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RE.On [Gamescapes RC7, Jose Sanchez, Bartlett 2012-2013] [ Georgios Tsakiridis] [ Efthymia Dimitra Kotsani]

Re.On [ Efthymia Dimitra Kotsani] [ Georgios Tsakiridis ] Plethora Studio -RC07 - GAMESCAPES Course Master : Jose Sanchez Consultant : Sergio Irigoyen The Bartlett School of Architecture MArch Graduate Architectural Design (GAD) Academic Year : 2012-2013 University College of London

Aknowledgement We would like to express our special gratitude to our families and friends who have supported us throughout this experience, as well as to our course master Jose Sanchez, our report tutor David Andreen and the G.A.D program that have given us the opportunity to research and develop RE.On. Furthermore, we would like to thank all the people that helped us formulate the final outcome of RE.On throughout the year : Denis Vlieghe Michail Desyllas Denis Lacej Michelle Poon Will Hosikian A sincere word of appreciation to Filip Visnic, Theo Spyroupolos, Sean Hana, Ricardo de Ostos, Martin Dittus, Tobias Klein, Adam Sudcliff, Igor Pantic, Soomen Hahm, Gary Freedman, Diony Kypraiou, Juan Oyarbide, Simon Winters for their very constructive comments on the project..

Special Thanks to Sergio Irigoyen for his constant help and advice.

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Table of contents

Table of Contents :

01. Float [ Georgios Tsakiridis ] ......................................................................................................... p. 7

02. Wire [ Efthymia Dimitra Kotsani ]......................................................................................... p. 15 03. The conflict of matter [The case of Hong Kong ] ............................................ p. 23 Hong Kong Unit Trip | Global Game Jam .................................................... p. 24

Board Games | The Game Of Typology ......................................................... p. 26 Board Games | The Game Of Typology ......................................................... p. 32

04. The conflict of matter [The politics of water] ....................................................... p.37

05. Designing for Water I [Water physics]............................................................................ p. 51 06. Designing for Water II [Geometry Studies]................................................................ p. 59 07. Digital Model Studies ......................................................................................................................... p. 75 08. Why Creating a Game ? [elements and mechanics of the game] ......... p.83 09. The Computation of Re.0n .......................................................................................................... p.89

L-system analysis............................................................................................................

p. 90 CA analysis ............................................................................................................................ p. 92 Bezier Connection .......................................................................................................... p. 98

10. Prototyping [Physical Model Studies] ................................................................................. p. 101 11. The Computation of Re.0n [Water Output] ............................................................... p. 121 12. Why Creating a Game? [The Interface] ....................................................................... p. 127 13. Gameplay Strategies .................................................................................................................... p. 141 14. Appendix ....................................................................................................................................................... p. 171 Theoretical Research ................................................................................................... p. 171 [1. The aesthetics of decision | Georgios Tsakiridis] ........... p. 172 [2.Re-present the unseen | Efthymia Dimitra Kotsani] .... p. 183 Side activities | Imaging Workshop ................................................................ p. 195

RE .On _ Beta testing day ........................................................................................ p. 196 Unity User Group meeting ..................................................................................... p. 197 References ........................................................................................................................... p. 199

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01 _float [ Georgios Tsakiridis]

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_float research The research is informed by two major initiatives: a. The GIPF project, which is a board game that consists of multiple game fields, and multiple components. Players are able to combine components, in order to acquire extra attributes and to achieve multiple scorings through the different fields.

Moreover, the element of “time” , is used in order to create temporalities, through the differentiated distribution of it across the game board. b. a personal interest on desalinization (or processes of filtration), under the prism of the blurring boundaries between the notions of “natural” and “artificial”.

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Inevitably, water emerges as a major factor of this project. Thus, the complicated process of desalination is partitioned in simple tasks, the first one of which is: the development and interposition of two discrete systems:

1. an aggregating system of floating “water vessels” (units)

2. a system of aborption/distribution of water through the

units

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this is achieved by:

a user-driven simulation of open-form, Cellular Automata (CA)

system in an environment with underwater-like properties

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Computational System Analysis

Instantiation

Removing

The simulation gives the option of instant removing of units from the aggregation, allowing the continuous dynamic reshape of the formations

Absorbtion

Each new component (unit) can be instantiated on one of the 6 faces of an existing one. The system allows for multipe instantiations, therefore, each unit is able to have up to 6 “neigbor” units.

