fraser carroll s3715883 level 7
studio: fidelity 2018
EMMA JACKSON
Darwin Predator
Calibrating Country GPS Fishing locations, Boat Ramps and Boat Traffic and Native Fish Populations Estimated Larrakia Fishing Regions GPS Fishing Locations Native Fish Locations Boat Traffic to Locations Boat Ramps Occur at Traffic Origins
housing behaviour
housing behaviour 2.0
housing behaviour 2.0
housing behaviour 3.0
script to height
housing behaviour 3.0 Thin Ice
week 1
CALIBRATING COUNTRY 19/03/2018
Aim Map an interesting data pattern around Darwin NT. Method Collecting data from radio interviews, podcasts, community and Government land care objectives and settlement maps Calibrating Country Drawing Calibrating Country maps the Larrakia nations fishing regions, mapped against Darwin’s historical coast line and wet areas. Included are the culturally significant and sacred sites around metropolitan Darwin. To assume the fishing information I referenced historical maps of Darwin pre-urbanisation and cross-referenced this information with public documents that detail the habits and techniques of the Larrakia people. Appendix https://nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/240319/rapid-creek-planning-concepts-and-land-useobjectives.pdf http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-03/naidoc-week-losing-larrakia-language/8658420 http://larrakia.com/news/ http://larrakia.com/about/ http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2012/07/03/3537685.htm
week 2
THIN ICE 20/03/2018
Aims To input the data gathered in the Calibrating Country Drawing into a grasshopper script. Method - Input data points input voronoi component Thinner Ice Experiments Using an abstract form generated by the scripting of the data in the Calibrating Country drawing, the Thin Ice experiments provoke potential patterns for Darwin’s Urban Plan for 2050. Results See over page Observations - Outcome is too clean - Data isn’t the best and voronoi script is too obvious Thinner Ice Speculations Progression into 3D? Appendix https://explodebreps.wordpress.com/grasshopper-definitions/extruded-voronoi-with-connection/ http://www.grasshopper3d.com/
week 3
THINNER ICE 24/03/2018
Aims Evolve the Thin Ice Drawing into a diagrammatic representation for the 2050 Darwin urban plan Method - Input voronoi into Shortest path script from Explodedbrep.com - Isolated the shortest paths - Divided paths into points and generated vertical circles with the centre at the points - Divided the circle geometry and created a point cloud - Took the point cloud out of grasshopper - Patched the cloud in rhino - Iterated with alternating strengths Results See over page Observations - Interesting outcome however doesn’t resemble a viable urban plan without heavy interference Appendix https://explodebreps.wordpress.com/grasshopper-definitions/extruded-voronoi-with-connection/ http://www.grasshopper3d.com/
Darwin Urban Plan for 2050 Larrakia Fishing Areas
week 4
THINNEST ICE 26/03/2018
Aim Progress Thinner Ice Drawing towards Darwin urban plan Results See over page Method - Stepped back to shortest path - Make2D the circle geometry - Combined the thinner ice form with the 2D vectors - Generated points off the thin ice structure - Generated points at the intersections of the vectors - Patched the points together in rhino - Iterated with different strengths - Took generated mesh and draped original voronoi points over - Re-scripted voronoi Observations - Forms presented themselves - More or less the same as the thin ice just 3D and warped
week 5
PREDATOR 27/03/2018
Aims To study several aspects of Darwin and map the interactions that you find interesting. Find multiple examples of each case. Method - Searched Google Earth to locate interesting habitat anomalies. Results See over page Observations Areas that I found interesting included both sporadic and highly uniform orientation, high levels of repetition in the new suburban regions and dense levels of vegetation engulfing groups of houses.
