Digital Design - Portfolio Semester 1, 2018 Benjamin Goldberg
910270 Jun Han Foong - Studio 14
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email: b.goldberg@student.unimelb.edu.au
A mug shot or photo of yourself.
Content:
Education: 2017 - current 2011-2016
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Bachelor of Design Caulfield Grammar School
Precedent Study Work Experience:
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Generating Design Through Digital Processes
VRASMOS: Queen Victoria Garden Pavilion
2017 - current
Yo-Chi Frozen Yoghurt
2014
John Wardle Architects
Awards / Exhibition: 2017
FOD:R Exhibition, AFLK Gallery
2016
Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition,
Rod Menzies Visual Arts School
Skills: Rhino Grasshopper Unreal Photoshop Illustrator Indesign Fabrication Final Cut Pro Sketchup
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I have always been inspired by the emotional experience that design can create for the individual, and the way in which design principles can be combined to elicit a sensory response. By building my skills in parametric software and realtime rendering over the course of this semester, I have been able to further bridge the gap between design conception and production, and thus extend the possibilities of what design can be. As a designer, my aspration is to create environments that can improve everyday life and produce a sense of excitement and vibrancy. Reflecting on my design process throughout this semester, I feel that I could further work on improving my skills in time management, as well as further refining my initial designs and recording this to produce more considered design outcomes.
Diagramming Design Precedent
The key concept for this pavillion is the idea of ‘bad hair’. It evokes the feeling of being tangled and intertwined within layers of an apparently uncontrollable mess. Each strand appears to rest upon others, creating a logical sequence and order that is contrary to the idea of bad hair. By using Rhino to replicate an already existing design, I was able to rethink my approach to design and effectively reverse engineer the structure.
Isometric of precedent study
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Diagram 01
Diagram 02
Circulation
Thresholds (permeability)
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Generating Ideas Through Process
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Design Matrix
Lofts
1.1
1.2
1.3
Key
1.4
[683.18, 870.91, 151]
[641.71, 1356.13, 150]
[64.77, 213.38, 151]
{0,0,0}
{20,-33,0}
{110,-101,150}
[391.50, 774.07, 147.17]
[833.18, 770.91, 151]
{20,-18,150}
{20,-18,150}
[64.77, 213.38, 1]
Grid Points
{80,101,150}
{35,101,150} {20,56,150}
{20,11,150} [803.98, 1299.71, 150]
[331.50, 774.07, -2.83]
[776.93, 87.914, 1]
[102.27, 63.38, 1]
{140,-48,0}
{20,56,0} {20,26,0} [214.77, 119.63, 1]
{65,-48,0}
{20,86,0} {80,-48,0}
{20,-33,0}
{35,-48,0}
[656.25, 1273.66, 0]
[335.25, 624.07, -2.83]
Paneling Grid & Attractor Point
{Index Selection}
{Index Selection}
{Index Selection}
2.1
2.2
2.3
[833.18, 720.91, 1]
{Index Selection}
[799.07, 1341.35, 0.01]
2.4
{91,-93,136}
{93,35,74}
{217,35,0}
{93,35,-76}
Paneling
{Attractor Point Location}
{Attractor Point Location}
{Attractor Point Location}
{Index Selection}
3.1
3.2
3.3
3.4
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Attractor / Control Poin
Attractor / Control Curv
[241.50, 699.07, 147.17]
Surface and Waffle
For the first panel I created 2d cutout shapes using Lunchbox. For my second panel I utilised point attractors to manipulate 3d geometry across the surface. I used a mirrored plane between each of the panels to create a symetrical void within the internal space. Creating and assembling my laser cut was a seemingly straight forward process, however I underestimated the time it would take to assemble the model. While making my 2d panels in 1mm boxboard worked well, if I were to repeat the process again I would have cut my the 3d components into a lighter material weight to avoid issues with the paper thickness affecting the assembly process and the overall size of the model.
Exploded Axonometric 1:1 0
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60mm
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Task 01 Grasshopper Script Showing input - associate - output
Computation Workflow
Each surface is divided up into a
The normals of each intersection
The curves of the waffle structure
series of points which are used to form a grid. These curves are then offset from each surface and lofted to form a waffle structure.
point in the surface are then calculated. These are used to create cuts in each layer of the waffle for assembling the model at the plane intersections.
are then unrolled with reference labels to prepare the waffle for laser cutting.
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The laser cutting process was fairly straightforward and helped to streamline the model making process. A lighter paper thickness would have helped improve the accuracy and appearance of the 3d paneled facade.
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SOLID AND VOID
Having begun to better understand the Grasshopper interface, this time I aimed to maintain a more clear and ordered script. I tested many geometries through the LunchBox tools to see how different forms could manipulate the space within a cube. My model for part 2 of module 2 highlights pattern and repetition through its bold geometric voids. I was inspired by brutalist concrete architecture of the 20th century, with its ruggedness and strongly defined geometry. The booleaned forms create interesting pod-like rooms that could offer a variety of purposes depending on scale.
Isometric 1:1 0
20
60mm
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Design Matrix
{32, 8, 150}
{26, 4, 123}
{-8, 6, 70}
{-15, 4, 75}
{Point attractors}
{36, 28, 140}
{20, 18, 140} {-15, 6, 139}
{14, 9, 109}
{-8, 2, 1}
{32, 8, 4} {-15, 1, 4}
{Curve attractors}
{21, 19, 107}
{-48, 5, 3}
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{-12, 2, 0.2}
Computational Process
A box is generated and divided
Using point and curve attractors,
After remapping the numeral values
on each axis into three to create a 3x3x3 series of points.
these grids are then manipulated to distort the structure. These new points are then cellulated into a mesh structure.
from the domain, Lunchbox and Weaverbird are used to generate 3d geometry of varying volumes based on the point grids.
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M2 Task 2 3D Printing
3d print detail
Comment on 3D Printing
Overall 3d print
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100 word describing your project. Below are some questions as prompt. 1) What is your concept? 2) How does it satisfy the inhabitation brief for both the lunchtime seminar and an evening quartet performance? 3) How is the ground articulated to facilitate circulation? 4) Describe the material and how its effect the inhabitation of the space?
VRASMOS
Queen Victoria Garden Pavillion 16
Exploded Isometric 1:25 0
500
1500mm
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Design Iteration
My initial concept was inspired
Working with my previous form
Through grasshopper, I
After refining the draped
by the form of cracked egg shell, composed of a conglomeration of irregular planar surfaces implying an oval outline through positive and negative space. I felt this concept would work well at a larger scale, however within a 5x5x5 boundary may limit the total occupants.
generated, I draped a surface over it and further transformed it to explore a more undulating form, creating more ambiguously defined spaces. I then replicated this form and scaled it down to explore options at a seated level for occupants.
experimented with triangulating this surface at difference levels, however this form felt too simplistic and lacked dynamism to me.
surface in Rhino, I employed Grasshopper to generate a Voronoi cell pattern. The sharp edges of this were then softened to create a more fluid appearance. These curves were then offseted and lofted the final structure.
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Computational Process
Populate Geometry is used to
These cells are then referenced
This mesh is then welded to produce
produce randomly distributed points based on the surface. After referencing these points and the boundary the cells are generated
into a polyline, offsetted and lofted to generate geometry. This is converted into a mesh.
softer edges, and then thickened to produce the final grasshopper outcome.
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Fabrication process
Model was scaled and cut into a quarter of the actual overall pavillion to lower the printing time. Thinner areas were thickened to produce printable geometry.
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360 Image Output
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