ADS:A Journal Week 06 Carl Madsen 357577
BANQ RESTAURANT
REALISING A MODEL
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“The design intent of BANQ Restaurant shows layers of contour lines on top of each other and this to shows curving shapes that resemble waves or carved out sediments affected by the movement of water. The form itself creates calming sensation in the environment and also the changes in the shapes and physical form shows interesting silhouette. This silhouette can be affected by different directions and strengths of light creating soft and beautiful shades that shows strong silhouette depending on the lighting source. We want to focus on it’s movement and changes in form and how it affects the shadows and silhouette with changes in the light source. We were given definitions to experiment on with parametrics and to explore and focus on the ideas, such as movement, silhouette and speed, we reverse engineered BANQ Restaurant (as it had similar design intent) to generate and extend our ideas. Data Driven Component was the major definition that reflected our ideas of various curve lines. From these lines created, we made surfaces and subtracted surfaces in between the lines to create a form - which then repulicated and layed them on top of each other to see the form it creates. We needed to experiment with the lighting and the silhouette, so a physical model had to be made. The overlapping of the shadows of the physical model creates interesting silhouette. If cars were to drive through it, it could create flickering of lights, increasing sense of speed and movement. This process was taken to generate ideas and this was not enough to create contour lines that we intended, so we moved on to creating different Grasshopper definitions.” (Kim, 2012)
“Using the Moire patterning and the BANQ Restaurant contours as concept, we were able to combine these two ideas together to generate this parametric model using the definition above. The steps taken: 1. Two thin boxes were drawn on Rhino layered next to each other. 2. The front facade will show the contour lines inspired by BANQ Restaurant. By using the commands ‘Rebuild’ and ‘PointsOn’, the surface of the front box became free to change the form to create the contour. 3. We used the above definitions to create linear Y-Z contour lines on the boxes.” (Kim, 2012)
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