Connection/Deformation Units are connected to each other under the state of a “fixed joint”, which restrains all degrees of movement freedom.

However, due to the fact that units have certain mass, physical transformations occur, according to the laws of physics (gravity, friction etc.)

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Units are able to “absorb” water from the environment, thus their mass is immediately affected

Distribution Each unit is able to distribute the amount of water, which contains, to its neighboring units, as long as they are connected through a fixed joint.As the system is an open-form CA, the number of “neigbours” is not predefined, therefore, units are able to “track” them and do the necessary calculations.

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Initial Experiments _float v1.0

aggregation experiment 1. 0 aggregation experiment 1. 1

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GamePlay

float v2.0 variation 1. 1

float v2.0 variation 1. 2

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Experimentations _float v2.0

aggregation study 2. 1 | 2. 2 aggregation study 2. 3

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02 _wire [ Efthymia Dimitra Kotsani]

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_wire research What seems really intresting in the architectural field is the investigation of the way the humans perceive space, mainly through sight, a sense that has become dominant for existance and spacial understanding. Once , the human eye consist a mechanism that can be deceived in order to create new spatial epxeriences, some physical techniques were exploared, concerning mainly the essence of light. image 6

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A constant investigation on sight and eye deception, lef to the work of the Venezuelan artist Gego, who considered hes sculptyring as drowning without paper� . Through her simple forms she managed to trigger the eye and deliver 2(two) dimensional experiences in a 3(three) dimensional space

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RE.0n Influenced by this 2 dimensional essence of an object in space, some digital experiments were held, with the use of a simple, linear component, in order to investigate on the mechanisms by which an object loses its 3 dimensionality and, as a whole, deceives the eye.

Techniques such as repetition and layering led to the emergence of a spacial essence of interiority/ exteriority.

In a second, digital attempt to simulate a similar system, a pulsiating mechanism, able to generate “ neighbouring” relations among the design units, created the illusion of an ever evolving and constantly assembled “ living” structure.

The system uses a very specific mechanism in order to aggregate and function properly. The complexity of the system derives from its ability to aggregate new units in all possible directions. The connection among the elements of the system is achieved through the use of a Sping Joint. Moreover, the ability of the system to perform according to the physical laws of the spring Joint generated a constant flow of the elements, by creating a kinetic and performative structure.

Diagram of assemblages and rotations

Renders of assemblages and rotations

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Greation of a dynamic simulation system

Distributor

Collision Mechanism

Spring Force Test

Damper Force Test

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GamePlay

Experimental aggregations Test_1

Experimental aggregations Test_2

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Experimental aggregations

Experiamental aggregations Test_3 Experimental aggregations Test_4

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03 The conflict of the matter [ The case of Hong Kong ]

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Hong Kong Unit Trip and Global Game Jam 2013

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Hong Kong Unit Trip | Global Game Jam

On the 25-27 of january 2013 ,during the unit trip in hong kong, the members of the Cluster RC7,”Gamescapes”,decided to participate in the “Global Game Jam” international competition, which engages with the development of a video/board/card game in 48 hours. The theme of this year’s contest was the heart beat.

“Abort-it”, is a video game that intends to raise awareness about the issue of abortion. Conceiving the heart beat as a major “sign of life” , the player is set to the dilemma of activating the constantly produced living entities or letting them vanish.The game intends to function as a research tool among two separate “hall of fames”, one of those who activated the majority of entities and one for those who let them vanish.

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The Game of Typology “The Game of Typology” is a board game which explores the relations of different space typologies inside a building.

Initially, by focusing on the fundamental economic and cultural elements of Hong Kong’s urban system, the research attempts to illustrate the ways in which they are manifested in the architectural scale.

