STUDIO AIR JOURNAL PART A
Hagi Hagianti 2017 - 755340 Tutor: Manuel Muehlbauer
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Table of Content A.0. Intoduction A.1. Design Futuring A.2. Design Computation A.3. Composition/Generation A.4. Conclusion A.5. Learning Outcomes A.6. Appendix - Algorithmic Sketches
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A.0. iNTRODUCTION Hello, I’m Hagianti. I’m an International Student from Indonesia and I’ve been in Melbourne since 2014. I’m currently studying at The University of Melbourne, Bachelor of Environments majoring in Architecture. I actually prefer designing with hands because I have strength with touch, and can express my feeling through my hands into a work of art. Digital Architecture is a new world for me and I have no experiences with it at all. I struggled a lot with using new architectural softwares last semester like Autocad and Rhino. Rhino is one of the most difficult software for me so far. And I am still learning it now. Architectural software like Rhino and Grasshopper sound frightening to me. But in order to be a great architect, I have to learn these softwares. Moreover, learning new softwares that are challenging like this trains my perseverence that is important as a future architect.
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Architecture Design Studio: Earth Brief: A place for keeping secret Software: Autocad, Rhino, Lumion
Architecture Design Studio: Earth Brief: A place for keeping secret Software: Autocad, Photoshop
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pART A: CONCEPTUALISATION
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“.. critical design aims to challenge how people think about everyday life. In doing this, it strives to keep alive other possibilities by providing a counterpoint to the world around us and encouraging us to see that everyday life could be different.�
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Figure A1.1. Global Warming Source: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warming/global-warming-overview/
a.1. design futuring
We are now living in a world that has an increasing destruction of natural environments. One of the causes is climate change. One of the biggest contribution to climate change is due to the greenhouse gas emissions, which apparently the impact of buildings on energy consumption. As the damage towards our ecosystem is increasing because of human 1 actions, design futuring is needed. Design futuring has two roles, which are making the defuturing slower and redirecting building design to be more sustainable for habitation. Architecture should be redesigned
with speculative design , which combining exploration of ideas with technology development that does not only make design ‘fancy’, but make a design that is responding to the problem of design today, consideration to the cultural landscape, and has a a better impact for the future ecological system sustainability.
1. Tony Fry, Design Futuring: Sustainability, Ethics and New Practice (Oxford: Berg), pp. 1–16. 2. Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby, Speculative Everything: Design Fiction, and Social Dreaming (MIT Press) pp. 1-9, 33-45.
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Figure A1.2. MPavilion, AL_A Architects, Melbourne’s Queen Victoria Gardens Source: https://www.dezeen.com/2015/10/05/amanda-levete-architects-mpavilion-queen-victoria-gardens-melbourne-australia-fibreglass-forest-petals/
MPavilion, AL_A Architects, Melbourne's Queen Victoria Gardens Mpavilion that is built for workshops to performances and exhibitions in Melborune, the end of 2015, is one of examples for architectural design that applies speculative design. This pavilion is a light open structure that allows wind, fresh air, and view of the garden to be celebrated in this natural shelter This is very sustainable because it provides natural cooling during summer. It also has a deep consideration for the landscape surround it that can be seen from its structure that mimics the trees suround this pavilion, that make this pavilion have integration with the garden.
great strength on this shelter, materials and technologies developed for the aerospace industry are used for this temporary structure. This pavilion also provides sustainability for the environment through the shelter that is made from fibreglass fabrication, to create transparency, to allow natural sunlight to come in. The overlapping fibreglass petals that are very dense allowing sunlight to filter through, so there is no need to use energy for lighting, especially during the day. During the night, the LEDs within the petals are activated at sunset, creating illumination of the structure at night3.
Also, to create such lightness with
3. Design Boom. About MPavilion, accessed 10 March 2016, from http://www.designboom.com/architecture/al_a-amanda-levete-mpavilion-melbourne-queen-victoria-gardens-10-05-2015/
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Figure A1.3. Louverwall, AND Architect, South Korea Source: http://www.archdaily.com/796733/louverwall-and
Louverwall, AND Architect, South Korea Louverwall is a residential building that uses an algorithm called Parametric Louver Design System to produce best performing louver to create a sustainable design building. The focus will be the west facade that is energy efficient and transparent. The aluminium louvers that cover the curtain wall prevents the excessive light that come through during summer, but still allow heat to come during winter.
This curtain wall that provides glazed faรงade with soft daylight creates sustainability to this residential building that is situated in such a city that is quite high in contributing for pollution, by reducing the extra cooling and heating load to the building. 4
This Parametric Louver Design System does not just simply block the summer sun. But the algorithm calculates how much the summer sun is blocked, and how much the winter sun can be brought in. 4. Archdaily. About Louverwall, accessed 10 March 2016, from http://www.archdaily.com/796733/louverwall-and.
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Figure A1.4. Louverwall, AND Architect, South Korea Source: http://www.archdaily.com/796733/louverwall-and Figure A1.5. Louverwall, Section A Source: http://www.archdaily.com/796733/louverwall-and Figure A1.6. Louverwall, Section B Source: http://www.archdaily.com/796733/louverwall-and
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Figure A2.1.Beijing National Stadium.
a.2. design computing Design is when we are facing a situation that is contrast with some expected situation, and when the solutions to it are not clear immediately. Therefore, Design5 is aimed to achieve to a transparent destination, and there should be a way to achieve it. One of many ways to achieve the clear solution to solve the design problems is by using computers. There are differences between ‘computerization’ and ‘computation’ that are mostly confused and get mixed up. ‘Computerization’ is when the ideas from architects are documented in computer for example using AutoCad to visualize the idea because it is easier to edit, copy and paste. Meanwhile, ‘computation’, helps designer to develop their capability to solve some very advanced problems. Computation helps the designer to develop6 basic form into some complex form easier, rather than do it manually.
5. Kalay, Yehuda E. (2004). Architecture’s New Media: Principles, Theories, and Methods of Computer-Aided Design (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press), pp. 5-25 6. Peters, Brady. (2013) ‘Computation Works: The Building of Algorithmic Thought’, Architectural Design, 83, 2, pp. 08-15
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Figure A2.2.Beijing National Stadium.
Beijing National Stadium, 'The Bird's Nest', China
 "The parametric design helped to work out the sightlines, the bowl geometry, airflow to keep the grass in good condition, seismic studies and the design of the external envelope." 7
7. Beijing National Stadium. (2017). http://www.designbuild-network.com/projects/national_stadium/
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The stadium has very large steel structure, approximately 26 km of unwrapped steel and has a volume of three million cubic metres. The shape is based on a bird’s nest, a pattern inspired by Chinese style crazed pottery. While designing the stadium, architects and engineers also make sure that all spectators get convenient seats and best view. Also, the different utilities of the stadium should considered as well. For example, “the most important view is at the finish line of the running track but when used for football, the best views are at the centre line.” In order for everyone to have a good view in such a huge venue was really challenging, moreover to get the calculations right. If it is done in human capabiliy, it is almost impossible, time consuming and ineffective.
But as we know, computation exceeds the intelligenceof the architect and improving ability to solve8 such highly difficult problems. To get the best design, parametric design software is very needed to be used. Beside considering and creating an optimum design for different utilities, sustainability of the stadium is also created and achieved optimumly. For example, to calculate the temperature and airflow speed at each structure’s angle and optimization of all ventilation, computation fluid dynamics (CDF) simulation had been used.
"While the surface of the structure is simple, the geometry is complex the calculations were so numerous and complicated that they could not be solved manually, Software was needed to 9 make sure that the web of twisting steel sections fitted together, as they have to twist and bend to follow the surface accurately." 8. Peters, Brady. (2013) ‘Computation Works: The Building of Algorithmic Thought’, Architectural Design, 83, 2, pp. 08-15 9. Beijing National Stadium. (2017). http://www.designbuild-network.com/projects/national_stadium/
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The Programmed Column 2, ETH 19
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The programmed column 2 is made by the students in ETH Zurich, who are challenged to design and fabricate 3 different brick columns, 4 metres height, due in 4 weeks. It is nearly impossible for them to accomplish it. Therefore, computation is needed.
"Computation is redefining the practice of architecture. Architects are developing digital tools that create opportunities in design process, fabrication and construction. Using built architectural projects, this issue provides insight into emerging design approaches that use computation as a design method".10
The load bearing criteria needs to be incorporated with the column design in a parametric system. “By the means of models, prototypes in 1:1 scale and digital simulations within a soft11 ware package for structural analysis the students designed 3 different prototypes that were subsequently assembled on a robotic fabrication unit. “ 10. Peters, Brady. (2013) ‘Computation Works: The Building of Algorithmic Thought’, Architectural Design, 83, 2, pp. 08-15 11. The prgrammed column 2. (2017). http://gramaziokohler.arch.ethz.ch/web/e/lehre/175.html
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a.3. composition to generation “When architects have a sufficient understanding of algorithmic concepts, when we no longer need to discuss the digital as something different, then computation can become a true method of design for architecture.”
The shift from composition to generation cannot be prevented as technology is arising nowadays. There has been debate between composing form and generating form. The mastermind of the the design changes from human mind to computer mind. Generation has been debated for losing the meaning of organic, true design thus creating design with deep value and meaning in it. But designing with algorithmic is considered as simple and unambigous. 13 And computation provides inspiration through its generation of remarkable results. For example, an architect that wants to solve some design problems, then he explores it with sketching by algorithm and sometimes it has an outcome which is very unimaginable and complex rather than if he uses it in traditional techniques of architectural design.
12. Peters, Brady. (2013) ‘Computation Works: The Building of Algorithmic Thought’, Architectural Design, 83, 2, pp. 08-15 22
13. Definition of ‘Algorithm’ in Wilson, Robert A. and Frank C. Keil, eds (1999). The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (London: MIT Press), pp. 11, 12
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ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2015The new research pavilion creates segmented timber shells with robotic textile fabrication techniques. The new research pavilion creates segmented timber shells with robotic textile fabrication techniques. The pavilion employs the material and structural logic of wood, based on the combination of wood’s properties and the biomimetic investigation of natural segmented plate structures. 151 various geometric elements are produced by the robotic sewing, that locks in shape the inital planar wood strips that are elastically bent to discover the particular form pre-programmed into their laminate. When assembled, the 151 various geometric elements result in a stiffy doubly curved shell structure. The pavilion shows the morphologic adaptability of the developed system by the generation of more complicated spatial ordering than just a plain shell structure. This research also discovers the development of the tectonic possibilies of wood architecture.
“The research pavilion shows how the computational synthesis of biological principles and the complex reciprocities between material, form and robotic fabrication can lead to innovative timber construction methods.”
14. ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2015-16. (2017). http://icd.uni-stuttgart.de/?p=16220
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Figure A3.4. Beijing National Stadium.
Subdivision column Subdivision process is different from traditional design processes. The single subdivision process generates from any scales, down to smaller until micro-structure. To create the subdivision column like in (figure A3.4), Hansmeyer used abstracted typical doric column as the basic logic (figure A3.5) the generative design approach on this column is by heterogenous process of subdivision algorithm which smaller surfaces are created by the division of surface. It starts from the subdivision in 2D form, and then it divides over and over again creates from simple to complex form like in (fig. A3.4). The division happens in XY plane and also Z direction This study case shows how generative design approach can do any impossible design that cannot be done by composition design approach, and how generative design approach can exceed human imagination with its unexpected outcome it can create. 15
Figure A3.5.Beijing National Stadium.
15. Subdivided Column. (2017). http://www.michael-hansmeyer.com/projects/columns_info2.html?screenSize=1&color=1#undefined
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a.4. conclusion We are living in the era where technology is so advanced. Everything uses technology to ease work loads. Even in architecture world, technology is a must to solve problems in design process faster, more efficient and accurate. There is very rare now to use conventional method to solve design problems. It is also due to the problems that we face today is getting more challenging. Such as more problems ecologically so sustainable design approach should be achieved, more competitions, etc. By computational design using algorithm approach creates better possibilities in the future that humans are incapable to achieve. It is through the simple algorithmic that can create such complex, advancce design. Therefore, as an architect in this era, it is important to learn and explore this computational design approach.
a.5. learning outcome Previously, I always think that conventional architecture design approach is always the best, organic, and true. I was too idealist back then. Now I see things that I have not realised before, that how computational architecture design is really important to achieve such design that can meet the needs of nowadays’ world, that conventional cannot meet. I wish in the past I can understand this fact better so I can learn little by little architecture software, especially parametric software like Grasshopper. But I still get a chance to learn this semester. Hope I do not take this chance for granted, by appreciating moments when I am exploring form findings using Grasshopper, although it is hard, and always give more generous time to study the software and how it can make my design better in the future.
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a.6. algorithmic sketches
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week 1 In this week I learn some forms such as dealunay tringulation, octa triangulation, and baking the forms of triangulation algorithm to be realistic and can be easily modified, thus can create several different forms with the same basis.
In this week, the design that most I like is “TRINITY� which reminds me of The Trinity in Christianity. It shows compilation of triangle that connects to each other that creates sense of unity.
TRINITY
The curvy G key is inspired by G key in the music score as the basis form, and I develop it with curve menu, with pipe definition as the addition, to create solid feature.
CURVY G KEY
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The wavy box morph G creates illusion of dynamic perception. You will see different forms through different perspectives.
WAVY BOX MORPH
The water fountain form is achieved by using gridshell definition. I like this form because it gives sense of mystery and richness in the center of the form.
WATER FOUNTAIN
week 3 The fibrous sphere gives the same feeling when I see the moon. I always hope that this fibrous sphere is the moon when we zoom in. The fiber seems to form the sphere in elegant way. It seems like the fibers are dancing while forming the sphere.
FIBROUS SPHERE
BIBLIOGRAPHY Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby, Speculative Everything: Design Fiction, and Social Dreaming (MIT Press) pp. 1-9, 33-45. Archdaily. About Louverwall, accessed 10 March 2016, from http://www.archdaily. com/796733/louverwall-and. Beijing National Stadium. (2017). http://www.designbuild-network.com/projects/national_stadium/ Definition of ‘Algorithm’ in Wilson, Robert A. and Frank C. Keil, eds (1999). The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences (London: MIT Press), pp. 11, 12 Design Boom. About MPavilion, accessed 10 March 2016, from http://www.designboom.com/architecture/al_a-amanda-levete-mpavilion-melbourne-queen-victoria-gardens-10-05-2015/ ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2015-16. (2017). http://icd.uni-stuttgart.de/?p=16220 Kalay, Yehuda E. (2004). Architecture’s New Media: Principles, Theories, and Methods of Computer-Aided Design (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press), pp. 5-25 Peters, Brady. (2013) ‘Computation Works: The Building of Algorithmic Thought’, Architectural Design, 83, 2, pp. 08-15 Subdivided Column. (2017). http://www.michael-hansmeyer.com/projects/columns_ info2.html?screenSize=1&color=1#undefined The prgrammed column 2. (2017). http://gramaziokohler.arch.ethz.ch/web/e/leh-
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pART b: criteria design
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B.1.0 RESEARCH FIELD: geometry The base of parametric design is the generation of geometry from the family’s definition of initial parameters. Parametric design is about algorithms that are used to allow the designer to generate a certain design, and exploring possible design solutions that are changeable.1 Parametric design gives designer flexibility to create a design efficiently, that conventional modelling cannot give. Performance driven of design is achieved by the generation of geometry and material compositions.2 Geometry plays important part in parametric design as the base of structure, that gives meaning to the design, and also as an aesthetic aspect in design. Therefore, in the case of CERES Merri Creek, Global Village which has relation with shelter, culture and nature surrounds it, public space, and sustainability (sun and air), geometry plays an important role in design as the base of the structure, that incorporates with material and performance. Material and performance of the design can be made more effective through geometry. Because, geometry gives opportunity and benefit for material stress testing and material efficiency and how it can become sustainable, and how its flexibility of shape can fulfill the desire of the community’s needs. Through geometry, the design can achieve its purpose for a sustainable shelter for the public space and its acitivity in Global Village, that protects and integrates the culture, people and environment surrounds it.
1 http://www.parametriccamp.com/en/what-is-parametric-design/ 2 Woodbury, Robert F. (2014). ‘How Designers Use Parameters’, in Theories of the Digital in Architecture, ed. by Rivka Oxman and Robert Oxman (London; New York: Routledge), pp. 153–170
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Figure 1. Lookout Tower, Avanto Architect
B.1.1 . precedent project Lookout Tower, Avanto Architects, Helsinki, Finland, 2002 The Lookout tower was designed by parametric design using prefabricated timber battens. This tower is an example of how geometry can play an important role in design. The Lookout Tower uses gridshell structure that allow efficient use of timber material, by maintaining the timber from insignificant construction parts. The timber is joined together with 600 bolted joints1 to preserve the shell structure, without losing the geometry’s flexibility and lightness. This design has achieved its purpose by the geometry form that allows material efficiency that is sustainable for environment by minimazing the use of woods from trees and also performance, through its form that somehow integrates with the nature surrounds it that gives aesthetic features.
1 http://designalmic.com/kupla-helsinki-zoo-lookout-tower-avanto-architects/
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B.2.0 CASE STUDY 1.0 Gridshell, Matsys Iterations Grid Pattern
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B.2.1 selection criteria for design pote
The gridshell structure as mentioned before, gives material efficiency, flexibility, aesthetic purpose, and also the natural sunlight as renewable energy that can pass between the grid, therefore, it will create a sustainable design by natural lighting, and by reducing material waste.
Material effeciency
This vault-like form gives opportunity for the design as the shelter that can protect the site entirely, and unites everything underneath. In this case, unites people and different cultures underneath the shelter. Shelter
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This irregular structure mimics a spider’s net that is potential to be found surround the environments within the site. The spider’s net structure creates lightweight form that has charm and elegancy.
Mimicking nature - spider’s net
Beside the gridshell structure that is beneficial, this form also mimics flower, which is very natural and has a potential connection with the environment of the site, that is natural, flowerly, and leafy.
Mimicking nature - flower
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Figure 2. Vigilante del Maule / Carlos Jarpa
B.3.0. CASE STUDY 2.0 Vigilante del Maule / Carlos Jarpa, Maule, Chile The design uses the gridshell system where the capacity of the material’s deformation and the joints’ stiffness, create complex shapes which external structure is no longer needed to support itself. The tower is established on 2x2 impregnated pine strips attached to each other with mass of sheet metal system. This creates a slight interaction when the sticks collide, without drilling them and impair its structure. The hyperboloid form combined with timbered type constructive system, works effectively in transferring its load bearing through its whole volume. 1 The gridshell as the base geometry maximizes the use of timber, therefore, minimizes the material waste. Also, the curvy shape gives flexibility and dynamic for the design that gives aesthetic feature in simplicity on this lightweight architecture.
1 http://www.archdaily.com/243254/vigilante-del-maule-carlos-jarpa
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B.3.0. CASE STUDY 2.0 reverse-engineer
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The three frames where shaped using Rhino and positioned in certain way by moving control points to adjust the form to follow Vigilante Del Maule’s geometry as the base structure.
The three frames were set by Grasshopper curve command, and the curves were divided into series of points by connecting to Divide Curve definition, then connect to Explode Tree definition to extract the points into 3 different branches, to match the arc inputs.
Because the output is a polysurface, therefore when lofting the arcs, Rebuilt definition should be used. Then the loft is previewed off to show or emphasize the arcs.
Repeating the divide curve and explode tree. And then applying Geodesic curves to create triangular pattern and interwining the curves.
Shift List command is used to create a more diagonal pattern that connects the points to be more disordered. Then, preview off some points to emphasize the final form that is like Vigilante Del Maule.
B.3.0. CASE STUDY 2.0 FINAL OUTCOME CURVE
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The outcome apparently has differences from the original work, as it can be seen that the middle of the form is thinner here. Therefore, the grid pattern cannot be clearly seen in the middle. In the future, perhaps it will be better to be improved by investigating how the arcs from the first top of the curve can be connected to the middle curve first, instead directly to the bottom curve that makes the middle part very thin.
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B.4.1 SELECTION CRITERIA for design potential
The circle pattern gives a sense of dynamic and flexibility feeling for the design. It creates a sense of arts and symbolic elements within cultures that will be integrated with CERES Merri Creek site that really emphasizes on theatre, performance, and different cultures.
Dynamic element
The gridshell structure creates lightness, and also allows minimization of material usage. It also allows the natural light from the north sun to come through the grids, when this gridshell structure is made as a shelter to protect the people and anything that are going on below it at the Global Village. The shell structure can be applied for design potential to create a lightweight architecture that is sustainable. Gridshell structure geometry
The intersected plane structure gives an idea on how the structure can be built with stability, althought the design is lightweight, dynamic, and flexible. Also, the intersected plane allows the wind between the intersection that will be beneficial in the site, to give a natural breeze from the air surrounds the site. Intersected plane structure
The overlapping pattern is chosen because it is beneficial for the design potential as it gives an aesthetic feature through the illusion of the shadow of the different patterns that overlap to each other, that can be seen on the ground, below the shelter. Overlapping pattern
B.5.0. Technique: prototypes
Starfish definition Index pattern = 0
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material preparation In this preparation, the starfish patterns as representation of grid pattern, were printed in 2D, and it will be sticked on a cardboard. The paper and the cardboard are used as the representation of membrane structure of grid.
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selection criteria
Reason for choosing this prototype is because: 1. Fulfill grid pattern for the shell structure, that will create sustainable design due to material efficiency and allowance for the natural sunlight for going through between grids, and also as a shelter from excessive sunlight, and weather as well. 2. The combination of square pattern and triangle pattern willl create sense of dynamic because it will create some kind of circular illusion that represents air circulation. All of this creates lightweight feature. Unfortunately, it is a bit different than expected due in the process of cutting, I did not consider the size of the pattern, therefore, the two patterns are not fit to each other well.
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B.6.0. technique: proposal SITE INFORMATION - Global Village, CERES Merri Creek, Stewart St & Roberts St, Brunswick East VIC 3057 - The site runs environmental education programs, cultural performances, people gathering. - Beside running these programs, the site is also used for a place where people establishing awareness of current local and global issues. Some of the awareness that is raised is to achieve sustainability within economic, social, culture, and environment.
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Global Village
Sustainability
The grid form gives sustainability aspect in this design, like it was mentioned before that grid structure allows material efficiency by preserving it from unimportant construction parts. Also, it creates a shelter from the direct or excessive Australian UV that can harm people’s health, but the overlapping grid pattern still allows some sunlight to enter to give natural light for people underneath. The circular structure on top of the pattern allows natural breeze due to its plane that intersects to each other and its circularity.
Nature
The pattern mimics nature surrounds it. It can be intrepreted as flower pattern, spider’s net and other leafy elements surrounds Global Village.
Culture
Beside nature, the pattern also gives a sense of cultural symbolic or element from the three countries’ culture (e.g. Batik pattern from Indonesia), as an aesthetic features. Beside aesthetic feature, the shelter also allows people to gather and feel the closeness in this public space. It can be assumed that people attend this public space for various cultural performances from different countries are from different cultural background. This shelter unites them. It creates a sense of unity in diversity. 75
B.6.2. technique - connection to the previous selection criterias The design is intended to be a gridshell structre but in more innovative way. Boid and Starfish definition in Grasshopper were used to create such form. The design is about overlapping grids on top of grids that create complexity in but does not lose the lightness of gridshell design language.
GEOMETRY The base structure will be made to suit the Global Village form. So it will cover the site entirely from direct sun and harsh wind in certain weather. This geometry structure represents air circulation. The form, that has intersection of planes, allows the air to get through it, to give natural breeze underneath.
PATTERNING The pattern that consists of triangle and square pattern (based on the prototype’s selection criteria), The pattern gives an aesthetic feature. Especially when the sun expose it, illusion of shadows will be created underneath. This will create lightweight architecture form that gives flexibility and dynamics. The pattern gives a sense of ambiguity that can be intrepreted as culture’s symbolism and also can be intrepreted as mimicking nature that suits with CERES.
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B.7.0. learning objectives & outcomes The research about Geometry allows me to understand how important is Geometry as the inital design that can affect the whole design from the beginning until the end of design process, and how it really has influence on material and performance. This research, also allows me to explore and understand about other research fields as well, like patterning, tesselation, structure, and biomimicry, through the process of algorithmic by Grasshopper. I also has a chance to explore other computation benefit in Grasshopper such as exploring new plug ins like Starfish, Weaverbird, and Boid, that can create some odd, interesting, and other impossible form that human never imagined before. I have learnt that by parametric modelling, especially when I did the task in B.1 and B.4. (making 30 + 50 iterations), I realised that 80 iterations are not a lot. It is because there are so many possibilities that can be created. From the manipulation on one single command in Grasshopper can make different outcomes. From one change of one slider can change the whole design totally (e.g. in Starfish’s index), as if the whole definitions are different totally. There are unlimited outcomes can be created. It can be assumed that there is no impossibility in making any form using Grasshopper. But unfortunately, there are many limitations and difficulties to make the Grasshopper’s outcome to be real in physical. It is due to the limitation of materials, cost, and the cutting, bending, etc.
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B.8.0. appendix - algorithmic sketches Spider’s Net on Hourglass This form is made by Population 2D that is connected with Voronoi with the help of Map Surface, which is connected to Loft command, that finally can be integrated with the Hourglass shape. As a result, a form that mimics nature in irregular manner was made.
Triangular Snowflakes
This form is made by the manipulation of slider and expression from the provide definition, Aranda Lasch, The Morning Line. to create many different forms. As a result, a beautiful snowflakes form and other possible forms were made.
Origami Butterfly A Flower with Diamond Cells
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Fountain of Stalactite
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