STUDIO AIR HANG LUI BUD LO (723261) TUTORIAL NO. 10
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Contents
Self Introduction
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Part A. Conceptualisation
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SELF INTRODUCTION
I am Bud. I am studying architecture. I was born in an amazing place, called Hong Kong. I like dancing, music, Chinese calligraphy and drawing. I am also a dance choreographer and teacher, you may see me always around theatres looking for musicals, concerts or dance performance to watch. My interest of architecture came from observation. One of my highschool teacher once asked us to observe the city as in Hong Kong, the pace is very fast, everyone is hurrying to everywhere and we do not have a chance to sit down and enjoy the city. I took a tram and observed the architectures on the street and from the moment i realised how amazing architecture was. I love travelling, everytime i travel i will search not only the history background of the destinations but also their cultures and relate them back to the local architectures. I believe architecture is about the word "FOR", who we are building for and why we are doing that.
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A CONCEPTUALISATION
A1. DESIGN FUTURING CASE STUDY 1 IN-ACCESSIBLE KE LI, Los Angeles California Sci-Arc Advisor: Elena Manferdini.
This is a concert hall on New York City’ s East River. A wired-shaped and brightly coloured building floating above the river, a container of art and an artwork itself. Li emphasized on communication, the communication of the building and people, instead of deleting the cliché speech, she experimented different ways in deforming the traditional facades and reformed them into a new one. Making changes is important. This is not a built project. However, I believe that if this is a built project, the idea and concept behind will make it into an inspiring project about making changes and drawing our attention back to functionality. Li believed that an architecture is not just a building but should be a communication tool to the users. More people are designing but design becomes increasingly trivialized and reduced to appearance and style. Tony Fry, Design Futuring: Sustainability, ethics and New Practice (Oxford: Berg, 2008), pp. 1-16.
Decorated entrances and countless windows clutter facades, drowning out other messages with their incessant chatter. Perhaps they talk too much in this respect. When people listen to the building, what else might be heard?
Li pointed out aesthetic is also important, she also considered such things when designing the architecture, for example the decoration but she put functionality and the concept “ Communication” first when she started with the project. And this is called design futuring. In deep, design futuring talks about sustainable design which many people forget or neglect when they are designing. What Li means is we should have a critical design, it should be an approach or an activity but not a design label. Think critically when we do the design in different perspectives, then translate the language into a physical design and our critical thoughts into materiality. Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby, Speculative Everything: Design Fiction, and Social Dreaming (MIT Press, 2013) pp. 1-9, 33-45.
CASE STUDY 2 George Washington Pres. Library Hang Hyun Cho, University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning He was influenced by Traditional Korean architecture, Islamic architecture, patio typology, Toyo Ito, BIG, MVRDV, Zaha Hadid and Olafur Eliasson. We can see the techniques of the Zaha Hadid's works are used in this donut library. There are a lot of curves, modern construction and modelling technology have to be applied in order to build it. Some footsteps of Toyo Ito can also be seen, how Toyo Ito divided space in his buildings and staircases allows the circulation from public space to private space. His main idea is we should integrate the things in daily lives to architecture, it can be a concept, a theme and even turning it out to a physical building. Everything in our daily lives can be our design inspiration. Cho used donut as the concept because he believed that donuts were popular at the time.
Architecture and art have always been closely related. However, pop culture, has rarely linked itself to architecture.
This is not a built project, some people may disagree with this design maybe because of its shape. Some may think that this shape is insane just because it looks like a donut. However, in my opinion, I think that this design can increase a level of technology and it is user friendly. Cho used techniques from the masters and added on his own ideas, this is not a new technique but he adjusted them and allow changes which as a result, the design looks refreshing.
As a library, it can attract kids as the shape of the architecture are colourful and children friendly The spatial flow and circulation also attract and lead people to different levels and areas and enjoy different experience. He created a lot of shapes which can represent different categories, for example kids library, newspaper library, they can be identified with their unique shape. Using donut as a base, changing the elements on top to generate multi-shapes.