The urban fabric is conceived as a negotiation field among the interests of different factors. More speciffically, among the private sector, which is, mainly, expressed through highrises, the public, which referes either to state property or open-space and a “buffering” zone between the two, which is usually occupied by shoping malls and other corresponding facilities.

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The case of Hong Kong | Board Games | The Game Of Typology

Pressure in Urban Scale:

Landuse pressure:

density of landuse

not build up < 1000 people/km2 < 10000 people/km2 2

< 50000 people/km > 50000 people/km2

population pressure:

culture pressure noise pressure heavy polution pressure

Pressure in Hong Kong

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Pressure in building scale :

Relationship : Building Density Population Density Unit Density

Building Density

High Density in Hong Kong: 10 person/unit 11/9 = 1.222

Low Density : person/unit 1/9 = 0.111

population density

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Horrizontal Connection in Hong Kong:

Bridge

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game rule of value

bridge in the game private space with buffering space

0 value Value Bridge Buffering Space Connection

visible connection

multiple layers/ different levels

invisible connection

shopping/stores in the corridors of the tube. invisible connections among people,transport ation,commercial.Comercial â&#x20AC;&#x153; Tubeâ&#x20AC;?

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The case of Hong Kong | Board Games | The Game Of Typology

Game Component : Rule of Connection:

Open space

Buffering space

Private space

SAME COLOR/ TYPE CUBE CONFIGURATION TOP VIEW

Game Rule: RIGHT!!

RULE OF DENSITY (Rule of four)

WRONG!!

RULE OF CONNECTION SINGLE PLAYER MULTIPLE PLAYERS

Second System: absolute value:

relative value:

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The creation of a buiding typology-generator “machine”, such as the “Game of Typology” requires the creation of a 3d board, in which the game is played.

In that context, several models were manufactured, in order to engage with the 3d-dimensionality of the board, resulting in one prototype/mechanism. Moreover, the element of transformability is added in order to create a field of constant fluctuation and unpredictable correlations among the players and the terrain, resonating both to the market system and to the distinctive anaglyph of the city of Hong Kong.

The board game mechanism

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On Board The whole study of the game “On Board” is inspired by the city of Hong Kong and its networks that are constituted of many different parameters. During research the issue of “cage housing” came accross, a problem that emerges from the way the city of Hong Kong is structured and distributes its residents. Towards this direction, some major parameters such as the land use, the economy analysis, the building typology and the density of the city, are analyzed and generate valuable informations for the creation of a board game that focuses on the different densities that constitute a city, mainly through its variety of networks . The “scaleless”character of the board and its components, intend to point out the different city scales in which this “cage” phenomeno can occure.

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Building Typology analiisys Building Typology Analysis:

Type A1

Board Components :

16 pixels / 0 points

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Type A3 45pixels / 1 points

16 pixels / -1 points

16 & 33 pixels / 2 points

16 & 24 pixels / -2 points

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Variations of Gameplays

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Goal Of The Game Main goal of the game is the formation of two networks, conflicting or not, in two different levels, that intend to expand in the areas with the most positive value.

The phenomeno of â&#x20AC;&#x153;cage housing â&#x20AC;? is commented through the drop of land value that occures when an area gets overpopulated.

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Structural Components

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Step 6_ Count your points

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Rules and Instractions _At the beggining of the game every player has all of his structural components and no network components . _ The first player must place a structural component whereas the second one is capable of placing also a network component. _ When a player decides to place network components, he can use from just one, up to the number of elements he posseses at that moment.

_The connection between a structural component and a bridge-like one, can be achieved only through the lifting elements.

land value drop

_All the structural Components should form a network and be connected at least in one “pixel”

Scoring System The scoring system varies according to the two different gameplays.

_Game Play 1 _In the fist gameplay each player tries to form a network and gather the maximum of points. A way to do so is by blocking his opponent’ s network. In that case the score is individual since the game is highly competitive.

_Game Play 2

_ The network components should also form a network _The middle part of the cross-like structural components is Universal

_In the second gameplay, the two players cooperate in order to form their networks.

