Brock Smith FoDR Module 3 Pattern vs Surface Journal

Foundations of Design : Representation, SEM1, 2017 M3 JOURNAL - PATTERN vs SURFACE

Brock Smith (835203) Ray Ali, Studio 4

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WEEK 6 READING: SURFACES THAT CAN BE BUILT FROM PAPER IN ARCHITECTURAL GEOMETRY Question 1: What are the three elementary types of developable surfaces? Provide a brief description.

(Maximum 100 words) Cylinders, cones and tangent surfaces of spatial curves are the three elementary types of developable surfaces. Cylinders are created when a rectangular surface is divided by parallel folding lines to create a prismatic result limited by straight line folds. Cones also produce a prismatic result when fold lines are produced around a cone surface, this time meeting at the centre point of the top of the cone, rather than being parallel in the case of the cylinder. Tangent surfaces of spacial curves are formed by the union of tangent lines to a curve.

Question 2: Why is the understanding of developable surface critical in the understanding of architectural geometry? Choose one precedent from Research/Precedents tab on LMS as an example for your discussion. (Maximum 100 words) An understanding of architectural geometry is greatly enhanced by studying and understanding developable surfaces as it enables large scale free form geometries to be constructed. Ambitious geometries in architecture can be rendered buildable once modified into developable surfaces. One such geometrical form is that of the “Greenhouse” by Plasma Studio in Xi’an, China, here developing large scale complex geometries into developable surfaces allowed the design to be fabricated through construction. Without this technology the design’s over arching glazed curvatures would not have been buildable and it would never have appeared as the “precious crystal” it was conceived as.

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PANELLING 2D PATTERN 2D Panelling, Pattern: Triangular

2D Panelling, Pattern: Diamond

2D Panelling, Pattern: Custom Curves

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VARIABLE 2D PATTERN 2D Panelling: Variable Custom Curves with curve attractor

2D Panelling: Variable, rotating custom curves with curve attractor

2D Panelling: Multiple custom curves with curve attractor

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3D PANEL TEST PROTOTYPE & TEMPLATE

3D Panel Fabrication Testing

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WEEK 7 READING: DIGITAL FABRICATION Complete your reading before attempting these questions:

Question 1: What is digital fabrication and how does it change the understanding of two dimensional representation? (Maximum 100 words) Digital fabrication remains, much like hand drawing, a process of creative production through design.

It is however more directly connected to the fabrication process and therefore not only can provide a seamless link to the making of a final product but it can also influence the very design. During digital fabrication a creative concept is vulnerable to gravitate towards the final fabricating techniques, to the point where the representation of a concept could be completely conceived by the fabrication process itself rather than the original unrestricted idea.

Question 2: Suggest two reasons why folding is used extensively in the formal expression of building design? (Maximum 100 words) Folding material dynamically alters the characteristics of matter; it turns a two dimensionally surface into a three dimensional object and is therefore extremely useful in the expression of building design.

Folded material can quickly gain stiffness and become self supporting and even capable of supporting static or dynamic loads which is essential in constructing or representing built forms. Folding provides strength and rigidity to an potentially fluid medium, such as paper, incapable of spanning distance or transferring forces whilst retaining its stability.

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Combination: 2D and 3D custom panelling

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UNROLL TEMPLATE OF YOUR FINAL MODEL

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PANELISED LANDSCAPE

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APPENDIX

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