1003927_DD_Portfolio

Digital Design - Portfolio Semester 1, 2018 Christopher Chen - 1003927 Joel Collins Studio 15

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Precedent Study

Education: 2012 - 2017: Auckland Grammar School 2017 - current Bachelor of Design

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Surface, Threshold and Voids.

2012-2014 - Swim coach for Parnell Swim Club NZ

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Reflection:

Advaita Pavillion Email: ccc1@student.unimelb.edu.au

Digital Design really emphasised the importance of the design process, and why exploring possibilities can open avenues which were previously unseen.

The modules shown are not perfect, but within the timeframe of a semester, they are quite successful. I strove to utilise the first two modules to build an understanding of the importance of form, space, and their relationship.

Skills: Rhino Grasshopper Unreal Photoshop Illustrator Indesign Fabrication

Architecture is a powerful element in our lives. Architects have the privilege and responsibility to enrich, build and improve the human condition in more ways than one. I hope to become someone who can solve problems in a meaningful and creatve way, while looking good doing it.

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M1 - Threshold Design precedent - Radix Pavilion

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Diagramming Design Precedent

The pavilion allows for an appropriation of use through it’s lack of defined user spaces. The varying heights of the interior create subtle suggestions as to how to use the space. However, there is no determination as to how one should experience or interact with the pavilion.

The materiality lacks any discrete elements, it is purely suggestive, and the variation in heights helps the observer to decide where and how they want to interact with the Radix pavilion.

With regards to the threshold, what was interesting was that the void itself served as a intemediary space which encouraged circulation and experience within a permeable space. The interior of the structure merely suggests and describes possible places to congregate, it does not define ones path through the space.

Mass and Void are interconnected. One cannot exist without the other, and they define each other while allowing the observer freedom and decision.

Radix Pavilion isometric view

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Occupational diagram

Relationship between threshold void and form

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M2 - Surface, Solid and void The form and the inbetween

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Surface Generation Attractor Variation Panel variation

Design Matrix

Key Control Points Attractor curves Grid Points

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Surface and Waffle

The variation in panel types creates a duality between the public and private realm Having visual acuity both on the ground plane and upper planes allows for a clear sight into the structure and for light to pass in and out of it The ground porosity is quite high, as the open panels allows for a physical and occular freedom of movement in and out of the form

The visual permeability and suggested ground porosity evident in the panel variation lends to the dualty of public and private space, suggesting at interactions between observers inside and outside the structure.

The open panels at the ground and upper planes allow light and vision into and through the panelling.

Overall, the outcome was a design which uses light and visual acuity to invite observers into the structure. The threshold between the public and private realm is quite loose due to the occular freedom into and out of the space within. The ground plane in particular allows for interaction through prescence and sightlines.

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Waffle script: Relatively straightforward to construct, using a bounding box to define the two surfaces, contouring the space between and joining them into fins.

The number of fins in both the X and Z directions was doubled in order to produce a stable form. Previously, the 5 x 5 arrangement was inadequate due to the fins not lining properly, and needing to be culled, which resulted in excessive cantilevering.

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Computation Workflow

Varying panel type using boolean conditions. The distance beween each panel and a point was calculated, and boolean conditions were constructed to determine where panels were placed.

Setting bounding boxes so that the panels correctly map on to the warped surface

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Example of the script being used to

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cut out sections of the panel

With regards to the laser cutting, an issue that arose was regarding the tabs: The etching was only on one side, but the tabs needed etching on the other side, so I hand scored the required lines.

I also created a Grasshopper script to offset the panel faces and cut out the interior shape to create a panel which emphasises visual acuity and accessiblity due to the amount of perforation in the panel.

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Photography of Model 14

SOLID AND VOID

The section reveals an interior which strongly portrays how the resulting boolean has the aesthetic qualities of shelter and spatial progression.

The chosen design has many passageways and stepped areas which suggest a scale akin to pavilions such as the Radix Pavilion by Aires Mateus.

It is a space that provokes interactivity and conversation, rather than isolation and inactivity. However, it still affords the observer spaces in which to reflect and relax.

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Grid Manipulation

Design Matrix

Point/Curve attractor variation Study area relative to boolean output

Key Attractor / Control Points (X,Y,Z) Attractor / Control Curves Grid Points

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Creating and varying cells in the bounding box using CellulateGrid.

Orienting the boolean geometry and scaling based on distance from a point.

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M2 Task 2 3D Printing

3D Printing was very straightforward, and there very few issues with my meshes.

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M3 - Pavillion intervention Advaita Pavilion

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​Advaita Pavilion

​ Advaita: Sanskrit for duality ​ A juxtaposition of contrasting surface conditions to create a dynamic and varied atmosphere, encouraging visual, oral and physical interaction between two distinctly different sectors, one informal and semi private, the other a intimate, formal space.

The aim was to create a pavilion which represents the interpolation of private and public space, in a symbiotic relationship which neither alienates observers, while still remaining quite esoteric.

This idea of duality is both synergistic and juxtaposal: it creates a clear distinction between two constrasting sectors, while bringing them together in a manner which is fundemental in its approach.

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Isometric M3 - Advaita Pavilion

Formal progression

Informal progression

Christophher Chen - 1003927

Perforated surface creates a more open and informal spatial condition

Panelled surface creates a more private and formal spatial condition

Surface conditions determines spatial qualities

Ground reflects surface condition

Path of motion Interplay between formal and informal sectors Exploded Isometric 1:25 0

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360 view of interior

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Design Iteration

Dynamic and flowing, but lacks the interplay and contrast in it’s surface.

Too homogenous and singular in th surface conditioning. The dual surface approach was used for the final iteration due to the ability to merge two spaces.

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Very dynamic and continuous, but lacks distinction and contrast in it’s form and surfaces.

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Computational Process

Generating natural patterning and mapping it on to a smashed version of the original surface

Surface Morph to map the patterned surface to the original.

High amounts of area discrepancy resulted in a more open form

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Morphing panels on to the surface using Morph3D

Fabrication process

Laser Cutting preparation: very straightforward, with the base made of 3mm boxboard, and the panels made up of ivory card, 160 GSM.

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360 Image Output

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