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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 - EVAN DOUGLIS
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HEADSPACE TEA ROOM - EXHIBITION - TAKASHI SUGIMOTO
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HeadSpace 1 invited us, 1st year architecture students to generate ideas and literally place them outside our head. This vitrual excercise pushed us to our mental capacity in thinking about virtual design and was a basis for computational design. The design was sketched and remodelled and worked over three months. intensive digital reconstruction and rigourous development of the virtual model resulted in a trully unique tesselated paper model. My concept and ideas werefocused 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 concieved.
HeadSpace has recieved international recognition. It was not the individiual designs that were mae by 100 students but rather the idea of literal and virtua 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.
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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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 collabortion with Woodhead Architects and CPG has been intentionally aclaimed 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
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 recieved several accolades for its innovative design, most recenlty being shortlisted in the World Architectural Festival, and recieving 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 specialised fields of both engineering and architectural investigatve reasearch, a more innovative design can be acheived, 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 apporach, 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.
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. STUDIO AIR 2012
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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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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 opportunites for innovation, allowing the desinger to customise the softwae around their own apporach. Scripting liberates desinging by automating many routine aspects and repetitive activites of th design process. It has many beneficial attributs to this apporach to digital computation. It is being explored collaborativly with emerging digital fabrication technologies. However, many desingers 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.
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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’
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