Week 1 journal

STUDIO AIR 2014, SEMESTER 2, TUTORS: PHILIPS STUDENT NAME: YIRAN DONG STUDENT NUMBER: 580414 TUTORIAL NUMBER: TURORIAL TIME:

Table of Contents 1. introduction 2. conceptualisation 4 Heading 3

Introduction Year 1 digital design experience in the my first year study, i took visual environment. i learnt to use rhino and pannelling tools to create geometry and add patterns on it. Unrolling and grasshopper were also utilised to decompose the finished model into pieces. Next, 2-D cut cutter was applied to cut out all the prefabricated components. finally, i glued all these component and assemble them to the final work.

FIG.1: MY PHOTO

I am Yiran Dong. I am glad to have the opportunity to meet everyone in the Architecture Studio: Air. This is my third year of Architecture. Last year i transferred my major from Urban design and planning to Architecture because i believed that architecture is more spiritual and challenging than Urban design and planning. Also, in the major of architecture, i will have more chances to learn about different design ideas from famous buildings and talented architects. These design ideas will be very inspirational and helpful in my future career.

My favourite architect is Le Corbusier. it is because he had the courage to break the traditional architecture style and test his new ideas. Dom-ino was one of the design ideas Le Corbusier tested. Although many new design ideas were created by Le Corbusier, the ways of presenting ideas, such as sketching and modelling, were still quite limited.

This disadvantage restricted the possibilities of the design.

Today, 3-D modelling software, like Sketch up, Revit and Rhino, and graphing software, such as Photoshop and CAD, are invented to gain the possibilities of design and improve the quality of drawings. Geometries are used in this 3-D software to create more new forms and generate more design possibilities. Innovation and computation are also encouraged to allow people to alter the unsustainable development of today’s world.

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FIG.2: THE MODEL I MADE IN RHINO

FIG.3: THE FINAL MODEL I MADE BY USING 2-D CUT CUTTER

Year 2 digital design experience

My existing knowlege of architecture

in my second year of design, i took Architecture of water. In this subject, we focused on more in sketching rather than computer modelling. However, Photoshop was also used to improve the quality of my drawings. The images of trees and humans were added to gain human scales and give people a sense of the surrounding landscape. This graphing techology help me in presenting and explaining my ideas.

Through the two years digital design experiences, i have gained much knowledge about architecture and digital design. In my opinion, virtual programming is a great tool to help us create and test new ideas. For example, in my first year experience of using Rhino, different geometries were tested in my design. Triangles, rectangles, diamonds and circles were tested in either 2-D or 3-D forms. The digital technology can also save our time and generate many possibilities in a short period of time. We do not need to struggle with creating different prototypes, which are formed by different geometries. By only few clicks, all the possibilities will be calculated by the computer. We only need to pick the design we wanted. In my view, digital architecture is the coorporation between archieture design, and 3-D computer software. Many possibilities of design can be achieved by computers in a short period of time.

FIG.4: THE DRAWING EDITED BY PHOTOSHOP

Besides this, i also believe that digital architecture can help us improve the presentation quality through edited drawing.

The clear drawings can make our presentation clearer and easier to be understood. in my year 2, Photoshop allows me to create the surrounding atmosphere of my design . We can see that people are drinking coffee in the building(Fig. 4). the addition of human scale can help people understand the function and the dimension of the buildings. This improvement in details will let my design be easier to be understood. Hence, digital architecture can improve our presentation quality and make our design easy to be understood.

Therefore, digital architecture is to use virtualising programming software to assist us in design. In this case, we will be able to save more time and reduce workload. The presentation qualitywill also be improved.

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Part A: conceptualisation A.1. Design Futuring The two projects i selected: •

2010 submission: The Seif light Project (Melissa Kit Chow, Jose Talevera, Roger Cortes Ribas)

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2012 submission: Rainbow cloud (Chie Fuyuki and Lichao Qin)

FIG.6: 2010 PROJECT OF THE SEILF LIGHT (1)

FIG.7: 2012 PROJECT OF RAINBOW CLOUD (2)

Design is a way of changing our lives through revolution and recreation. Today, we are living in a world with an auto-destructive mode that the creation of a thing will always cause the destruction of the other thing (3). It is just like the omelette will cost an egg. A table will cost a tree. Pollution, green house emission and global warming have become big concerns of the modern world. Renewal and clean energy have played more and more important role in minimising damages and reducing pollution.

