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ARCH 473/3522 - DIGITAL DESIGN STUDIO AND WORKSHOP Noha Khalil Fall 2020
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: Noha Khalil Student ID: 900171179
Š The American University in Cairo (AUC), May 2019
Noha Khalil Architecture Student
I am a 22 years old student, studying Architectural Engineering at the American University in Cairo. I transferred from the American University in Kuwait three years ago, I used to study Graphic design. After joining AUK for two years and studying graphic design. I realized that this is not what I want to do, and my passion for architecture made me leave my family, friends, and the place I was born and raised in to joined the American University in Cairo and peruse my passion for architecture
Designing a mobile shelter for the homeless inspired by the chameleon’s tail. Their tail is not just another body part, it is prehensile, a fifth limb for increased mobility and stability.
01 Mobile Shelter for the Homeless
Site Location: El menia, Egypt It is located in Upper Egypt. Al-Minyā is linked to Cairo (140 miles [225 km] north-north-east). The governorate is considered one of Egypt’s agricultural governorates. The average annual maximum temperature is: 29.0° Celsius The average annual mini-mum temperature is: 14.0° Celsius. The average annual percentage of humidity is: 38.0%. On average, the most wind is seen in July. On average, the least wind is seen in January
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Concept Development I chose the chameleon’s tail at the beginning as an inspiration, because of its ecstatic’s and how the spiral evolving shaped appealed to me. The form of the tail when its curled resembled growth. After researching and studying the tail and it’s structure I learned how their tail is prehensile. Chameleons use their tail as a fifth limb. The use it to climb trees by wrapping their tails around the branches. This helps their stability while moving and balance when they are still. They also express their emotions by curling or spreading their tail. When would curl their tails to feel safe when they are exposed to danger. By understanding the structure and the behavior of the tail I was able to abstracts that into elements that was then used to generate my model.
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Model Development After abstracting the structure and behavior of the chameleon into elements. I started experimenting with these elements, I started with a literal translation of the tail trying to include a sense of enclosure. Then I tried to move away from the tails geometry and tried to create a curvilinear form that is more abstract and less literal and also integrates the sense of enclosure. Afterwards I started dividing the three zones which are residential, social, and commercial. And how they go from enclosed to exposed. Finally, I decided to integrate the three different zones into one form.
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Attempt #1 Literal translation of the tail’s configuration.
Attempt #2 Abstraction of the form and implementing the sense of enclosure
Attempt #3 Dividing into the three main zones
Attempt #4 Integrating the three zones into one form
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Social Area ARCH 473/3522 - Spring 2019
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Sections 1:75
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Digital irritation
curve cageedit
planersrf contour
Extrude
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Noha Khalil Residential area
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Fabrication
During the fabrication process, it took me a lot of attritions of modifications. By plugging in the model into cura to I started to get a lot of errors where there is a lot of surfaces without thicknesses. I had to manipulate the thicknesses and certain parameters, so it could fit the 3D printing without giving me errors. After finali
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Experimenting different ways formwork can be used to
casting and fabrick create facade modules.
02 The Blank Facade Canvas Fabric Formwork
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Experimenting different ways formwork can be used to
casting and fabrick create facade modules.
03 Facelift
The Parametric Facelift
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Site Location: New Cairo, Egypt Blom Bank is located in New Cairo on the South Teseen Street where the facade is a southern facade. The southern facade is exposed to sunlight and heat radiation all day long. This results in high solar heat gain that affects the building interior. The wind rose shows that the wind speed is within a good range and the direction is northwest
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Concept: Adaptive skin apprach From part 1
The building facade can adapt to the weather condition resulting in an interior with a suitable weather and comfortable experience. It is an environmentally friendly approach that reduces the energy consumption of the building
Attraction through layering approach:
The idea is inspired from the concept of layering that results in solid, small perforations and large perforations that results by manipulating and overlapping different layers
Adaptive layering:
Layers transform and overlap based on the suns application to create an adaptive skin facade that responds to the climate
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Inspirations AIRSPACE TOKYO (static layering)
The old residence was possessing of a unique facade system which wrapped the entire volume in a layer of dense vegetation. The new facade gives an architectural- replication is not quite the right word, perhaps reinvention- of the old system. This ‘artificial vegetation’ performs similarly to the previous facade, providing shading and reflection of excess light away from the building, The overlaying of layers of the porous, open-celled meshwork changes densities as it moves across the facade, responding to the building’s internal program.
GEOTUBE TOWER (Dynamic Layering)
the building features a large superstructure which will, over time, grow a skin façade on its own. the system utilizes a vertical salt deposit growth system that uses water from the adjacent persian gulf. the water is sprayed onto the mesh of the superstructure using a gravity fed system, allowing the skin to continually grow using nothing but local materials. because the persian gulf has the world’s highest salinity for oceanic water, the sprayed water will evaporate and salt deposits begin to form. the tower’s appearance transforms from a transparent skin to a highly visible white solid plane.
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Exploration First attempt: 2D adaptive patterns
Experimenting with patterns in 2D that are manipulated and tightened by using an attraction point
Second attempt: 3D adaptive patterns
Experimenting with patterns in 3Dthat are manipulated and tightened by using an attraction point
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Facade Goals
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01 Create a faรงade that responds to the wind direction 02 Create a faรงade that responds to sun exposure by designing a self-shaded faรงade
03 Use the adaptive layering concept to respond to the sun location and exposure
04 Use chilled water pipes to create the pattern of the layering concept to for an evaporative cooling outcome
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Process of Formation
After thorough analysis and experimentation, I came up with a set of desired outcomes that I want to fulfill. The process on the right shows my line of thoughts and how I achieved every outcome.
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Facade Analysis
Wind Catcher
Chilled water pipes
Self-shading facade
Adaptive
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Grasshopper definition
Creating voronoi pattern
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Creating pipes from edges
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Creating adaptive surfaces Setting an attractor point
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Slab Configuration
Staff lounge Offices Meeting rooms Offices Customer Service
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Architecture analysis
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First Floor Plan
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