ADS AIR 2012: ARCHITECTURAL DISCOURSE Ecknaathh Bala PROGRESS JOURNAL TUTOR: GWYLLIM JAHN
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03 FOCUS PERSONAL PROJECT HEADSPACE 1 -FIRST YEAR VIRTUAL DESIGN 05 FUNDAMENTALS STATE OF THE ART PROJECTS CHANGI TERMINAL 3 - SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERILL, WOODHEAD ARCHITECTS, CPG 08 CASE FOR INNOVATION COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN SUBTERRAIN & MONOCOQUE 1- NERI OXMAN 12 SCRIPTING CULTURE CONTEMPORARY SCRIPTING MESONIC FABRICS - BIOTHING, EZIO BLASETTI CHOIRS & AUTOGENIC SYSTEMS - EVAN DOUGLIS 16 NATURAL SELECTION MATRIX OF COMBINTIONS NATURE AND GENERATIVE SYSTEMS
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FUNDAMENTALS
HEADSPACE TEA ROOM - EXHIBITION - TAKASHI SUGIMOTO
EXPERIENTIAL
HeadSpace 1 invited us, 1st year architecture students to generate ideas and literally place them outside our head. This virtual exercise pushed us to our mental capacity in thinking about virtual design and was a basis for computational design. The design was sketched and remodeled and worked over three months. intensive digital reconstruction and rigorous development of the virtual model resulted in a truly unique tessellated paper model. My concept and ideas were focused on geometry and in particular facetal treatment in different architectural typologies. After carful investigation and sketching and trialing of different designs, a hybrid prototype was conceived.
HeadSpace has received international recognition. It was not the individual designs that were made by 100 students but rather the idea of literal and virtual design that had gained much attention of the global architectural society. HeadSpace was played at the New York Architectural film festival in 2010. , it has since become a topic of architectural discourse in terms of the idea generated from it. In order to be able to imagine the future, designers usually have to explore its virtual version
SPACE Takashi Sugimoto, founder and President of SUPERPOTATO, is an enigmatic designer and architect. His designs are world renowned and in particular one of his exhibition installments named the Tea room. this small enclosure with its boundaries limited by precise water droplets that combines a timeless tradition in a sacred space, evoking a great sense of relation and experience. This broadens our understanding of architecture and what formal relationships and systems that are associated with it. Architecture is an art, its symbolic and representational and experiential.
“ WORK AT CREATING PLACES THAT ALLOW COMMUNICATION BETWEEN PEOPLE AND INCORPORATE A SENSE OF NATURE�
TAKASHI SUGIMOTO - SUPERPOTATO
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FUNDAMENTALS
FUNDAMENTALS
RELATABLE IDENTITIES CHANGI STATE OF THE ART PROJECTS FUNDAMENTALS
CHANGI TERMINAL 3 - SOM NEW YORK, WOODHEAD ARCHITECTS, CPG
Changi Airport Terminal 3, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill in collaboration with Woodhead Architects and CPG has been internationally acclaimed for its state of the art roof and sublime interior qualities. It is the “first of its kind”, designed parametrically, the series of components that make up the roof is mechanically programmed to filter and manage optimal levels of light within the interior concourse. 919 skylights engulf the terminal with light, ambience, mood, emotion and experience.
“ THE MOST FUNDEMENTAL CHALLENGE FOR AN ARCHITECT WHEN DESIGNING AN AIRPORT IS TO EVOKE A SENSE OF PLACE AND TRANSLATE VAST SPACES INTO RELATABLE IDENTITIES” MADHAVI TUKMUR - INDESIGN
Airport architecture has taken off to new heights, they represent one of the most revolutionary forms of architecture as an emblem of national pride. Acting as international gateways they represent the first and last impressions of a country. They reflect cultural identity and to residents these iconic structures are unconscious associations of collective identities.
