DESIGN STUDIO: AIR
ILHYEON (MICHAEL) YEO 583928 Semester 1, 2014
Building Precedent 1. Crystal Island, Russia The design and construction industries are in the storm of ongoing and incoming change that can be both positively and negatively effect the architecture. Ongoing changes would be the computation of design, where nowdays, most of works are done by computer instead of hand drawing. I n c o m i n g changes would be some of challenges and consquences of utilising the computing to be dealt, where individuals like “terzidis, kostas (2009)” argues
Fig 1. Crystal Island side view
that computing should be able to assist in “free” and “innovative” imagination of design, but it works as a cage where limits the infinite possibility and creativity to the designers. However this overcoming and breaking out from the cage is possible demonstrated through this precedent. The precedent 1, Crystal Island, Russia, designed by Norman Foster, has interested me through its elegance of dynamic features as wells as combination of use of renewable energy, that it utilises both wind and solar energy for its sustainable purposes. It is obvious that the building is focusing on its aesthetical characteristic which is established by the careful construction of the layer of the building where its spiral like qality walls providing dynamic movement thoughout the building to portray similar sense of a rocket launch, Fig 2. Crystal Island top view
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ideally directing the views to move from bottom to top while visually entertaining the viewers through the overwhelming sense and imagery of the “take off”. This is result of computation of the design, as fast visuallisation of the final product of the building is possible, many different types of geometry can be tested out easily, shaping the ideal form while variety of range of geometries can be used. Therefore, forming very innovated and creative shape breaking out of “cage” and overcomed. The utilisation of wind as wells as solar energy is very inspiring as it makes use of its "visual" and "aesthetic" idea to incoporate the renewable energy. Such that, the high rised aspect of the building enables the architecture to receive greater amound of wind as greater amount of wind is present at higher altitude. Furthermore, solar panels are installed in the facade reinforcing the aesthetic while generating some electricity for the building. Therefore, in respond to LAGI project brief, this building has answered and gone beyond from merely using sustainable resources, but has transcendentalized it to be a artistically beautiful and dynamic.
Fig 3. Crystal Island 3D model
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Building Precedent 2 Spire Edge
Fig 4. Spire Edge Whole site view
The second precedent is the Spire Edge, by Ken Yeang which features the unique use of vegetation throughout the building, from bottom to top, and various technology, such s solar and use of natural light, for its sustainability. The computing in this case would have precisely caluculate the position of the vegetation and is efficiency according to it. Also providing all other factors including duration of day light and its directions, and so on, are gvien over very short period of time, causing early finalisation of design. Ongoing changes could be the vegetation where it needs to be cared otherwise, it may cause design to change, which may also have effect on the idea of sustainability. However, as the computation will monitor the vegetation growth or other, even slight changes done to the building not much of changes will be done to the building. Incoming changes would be, for high dependant on computing, 1 error on the system could be fetal, in fact, in worst case the whole controlling system may collapse, thus contrasting with pre computation period where small miss or failure was tolerable and could have more options over controlling and customising the design. Although the solar is not main factor for this building, but is still used as to accommodate even partial need for energy, developing and polishing building to be more sustainable. To view this building with LAGI project details, this building does not employ renewable energy, but it is having the building sustainable as possible by itself. This can be very inspirsing idea as it broaden perspective from, not only considering about how to employ some renewable energy or aesthetics, but also to create a sustainable, low energy cost building to amplify the production and use of renewable source.
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The unique opportunities and innovations that computation has brought would be fast checking of the final product of building and ease of fix of problems, failure and the design. Due to its ease of access and convenience, critical thinking could lack, since problems, failure or other negative part of building are simply need to be quickly swapped or changed, but as architecture is about "free" and letting the imagination flow to incorporate obstables and cahllenges. As result the concept of "fast" and "convenient" of computation may negatively effect the preceding architectural theory.
Fig 5. Spiral Egde side view
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Reference Terzidis, Kostas (2009). Algorithms for Visual Design Using the Processing Language (Indianapolis, IN: Wiley), p. xx Fig. 1 Karim Yergaliyev, 2007, Moscow: cstal island viewed 15 March 2014, inhabitat, <http://inhabitat.com/tallestskyscraper-in-the-world-coming-to-moscow/> Fig. 2 NFO MMO, 2014, Le Crystal Island Viewed 15 March 2014, <http://www.infoimmo.fr/le-crystal-island/> Fig. 3 NFO MMO, 2014, Le Crystal Island Viewed 16 March 2014, <http://www.infoimmo.fr/le-crystal-island/> Fig. 4 NAR SPIRE WORLD 2008, THINK GREEN, THINK AHEAD Viewed 16 March 2014, <www.wtcmanesar.org/
green-advantage-brochure.php> Fig. 5 SPIRE EDGE 2008, Spire Edge – India’s first Mainstream Green office complex Viewed 16 March 2014, <http://spireedge.wordpress.com/>
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