Their goal is to achieve the best common score by avoiding the board tiles with the minimum value. In that gameplay, the players compete each time their “previous selves” and try to improve their efficiency as a team by overpassing their last score.

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04 The conflict of matter [The politics of water]

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Global Water Availability 95-100% of the population has clean water 75-94.9% of the population has clean water <74.9% of the population has clean water Not estimated

Projected Water Scarcity in 2025 Physical water scarcity Economic water scarcity Little or no water scarcity Not estimated

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The politics of Water

The general agenda of “Re.On” aspires to focus on water, as matter and as a system of networks in the build environment. Inevitably, dealing with water creates connotations related to the water management issues that have arisen the last years and the forth-coming global water crisis.

Parallel to the uprising issue of water management, under the influence of the contemporary approach regarding the “decentralization” of the vital energy resources for an inhabitation cell, which are: electricity, food, fuel and water, it was noticed that the first three have been mostly tackled with solutions like solar panels, wind turbines, bio-fuels and urban farming.

However, the forth , “ water”, has been dealt only in terms of collecting rain water or grey water treatment, but it seems that what was missing was the largest resource, which is the sea!

Currently, desalination facilities are huge, expensive, industrial plants that belong usually to the state.

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Water Architecture [ reference] BATH is a project created by the german architectural firm â&#x20AC;&#x153;SMAQâ&#x20AC;? and intends to speculate not only on issues of habitation but also on issues of urban landscape.

It proposes an alternative, self-empowered form of leisure, composed of a 1,000-meter garden hose ,plugged into the existing water infrastructure and able to carry enough water to fill a bathtub for two people. Arranged in countless loops, the elastic hose forms a surface able to harves the sun, thus hea water and eventually fill the bath.

Image 16 [right] : Bath project | general view Image 17 [below] : BATH project | detail

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Water Game [ reference] HYDRODYNAMIC Building Set, is a game constructed by â&#x20AC;&#x153;bridge street toysâ&#x20AC;? company and intends to educate children for fluid dunamics, structure and performance of a manufacturing plant that is consisted of working tanks, pipes and valves.

With the available components of the game, every user is able to crete an ice cream factory, a water treatment plant and other industrial structures.

Image 18, 19 [left] : hydrodynamic building set | configuration diagram 1 , 2 Image 20 [below] : hydrodynamic building set | cover

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Open platform architecture [ reference] “WikiHouse, is an open construction set that allows anyone to design, download and “print” cnc-milled house components which can be assembled with minimal formal skills or training.”1

Hence, the focus is drawn not by the procedure itself, but by the fact that it deals with what it could be named as “architecture’s social economy”. In that context, a potential “client” doesn’t necessarily belong only to the 1% prosperous population of the world, but to the 100%.

1. Description of the project from it’s official site : (www.wikihouse.cc/about)

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Image 21 : Functional diagram of the Wiki house project

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Common fitting for pumping / plumbing and Water Storaging / Distribution System Main initiative of the project is the reconsideration of the infrastructure of water, and the exploration of the ability of it to create architectural narratives and produce space.

Therefore, the research initiates by the archiving of the existing components that can be found in a residential waternetwork, which has been up to this point considered as a secondary, almost hidden, supportive system. A catalogue of these components was created in order to understand all the possible ways that this system can be assembled along with a typical residential analysis of water distribution. cold water storage cistern

boiler

hot water cylinder

domestic hot water

mains cold water

water authority stopcock

stored cold water

stopcock

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Average Daily Water Consumption per person Factors such as: the economical state of a region, which according to scientific facts is directly related to water availability, or human behaviors/habits, expressed through the average water consumption per residential unit etc., or even the vernacular element, influence the form â&#x20AC;&#x201C;the quantity of components and therefore, the spatial configurationsâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; and, eventually, the functionality of the architectural product (the water capacity etc.).

By relating the human habits concerning the water with the above study, diagrams of the individualâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s average water consumption around the globe, were created, in order to understand how water can be translated into space, through its structural components. The study is realized by calculating the volume capacity of all the above components and combining them in spatial configurations.