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BROADENING ARCHITECTURAL DISCOURSE Skidmore, Owings & Merill chose Changi T3, to be published in their annual Journal, called SOM Journal to celebrate the most “innovative projects”. The journal would go on to impact the architectural discourse at large. Changi T3 has received several accolades for its innovative design, most recently being shortlisted in the World Architectural Festival, and receiving numerous awards, namely from the Chicago Anthenaeum and the American Architecture Award.s The firm’s design intent is to relate this type of formal investigation into the articulation of surface, boldness of architecture, and appropriateness of spatial expression. By collaborating the specialized fields of both engineering and architectural investigative research, a more innovative design can be achieved, which is applicable to the Gateway Design Project. Besides its computational design and mechanical programming of the Canopy roof at Changi Terminal 3 which has broadened the interpretation of architecture, it has also established that this particular approach, and innovation creates relatable identities, and in relation to the Gateway for Werribe I will use this approach to create an identity for Werribe through the Gateway.
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CASE FOR INNOVATION
CASE FOR INNOVATION
INNOVATION
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NERI OXMAN
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Neri Oxman’s investigation and experimentation project named Subterrain is focused on examining the physical features of a terrain and express the distribution and magnitude of forces and the way in which it is formed. By studying 2D tissue samples from animals, Oxman then reconstructed them digitally and by applying a computational techniques, Oxman created prototypes by computing hypothetical physical responses. Informed by the analysis resulting in laminated structural composites which respond to given ranges of energy and loading conditions.
The emerging scientific insight into simulation of material formation may have potential implications for tissue fabrication and “natural engineering” of larger material complexes such as a building’s skeleton. Neri Oxman is internationally recognized for extending the architectural discourse with her work in the field of “Natural Artifice” exploring the interface of design, computer science, structural engineering and biology with the aim of re-fabricating natural forms in a way that reflects their underlying physics.
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CASE FOR INNOVATION
FORM GENERATION TION Both Subterrain and Monocoque 1 will be exhibited at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in the MoMA exhibition which showcases objects projects and concepts from all around the globe which have successfully translated disruptive innovation. Oxman promotes a new innovative approach to design in all her projects, and in particular in which form is determined both by nature and the materials used and the natural forces that shape the materials. Monocoque 1, is another exemplary project by Oxman, that investigates structural properties in external skin. French for “single shell,” Monocoque stands for a construction technique that supports structural load using an object’s external skin. Contrary to the traditional design of building skins that distinguish between internal structural frameworks and non-bearing skin elements, this approach promotes heterogeneity and differentiation of material properties.
MONOCOQUE 1 - components
Oxmans’s projects and research based experiments are a case for innovation and are only achievable through computational design and a understanding of parametric methods. This is an radical and unconventional approach that I would like to explore in the Gateway Design project for Weribee. Oxman’s approach in creating structural components which have been reconstructed from natural sources can be applicable to the Gateway design in creating a structural skin with load bearing properties.
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MONOCOQUE 1 - lighting
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SCRIPTING CULTURE
SCRIPTING CULTURE
EZIO BLASETTI Ezio Basletti, the co-founder of ‘Biothing’ operating at the intersection of design, material praxis, complex systems and computer science, has been named a contemporary scripting leader. Basletti’s works include the Serrousi and the Mesonic Fabrics.
Scripting, enables computer programming to be an integral part of the design process. It opens up a world of opportunities for innovation, allowing the designer to customize the software around their own approach. Scripting liberates designing by automating many routine aspects and repetitive activities of the design process. It has many beneficial attributes to this approach to digital computation. It is being explored collaboratively with emerging digital fabrication technologies. However, many designers are hesitant to use and engage in this type of computational design.
CONTEMPORARY SCRIPTING PROJECT Mesonic Fabrics is a project that embodies an overlapping employment of a number of scripting cultures and design philosophies. The design intent was to investigate and experiment ways of scripting toward a solution or answer. However it seems that the algorithmic logic in the scripting has lead to discovery of new emergent patterns within generative systems.