A2.DESIGN COMPUTATION CASE STUDY 1 UAE Pavilion Shanghai Expo 2010 Shanghai, China Foster and Partners The UAE Pavilion is one of the pavilions in Shanghai Expo 2010. It served as a showcase venue for pioneering projects such as carbon-neutral, zero-waste community. Therefore the building itself was also designed to demonstrate what passive environmental strategies are (CITE FOSTER). The complex shell forms and pattern exhibited passive energy by responding to the wind, daylight and solar gain. The slopes of the shell rose to a peak of 20 metres, were masked in stainless-steel cladding configured on a 2-metre triangulated grid (CITE FOSTER).
UAE Pavilion exterior shell
UAE Pavilion Front View
UAE Pavilion exterior shell UAE Pavilion Perspective View
Parametric design helped to develop a new design environment for a new generation of script writing for architects. “ The growing capability for scripting the algorithms of a mediated variability that can be selectively studied for performative behaviours such as energy and structural performance provided a new creative professional profile.” Rivka Oxman & Robert Oxman, Theories of the Digital in Architecture (London; New York: Routledge), pp. 1-10.
UAE Pavilion under construction
Pavilion under construction UAE
By computation, we can achieve a high level of generative variability during designing. The arch of UAE Pavilion is being computed, to test the degree and the number of panels. We can try it in computation during the architectural design process, creating a whole range of ways to view the model. Once we update part of the model, computation will help us apply the changes to the entire design.
Under parametric design, it renewed the definition of materialization and fabrication, the digital materiality helped to develop digital tectonics in design. “ The modelling of material as a tectonic system has provided a powerful paradigm for material design in architecture as well as for the performative design of material systems.” Rivka Oxman & Robert Oxman, Theories of the Digital in Architecture (London; New York: Routledge), pp. 1-10. In terms of geometries, as there are formulas for writing scripts and computation, mathematics can help generate the favourable geometries that we want. Rajaa Issa, Essential Mathematics for Computation Design Second Edition (Robert McNeel and Associates), pp. 1-42. By computation, it gives a clearly view and concept of what the final product will look like, a 3D model can be generated first to have an overview before the actual architecture is built.
CASE STUDY 2 Dongdaemun Design Plaza Seoul, Korea Zaha Hadid Architects
Dongdaemun Design Plaza is the first project which utilises the 3D Building Information Modelling (BIM) and other digital tools in construction. In this project, the interrelated spatial relationships are considered and define the social interactions and behavioural structure in the architecture. They are the framework of the project. Computation helps bringing the spatial organization, programmatic requirements and engineering together. Parametric building information modelling software and design computation are in vital importance in this project, these tools help to achieve the client’ s brief and bringing the engineering and construction to a new high level. Zaha Hadid Architects tested and came out with solutions to accomplish an ideal design which was workable yet satisfied the client.
DDP Perspective View
DDP Sections
DDP Perspective View
"Parametric design is a new form of the logic of digital design thinking" Rivka Oxman & Robert Oxman, Theories of the Digital in Architecture (London; New York: Routledge), pp. 1-10. The facade cladding system reflects the construction is developing to a new level, the exterior envelop consists of over 45000 panels in different sizes and different degrees of curvedness, which was known as a challenge. However, this was achieved by using parametric modelling which helped in the fabrication process.
DDP exterior facade system
3D parametric modelling has been bringing many benefits over the traditional 2D drawings. Architects are more capable to produce more flexible designs, material design became part of the digital architectural design process, it is not only the engineers' role now but the architects' role in understanding the structure and material. This technological development allowed more design collaboration between the architect and the structural engineer Rivka Oxman & Robert Oxman, Theories of the Digital in Architecture (London; New York: Routledge), pp. 1-10.. In terms of construction, it is more efficient and accurate as we have precise data through design computation. It promoted and allowed material design.
DDP (Taken in Jan 2015)
DDP at night
DDP West Elevation
DDP (Taken in Jan 2015)
Algorithmic design Week 1
Week 2
BIBLIOGRAPHY Dunne, Anthony & Raby, Fiona, Speculative Everything: Design Fiction, and Social Dreaming (MIT Press, 2013) pp. 1-9, 33-45 Fry, Tony, Design Futuring: Sustainability, Ethics and New Practice (Oxford: Berg, 2008), pp. 1-16 Issa, Rajaa ‘ Essential Mathematics for Computational Design’ , Second Edition, (Robert McNeel and Associates), pp 1 - 42 Oxman, Rivka and Robert Oxman, Theories of the Digital in Architecture (London; New York: Routledge, 2014), pp. 1-10