Moustafa Mohamed - AUC - ARCH 473/3522 by ARCH 473/3522 - Digital Design Studio and Workshop

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ARCH 473/3522 - DIGITAL DESIGN STUDIO AND WORKSHOP Moustafa Mohamed Kandeel Spring 2019

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The American University in Cairo (AUC) School of Sciences and Engineering - Department of Architecture ARCH 473/3522 - Digital Design Studio and Workshop (Spring 2019) Student portfolio documenting samples of work submitted along the course, including research, experimentation, 3D modeling, digital fabrication, parametric design and modeling, physical model realisation and analysis. Student name: Moustafa Mohamed Student ID: 900143272

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Moustafa Kandeel Architecture Student

youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re gone to remind people of your efforts. You can ultimately live a life much larger and longer than your own mortality allows because the buildings that you design will represent you. My passion beside architecture is something I consider a little bit weird which is mystery. I love questions that do no have an answer or the things that are difficult or impossible to understand or explain. I believe that half of our life is understandable and the other half cannot be understaned even if we sometimes pretend or think that we understand those things. i believe that these dark un-understandable were created to open to us more things new discoveries that appears when we try to understand the un-understandable things in life. My name is Moustafa Abdelmohsen Ahmed Mohamed Mohamed Amin Gadallla Kandeel. I was born in 1997 in Kuwait and lived thier for 18 years which I think is one great thing in my life to be attached to two countires, my original country Egypt and the place where I raised, Kuwait. vvvv In high school I decided to be an architect because the most beautiful aspect of architecture as a profession is how the industry embraces the individuality of each person. Of course, designing buildings is in itself a fulfilling creative pursuit; but even beyond that you are allowed, and in fact encouraged, to have a style which can manifest beyond your work. Moreover, Perhaps the greatest advantage of being an architect is having a lifetimeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work that remains after

A spider web, spiderweb, spiderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s web, or cobweb is a structure created by a spider out of proteinaceous spider silk extruded from its spinnerets, generally meant to catch its prey.

01 Learning From Nature: Orb Spider Web

2 In this stage, we as student groups and members are asked to explore different natural phenomena, living organisms that are particularly inspiring in terms of their ability and mechanism to transform. We did extensive analysis that demonstrates the formal and behavioral logic of these phenomena with the objective of understanding and identifying sources of inspiration for the projects. Orb web is classic, wheel-shaped webs constructed in a vertical plane. It has spokes like a wheel with a spiral design. It can be used for both trapping its prey or hiding from its predators. Spider uses its own body as a tool of measurement: spaces between the spirals is directly proportional to the distance between its back legs & its spinners. Each spider web begins with a single thread being released into the wind called the bridge. This forms the anchor point and basis for the rest of the structure. If the free end of the thread has caught on to something! the spider then cinches the web and attaches it to the starting point. The spider then drops a loose thread under the bridge to crawl down on and attach a bottom anchor composing a V shape. As the spider walks along the initial structural threads, it creates more frame threads, then the radius threads. A non-stick auxiliary spiral is created next. vvThe spider then spirals in on the web, laying out sticky thread and using the auxiliary spiral as a reference.

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01: Orb Spider Web

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01: Orb Spider Web

5 This figure svhows how secondary frames affects the strenght and stresses of the orb spider web.

Orb webs are multifunctional structures, the main function of which is to stop the kinetic energy of the impacting prey, while minimizing structural damage. There is no single explanation for their remarkable strength and ductility. Slight variation in the geometry markedly affects the prey-capture ability of spider orb webs. The structure of orb web consists of, bridge line, primary frame, secondary frame, moorings, radial threads, spiral threads. There are some rules that spiders follow in each web they create. Spiders systematically avoid connection between primary frame and radial threads aligned with the mooring, by interposing secondary frame threads. They also avoid contact between the ends of neighboring segments of the secondary frame. These two rules shows the importance of secondary frames. Secondary frames allow more load distribution and thus more toughness and power to the whole structure. The longer the length of the secondary frame the more energy absorbed by the web and thus, eliminates more week points of the structure.

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01: Orb Spider Web

7 This figure svhows how orb spider webs deform as a reaction to insects that has electrical charge

Capture success of spider webs has been associated with their microstructure, ornamentation, and wind-induced vibrations. New evidence suggests that statically charged objects can attract silk thread, but web deformations induced by charged insects have not yet been described. Here, we show under laboratory conditions that electrostatically charged honeybees, green bottle flies, fruit flies, aphids, and also water drops falling near webs of cross-spiders induce rapid thread deformation that enhancesv the likelihood of physical contact, and thus of prey capture. The thread deformation result in changes to the whole structure but more obvious near the interaction point between the nuetral web and the positively charged element that comes near the thread. In the interaction point, the threads get closer to each others which also deform the rest of the threads. The degree of the deformation of each thread depends on the distance between the thread and the point of interaction.

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8 Inspirations 1- The diving bell spider is an architectur-

al mastermind. Agyroneda aquatica must breathe air, but thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tricky when the diving bell spider lives its entire life underwater. But like all good designers, the diving bell spider is an adept problem-solver with an ingenious solution: it builds what amounts to a tiny oxygen tank. This tank, if you will, is an air bubble trapped in the spiderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s silk. Its web is indeed shaped like a diving bell, spun among underwater vegetation. The spider makes periodic trips to the surface and pokes its abdomen out of the water, gathering air among hydrophobic hairs to form a bubble, which it deposits in the beautifully designed bell. True to its inspiration, the pavilion resembles a glassy bubble streaked with web-like strands. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s actually a plastic membrane essentially supported by layers of black carbon fiber composite material applied by a big robotic arm programmed to mimic the spider. Conclusion: Abiding by the rules of the spider adoption to its own environment and how to follow the same sense and sequence to build something that really achieve architecture with strong structure and logic.

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01: Orb Spider Web

9 Intention:

It is required to design an extension for the architecture department. As student who spent 4 years working in the architecture department in its studios, labs and corridors, the experience of the department lacks an important element. which is the Time Factor. Time is forgotten once anyone enters the department that it can reachs a point where a one connot tell if the sun is still there or it is gone. Therfore, the intension of this building is to emphasize the time factor and strenthen the time recognition and experience. As concluded from the inspiration and the previous analysis of orb spider webs, following the same rules that spiders abide by to form thier webs can be inspiring to end up with structure and form. This form could be utilized to achieve the time experience required by also taking the essence of how spider webs adapt to external factors. In other words, the adabtability of spiders and webs have a logic and a sequence that could be understood to extract its essence and apply this essance to reach an experience that respond to time inside the building.

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The previous scientific explaination of the orb web with its structure and its response to external factors open wide horizons to conceptualize and then model a form that is inspired by orb webs.

02 Capturing Mobility: Conceptualizing & Modeling Orb web

Site Selecion & Analysis We were asked to chose one of SSE courtyards to build our model as an extension to the architecture department. the southern courtyard of SSE was chosen because of its ease of accessibility as it has direct access from From outside the campus (bus gate, the main auc gate) and from the architecture department (outdoor stair). Moreover, it is recognisable by architecture students as it has multi-functional use By student of architecture when doing their physical applications.

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