Craig harriet 639056 parta

STUDIO AIR 2015, SEMESTER 1, TUTOR: CAITLYN PERRY HARRIET CRAIG PART A

Table of Contents 1 Title Page 3 Table of Contents 4 A.0 Introduction 6 A.01 Design Futuring - Precedent Study 8 A.01 Design Futuring - Precedent Study 10 A.5 Appendix

A.0 Introduction

I believe that digital architecture in the future can help the human race to progress into the unknown and to test what we already know. ‘Design Futuring’ by Tony Fry helped me to get an insight into the real possibilites of digital design. It has the means to help design work towards sustainability and also create design tools to imagine things that were never possible before.1 In my own learning I have used Rhino 3D and its rendering plug-ins such as V-Ray as well as AutoCAD. I have found that AutoCAD helps me to draft my designs in a really accurate way, I am able to look at any problems in great detail and immediately change them. Rhino is the same in this way, I can see a threedimensional object and thus see its limitations.

One of the projects were I have applied my digital knowledge was my Design Studio Water project. I used V-Ray to render my model in Rhino. I then used these renders in conjunction with photos I had taken from the site to create a photo montage. The overall effect was one that I had no expected, the perspectives appeared more realistic than they were originally.

I’m Harriet Craig, a student at the University of Melbourne, currently studying an undergraduate degree, majoring in architecture.

In the past I’ve been interested in interior spaces, the way that they can shape our moods and how they can evoke a response from us. I enjoy how degital tools

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I am looking forward to this semester ahead and learning parametric modelling. However, I am most excited to see and track my journey in the future.

1 Fry, Tony (2008). Design Futuring: Sustainability, Ethics and New Practice (Oxford: Berg), pp. 1–16

Fig.1: DESIGN STUDIO WATER PROJECT, HARRIET CRAIG

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A.01 Design Futuring - Precedent Study

MRQT Boutique by ROK (Rippmann Oesterle Knauss) ROK is a Swiss based architecture firm that that focuses on interior designs and retail architecture.

The design of this built mensware boutique by ROK utilised computer aided design and CNC tools in order to achieve a seamless, refined project. I am interested by the smooth and organic flow that design technology can produce in projects, like this one.

The overall mass of the wall is individually sized wooden rods. In order to achieve the final result, customised digital tools were used. CNC drilled holes help to define and locate the position and angle of each of the wooden rods in the wall. The overall result is refined and is a realisation of the architect’s vision. Automated fabrication also played a major role in the overall execution of this design. The process became much more streamlined and effective due to the resources available to the architects.1 I think that this project is an excellent representation of the possibilities that digital design tools can offer small spaces. Although this retail project is not revolutionary, this project encompases the vision that digital fabrication can be used in every type of setting.

1 ROK architecture, MRQT Boutique, accessed 12/3/2015, http://www.rok-office.com/projects/suppa-store-1027/

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fig 2: mrqt boutique

The digital in architecture is focused around responding to materials and understanding that digital design is bound by materiality.1 This project responds to the materiality and limitations of timber by not trying to distort its shape to create their vision, instead using a large mass of timber to create a smooth and organic form. The future possibilities for this type of design are endless. We, can use the theory that you can be bound by materiality yet reuse and refocuse your attention to overall shape and design.

1 Oxman, Rivka and Oxman, Robert, eds (2014). Theories of the Digital in Architecture (London; New York: Routledge)

fig 3: mrqt boutique

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Mercedes-Benz Museum by Ben van Berkel (Studio) and Werner Sobek

The museum is still used for its original purpose, it’s interestign lines and curves help set the scene for the interesting designs of the car manufacturer.

This museum is a revolutionary project as it was planned completley in threedimensions.1 There are almost no right angles or plane surfaces in the entire structure, making conventional planning extremley difficult.

I believe that this building will continue to be appreciated into the future, not only for its revolutionary design process but how the architects were able to seamlessly link their vision with a realistic project.

In the future, of architecture, BIM (building information modelling) will become commonplace in architectural design. Technology in design is one answer to the common problem of human error2, BIM can rectifying this.

Design is sometimes as seen as the fufillment of dreams, and this can’t be more correct with this building. Using the technology of today, design’s “inherant optimisim” allows architects to design what they may have once appeared impossible.1

In order to develop a structure with such strong logic, the designers materialised the three-demensional, understanding all of the conditions that are integral in developing such a complex building system. 3

What the architects have done in this buliding is to expand the future posisbilities for smaller projects.

Although we can’t imagine modelling all projects (such as a small refurbishment) at a large scale at this moment, it is the intent and the asspirations that will drive technology development.

By materialising the three-dimensional, designers are able to perfectly design various forces that are at play.

1 AD Journal, Issue: The New Structuralism, pg 36 2 Kalay, Yehuda E. (2004). Architecture’s New Media: Principles, Theories, and Methods of Computer-Aided Design (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press) 3 AD Journal, Issue: The New Structuralism, pg 34

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1 Dunne, Anthony & Raby, Fiona (2013) Speculative Everything: Design Fiction, and Social Dreaming (MIT Press) pp. 1-9, 33-45 pdf

fig 4: MERCEDES-BENZ MUSEUM, STUTTGART

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A.5 Appendix

Referance List AD Journal, Issue: The New Structuralism, pg 34 - 36 Dunne, Anthony & Raby, Fiona (2013) Speculative Everything: Design Fiction, and Social Dreaming (MIT Press) pp. 1-9, 33-45 pdf Kalay, Yehuda E. (2004). Architecture’s New Media: Principles, Theories, and Methods of Computer-Aided Design (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press) ROK architecture, MRQT Boutique, accessed 12/3/2015, http://www.rok-office.com/projects/suppa-store-1027/ Oxman, Rivka and Oxman, Robert, eds (2014). Theories of the Digital in Architecture (London; New York: Routledge) Fry, Tony (2008). Design Futuring: Sustainability, Ethics and New Practice (Oxford: Berg), pp. 1–16 Images List Figure 1: Harriet Craig, Student, University of Melbourne, 2014 Figure 2: Figure 3: Figure 4: