Machining Aesthetics 3.1

THE DATUM

MACHINING AESTHETICS v.3.1 YANJIE ZHAN 785675

THE DATUM

AN ARCHITECTURAL RESOLUTION TO THE FUTURE VIRTUAL REALITY

Acknowledgement My deepest gratitude to my team, Paul, David, Loren and whoever contributes to this project, without them this project would not be possible.

Paul Loh (Coordinator) David Leggett (Coordinator) Loren Adams (Robotics Lab Coordinator) Yiteng Chong (Team) Li Ma (Team) Minhui Huang (Team)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

0.0 INTRODUCTION

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1.0 BUSINESS MODEL

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1.1 1.2 1.3

NETWORKING RELATION

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ALGORITHM

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CALCULATION

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MASSING PROPOSAL URBAN PHASING

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PRECEDENT STUDY ITERATIONS MODEL MAKING

DEFINING MODULAR

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BIG DATA FUTURE OF WORKING ENERGY SYSTEM

SITE CONDITION DESIGN RESPONSE

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DATA COLLECTION

4.0 FRAGMENTS &PROTO-TYPICAL FLOOR

DESIGN BRIEF

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BUSINESS MODEL

3.0 BUILDING PRECEDENTS 3.1 3.2 3.3

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PRECEDENT STUDY

2.0 ABSTRACT MACHINE 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4

5.0 FUTURE OF MAKING

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6.0 THESIS

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7.0 INDIVIDUAL REFLECTION

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8.0 APPENDIX

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8.1 8.2 8.3

BIOGRAPHY CREDIT BIBLIOGRAPHY

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0.0 INTRODUCTION

This project focuses on the evolution of working environment in respond to physical and emerging virtual world and also the data storage space in the future.

In only less than two decades, the office has evolved from desk paper works to computer system. What is next evolution for office building? With the emerging big data era, how could architecture facilitate the seamless transformation between virtual and physical world?

In the large scale, with the emerging big data era, the virtual world is expanding dramatically influencing the way people work, play and live. Nowadays, social network is big part of virtual world where people shares their data and information for free. However, data privatization and data economy will emerge when people realize that their data and information is valuable.

Thus, it will start to question: where can we store our data and information under security? Moreover, apart from personal information, when the company or research center needs to share and exchange their data with other companies, how can the data be transferred in a secure platform?

In this project, we explore the form and logic to generate our design proposal.

The aesthetic form is the ‘Wire language’ where the system starts from one original points and form the aesthetics with its expansion. Also, the wire has its function as structural system and façade system.

The logic is the abstract machine that is observed from network behavior.

The logic forms the space volume and circulation for the office space, also the massing and ground strategies.

The Datum, means the origin point or a piece of information, is the solution we are looking for to address the new big data urban system. Our scope of this project is that The Datum is the origin point of the information and also it is the central point of the data. Specifically, compared with the function of the bank, The Datum actually is seen as the data bank in the virtual world where it stores huge amount of the data. With the digital infrastructure that The Datum provides, the virtual and physical world will transit seamlessly.

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1.0 BUSINESS MODEL Facebook Menlo Park Campus /Nicholas Building

This case study addresses the relation and interaction inside the Nicholas Building using Facebook interface.

The research focuses on a specific studio inside the Nicholas building, Chantilly Studio. Inc.

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1.1 PRECEDENT STUDY Nicholas Building

Nicholas Building was built in 1920s, locating at the intersection of Flinders Ln and Swanston St. The building offices were rented by famous artists, writers and craftsmen over decades. It incorporated the latest technology of its time.

The building characterizes with a lighting well, and studio spaces around it. The interior planning is rigid compartment, which reflects the mode of working of its time.

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Facebook Menlo Park Campus

Facebook Menlo Park Campus was built in 2010, locating in California, USA. The building is the largest open floor plan in the world and has a huge rooftop park.

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Facebook’s new Menlo Park Campus building 20, in Menlo Park, California. 2015

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Facebook’s new Menlo Park Campus interior, 2015

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Facebook’s new Menlo Park Campus interior, 2015

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1.2 BUSINESS MODEL Nicholas Building

The business model of the Nicholas Building is based on the network inside the building. It is flexible to work with others, or even people from different industries.

The Chantilly Studio Inc. is an example of this collaboration work environment in Nicholas Building, Every member in the Studio has its own client. However, collaboration happens inside the studio when the project needs more people to be involved.

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Facebook Business Model

Facebook has its successful business model where the users’ information is monetized.

Facebook provides the platform for users to share, post and interact. And Facebook collect and analyse the information to become valuable data. Then, advertisers and marketers are keen to exchange money with the users’ information. So the product is more efficient to be advertised.

