Dina Attia - 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 Dina Alaa Eldin Khalefa Attia Fall 2018

The American University in Cairo (AUC) School of Sciences and Engineering - Department of Architecture ARCH 473/3522 - Digital Design Studio and Workshop (Fall 2018) Student portfolio documenting work submitted along the course, including research, experimentation, 3D modeling, digital fabrication, parametric design and modeling, physical model realisation and analysis. Student name: Dina Attia Student ID: 900132891

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Dina Attia Architecture Student

I’m always looking for an opportunity to do better and achieve greatness. I’ m a people-person. I love meeting new people and learning about their lives and their backgrounds. I can almost always find common ground with strangers, and I like making people feel comfortable in my presence. I find this skill is especially helpful when kicking off projects with new collegues. I am results-oriented, constantly checking in with the goal to determine how close or how far away we are and what it will take to make it happen. I find this pressure inspiring and a great motivator for the rest of the team. passionate character, pursuing the path of creativity and ambition. What I’m looking for is to fulfil my futueristic aims and to accomplish them. However, sometimes I’ve had a hard time since there are a lot of challenges as well.

I am an excellent communicator. I pride myself on making sure people have the right information because it drives better results. Most business issues stem from poor communication, so I feel a responsibility to keep everyone on the same page.

But even so, I’ve tried to look in a positive side, because I know dealing with life isn’t an easy thing. In order to improve my work performance and myself, I believe there are still many things I have to learn, and need to strive for having a better future.

My ambition in life is to become an ideal Archetict in order to take part in nation building through this holy profession. If I fulfill my ambition, I will do my best as an Architect. .

I am ambitious and driven. I thrive on challenge and constantly set goals for myself, so I have something to strive toward. I’m not comfortable with settling, and

Expieremntal Model using Acrylic, in Attempt to explore material properties.

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3 Expieremntal Model using Acrylic, in Attempt to explore material properties.

The chosen material was Acrylic. Different expierments were done to understand the properties of the material. By using heat varaitions the characteristics of the material changed in terms of lenght, width, thickness, and textuer. For the first expirement, a piece of acrylic of dimensions 130*25 cm was used as a testing sample. Heat was applied to it at of 69, 98,110C for 30 minutes but nothing happened. Then heat was applied at 250c for 2 minutes, the sample melted to an extent that it could be slightly bent. the texture and the color remained the same. After that, the sample was left to cool till it became hard.

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For the second expieremnt, the same sample was used. Heat was applied at a tempreatuer of 250c for 3 minutes. It reached a stage were it could be bent so easily. the surface started to boil and caused bubbles to appear. Resulting in a rough textuer opposite to the smooth surface of Acrylic. also the thickness started to decrease noticably.

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4 For the third expieremnt, a piece of copper was placed on top of the Acrylic sample and heat was applied. It was expected that the copper piece would melt within the Acrylic sample. Unfourtenaly no change was visible in terms of width, length, thickness, or even textuer. The only visible change was in the copper piece color, in particular the side facing the acrylic piece. the Acrylic part that was covered by the copper piece stayed as it is and it did not change textuer nor thickness. Its like the copper acted as a heat insulator stopping heat from affecting the acrylic. The third expieremnt, involved stacking. where two pieces of acrylic were placed on top of each other. the results were quiet the same as the single piece acrlyic. The two pieces melted on top of each other and changes in dimensions and were visible. the textuer only changed for the top surfaces while the surfaces in between only melted without boiling. this is due to the increase in thickness, which would require more heat for it to boil.

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Representation of a Digital model using Riho.

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Rihno Digital Model, in context.

After expiermenting with Acrylic and holding a good understanding of its materilaity and properties the next step was to design a pavilion digitaly on rihno taking into consideration Acrylic and its materiality. the main properties of acrlic is that it could be bent easily under the effect of heat, but hard to braek. it create textuer change under extreme heat causing bubbles to appear on the surface. All of the previous properties affected the digital design stage. At first the site in where the pavilion to be sit had to be choosen. The selected area was infront of the library where most of the students exist. Its the main area of the campus spine, most of the day its crowded since it links three main exits. one that leads to the Busgate the other second lead to the rest of the campus and the third acts as an entrance for the pavilion and the library. The design concept of the pavilion is to create a form that is fluid, to enhance the peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s circulation and add diffrent expierence to it rather than being a barrier or oblige them to go in a certain direction.

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10 The form was mainly following the function or rather the direction of the movemnt. Its more like a star fish. It had three axis, representing the exits and the entrances. the pavilion has height variations each representing diffrent functions. For example, at the beginnengs and endings the hight decrease to act as a catalyst for movement. while in the middle the height increase to give a sense of relaxation and calmness. The bubbles on the surface was inspired from the bubbles resulted from acrylic boiling. the function of the bubbles mainly is to allow sunlight to enter the insinde of the pavilion. The bubbles had an increasing pattern as the height pattern, where the bubbles radius decrease at the beigenings and endings while in the middle the radius increase. the openings were placed according to the sun path to allow maximum lighting. The scale of the model is huge to allow people to pass beneath and to acomadate the large distance of the selected area. The choosen material that could be used to built such a pavilion could be precast concrete to carry the load of the huge spans.

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Rihno physical Model.

The next step was to fabricate the model physicaly using Slicer fusion 360. the model was sliced using the interlocking slices teqhnique. The scale was decreased since in reality it is huge. The material used was cardboard of thickness 0.15. The assembly was only by interlocking the pieces togather without the use of any adhesive material. There were some difficulties in assembling the pieces togather since the slot offset were two pieces connected togather was two tight. And the pieces that have bubbles on it was hard to assembly since they were in pieces due to the cuts on their surfaces resulting from the bubbles. Diffrent attempts were done to fabricated the phusical model.

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Paramteric model using grasshopper.

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16 After producing the digital model on Rihno, the next step is to transform it into a parametric model using grasshopper. The concept behind parametric modelling is to control every parameter in the design resulting into measuered diffrences that could be changed later when needed. Its not about creating a replica of the same model but trying tp parametrize it. The set of parameters to be controlled were height, width, thickness, pattern, and the uniformity of the form. The workflow started by determining which parameters are linked togather. Meaning that, as we move along the lenght the height increase and the width increase and the dimensions of the pattern increase. but as we go backowrd the height decrease the form become defromed and the radius of the pattern decrease. The model is devided into two parts the main wing and the middle extension. But they acted as one part since both of them are linked togather to the same pull points and had the same parametric logic. Parameters that are linked togather are: Height and width are linked to the path: as we go with the direction of the flow the height increase and the width increase. The pattern is linked to the path and the height: along the path the pattern dimensions increase until it reaches the ends it decrease. Arches uniformity are linked to the height and path:at the begening of each entrance the arches get deformed but as we go along the path it becomes more uniform

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18 Such parameters and their links were taken into consideration when designing the logic of the parametric model. also the form was modifeied to an extent but the basic one remained the same. Changing some parameters result in a diffrent forms and shapes. The height decrease or the width even the pattern could change. Graph mappper was used to control the height varations in link with a points on the plane. Also the crossection parameter was used to control the uniformity of the curves along the path. And quad panels is used to control the pattern along the pavilion which was also linked to the pull points on the planar level. Controling the previous parameters resulted into diffrent itrations of the same model. Controling the number slider of each of the parameters resulted in a diffrent product. The graph mapper include a sin function since it has a symetric output. It gives the same result at the beginnegs and the endings and it increase the height in the middle.

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