Meanwhile, design, which is believed to be able to reshape people’s action, is also utilised to integrate with clean energy generation technologies to create a sustainable world (4). ‘The Seilf light’ and ‘Rainbow cloud’ are the two projects, which aim to alter the old destructive way of living through reshaping the built environment.

‘The Seilf light’ project is derived from the concept of a single components being part of a whole. Thousands of energy generators and LED lights are placed in a certain density to create light effects. The natural forms, such as dunes and crop plant, are taken as the analogies of the energy generators. The crop plant form is achieved by a rob and a new balloon form of solar collection unit. LED lights are installed inside the energy generators to form a glowing effect. The glowing energy generators will also be arranged in different densities across the dune-like design landscape to create different light effects. The brightness of the project indicates the amount of energy generated.

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DUNES IN DESERT THE DUNE-FORMED LIGHT IN ‘‘THE SEIF LIGHT’ PR OJECT

FIG.8: DUNES IN DESERT VS THE DUNE-FORMED LIGHT IN ‘‘THE SEIF LIGHT’ PR OJECT (1)

FIG 9: CROP PLLANT-LIKE ENERGY GENERATOR (1)

Similar to ‘The Seilf light’ project, ‘Rainbow cloud’ is also a glowing project, which uses the same idea of a whole being formed by massive single components. The cloud’s property of dynamicity is used in this project to create more possibilities. The visitor in this park will be given a floating energy generator, which will form several of patterns with other generators, such as the existing energy generator clouds or the other visitors’ generators (figure). The energy generation condition in the park will be updated and transferred to visitors’ cell phone. Thus, similar to the plants in the park, visitors can receive the newest information about the park. Moreover, when visitors are moving, solar power, wind and their locomotion will be transformed into clean energy through energy generators they are holding. Visitors will become the contributors of the energy generation in the park. Through visitors’ participation and involvement, the sense of belonging to the park might be established. Visitor’s consciousness to the ecosystem is expected to be gained.

FIG 10: ENERGY GENERATOR IN ‘ RAINBOW CLOUD’ (2)

FIG 11: ‘ RAINBOW CLOUD’ PATTERN (2)

In my opinion, both of projects of ‘The Seilf light’ and ‘Rainbow cloud’ put great efforts in maintaining sustainability.

Nevertheless, ‘The Seilf light’ project fail to convince people to give up their old destructive way of life. This project is too concentrated on form changes rather than influencing people in social and cultural values. A successful design should be able to influence and reshape social and cultural values of the people through the built environment (4).

Contrary to the ‘The Seilf light‘ project, ‘Rainbow cloud’ does a great job in reshaping visitors’ cultural and social values.

The increased consciousness to the ecosystem will be able to cause changes in the attitude towards the environment and everyday life. The changes in social and cultural values will make ‘Rainbow cloud’ become a successful design.

In the idea revolution aspect, ‘The Seilf light’ project make many revolutions in its forms. People’s movement is taken into the consideration. The gradation from dark to light can

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can be observed when visitors are moving further in the design. Different light effects will be observed when people stand in different locations. The various and changeable light is different from the classical architecture that everything must stay in symmetrical and unchangeable. Moreover, the traditional building principal of using geometry forms is also broken by this project that irregular natural forms of dunes and crop plants are utilized as the analogy of the design. The use of new forms will lead to the generation of more possibilities in design forms. Furthermore, form change is occurred in technology aspect of this design. The traditional form of solar panel are removed and replaced by a new form of balloon. This new form combines with the new technology of LED light to create a glowing energy generators. In this way, the energy generators are no longer a simple tool of generating energies. Now, the amount of energy generated can be observed visually. Although many traditional forms are changed in this project, the relationship between human and ecosystem still remain same. Normal people still think that ecosystem is not relevant to us. This project has no different with other design projects in the world today that visitors are only observing the great art rather than taking themselves into the design. Visitors are still the outsider of the design.