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1.3 NETWORKING RELATION Client

Artists

The network diagram studies the interactions between different professions inside the Nicholas Building. The business method has shift from hierarchy layout into more collaborative environment.

Within the Chantilly Studio, the diagram studies 3 major illustrations: 1. The interaction between members with shared interests, activities and software, etc.

2. The information flow from users to developers and advertisers through Facebook.

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Aldo De Moor’s Linkedin Map, 2007

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SUMMARY

Facebook, the largest social network platform, owns the world’s largest open plan office.

Meanwhile in Melbourne, Nicholas Building has its normative plan, which is built back in 1920s.

Such contrast on the building characteristics are driven by the business environment as well as the different modes of working. The offices inside the two buildings, however, share the same business logic – Virtual Network.

So, in the virtual network, what is the behaviour of the people? How do the Facebook’s users themselves utilize its platform to change their working network or business environment?

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2.0 ABSTRACT MACHINE Social Behaviour

The Virtual Network has changed the way we live, work and communicates. In such different world, how do the people react to the activities happening on Facebook? What is the social network pattern of an organization or individual driven by friends, partners and the public?

This section studies the social behavior in the virtual world. The study will continue to focus on Chantilly Studio.

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2.1 ALGORITHM

From the early research study, we discover the relation between the users, the social network platform and the marketers. At this stage, we aim to find the algorithm to illustrate the pattern of connection between the mass users and Facebook activities.

The rule set is based on the attraction logic.

Massing point cloud represents the users and the attractors are the activities rate referred to Chantilly Studio Inc. In this case, the Chantilly Studio is subjective and we seek for a pattern that explains the objective phenomenon.

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Create Massing point in a boudary box.

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Connect the lines between the mass point.

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As shown grasshopper logic on the right, the attractors are located in the boundary box according to X,Y,Z axis which will refer to the data we collected. Given the location of the attractors, the base information will provide subjective comparisons between the attractors.

The final step to form the outcome is applying force to attractors, where the force will represent the public response to the subject.

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Locate the attrators.

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Apply attraction force in sequence of the attractors.

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2.2 DATA COLLECTION Collections of Chantilly Studio’s Facebook activity rate across years The information will be divided into subjective part and objective part. The subjective information is formed by Posts, Photos and Shares, which will determine the location of particles. The objective part is formed by the public reaction such as likes and comments.

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Chantilly Studio Inc Facebook Network Mapping 36

Chantilly Studio Inc Facebook Activity Recording across three years 37

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2.3 CALCULATION

This section will deliver the collected data into the algorithm to project the behaviour relation of the social network.

The coordinates of the attractors are posts as X axis, photos and videos as Y axis and shares as Z axis. Every box will locate 12 attractors to represent months. The force we apply is the rates of likes and comments from the public.

As shown on the diagram, in 2014 the diagram is mostly distorted, which illustrates that the Chantilly Studio Inc. was really active in 2014.

And in 2015, as the Chantilly Studio was not quite active to post or update, the pattern illustrates less distorted changes among the three diagrams.

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The diagrams illustrate the activities rates of Chantilly Studio’s Facebook where it is related to the location of the pressure particles. The denser clustering it illustrates, the more active the public reacts.

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For the further iteration, we manage the dataset in different ways, Setting X-axis as years is to reflect and observe the behaviour patter in a linear timeline.

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Also, we propose that Chantilly Studio will be back to active after 2015 as Virtual Network trends to play more important role in business in the future.

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2.4 SPECULATION

By linking the physical space and virtual pattern, it is clear to illustrate how the people’s behaviour influences the space distribution. This section analyses the outcome of the pattern and reviews back with the precedent study.

Cluster

From the output diagrams, the behaviour has been revealed in different density as clustering, dispersion. Every single individual, which is referred as a particle in the diagram, has its path to connect other particles to form a network domain. In this network domain, the clustering mass around individual depends on its own active rate.

Dispersion

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SUMMARY

In the larger perspective, virtual network has made this clustering behaviour more flexible and transparent regardless of distance, identity or race.

The model has its potential to redefine our behaviour and space. but the question for this abstract machine is that how this new form of behaviour shapes our future in physical world.

Along with the technology development and virtual reality, the abstract machine will help us picture the new mode of life, work and entertainment.

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3.0 BUILDING PRECEDENTS Defining moment (trope)

This part of discovery is accomplished by the building precedent team. The aim of this task is to define the trope from the precedent building, and develop it into a new form.

The precedent building is Le Fresnoy Art Center located in France.

Team: Minhui Huang, Li Ma

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Le Fresnoy Art Center, 1997

3.1 PRECEDENT STUDY Le Fresnoy Art Center

This phase of study is to find the trope of Le Fresnoy Art Center.