UNDER THE HAMMER ~ DESIGN PHILOSOPHY The project was concerned in the exploration of trans-coding 3 different algorithmic expressions. The exploration of electro magnetic fields as a means of cloning and recreating systems in a generative manner, is inventive, but as a computational designer they have not invented this particular scripting approach. So what makes them inventive or innovative? Within this scripting culture designers are dependent on a optimistic outlook on scripting as a new tool. Its potentials and possibilities are still being investigated and explored.The Mesonic Project exploration revealed induced rapid iteration and variation and also exploiting generative processes. STUDIO AIR 2012
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SCRIPTING ZIETGIEST
HOW DOES SCRIPTING CONCERN THE GATEWAY Looking at generative systems and emergent patterns, as seen in Ezio Basletti’s work not only explores structural trajectories for roof conditions, but also enables more possibilities in design beyond our imagination. By establishing means in digital computation and embracing parametric capabilities and in particular scripting cultures, the Gateway for Wyndham City can be explored in a manner that will create more innovative design outcomes which respond to the requirements and expectations of the Wyndham city council. The employment of generative systems in the Gateway Project can be explored in search for structural systems that are formed on natural occurrences such as electro magnetic fields as seen in the Mesonic Fabric exploration by ‘Biothing’.
EVAN DOUGLIS LEADER IN CONTEMPORARY SCRIPTING Evan Douglis can be seen as a pioneer of this new era of extreme computational control. The image above captures one of his acclaimed work ‘ Chorus’ a restaurant in Brooklyn, New York. The design is ornamental yet experimenting and exploring the relationship between structure and ornament. This is one of many cases of his reseach based contemporary scripting as a means of direction toward optimal design.
“Autogenic Structures” offers an alternative vision for the future of architecture, a timely and invaluable contribution to the debate concerning emergent surfaces and the next generation of building membranes in this era of extreme computational control
AUTOGENIC STRUCTURES ~ DIRECTION FOR EOI Autogenig Structures is the title of his latest publication. It engages with those curious about the visionary apporach to architecture. The book mainly looks at the future relationship between structure and ornament; the value of mass customization for the next generation of modular building components; and, the role of smart materials in creating a sustainable universe. These issues are of interest to our Group. Douglis’ work epitomises our visions and design apporach for the Gateway Design Project for Weribee. His design philosophy is centred upon an alternative vision for the future of architecure. And a city like Wyndham, should be interested in the future and especially showcasing it self through its Gateway as an emerging municpality in Victoria.
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MATRIX OF COMBINATIONS
MATRIX OF COMBINATIONS
NATURAL NA SELECTION
The initial exploration resulted in a surface made up of individual cell like components which govern the surface.
When adjusting the parameters within the curved intersections associative resulted in the expansion of these individual circles and created a uniform surface /skin
The final outcome for this particular exploration, depicts a more organic form and shape which has been formed by this itterative nature of the curve interestions.
SEARCH PROCESS
DESIGN INTEREST
Similarly to Kalay’s principles and methods of computer aided design and in particular the 2 steps of search process selection occurred unconsciously. It was necessary to produce candidate solutions for consideration so as to widen the pool of design outcomes, but also in order to search toward optimal design possibilities. Choosing the right design solution for consideration and further development can only be done when a certain degree of exploration has been undertaken..
Our groups design intent is focused on natural occurrences and we are interested in emergent forms and generative systems. Hence the chosen candidate solution was an investigation of independent cell like organisms or components that forms more than just a skin but a structural like component.
DEPTH
IN RELATION TO THE EOI
The above variational exploration is an example of a search process known as a depth first method which is relative to the exploration of a candidate solution to its logical conclusion. Despite not opening up more avenues for design outcomes as such in the breadth method, this method allows for a logical focused investigation of one candidate solution before moving to the next solution. STUDIO AIR 2012
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In regards to the EOI, it is important to understand that the search process for the Gateway project for Wyndham city can produce more optimal outcomes and design solutions. Depending on the search method as specified by Kalay’s reading it is apparent that computational design has much more innovative and possible candidate solutions for consideration. 15
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MATRIX OF COMBINATIONS
MATRIX OF COMBINATIONS
The candidate solution is based on Boolean patterning, acctactor points associative, extrusion output and an addition of rotate 3D to shift of into a different plane. The result is conglommeration of prismic coloumns that fluctuate in hieght and density according to the slider input.
When adding a 3D rotate to the CUT definiiton the angle of the rotatation governs the origin points of the these coloumns, shifting then down.
The final outcome resulted in individial components supporting each other like an organsim. The cut definition has been recreated to incorporate structural conditions.
SEARCH PROCESS This search process revolves around the breadth methodology. After several possible ways of exploring the cadidate solution before taking to its logical solution.
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