Digital Design - Module 01

Digital Design - Module 01 Semester 1, 2019 Yue Huang Alison Fairley

Studio 8

Week One

Reading: Zeara Polo, A. 2010. Between Ideas and Matters.

According to Zeara-Polo, the diagram does not play a representational role in the design process but provides an organisational and can have a performative quality depending on how it is deployed. Explain how Diagram is different from Signs and Symbols?

Symbols and signs refer to their dynamic objects through formal representations. Unlike symbols and signs, diagram does not play representational roles for their dynamic objects. Instead, diagram shows the relationships between dorm and content. They dose not including measurable information, sometime may exist in different to reality. It can totally free from the architecture itself(geometrics). Diagrams can be draw very simple that anyone can read and understand.

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Week One

Precedent Analysis

Front

Right

Import the reference images which including elevations, site plan and roof plan into rhino. Using guideline from each images to get interpoint to create 3D model. First use Handle curve tool to trace the curves from the reference plan then rebuild to form smooth curves. Rebuildpoints to trace the irregular shape then loft two lines to get surface. Finally, offsetPoint give the surfaces thickness.

Isometric of each part

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Week Two

Reading: Hertzberger H. 2005. The in-between and The Habitable Space Between Things, from Lessons for Students in Architecture.

Herzberger discusses how design should not be extreme in its functionality. Use your precedent study to explain how the pavilion allows for an appropriation of use.

Herzberger argued that the threshold as a built facility is just as important for social contacts as thick walls are for privacy. The threshold can be used for multi-purpose and should be flexible for users.

The Serpentine Summer House is like scale of furniture. It is organized as four bands of structure beginning with a bench level attached to the ground so people can sit on it or sit within it. The second part of three C-shaped walls provide a space for people to have semicommunications. The walls are crowned by a third and fourth level which forms a rood that cantilevers a tree-like canopy over the smaller footprint designed by the undulating loops of bench wood. it produces a lot of shade so people can take a rest and hide from heavy sunshine on a hot day or a sunny day.

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Week Two

Isometric

Barkow Leibinger - Serpentine Summer House The isometric view show most parts of highlight the looping

was chosen as it can the pavillion structure and geometry of the nature.

The rhino modeling one this pavilion was quite simple. First I Trace curves of five layers from the plan and also workout the thickness. Then I set up the elevation images to draw the guidelines to work out the hight, angles and slopes. the only material of the summer house is the plywood.

Because of the pavilion has an 360 degrees opening. It doesn’t have formal entrance path. The threshold is quite hard to defined. In my opinion, the threshold of this pavilion is where people feel like they are get into different space.

The seating, shading, and overhanging can used to find the threshold. Therefore I overlap the shading, seating

and

canopy

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find

the

main

threshold.

According to the site plan, the main circulation comes from three directions. The shape of canopy drew people around the organic structure. Furthermore, the benches give a space for people sitting under the structure.

The structure offers panoramic views of the park and also different direction of views of itself will be visible from the park.

The pavilion constructed with on steel tube frame, materials harmony with the looping geometry

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plywood skin intrinsically in of the nature.

Week Two Diagrams

Structures

CANOPY

THRESHOLD & INNER SPACE

Circulation & Density SHADOWS OF THE DAY (9AM 12PM 3PM)

THRESHOLD

Circulation paths

INNER SPACE CANOPY OUTINE

Circulation Diagram

Threshold Diagram

The circulation paths show the behavior of people. People come from three main direction - road, house, and man-made mountain. The most visitors are from the road, then the house and a few from the mountain which according to the site. Most of them may walk around the pavilion and sit down at the seating area to have a rest. Therefore, the highest density occurs around the bench area.

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In my study of Barkow Leibinger’s Summer House, I defined the threshold is where people feel they are into space - under a structure and been shaded. So with this definition, I did sun study to work out the shading of the Pavilion. Then I combine the canopy shape and shade area to find the threshold. The outline of darkest(overlap) part becoming the main threshold.

Appendix

Process

Step 1 Rhino modeling process

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Appendix Process

Step 2 Using the setting of sun angle in Rhino to find the shading of 9am, 12pm and 3pm in London.

Then overlapping with the canopy outline and bench to find main threshold.

January

July 8

Appendix

Process

Step 3 According to the map, there has a main road on the East and a house on the North-West which influence the circulation and density of the Pavilion.

Some mind maps from notebook and information research.

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