ADS AIR 2012 | Architectural Discourse Elizabeth Caltabiano Progress Journal David Lister
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CONTEMPORARY COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN PRECEDENTS Babiy Yae Memorial | Kokkugia Absolute Towers | Ma Yansong/ MAD Architects
OWN PROJECT Final Pavillion Design 2011 - Forest Veil
SCRIPTING CULTURES An exploration of computational design in practice
CONTENTS ADS AIR 2012 | 558407 Elizabeth Caltabiano
Babiyyar memorial
Babiy yar memorial | Kokkugia Kokkugia has designed a space of “rich and intricate detail”, however the interior lacks consistency and relevance to the outside elements. This, I believe is an indication of the pitfalls engendered throughout the advancement of architectural discourse. n relation to the Western Gateway Design brief however, I intend to incorporate the virtuosity and exquisite detail of which Kokkugia has represented in their memorial project. The creativity of the purely speculative project exudes qualities that translate directly to the installation.
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“A QUOTE WILL GO HERE”
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Absolute Towers| Ma Yansong/ MAD Architects Although seemingly simple in design, Yansong’s casually twisted high rise towers provide a beacon for the city of Mississauga. The towers themselves seem to radiate a promising future for the skyline of the western part of the Greater Toronto Area. A new standard has been set that ensures the progression of a newer, refreshed architectural discourse.
It has been recognised as a sculptural form of which has a similar purpose to the Gateway proposal. Through the integration of Yansong’s forward looking approach, an upgrade of the Wyndam City’s image can be better achieved.
MAD Architects have created a digitally designed building - pretentious in its height yet guileless in its form, of which emanates the beauty of organic architecture and the effect an appropriate level of parametric design can create.
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Forest Veil Pavillion | Elizabeth Caltabiano ‘Forest Veil’, a memorial pavillion dedicated to the Black Saturday bushfires, is a project I designed in response to a brief requiring a pavillion in RMIT’s Bowen Street. Through the process of Digitisation and Fabrication I was able to appropriately convey my idea for a 3-part plywood pavillion - using CNC machines to pierce the wood and create an enlightening experience as the participant walks through. The design embodies the surroundings as well as evoking the emotional tie to Black Saturday. I believe this has been and always will be at the crux of the architectural discourse - architecture that elicits a sense of symbolism and meaning. The pavillion is a very relevant example I am passionate about and evidently a very effective way of illustrating my link to the requirements of the proposed installation.
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THEVERYMANY COMBINEART, ARCHITECTUREAND COMPUTATIONTO PUSHTHELIMITS. . .
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The CHanging ROLE of digital technology
THE VERY MANY directed by Mark Fornes is an unequiovocal example of the effects of contemporary computational design techniques. The most up to date programs, plug ins and scripting interfaces such as Rhino and Python are used to create forms that incite emotion and evoke a tangible form presenting the “creative capacities of computing”. As Dr. Stanislav Roudavski states,“ new methods change the conventional relationships between such fundamental categories as idea generation...”. This is evident throughout the work of The Very Many. The ambition of this firm is to deliberately play with the risky conflict between research and design. Their “messy and non linear” approach to the design process is actually deeply rule based and This contrasts directly to Kalay’s methodical recipes for design solutions in the text “Architecture’s New Media: Principles, Theories, and Methods of Computer Aided Design.
The marrying of old computational techniques with the new ONE COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN TECHNIQUE THAT THEY HAVE USED IN RHINO/CAD
nEdg | Galerie Roger Tator | Lyon, France | Sept-Dec 2009
Unroll & Nesting (RhinoNest): Skylar Tibbits n|Edg” assembly is written within a continuous series of investigations at different scale: + the overall: development of protocols of surface relaxation – in order for the surface to generate best fit curvature in response to fix hanging or support points (floor, ceiling, walls) as curvature despite generating apparent complexity – also provides natural structural stiffness. + surface reconstruction (or tessellation): previous work focused on describing complex surfaces with flat components however after working for different “high end” architectural and design practices the director realised the only way to keep pushing non standard environments is to introduce the economy of parts as part of the equation – therefore early tests were first looking at ways to triangulate complex surfaces
SAWAP A N Sawapan Designs, of which _______ Sawako and _______ Panagiotis are the leading designers are parametric design researchers and conduct their own findings based on information given to them from iconic architects such as Zaha Hadid etc. - designed their own software - plug in for rhino - flash example of work demonstrate various interactive based designs - Graphemes and Topostruct Graphemes is an experimental design program based on graph theory and a dynamic spring force model. It has two main functions. First the design of 2 and 3 dimensional structures through the use of topological operations where
the emphasis of the interface design is on connectivity of nodes. The real time spring model simulation will regularize the structure automatically. The second function of the program is to try and develop the structural intuition of the user by providing fast structural analysis of the design system. Hence one can observe in near real time how changes in the connectivity graph of a space frame affect its structural behaviour. There are two versions graphemes and graphemes_sound. The only difference is that graphemes_sound is compiled with directsound support and has some experimental features of sonification of the current sructure and its dynamics.
Topostruct is a topology optimization software intended for use by designer and architects. The aim of topology optimization is to find an optimal shape or distribution of material in space which meets as best as possible certain support conditions and applied loads. The user only has to inputs the dimensions of the overall volume, the target fraction of material utilization to be reached as well as loads and supports. This software supports both 2d and 3d systems as well as a number of ways of visualizing the structural analysis results so as to make the process a bit more intuitive for non engineers. For more information on topology optimization see “Topology Opimization” a book writen by M.P. Bendsoe and O. Sigmund THE ARGUEMENT - these developments are important and ultimately very useful because experimentation within parametrics is still in its ‘infancy’ stage - however how useful is this to architecture?? finding it hard to understand how motion graphemes like this can be applied to practical design and potential fabrication
“Our research aims in developing design solutions that respect criteria of structural efficiency and architectural intentions by interrogating the intrinsic properties of forms and their embedding space.”
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+ using just association - image sampler for figures 1 and 2, then adding output - data driven shading and manipulating various sliders for figures 3 4 5
+ using association - image sampler combined with output - data driven components, manipulating various sliders + using just association - image sampler for figures 1 and 2, then adding output - data driven shading and manipulating various sliders for figures 3 4 5