Foundations of Design : Representation, SEM1, 2017 M3 JOURNAL - PATTERN vs SURFACE Francis Robert Burne Thompson (757 758) Anneke Prins Studio 6
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WEEK 6 READING: SURFACES THAT CAN BE BUILT FROM PAPER IN ARCHITECTURAL GEOMETRY Question 1: What are the three elementary types of developable surfaces? Provide a brief description. (Maximum 100 words) Developable surfaces are all composed of combinations one or more of three elemental types of developable surfaces; cylinders, cones and tangent surfaces of space curves Cylinders are defined as a group of parallel lines and as such encompass all forms of prisms, not just circular prisms. Cones are made up of a curve with straight lines converging to a vertex, pyramids of all varieties are classified as cones. Tangent surface of space curves are a construction of lines tangent to a curve, between these lines polgons form surfaces of curvature with a resolution that is dependent on the number of parrallel lines used
Question 2: Why is the understanding of developable surface critical in the understanding of architectural geometry? Choose one precedent from Research/Precedents tab on LMS as an example for your discussion. (Maximum 100 words) An understanding of what makes a surface developable conveys an understanding of what concepts can and can’t be built in a physical space. For those surfaces that cannot be physically built, understanding developable surfaces allows such a surface to be altered subtely in order to be realised in the physical world. The Huyge + Le Corbusier Puppet Theatre is an example of a surface that would be made almost entirely of doubly curved (i.e. undevelopable) surfaces if were conceptualised as one contiguous surface. Instead the surface was broken down into 500 unique surface that are each developable and therefore joined to form one large developable surface.
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PANELLING PATTERN
2d Panelling, Pattern: Dense
3D Panelling with leaning pyramids
3D Panelling with upright pyramids
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VARIABLE 3D PATTERN
3D panelling exploring leaning pyrimads with a growing overhang from right to left
3D panelling exploring leaning pyramids that terminate with an upright pyramid
3D panelling exploring leaning pyramids with overhang decreasing with proximity to the centre
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3D PANEL TEST PROTOTYPE & TEMPLATE
Panel test of 8 overhanging pyramid modules
Panel test nets, each net represents 4 modules
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WEEK 7 READING: DIGITAL FABRICATION Complete your reading before attempting these questions:
Question 1: What is digital fabrication and how does it change the understanding of two dimensional representation? (Maximum 100 words) Digital fabrication is a method of translating plans and digitial representations of buildings and other items into real world physical objects directly. By making the direct transfer from digital to physical digital fabrication streamlines construction by removing considerations of how the individual parts of a building might be made. The rise of digital fabriaction means that plans can now be constructed in three dimensions to better visualise form and shape and as a result the need for both perspective and projected representations have been supersceded by digitised 3d representations that can easily be manipulated to fit either need.
Question 2: Suggest two reasons why folding is used extensively in the formal expression of building design? (Maximum 100 words) Folding is a extremely versatile technique for manipulating both materials and surfaces. Because it is relatively straight forward to translate an extremely complicated 3d geometry into an easy to fabricate 2d net, folding can be used in a wide range of solutions, such as: creased surfaces, folded plates, and enclosed volumes. Simultaneously folding is an effective means of turning a 2d surface such as wall or ceiling into 3d by introducing various folds and deformations that can act as both support for the surface while also making it visually pleasing.
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EXPLORING 3D PANELLING
Final panellised landscape with central inversion and decreasing overhang about the centre diagonal. Inset shows each of the modules and their reflected counterparts
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UNROLL TEMPLATE OF YOUR FINAL MODEL
(Clockwise from top) Nets of the full pyramidal module, b) Nets of the single truncated pyramidal module and finally, c) Nets of the double truncated pyramidal model
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PANELISED LANDSCAPE
Completed model of the final design
Close up showinng all three modules
Insert your annotation Detail of double and single truncated pyramids
Detail of the overhanging pyramids
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APPENDIX
Terrain slice used as the basis for all panelling.
Final panellised landscape coloured to show the nets used, each module adjacent to a module of the same colour (diagonals not included) was built from one net.
Process of joining two strings of nets, using ample clips to ensure a strong bond
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