week 1 REVISED
CALIBRATING COUNTRY 2.0 09/04/2018
Aim Study the fishing habits and regions of the contemporary Darwin population, boat ramps, and native fish populations. Method Calibrating Country maps the GPS fishing locations publicised by local fishers. This data is referenced back to public boat ramps to track probable boat routes and against the NT government data on native fish population. This map then attempts to understand the areas and habits that were most likely used for fishing in the nation. Included in the map is the prediction of areas that were most likely fished by the Larrakia Nation. To assume this information I referenced historical maps of Darwin pre-urbanisation and cross-referenced this information with public documents that detail the habits and techniques of the Larrakia people. Observations - Patterns presented themselves from understanding the boat paths taken to GPS locations. - These patterns originated at localised boat ramps. This map disregards land fishing areas. Thin Ice Speculations - These paths and points could potentially inform zoning areas in the Darwin master plan or road networks. Appendix https://nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/240319/rapid-creek-planning-concepts-and-land-useobjectives.pdf http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-03/naidoc-week-losing-larrakia-language/8658420 http://larrakia.com/news/ http://larrakia.com/about/ http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2012/07/03/3537685.htm http://nrmaps.nt.gov.au/nrmaps.html https://nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0013/202342/nr-maps-species-atlas-flora-and-fauna.pdf https://nt.gov.au/environment/environment-data-maps/environment-data https://fishingstatus.com/home/map/location/-12.46282,130.84177 https://nt.gov.au/marine/for-all-harbour-and-boat-users/find-a-boat-ramp
Calibrating Country Calibrating Country GPS Fishing locations, Boat Ramps and Boat Traffic and Native Populations GPS Fishing locations, BoatFish Ramps and Boat Traffic and Native Fish Populations Estimated Larrakia Fishing Regions Estimated Larrakia Fishing Regions GPS Fishing Locations GPS Fishing Locations Native Fish Locations Native Fish Locations Boat Traffic to Locations Boat Traffic to Locations Boat Ramps Occur at Traffic Origins Boat Ramps Occur at Traffic Origins
week 2 REVISED
THIN ICE 2.0 10/04/2018 Aims To input the data gathered in the Calibrating Country Drawing into a grasshopper script. Method - Scripted the fishing points with a spin force script - Iterated the charge, decay and step values Thin Ice Experiments Using an abstract form generated by the scripting of the data in the Calibrating Country drawing, the Thin Ice experiments provoke potential patterns for Darwin’s Urban Plan for 2050. Results See over page Observations Branching Script Used basic branching script against data in maps. Generated mundane outcome that when pushed only filled in black. Fields Art Script Used spin-force components over the fishing data. Generated a beautiful outcome however further iterations remained constant. Vector Field Script Input fishing data into point charge components. Generated beautiful outcomes, further iterations became more powerful, eventually broke the script. Potentially redo, incorporating Fields Art. Grid Tearing 1.0 Only referencing the fish population, didn’t provide the best outcome. Grid Tearing 2.0 Including all the data, the outcome started off poorly however through iterations proved rather successful. 3D Volumes Using Curves Iterations of this script proved sporadic and interesting. Pushing the volumes away from the curves created a cloud which from different perspectives appeared poetic. Thinner Ice Speculations The outcome is blurry and could be refined by combining it with an iteration of the Fields Art Script. The combination could provide a solid base for the urban plan Appendix http://www.designcoding.net/vector-field-basics/ https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3ZxkoiW1FRwRHdZZWlaalU2WW8/view http://www.designcoding.net/grid-tearing-basic/ http://www.designcoding.net/fields-art/ https://explodebreps.wordpress.com/grasshopper-definitions/extruded-voronoi-with-connection/ http://www.grasshopper3d.com/ https://nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/240319/rapid-creek-planning-concepts-and-land-use-objectives.pdf http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2012/07/03/3537685.htm http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2012/07/02/3536791.htm http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2012/07/06/3540206.htm
Thin Ice
Branching Script
Fields Art Script
Grid Tearing 1.0
Grid Tearing 2.0
Grid Tearing 2.0
3D Volumes Using Curves
week 5 REVISED
PREDATOR 2.0 14/04/2018
Aims To study one area of Darwin and map the interactions that you find interesting. Method Vectored over the built environment, and used multiple image traces in Illustrator. Results See over page Observations With the Calibrating Country drawing mapping water movements, the interaction I found interesting was the area surrounding the Nightcliff Jetty. Both jetty and pier are man made but exist in very different contexts and with opposing designs.
Darwin Predator
week 6 REVISED
THINNER ICE 2.0 15/04/2018
Aims Progress the Thin Ice Drawing 2.0 into a diagrammatic representation of the 2050 Darwin urban plan Method - Re-script Field’s Art Script using Image Sampler component in a Gradient Decent script - Overlay the outcome in reference to the Thin Ice 3D Volumes Script - Divided curves into points - Point charged the groups in relation to each other - Iterated the charge and step distance Results See over page Observations - Interesting relationship between the two data outputs. - Really interesting forms emerging from the middle column - Could inform major arterial networks Appendix http://www.designcoding.net/vector-field-basics/ https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3ZxkoiW1FRwRHdZZWlaalU2WW8/view http://www.designcoding.net/grid-tearing-basic/ http://www.designcoding.net/fields-art/ https://explodebreps.wordpress.com/grasshopper-definitions/extruded-voronoi-with-connection/ http://www.grasshopper3d.com/ https://nt.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/240319/rapid-creek-planning-concepts-and-land-useobjectives.pdf http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2012/07/03/3537685.htm http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2012/07/02/3536791.htm http://www.abc.net.au/local/audio/2012/07/06/3540206.htm https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3ZxkoiW1FRwXy1uaTdITXV5LWs/view http://www.co-de-it.com/wordpress/code/grasshopper-code
week 7 REVISED
DIAGRAM OF A CITY 27/04/2018
Aims To represent the new urban plan diagrammatically in relation to the scripting from the Thinner Ice drawings Method - Put script over Darwin, - Envision possible urban outcomes for a typology (supermarket) based on script behaviours - Iterate four scenarios of urban population Results See over page Observations - Density equals height? Should it? - Protrusions over the water - Isolated built environment -Minimise urban sprawl
week 8
MASTER PLAN 27/04/2018
Aims Investigate potential outcomes from the diagram Method - Read and interpret script - Understand behaviour of predator view and iterate that through the script for the city - Scripted points from 3D Volumes script and extruded points based on density and frequency - Closer the proximity equals higher the extrusion - Incorporate behaviour into the extrusions - Booleaned the spired together to create an amalgamation of built environment Results See over page Observations - Just vertical with alien buildings, - No relation to behaviour - Too much architecture not enough urban plan - I am just designing a cities buildings not the building code for the urban plan - Go back to script and predator
week 9
MASTER PLAN 2.0 08/05/2018
Aims Further investigate potential outcomes from the diagram Method - Read and interpret script - Understand behaviour of predator view and iterate that through the script for the city - Understand scripted behaviour as coded urban environment Results See over page Observations - Interesting interaction of built environment - Disturbed coast lines - Bridges continue their purpose and become more interesting with relations to each other - Building density could still read vertically however used footprints for ground interaction with vertical city - Calibrating Country and Predator behaviour satisfied and promoted in plan - Only one aspect of the plan, this is out over the ocean
week 7 REVISED
DIAGRAM FOR A CITY 2.0 10/05/2018
Aims Further investigate potential outcomes from the diagram and interpret the data from the behavioural script Method - Read and interpret script - Understand behaviour of predator view - Understand scripted behaviour as coded urban environment - Reverse data to for overland areas? Results See over page Observations - Interesting interaction of built environment - Potential water highways - Bridges continue their purpose and become more interesting with relations to each other - Building density could still read vertically however used footprints for ground interaction with vertical city - Calibrating Country and Predator behaviour satisfied and promoted in plan - This would be most of the plan because it is over land and in the denser areas - Still promotes lifestyle environment heavily focussed on water transport
Darwin
Darwin 2.0
Darwin 3.0
script to height
housing behaviour
housing behaviour 2.0
housing behaviour 3.0
reflection
Fidelity has been undoubtedly the hardest studio I have undertaken at in my architectural studies so far. The sheer time and effort I put into this project alone comfortably surpasses my accumulated commitment throughout my undergraduate degree. Having transitioned from Curtin University in Perth to RMIT, I have had to drastically re-evaluate my thought process and habitual reflexes for the design process, to meet the standards set here, while embracing the Emma Jackson attitudes to architecture and design. The abstract process we followed for this studio has allowed me to better appreciate detachment from the tunnelled perspective of the traditional “hero” architects methodology. I have new found respect for the data and code that can be read and extrapolated from precedents and inspirations taken from the site. The process opened my eyes to a litany of unseeable outcomes, journeys and possibilities that a traditional design process would unknowingly miss or overlook. My appreciating of the methodology stems from their ability to deliver a considerably more experimental, dramatic and most importantly conscious outcome that has the potential to far better serve the inhabitants. The method and benefits of analysing design inspiration as code and data directly correlate with the intensity and profoundly more abundant observable answers. Unbiased mapping one aspect of the site through the Calibrating Country task was an excellent strategy to consider an area holistically in relation to specific behaviour that exists. The nature of the intention provided us with the ability to study the data present and project it without relative distraction and contamination. Our specific behaviours become the sole input to the process and this results in the outcomes retaining a code of simplicity. Breaking the moulds and the data in the Thin and Thinner Ice tasks projected that simple code to unreachable limits and produced a data set that couldn’t be gained from analysing the code as form. An incredibly abstract and inventive process that I hope to follow and press further in my career. Studying the local behaviour and lifestyles from a distance was difficult, only having the resources of maps made it challenging to read into the nuances of the Darwin life. This however provided an unbias nature in our Predator task. our goal of mapping and coding a particular interaction allowed us to prioritise that behaviour and gave us an increase data set to add to our urban plan. this process works well because the new urban form directly stems from both the original Calibrating Country data cross-referenced with the interaction data from the Predator Task. Coding the data with heat signatures is a simple yet effective way to diagram the important relations that occur at the site. Reflecting on the next stage seems a blur to me. over the following weeks, we slowly redrew and refined smaller areas of our diagrams and urban fabric to begin to visualise minute examples of life as we imagine it to occur in the new city. difficult and contesting most of the time, clashing and redefining urbanity from data was challenging, especially as the data often didn’t appear the same more than twice. I believe this is where the process of only breaking down one aspect comes to value. releasing yourself from creating a rigid metropolis allows the future inhabitants to innovate and personalise the spaces instead of just adapting to the new orders we’ve prescribed them. I think this allowance for change in a design is critical as a could prevent a disastrous future built environment. Holistically I believe this process, while abstract, reveals unattainable outcomes that a traditional design process would overlook and fail to consider. the depth at which we analysed the data and produced alternative definitions yielded a creativity I didn’t think I was capable of.
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