Le Fresnoy (the National Studio for Contemporary Arts) is a center for crossover artists designed

by Bernard Tschumi Architects. The site holds buildings from a 1920s leisure complex that included cinema, ballroom dancing, skating, and horseback riding. Although the existing structures could have been demolished to make way for new construction, they contained extraordinary spaces whose large dimensions exceeded what the limited project budget could supply. The aim was to develop a new model of a center through combinations of old and new, development and production, artistic practice and public exhibition.

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Le Fresnoy Art Center has its three layers on top of the exisiting buildings. The walkways elevate Plancirculation connecting theTop whole all the art space. The space truss support the envelope on the top. The opening on the roof invites the natural light into the gallery space. The spotlight of the building is the walkways that create the double ground. The trope we extracted from the building is the circulation and distribution it creates.

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3.2 ITERATIONS

The trope of the precedent building is the double ground. Thus, the team takes this basic logic to the future iterations. The optimised result will be proto-form.

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3.3 MODEL MAKING

The final proto-form is determined. The main technique involved in model making is wire bending.

Two proto-jigs have been developed for wire bending. The first one is two dimensional angles while the second one is three dimensional angles. However, there are some limitations for the two jigs.

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2nd Prototype

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LIMITATIONS • Unable to achieve high accuracy in bending angles, subject to handling skills.

• Time consuming for a complex model with bundle of wires, difficulty increases when every individual has a different angle.

• Limited bending size, angle adjustment is difficult when the length of the wire is short.

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SUMMARY

In conclusion of the business model and building precedent research, the two systems seem contradictory. In the business model, the logic is collaboration, clustering, networking and non-hierarchy. However, the building precedent’s trope is a form of hierarchy and dispersion.

Such contradiction between physical and virtual world is the main thesis we are bringing in the next stage. Will the physical and virtual world conflict to two isolated systems? Or the virtual world will take over the reality. Or they will transform into one seamless system to start a new era.

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4.0 FRAGMENTS &PROTO-TYPICAL FLOOR Proto-form Making This phase tends to combine our team with formmaking team. We utilise the conceptual form logic to generate 3 building fragments.

The form logic is based on Le Fresnoy Art Center’s material language. The form is developed as a idea of distribution. The material language forms our ramp, stairs, space.

Also, by using the abstract machine, the organization of prototypical floor plate will be defined and the wire language will be embedded into the floor plate.

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4.1 DEFINING MODULAR

The defining moment of the model is circulation dispersion. The logic is that origin starts from one point and branches out to more paths.

The model represents the hierarchy of the system and leveling. The potential of the system can be a structural system or architectural circulation.

In the fragment study, we consider it as a TYPOLOGICAL structural language.

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Modulars 3 FRAGMENTS + 1 PROTOTYPICAL INTERIOR

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4.2 PROTO-FRAGMENT STAIRS

Stair Modular

The stairs is made of several continuous wires from one side of the stairs, forming a part of stairs, to another side of stairs to form balustrades. And the wires continue to extend to the floor, structure, ceiling systems.

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4.2 PROTO-FRAGMENT RAMP

Base branching structure supporting ramp surface

Ramp structure composition

The ramp uses the idea of the trope. The structure elements underneath are branched out from origin points. The wire continuously forms the shape of structure, framing of the ramp surface, and balustrades of the ramp.

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4.2 PROTO-FRAGMENT SPACE COMPOSITION

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The wire language provides the space a continuous system where the floor, ceiling and furniture come as a whole.

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4.3 PROTOTYPICAL INTERIOR

After exploration of the building fragment, this phase seeks for the combination of the material properties and abstract machine to generate proto-form of interior spaces.

This phase is the first attempt to combine the two researches together to create forms. The abstract machine will be used to generate the space logic while the material properties will give the structure and aesthetic language into the space.

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Taylorist Office

The office space has evolved to different typologies in relation to economics, technology.

From the research on the office public and private space rate, we could see that open space office is not always the ideal typology. The flexibility of the office space is what it can fit all the office workers’ needs.

The flexibility here means the diversity of the office space.

It provides private space like individual work station or the private meeting like pod space.

Also, it provides open public space like collaborative space and large meeting space.

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What we propose is the office space that has 40% privacy and 60% public space. By estimating the population of the space, we apply forces in the abstract machine accordingly.

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The prototypical interior has different leveling.

The lower part of the floor is circulation and major office space. The spaces for gathering, studio and meeting are located at higher level.

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The wire language is also introduced in the model. The space framing system is all from the two origin points expending to form floor, ceiling and walls.

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SUMMARY

To sum up, this phase has prepared the building fragment for the later stage typical floor plate design and also has test the possibility of abstract machine and wire language combination for the later design proposal.

What we can understand from this exploration is that the density wire language structural system can assist abstract machine to form the space that is influenced by human behaviour like clustering and dispersion. Also, it can assist to achieve the space quality that is diverse, multifunction and flexible.

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5.0 FUTURE OF MAKING The Datum

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Virtual, Data and Information In the world of information and technology.

How well are we in connecting to each other?

How data will shape the future world?

Facebook Relationships Visualization 2010

Physical, The Future of Infrastructure

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The evolution of cable infrastructure from the old fashioned, pre-digital telephone line to the fiber optic lines.

What will be our next generation of infrastructure?

Submarine Cable Map, 2016

5.1 DESIGN BRIEF

With the technology development, the world is split into physical and virtual domain. The way we work, play and live is changing. Big Data era is approaching.

How can Facebook be sustainable in the future? What Facebook will be like if users’ information is not available anymore?

Plus, how will be the mode of working changing in the future? How can future office building facilitate the future working environment?

This phase will transform the business model study into the building brief.

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5.1.1 BIG DATA

The Big Data Era is emerging; the virtual reality has gradually penetrated into our daily life. As a social media company, what strategy we can make to adapt new environment?

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FUTURE TECHNOLOGY In the emerging Big Data Era, the information and data are not free anymore. People realize the value of their data properties. Thus, data becomes private properties. And Data starts to be traded. Data economy will emerge and data market will facilitate it.

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THE DATUM BUSINESS MODEL

In 2018, Facebook will keep focusing on the

Business Model Agenda expansion of the user community through Facebook and other application such as Instagram, WhatsApp, etc. User platform is still the main method to collection information.

We also invest on VR, Artificial Intelligent and Storage Technology for the future.

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In 2032, the information privatization will be realized. Data Market will emerge. The information from users is no longer free.

However, safety for the data will be main issue by then. Facebook will transfer itself into a Cloud Data Center to protect the information. Meanwhile, Facebook will be able to access more data on medical, 2032 agricultural or educational research.

In 2050, Data Market will become mainstream. By then, Facebook will contain big amount of Data. The Facebook Data Bank will emerge. Facebook will be transformed as a bank to store, exchange, and trade data.

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5.1.2 FUTURE OF WORKING

Technology affects the way the Facebook operates. It also affects the way we manage our resource, which will radically change the way we work.

Traditionally, in physical world, people work in hierarchical order. Workload distributed from the top to the bottom. Human Resource seek for capable employee to join the team.

However, with the innovation of technology in Cloud and Data, Virtual World will affect the physical working environment. The law of virtual world is collaboration. It is flexible for work as it has no restraint of location.

The new mode of work we propose is that CEO will divide the project into parts and HR will seek for most suitable people all over the world using big Data. Through the Cloud, People can work any project anywhere. The role of HR will be dramatically changed. The human resource management has turned into knowledge resource management. What you are will be more important than who you are, which reflects the equality in the virtual world.

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5.1.3 ENERGY SYSTEM

Many electronic devices have been invented in order to transform the virtual and physical world seamlessly.

However, the fundamental requirements for that transformation are the internet and electricity. This section will propose energy system from the research for our future office.

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VIRTUAL

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BRIEF SUMMARY

The future mode of working is defined as collaborative environment that knowledge resource management will replace human resource management in the future. HR will play a role of managing and manipulating the intelligent resource in the future. The hierarchy of the traditional work environment will be eliminated. Who you are does not matter anymore. What you can do matters.

With the cloud technology, people are more flexible to work across the world. However, information security has never been so essential until now. is infrastructure catching up to have the virtual world run seamlessly? How can architecture response to this advanced working environment?

What are the fundamental facilities for the future of working?

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FUTURE OF WORKING ENVIRONMENT Knowledge Resource Management Collaborative Virtual Working Environment New technology: Hologram, VR

Big Data Data Center Data Bank Digital Infrastructure Wireless Access City Self-sustain Energy System

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5.2 SITE CONDITION

The site is located at south side of Lincoln Square in between University of Melbourne and RMIT. It is the center of two knowledge campus. Also, it has convenient public transport from trams, bikes, buses towards CBD.

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The proposed site (highlighted in red) is located strategically at Swanston Street, facing Lincoln Square public recreational park. The site is in between two educational institutions, namely, University of Melbourne and RMIT University.

Besides that, It is in the capital city zone which provide range of educational, research and medical uses as part of an internationally renowned knowledge district. This zone encourage a range of uses that complement the capital city function of the locality and serves the needs of residents, workers, students and visitors.

2.0 TRANSPORT & CIRCULATION 2.1 Transport

University of Melbourne Bus Interchange

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Lincoln Square tram stop is approximately 10m distance to the proposed site. The tram route is connecting City Centre, as well as two educational institutions, making the site strategic and convenient in travelling.

The future proposed metro alignment (highlighted in light brown solid line) will be an underground railway extended from Melbourne Central Business District (CBD), to cater city demands in public transportation as population increases. The proposed stations will situated close to both educational institutions each respectively.

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2.2 Trafic & Circulation speculate near future 2032

2013

University of Melbourne

CARLTON

NORTH MELBOURNE

Royal Exhibition Building

Queen Victoria Market

RMIT University

MELBOURNE CBD

Picture top, 2032: Driverless car is making its way to near future.

What if driverless car is well-developed? The necessity for traffic signal will be reduce, lesser road will be built for vehicles. The city will have a great reduction in traffic congestion as the traffic system and transportation are well-integrated.

Picture left, 2013: City traffic congestion is a big problem, the traffic flow is defined by amount of vehicles circulate within a city, at different hours in a day.

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TRAFFIC INTENSITY

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4.0 PLANNING ZONES & HERITAGE CONTEXT Site

Residential Building

30m/9 story Residential

Office

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The design brief has been formulated at early section. This section will propose the Facebook headquarters that addresses the future mode of working and also integrates with early building precedent study.

The virtual and physical world seems running parallel. The question for us is what is the fundamental matter that bridges these two worlds, how can architecture, as an agent, connect these two worlds?

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5.3.1 MASSING PROPOSAL

The ground strategy is mainly focusing on the programme, circulation and relation to the neighbour building.

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population rate/force: 6

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The ground floor has two entrances facing Lincoln Square and Swanston Street. From the central plaza, people can walk to neighbor building at southwest side of the ground.

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As the two cores are the central spots for structural and cable infrastructure system. The particles are placed underground of the central core, which represents the origin point of the entire building system.

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Core

Tower Massing Strategy 121

The office tower is split into two massing towers. It naturally creates the gap for lights coming into the ground. Also, each tower has its own structural system origin from its own core. The massing towers are distorted vertically. The form gets denser when it is closer to the ground.

Office Tower

Tower Massing Proposal 122

The structural system proposal of the building is the central support of the core and extending the core structure outwards to form the floor structure.

Tower Structure Strategy 123

As we researched about the electric system, the supercharge floor will generate electricity from the people footsteps. And large power source storage is located underground.

Building Power Flow from Supercharge Floor 124

The office tower consists of autonomic office space and interactive office space.

According to Frank Duffy’s theory on office design, the diversity of office design provides the flexibility for the working people. The autonomic office space is for the work like researchers. The interactive office space is for group activities and collaborative environment.

The supercharge floors are the most active floors in the tower. Thus, energy floor system will be applied to those floors to generate electricity for the building and surrounding.

Autonomic Office Space Space for Individual Processes and Concentrated Study

Typical Office Floor

Interactive Office Space Space for Group Processes and Transactional Knowlodge

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Core

Tower Program Proposal 125

The supercharge floor give the transition function on the tower circulation. The flow of the circulation is more dynamic with connection floor in the middle.

Some infrastructure technology will be applied in the tower benefited from this transition, which will be introduced later.

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Multi-function Office S Multi-function office The supercharge floor is designed to be most active floor inside the tower.

The spaces are more dynamic than typical floor’s design.

The collaborative space is large public space that could be used as Collaborative Space Collaborative Space if it is in the club. In the club, people can form small of group and deform really quickly. Also, the space is also available for the event, public speech etc.

The multifunction office is also flexible in a smaller scale. People could work alone or with one or two people in this space.

Collaborative Collaborative Space Space

Multi-function Office S Multi-function office

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Multi-function Office Space Multi-function office

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Office Ramp

Collaborative Space Collaborative Space

Multi-function office Multi-function Office Space

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Mezzanine Floor Level Multi-function Office Space

Collaborative Space Circulation Office Ramp

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In 2050, all the research or academic resource from Uni of melb and RMIT will be stored inside The Datum.

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5.4.1 BUILDING SYSTEM

The Datum has two systems to form the building - the structural system and facade system.

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STRUCTURAL SYSTEM

Structural System

ELECTRIC INDUCTION SYSTEM /FACADE SYSTEM Facade System 140

The structural system starts from the core and columns. The floor structure expands from the vertical primary elements.

RHS secondary structure extension to form wall, ceiling system

I Beam primary structure

Column + Core Structure

Typical Floor Structure Typical Floor Structure Composition 141

The facade system is also the electrical induction system. The facade wires are the transmitter coil to induce the electricity. There will be electric cable inside. The underground power stores the power from the super charge floor to sustain the whole building.

Transmitter Coil

Power Source

Facade System with electric induction 142

Electric flow is sourced from the supercharge floor and stored at the underground. The electricity flows back to the facade wires to do the induction.

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The typical floor is mainly designed for more private use. In the future, the HR will be dominating the office while the employers are actually from everywhere. We think the HR offices are more private as they do not require group work.

Those individual workstation is called ‘Hives’ and ‘Cell’ defined

by Frank Duffy.

‘Cell’ Workstation

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Meeting Area

Outdoor Balcony

Outdoor Terrace provides the better outdoor environment for the users of the building. The three outdoor terraces are located above the supercharge floors and the lower tower roof.

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The facade has its induction wire at outer layer and the outrigger steel plate fixing with wire facade penetrates the glass and ties to the structure inside.

The aesthetics of the facade system is generated from the idea of wire language. The facade has opening, density and patter arrangement to create aesthetics.

Facade Detail 151

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Opening 1. The facade is designed to open up for views and sunlights.

Density 2. Some parts of the facade have really dense wire to produce the private or sun shading for interior.

Pattern 3. Part of the facade is aesthetically developed from the wire language we explored at early stage.

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The Supercharge floor is designed for group activities. The space encourages people to walk, move to create a dynamic office space. Also, it helps more on the generation of electricity.

The ‘Club’ is the word defined by Frank Duffy for this collaborative environment. Any form of group discussion or meeting can find a specific space to fit in.

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The Supercharge floor has its own structural layout underneath the finishing floor. As we explored as fragments, the wires expand from the core and penetrate the floor to form space system. Also, the stair fragment is integrated in the design.

SUPERCHARGE FLOOR

SPACE SYSTEM

Supercharge Floor composition 158

Space Composition Fragment Stair Fragment

Mesh Screen Partition

Floor Slab Detail

Meeting Space

Wire Balustrade

Supercharge Floor Detail 159

Document Transfer Robot

Smart Glass Hologram Platform

Club

Supercharge Floor Detail 160

Lift Lobby

Multi-function Workstation

Pod

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The final model is the 1 to 50 scale model of the whole building. The physical model will have the CNC milling site base and brass tubes and wires as the building materials. Also the robotic arm will introduce in this model making.

Although it is only a small portion of the model is done by robot, the exploration on the robot program is significantly valuable.

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The site model is manufactured by CNC milling machine. The site model is seperated to 10 layers for milling and each of it is originally 18mm think plywood. In order to save the cost and material, the site model has been broken into pieces for milling and assembled again with PVA.

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Basic geometry model

Wire straightener

Grasshopper

Bending Calculation

Coil holding stand RobotStudio

Robot interface

3D Print gripper ABB IRB 120

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BEND!

Preparation of Wire Bending

Rotation Rotation

The model making involves robotic arm for certain parts of the final model. As the zero experience with the robot, amount of experiment is required at the beginning.

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As shown, it requires the sophisticated knowledge on digital and physical model making in order to run the robotic arm smoothly.

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The robot itself has its limitation on reaching range. When the arm become straight and cannot stretch further, the moment is called ‘singularity’. This phase is to test out the limit of the distance and angle for rotation, bending, and feed.

The max rotation angle range is from -120 to 80 degree. The bending angle range is from -30 to 105 degree. The feed distance range is from 0 to 210mm.

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45 degree

This test aims to test out the deflection of the wire bending. By comparing the outcome and digital model and also controlling the variation, we can find the deflections so that we can improve the accuracy of the wire bending.

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6.0 THESIS

This research essay focuses on analysing the way of working in the past, present and the future and exploring what is the key aspect that influences this evolution.

The context that we propose the future working environment is based on the emerging big data era. The virtual world has radically developed where the virtual environment become significant in the working environment.

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Future Working Organization The conventional office space organization was the same logic of factory assembly line, which is called ‘the office as factory’. It is the line for paper work. The paper were delivered and collected by whatever devices came to hand.1 After the information technology was developed, the office space has radically changed. The information technology was the principle agent of the change and it still is in the modern days. With the invention of the mobile phones, laptops and tablets, much office work now can be mobile and peripatetic. Thus, with the cloud technology in the future, the workers will have more control on timing, tools, contents and work places.

Also, the physical relation of employer and employee will no longer exist. The knowledge will be the only identity in the virtual working environment. This essay will examine the difference of traditional office and modern office environment. And also it will speculate the future working environment with the new information technology.

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city, crowded office space 1955

The difference of the old office work culture and modern work culture are striking. The management of the human resource that determined what was appropriate to make the work force, despite the low level of expectations, carries out such routine and often mindless tasks2. It has really clear instruction of what you should do.(shown on pic 1) Thus, the office work in old environment is homogenous and undifferentiated. The hierarchy of work environment is strong and reinforced by physical partition arrangement. From the physical space, you can tell who the important person in the office is and who normal worker is. Individually, the tasks are isolated from others. It did not encourage communicating with others.

The modern office is integrated with information technology. It has its advantage of use of time and flexibility of location. Also, the working environment is more parallel and serial rather than a linear process3.

The information technology allows the faster communication between different field, department or specialists to solve more

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complex problem or scenario. Thus, the hierarchy of the office has been radically reduced. What you can do is more important than who you are. For instance, in Facebook Menlo park campus, the CEO of the Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, has his own table at unnoticeable spot inside the office. (Shown on pic2) Because of the less hierarchic structure in the work space, people are easier to collaborate with each other. The interaction and complex teamwork would be more encouraged. Also, this mode of working encourages the smaller more rapidly changing organizational units1. That means the office space are more dynamic, a small group of people could form for a project and deform to seek for other work. Individually, Virtual the place of work

and time of work will not be your constraint with information technology.

This new flexibility has change the way of working where the distributed set of working locations could be nomadic, in the office or at home.

Information technology has been the major principle agent of the change in the working organization and office design. The big data era is emerging and the data technology will dominate the future virtual environment.

In the future, the cloud technology will be developed as a highly secure data exchange platform2. This actually will broaden the flexibility of working location.

The resource can be shared, accessed and traded everywhere under the security. We believe that the future digital infrastructure will only become larger and safer to protect the virtual economic environment as if APP functioning like a bank in the real world.

Physical When the bank is ruptured, the economic is crushed. Same principle applied in virtual world.

CODE

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APP

MARKETING

DESIGN

CODE

MARKETING

UPLOAD

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World Knowledge

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Cloud organization that we The future working Working in virtual world Data technology proposed is that under the collaborative Virtual Reality virtual PROJECT environment, the human resource CEO BOSS will search for the most suitable intelligent knowledge in the data cloud for a particular HR U.S C.H.N A.U The knowledge job.(shown on pic 3) and asset you have will be the only identity that the human resource will look for. Everyone stands the same chance for the job, World Knowledge which represents the non-hierarchy of the collaborative virtual environment. In another

Human Resource Management

1 2

The cloud storage technology will make this future working organization possible. This platform provides the secure environment for data exchanging. The security of the technology is the key for this development because places, for example, like medical research have tons of the documents and data needed storing and they are not willing to store their confidential data if your platform Virtual is not safe. Thus, the data storage needs to be highly secure system.

Thus, as we defines that cloud technology or data bank will be the future digital infrastructure, how will the organization of working change in respond to this data Hierarchy Collaboration HR technology?

Working in virtual world

Virtual Reality

gement

DESIGN

perspective, people will not be hired by any employers and will work like a freelance. In the virtual world, freelance has the better platform where the HR will come to you. Even for the group project, people can form and deform the organizational units rapidly. Some people will be able to do several group projects at the same time worldwide. Thus, the future working organization will make the working environment dynamic, flexible and efficient.

HR UPLOAD PROJECT

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Knowledge Resource Management

Duffy, F 1997, The New Office, Conran Octopus Publishing Group, London.

Ben Wellington: How we found the worst place to park in New Your City - using big data 2014, Online Video, TED Publisher, New York.

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Another perspective for this organization is to examine the workflow. (shown on pic 4) In scenario for instance, a CEO currently has a project for a mobile application. The project will be divided into three, coding, design, and marketing, and the project segments will be delivered to human resource. And the human resource will search for the intelligent knowledge to match up the project requirement and find the most talented one to finish the specific part of the project. And with the cloud technology, the people could be from everywhere.

In conclusion, the invention of the technology has influence the way people live, learn and work. The future working will be radically dynamic and flexible because of its workflow and behavior. In the future, the job will come to you if you are capable to the certain project.

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7.0 INDIVIDUAL REFLECTION

First of all, this is the most challenging studio I have ever experienced. This is the studio that is compact with thinking, digital and physical making skills. I personally really enjoy it and it has been an amazing semester. So, I would like to thank Paul and David again for your support, guidance. I really appreciate what you have contributed to our studio.

Throughout the entire studio, model making has been so significant in the design process.

In one of the session, ‘If you know how to make this 1to50 model, that is pretty much how it going to build in the real life.’ Paul said.

That could be the summary of why making is so important in the architectural study. This transition between architecture design and manufacture has been missing in my previous study. And I guess it is also the issue for some other students. This experiment of the physical making is profound for the future architectural world. I think this studio has brilliantly bridged the architecture and manufacture. Making the concept work is what it is in this studio.