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Cellular Automata Studies

final state

Some initial speculations concerning the project and the research focused on investigating possible patterns of organization between the main characters/units of the distribution network. A primal CA system is generated in order to control the alignment of collectors, filters and distributors, according to their functional and spatial relation.

Rules

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Space

Distributors

Collectors

1. any cell with 8 live neighbours (neighbour count) = stay dead

1. any cell with 8 live neighbours (neighbour count) = die

1. any cell with 8 live neighbours (neighbour count) = die

2. any cell with less than 7 live neighbours (neighbour count) = distributor

2. any cell with at least 1 neighbour and less than 7 neighbours (neighbour count) = distributor

2. any cell with at least 1 neighbour and less than 7 neighbours (neighbour count) = distributor

3. any cell with 7 live neighbours (green count) = collector

3. any cell with more than 7 live neighbours (green count) = collector

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Initial Functional Diagram of the Residential Unit

Taking into consideration the above research, regarding both the existing methods of water management/distribution and the oncoming global water crisis, the project attempts to suggest an architecture that encompases an alternative way of water treatment, focusing on the local scale and the individual.

Theinitial argue of the project was about the construction of a residenctial unit, which is able to harvest fresh water from the sea, by desalinating and distributing it, into its own skin. The structural system serves as a collecting and distributing â&#x20AC;&#x153;mechanismâ&#x20AC;?, which consists of a specific number of components, which are able to function as collectors, filters and distributors. Through the developement of interrelating networks of cold/hot and drinking water, the residence is able to cover the basic consumption needs of its inhabitants and, possibly, be promoted into a cell of economic activity by trading the clean water surpluses.

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var 6.1

An initial geometrical research was held , in order to investigate on the possible aggregation and growth of the system.

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Perfect packing and overlaying were some of the techniques that were used.

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Designing for water I | Water Physics

Capillarity and Porocity Studies

In order to design, the project draw information and inspiration from the physics of water. Initially, some capillarity studies were held, which in terms of a material computation base, is a compromise between porosity and height. Communicating vessels and the phenomenon of evaporation, as the basic water desalinating/ purifying process were also explored. (quick word on the functionality of the double-chambered membrane)

Porocity experimentation 1

Surface Isolevel : 0.841 | Blur Isofield strength Porocity experimentation 1 : 0.095 | Blur Isofield Iteration : 1 | Smooth Mesh strength: 0 Surface Isolevel : 0.841 | Blur Isofield strength : 0.095 | Blur Isofield Iteration : 1 | Smooth Mesh strength: 0

Surface Detail : 2.551

Surface Detail : 3.314

Surface Detail : 2.551

Surface Detail : 3.314

Surface Detail : 3.857 Surface Detail : 3.857

Surface Detail : 4.235 Surface Detail : 4.235

Surface Detail : 5 Surface Detail : 5

Porocity experimentation 2 Porocity 2 : 0 | Blur Isofield Iteration : 1 | Smooth Mesh strength: 16,5 Surface Isolevel : 1,1 experimentation | Blur Isofield strength Surface Isolevel : 1,1 | Blur Isofield strength : 0 | Blur Isofield Iteration : 1 | Smooth Mesh strength: 16,5

Surface Detail : 2.643 Surface Detail : 2.643

Surface Detail : 2.98 Surface Detail : 2.98

Surface Detail : 3.133 Surface Detail : 3.133

Surface Detail : 3.469

Node as a communicating vessel mechanism Node as a communicating vessel mechanism

Surface Detail : 3.469

State 1 State 1

Surface Detail : 3.714 Surface Detail : 4.265 Surface Detail : 3.714 Surface Detail : 4.265

Surface Detail : 4.327 Surface Detail : 4.327

Surface Detail : 4.541 Surface Detail : 4.541

Surface Detail : 5 Surface Detail : 5

Porocity experimentation 3 Porocity experimentation 3

General communicating vessel function General communicating vessel function

capillarity drives the water upcapillarity the beamdrives the water up the beam

State 1, normal pressure State 1, normal pressure

Surface Isolevel : 1,1 | Blur isofield strength : 0.429 | Blur Isofield Iteration : 1 | Smooth Mesh strength: 25 Surface Isolevel : 1,1 | Blur isofield strength : 0.429 | Blur Isofield Iteration : 1 | Smooth Mesh strength: 25

State 2 State 2 water level water level

State 2, one vessel under pressure State 2, one vessel under pressure water is concentrated into the node water is concentrated into the node Surface Detail : 2.459 Surface Detail : 2.612 Surface Detail : 2.459 Surface Detail : 2.612

Surface Detail : 2.765 Surface Detail : 2.765

Surface Detail : 2.827 Surface Detail : 2.827

Surface Detail : 3.041 Surface Detail : 3.041

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water level water level

State 3, under rotation State 3, under rotation

water waterpasses passes through through the thesecond secondbeam beam communicating communicatingvessel vesselphenomono phenomono

Surface Detail : 3.194 : 3.378 Surface Detail : 3.194 Surface Detail Surface Detail : 3.378

SurfaceSurface Detail : 3.622 Detail : 3.622

SurfaceSurface Detail :Detail 4.082: 4.082

Surface DetailDetail : 4.816 Surface : 4.816

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Designing for water I | Water Physics

Product References Watertube “This doughnut-shaped container can be used to collect, distill and store water. It consists of two chambers with a central gap in which user can fill this container with water from the nearest river. The water distils from the top chamber an down to the lower chamber, where it is stored.”1 source: http://www.en-derin.com/technology/watertube-provides-sanitary-water-in-remote-areas

Surface of the outer membrane that containes filtered water

Inner membrane that containes salty water

Slap Bracelet “ A slap bracelet (or snap bracelet) is a bracelet consisting of layered, flexible stainless steel bistable spring bands sealed within a fabric or plastic cover. The bracelet can be straightened out, making tension within the springy metal bands. The straightened bracelet is then slapped against the wearer’s forearm, causing the bands to spring back into a curve that wraps around the wrist, securing the bracelet to the wearer.” 2 source:http://www.ribbonwo rks.co.uk/slap-bracelets.cfm

salt water absorption

salt water absorption

sunbeams evaporation sunbeams evaporation

Image 22 : Water tube project | Image 203: Slap Bracelet

Water Mechanics

Water Mechanics

Pythagorian Cup

Grabbing Mechanism Grabbing Mechanism

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salt water absorption salt water absorption

salt water absorption

salt water absorption

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clear water chamber

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The “Life” of the Unit Speculations on the redefinition of the existing building blocks of architecture (and specifically water architecture), led to the proposal of an open-end system (or a “sand-box”) consisted of a predefined type and number of elements (distribution components, desalinators etc) that could be combined (and re-combined) in multiple assemblages. The multitude of outcomes, which ideally emerges, is highly dependent on the “politics of matter”, as they are signified through a negotiation field of conflicts and transactions between different societal groups, organizations, individuals etc., but also through nonhuman elements: land, water, air etc.

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Physical Model [Test I] As an initial, potential design a simple, in terms of its form, yet smart in terms of its computational capacity, unit is imported, which is a basic â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yâ&#x20AC;? element, and some experimentation initiated, with three different expressions of it, regarding its materiality and scale.

Basically, the research started by studying a typical L-system for the generation of the main units, but it was quickly realized that what the project was looking for was not only the study of orientations, but the method by which this could be more radically explored through a unit that could encompass the element of flexibility.

Through multiple experimentations, a number of meaningful combinations was traced that gave the user a certain aspect of control over the system. This physical model exploration that started with a simple foam-like material continued with further material exploration and scale explorations.

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At a later stage, the research engaged with a larger unit, considering its scale, with the intention to increase the density of the system and investigate on potential configurations that could imply a more structural approach.

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Geometry Studies _ Re.On As an immediate response to the physical exploration of the system, some digital variations were created in order to test all the physical attributes that were traced.

However, it was profound from the very beginning that the whole process would require the intelligence of a computational system, in order to deal with the complexity of aspects like the position and rotation of units in space, as far as larger aggregations are concerned,. the actual distribution of water etc.

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08 Why Creating a Game?

[elements and mechanics of the game]

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Game References Image 24: Sim City

The highly narrative character of games, as mediums, denotes their adequacy for the creation of a sense of experience and a proper communication of the issues that concern the user/ player during its digital experimentation.

Furthermore, considering the already existing digital tools that speculate on space complexity and creation, games and more precisely, designing through playing, seems to present a notable freedom on the creation of multiple and unexpected outcomes. By default, an unlimited amount of possible outcomes cannot be generated by a predefined scenario-making procedure.

Moreover, the crowdsourocing character of video games denotes its numerous possibilities for design and alternative outcomes whereas a typical digital design platform is mainly addressed to individuals.

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Players of the Game Through the game platforms, users are able to “actuate” some parameters, variables or even assemblages in order to explore the mechanisms of the system and generate their desirable outcome.

Therefore, in the case of “RE. On”, it is important the introduction of the players /actors of this scenario that co-exist with the user at every step.

The agents of this system that is struggling for its own existence through water management and purification ,are the player, the switch, the pump, the distributor, the sensor ,the desalinator, the cultivation unit and the water storage unit. Apparently, all the elements of this sandbox are not able to hold the same attributes, hence the first two are “triggered” more by the decision making process whereas the rest are highly important for their functionality.

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In order to solve mainly the water distribution, but also other issues that occur in an open form aggregating system (such as deformations that could be applied not necessarily in all units uniformly, but in a single unit as well) a computational layer was added, which could be described as an open form CA system. As opposed to a more traditional approach on CA, what the research is focused on is not the patterns of automata that emerge etc. but the actual transaction of information that occurs among the units.

Therefore, the algorithm allows for the units to talk to each other, making them aware of their neighbors, (that could mean the number of them (max 3 in our case), their state, etc.)

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Bezier Analysis In order to allow for the system to loop within its elements and to create the topologies of a closed network, a 3dimentional representation of a Bezier curve was introduced, which still works in parallel with the geometrical deformations of the units and the water distribution system.

Bezier Mechanics diagram

This is the updated diagram that represents the complete functionality of the water distribution system and the way it performs through a Bezier connection event inside the game.

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Practically, this means that every unit keeps a perfect record of all possible parent-to-child and inverse connections, altering its state, either by the trigger of the player or according to the state of its neighbors.

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10 Prototyping

[Physical Model Studies]

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Arduino workshop Initial arduino setup spectulation

Parallel to the development of the platform, the research came to the task to see how feasible would be to implement this units as building blocks physically.

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Initial attempt of this experiment was the distribution of water through a pre- assembled structure that held the ability to be reconfigured, and the exploration of the different ditributional outcomes through a decision making process.

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Water Distribution Experiment | Study 1 The first experimentation initiated by a simple color test installation where a photocell was used in order to trace the different colored qualities of water that was passing through the system.

An arduino board was used for the accurate collection of the color data and the munipulation of the photocell unit.

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Water Distribution Experiment | Study 2 The second experimentation used two different types of pumps for the water distribution. A general one and an electronic one, manipulated/ handled by the arduino board..

In this case senario, the two different ditributors were performing as opponents, each by trying to affect the system the most with its own wate color wuality. .

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Water Distribution Experiment | Study 3| System Combination The third experiment was created by combining the two previous experimentations.

Therefore, in the final distributional senario the system is overflown by a certain type of colored water. By the time that a second color is introduced to the system , the color data colleected by the arduino board are triggering the electrical pump and by the time the values reach to a certain “dark “level, the second pump is triggered in order to “clean-up” the system from a less qualified water type.

Direct analogy to the RE.On project through this experimentation is created for the function of the sensor of the system which is responsible for the correct distribution of fresh and salty water , separately.

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Unit Functional analysis This diagram demonstrates the way by which the 3d printed geometries perform in the physical world. The switch component enables the change in the direction of the water distribution.

On the right page .,it is shown how a simple cliping component, functions almost as an armor, once it has the ability to be assembled on distinct areas of the system.

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11 The Computation of Re.0n [Water Output]

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In an attempt to define what are actually the minimum blocks of this system, it was noticed that there are situations where branching is necessary, whereas in others it makes more sense to retain a parallel distribution.

Moreover, in an attempt to engage with the architectural scale and a closer rationalizing process , a more systematic approach was introduced to the system .Therefore, some initial spacial measurements are giving information concerning the water capacity of the unit, ant therefore the systemâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s.

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Systems Water Outputs In order to investigate, further, on possible ways to treat the ground condition of the system, a plan patch was introduced, which is able to work both as a foundation of the branching elements and also as a tank or container for the storage of the water.

Moreover, an extra layer of components that are related to the terrain was added to the system, costituted by elongated hexagonal forms that have the ability to perform as cultivation and water storage units, in respect.

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12 Why Creating a Game?

[The Interface]

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The Interface In general, it could be argued that the computation of “RE.On” could be achieved through all sort of different algorithmic design platforms that have been extensively used in architectural research, however, what seems to be the major element in this approach, which resonates directly to the world of Videogames, is the “interface” itself : this layer of information and data representation that regulates the communication or “symbiosis” between the user/designer/player and the algorithm itself.

Consequently, by taking advantage of the game mechanics, the information is present at the moment the decision is taken and not afterwards, as a post rational process. In other words, what is put into question is: how would the absorption and distribution of water from unit to unit, influence the design decision, and therefore the morphology of the outcome.

As far as the methodology of design is concerned, “Re.On” works as a case to study to test the possibility of an evolving architecture, through the development of an interactive platform (or a real-time simulating environment), which is able to provide to the designer/ user the means to explore patterns and pathways of how the architectural elements could potentially come together.

Upon entering the “world of Re.On”, the player/user/designer gets familiarized with the main environment, a coastal terrain, in which he is asked to shape space through the development of structures, using a list of various geometrical entities (units).

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_Creates Bezier connections among the elements of the system according to their branches _Able to carry all types of water _water capacity of 1 m : 8.1 lt

A set of tutorials guides the user through the different elements of the interface, and more specifically all the different units that can be used in order to create different spacial and functional outcomes.

This diagram, demonstrates all the elements of â&#x20AC;&#x153;RE.On â&#x20AC;&#x153;along with their possitioning within the interface and their functional attributes.Their distinct combinations are able to generate numerous different outcomes.

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_Desalinates sea water through evaporation _Able to carry cold and warm type of water

_water capacity : 11 lt _performs as a water carrier _able to carry all types of water

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_water capacity : 138 lt _collects only fresh water and is able to store or distribute it to the surrounding plantation

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_consumes 0.5 litre per day _able to be caltivated with short rooted plants _the type of plant is defined by the region and the climate

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A scoring board helps the user evaluate the outcome, in real-time, both in terms of the geometry (e.g. how many objects have been used) and its performance, focusing on the water distribution efficiency (e.g. the exposure of the desalinating elements to the sun, in relation to the fresh water that is produced).

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Game Strategies | Study 22 Instance of one of the multiple outcomes that evolve through gameplay. In parallel to the accomplishment of what seems the major task, which is the absorption and filtration of seawater to produce fresh one, the user has the ability to generate complex spatial formations that could potentially evolve into architecture.

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Game Strategies | Study 24 A future application of such architecture in the context of underdeveloped or developing countries and the harvesting of water as a function itself could potentially create a new micro-economic “water-trading” system, that is related either to the maintenance of its “inhabitants”, or its own existence (regarding its maintenance or expansion etc.)

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Game Strategies | Study 28 The evolving architecture does not intend to give a definitive answer rather than open a spectrum of probabilities through the various configurations of components. Reassembling evolves as the main methodology to discover meaningful outcomes out of all the possible combinations.

Through this research, the project investigates the potential architecture that could emerge on the blurring boundaries between the land and the sea, functioning as an actuator, which influences both the relationship of the structural space with its environment and, also, the relations which are developed among the environmental elements, themselves.

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14 Appendix Theoretical Research

[1. The aesthetics of decision | Georgios Tsakiridis] [2.Re-present the unseen | Efthymia Dimitra Kotsani]

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