In the ‘Rainbow cloud’ project, traditional design and technologies also undergo revolution in forms. Dynamic property of cloud breaks the traditional building principal of fixed forms. The dynamic cloud form generates more possibilities and patterns in the sky. Furthermore, the energy generators, which can convert 3 sources, are utilized in this design. It breaks the traditional form of one-sourced energy generator. Besides of the form changes, this project also tries to influence people’s way of living through reshaping social and cultural values. Personal involvement and participation are used in this project. Visitors’ participation is achieved by the design of visitors’ own energy generator that will convert energies and transferred data to the visitors. Thus, the visitors will have no difference with the plant in the park that they contribute to the ecosystem while they receive the newest information of the park. It will cause the visitors to think that they are part of the ecosystem in the part. They will start to concern about the ecosystem and the environment of park. The traditional relationship between human and ecosystem is completely changed that the human is not an outsider many more. Now they are a member of the ecosystem. It will become reasonable to change their destructive way of life in order to save the ecosystem they concerned. In this way, people might voluntarily give up their old way of life to change to a more sustainable way of living. The relationship between people and energy generation station might be also altered in this project at the same time. Instead of watching energy generation stations to generate energy, they are now become one of the energy generation contributors. They are part of the energy generation station. The distance between human and energy generation station will be shorten. Due to the changing notions to ecosystem and energy station, in the future energy generators might be appeared in our daily life. They might be in bag or shoe forms. People will be willing to accept this change because now they are part of the ecosystem and energy station. This project of project ‘Rainbow cloud’ is a quite successful design because it does not only bring the form revolution, but also establish a new relationship between human and ecosystem. More design possibilities might be generated in the future based on the new relationship.

However, ‘Rainbow cloud’ project is not flawless. It is also confront with a ‘built’ issue. The technology demanding in this project is quite high. Some new inventions might be required to allow 3 types of powers to be absorbed in one small energy generator. The gravity technology might be also needed to let energy generators be floating. Even we can solve all these technical problems.

The amount of energy generators we needed is quite large. Budget problem will appear again because the cost of making an energy generator will be very high. Compare to ‘the Rainbow cloud’, technical problems we might meet is quite small. We only need to think of how to change energy generators’ panel form to balloon form. A LED light installation technology might be also required. These two problems will be quite easy to be dealt with in today’s world. Even though the ‘Rainbow cloud’ project has a ‘built’ issue, it creates a possible relationship between human and ecosystem. Hundreds of designs and possibilities will be generated based on this project. It does not matter if the project is buildable. More importantly, it brings possibilities to our lives.

It makes the sustainable development and the harmony between human and ecosystem become possible.

In conclusion, both projects make great revolution to the traditional architecture. The goal of sustainability is achieved by the perfect combination between design and energy station. However, design is not just the revolution in forms. It also implies to change and reshape people’s life and social values through the built environment (4)In this aspect, ‘Rainbow cloud’ is the only project, which are able to change people’s ways of living. The people in the project site might be influenced by the project to change their destructive way of living. The clean energy generated in these sites can also be distributed into electrical grid to reduce the amount of electricity generated through coal and fuels (5). In this way, less destruction will be occurred in the future.

The world will be more sustainable.

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Reference: 1. Melissa Kit Chow, Jose Talevera, & Roger Cortes Ribas, The Seif Light Project, 2010, photograph, http://landartgenerator.org/LAGI2010/wohc83/#, 2. Chie Fuyuki & Lichao Qin, Rainbow Cloud, 2012, photograph, http://landartgenerator.org/LAGI-2012/TSYNS220/#, 3. Fry Tony, Design Futuring: Sustainability, Ethics and New Practice, (Oxford: Berg, 2008), 2.

4. Week 1 lecture Ferry Robert & Elizabeth Monoian, ‘Design Guidelines’, Land Art Generator Initiative, Copenhagen, 2014. pp 1 - 10

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