The most exciting phase in the design for me is from the research on future data and technology to the end of building detailing. (Week 7 to week 12) Because this process, I guess, is the package of concept, scheme, part of development and physical making. The futuristic thinking was exciting.

The development, however, was more intriguing when the previous logic and form are integrated into the design to make the concept work. This design process is really valuable for me.

The design can be improved in the phase of merging group. We did not manage to improve our abstract machine based on the comments from Paul in the presentation because we were struggling to find a way to move on to fragment session. As a result, the abstract machine is less convincing in the design.

Overall, This is great experience learning and working in this studio !

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FUN TIME !

Teammates Early model

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b. 1993

Passport : P.R.C

YANJIE ZHAN (FELIX) is a design student majoring in Architecture. He studied Bachelor of Design in Architecture in University of Western Australia (2012-2015). Last year, he took half year off to work for LYCS architecture in Hangzhou, China. The project during the internship was to renovate a factory of children’s garments. Currently, he is studying Master of Architecture in University of Melbourne.

From the previous project, he re-proposed one of the Guggenheim Museum submissions as his final semester studio work. As a student architect, he is seeing architects as creative problem solvers.

“Find optimism in the inevitable” - by Rem Koolhaas

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Under the Atrium Bicycle Parking

Art Installation

Seating bench

Park Entrance

Delivery Zone

Loading Deck

Cafe

Street Performance 5

Street Performance 4

Port Park

Playground

Bicycle Parking

Outdoor Cafe

Port Entrance

Public Event Space 2

Entry to Museum

Entry to Ground Plaza

Port of Helsinki

The Promenade

Retail Shops

Drop-off Area 2

Art Installation

Street Performance 3

Street Art

Performance 6

Art Installation

Restaurant

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Ground Plaza Entrance

Main Entrance

Art Installation

Sculpture

Street Performance 1

Front Park

Street Performance 2

Bicycle Parking

Drop-off Area 1

Outdoor Cafe

Open public area

Pilvi Museo

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Special Credit to our teammate, Yiteng Chong, that many his valuable sketches for the design process are missing in this journal. His traditional way of design exploration has significantly contributed into this project!

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8.3 Bibliography

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Ben Wellington: How we found the worst place to park in New Your City - using big data 2014, Online Video, TED Publisher, New York City, crowded office space 1955, Adolph B. Rice Studio, Viewed 6 June 2016, <https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/ City%2C_crowded_office_space_%282899334278%29.jpg>.

Chantilly Studio Inc 2014, Facebook, viewed 13 March 2016, <https://www.facebook.com/ChantillyStudioInc/photos>.

Duffy, F 1997, The New Office, Conran Octopus Publishing Group, London.

Energy Floor 2015, How It Works, viewed 1 June 2016, <http://www.howitworksdaily.com/energy-floors-generate-power-from-your-dancemoves/>.

Facebook’s new Menlo Park Campus building 20, in Menlo Park, California 2015, CNBC, viewed 13 March 2016, <http://www.cnbc.com/2015/05/22/ inside-facebooks-futuristic-new-headquarters.html>.

Facebook’s new Menlo Park Campus interior 2015, Office Snapshots, viewed 13 March 2016, <https://officesnapshots.com/2013/02/04/facebookmenlo-park-office-design/>.

Facebook’s new Menlo Park Campus Plan 2015, UnFrozen, viewed 13 March 2016, <http://arch-unfrozen.tumblr.com/post/51615608029/thespell-of-hot-desk>.

Iron Man Workstation 2012, Pinterest, viewed 15 May 2016, <https://au.pinterest.com/pin/88453580158534144/>.

Le Fresnoy Art Center 1997, Bernard Tschumi Architects, viewed 1 June 2016, <http://www.tschumi.com/projects/14/>.

Mark Zuckerberg Working Table 2015, BUSINESSINSIDER, viewed in 6 June 2016, <http://www.businessinsider.com.au/mark-zuckerberg-virtualtour-frank-gehry-designed-building-2015-9?r=US&IR=T>.

Submarine Cable Map 2016, TeleGeography, viewed 15 May 2016, <http://www.submarinecablemap.com/>.

Taste Group Big Data Visualization 2013, Steffon Davis, viewed 1 June 2016, <http://steffondavis.com/visualizing-taste-in-art-with-big-datacuration-analysis-curalytics-and-curiator/>.

The Open Staircase 2013, Fast Company, viewed 1 June 2016, <http://www.fastcompany.com/3004498/how-todesign-office-collaboration>.

Workspace 2013, Officelovin, viewed 1 June 2016, <http://www.officelovin.com/2014/12/04/inside-squarespaces-new-york-city-office/>.

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