAMPUS
SPRINGER SE Company with stellar
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or this project, it features an open
and public workspaces for all indi-
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vidual, collaborative, and mobile work,
ronment that is uncovered on the terraces. Meanwhile
won favor with the jury for its forward-
the valley is designed to be mirrored to generate a three
thinking concept[1] . The essence of the
dimensional canopy through technology.
valley with interconnected terraces
ach floor is a covered part as a traditional work envi-
design is a series of terraced floors that together forms a ‘valley’ that creates an informal stage at the center[2] . It combines the formal and informal offices which response to the properties of the media and create a place to broadcast ideas to other parts of the company.
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IDEA VERTICAL CAMPUS I dea Vertical Campus was set in Tokyo’s rapidly
expanding Shinjuku ward, it took a radical idea
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and design at the time. In traditional, the campus is always situated on the countryside with lots of big open spaces and gardens. Most buildings are generated through ‘Addition’. All the necessary parts are assembled, adjusted, accumulated in more or less is generated by ‘Subtraction’; like Michelangelo’s
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‘Slaves’[1] .
of campus and a changeable lifestyle of the
pleasing compositions. Shinjyuku Vertical Campus
his unbuilt project reflected a new language
time. . It is prepared for the competition in 2004, which theme is no regular towers would be permitted. For this design, Koolhaas thought that the interior and exterior are significant for a building at the same time; instead like that many high-rise structures privatize their strongest features in the interior. Idea Vertical Campus is a combination of three different schools, thus Koolhaas said that they didn’t want to design these three schools too equal for the reason that all of them have special characteristics; each school should have their own style just like each person is different and has unique identity.
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ccording to the design futuring, I
chose this project for its new idea and language to explain new lifestyle and the tendency of the increase of population and the density. For the sustainability of the development of the modern city, this highrise design is meaningful and important and has its value for architecture. The Idea Vertical Campus represents the new concept of architecture and the tendency of the future architecture. However, it finally didn’t win that competition to be built, but its idea of design was accept by all of people, meanwhile brought new definition 11
a DESIGN COMPUTATION
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ver the several past years, with the invention of the computer and high-speed de-
velopment of technology, many of areas achieved large improvements and changed to new developing styles. For architecture, it used to use the basic methods for presentations and the design process – hand-drawing and scaled physical model. The emergency of digital computing has shifts the architecture to a new method of illustration and leads the design for architecture explore to new style. A new and comprehensive domain of architectural theories is beginning to emerge in the intersection between science, technology, design and architectural cultural[1]. Nowadays, people’s needs of architecture not only for the shelter and basic functions, but also consider about the sustainability, the culture and the new language to express the aesthetic of architecture.
This is an age in which digitally informed design can actually produce a second nature [2]. - Oxman
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he above quote indicates that digital design by computation is not beneficial for
making the design work parametric, but good for develop designers’ creativity, furthermore is response to the nature, the environment and the sustainability. Different to the modern architecture around 1900s, today’s architecture has more meaning; particularly with the improvement of the materials, science and technology, the architecture represents more for the society. In synthesizing material culture and technologies within the expanding relationship between the computer and architecture, this phenomenon defines a digital continuum from design to production, from form generation to fabrication design[3].
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s a significant part of the modern city
life, car is available for each family. In Hong Kong, the high density, fast pace of life and lack of the available land result in the problem of car parking. For this project, its aim is to romanticize the car as an active urban object while simultaneously implementing sustainable strategies. Besides, the program is not just for the car parking, but also including shopping, food and landscaping aspects. 14 14
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ts rotational design illustrates the understanding of
the modern life and looks to capture new potentials for Hong Kong’s infrastructural personality by integrating the ritual of “the drive� with mixed programs. By using the digital design tools to realize most possibilities of the project with the irregular shape. The car is viewed as an active urban object while also adding a new storm water management strategy that creates landscape retreats in the sky and irrigates the athletic field occupying the ground plane. It is a civic and mix-use armature tangled up in a kinetic rotation of animated circulation.
HONG KONG CAR PARK PROPOSAL INTERFACE STUDIO ARCHITECTS
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KREOD Chun Qing Li of Pavilion Architecture
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s an innovation architectural sculpture, KREOD pavilion was designed
by Chun Qing Li of Pavilion Architecture and located between Emirates Air Lines and The O2, next to Peninsula Square at Greenwich Peninsula. This project is famous for its organic form, environmentally friendly and the inspiration from nature. It was designed to be three pod-like pavilions are formed with a wooden structural framework comprised of an open hexagonal composition and each double-curved wooden shell encloses a footprint of 20 square meters. For further, a waterproof tensile membrane seals the interior from the elements. Fully portable with demountable joints; the individual components may be stacked for efficient transportation. Considering about the material, ebony timber is a durable, resistant and eco-friendly choice ideal for both interior and exterior environments. Currently serving as exhibition spaces, the small buildings may eventually be used or manufactured on a larger scale as office meeting spaces, garden or bicycle sheds.
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y using the most advanced parametric design tools and digital fabri-
cation, this project brought together lots of the most talented architects, engineers and innovative materials to make a challenge on current minds and showcase the sustainable and future thinking building methods.
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