Foundations of Design : Representation, SEM2, 2017 M3 JOURNAL - PATTERN vs SURFACE Yongshi Li
817493 Carl Areskoug + Studio 10
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WEEK 6 READING: SURFACES THAT CAN BE BUILT FROM PAPER IN ARCHITECTURAL GEOMETRY Question 1: What are the three elementary types of developable surfaces? Provide a brief description. (Maximum 100 words) The three types of develpable surfaces include cylinders, cones and tangent surfaces of space curves. A cylinder surface is formed by a family of parallel lines, a cone consists of all lines connecting a vertex with points of a profile curve and the tangent surfaces are any two consecutive vertices determine the edges of the shape. These surfaces are all developable as well as their offsets.
Question 2: Why is the understanding of developable surface critical in the understanding of architectural geometry? Choose one precedent from Research/Precedents tab on LMS as an example for your discussion. (Maximum 100 words) Developable surface is critical in architectural geomertry as they can form geodesics and serve for a natural segmentation of surfaces into patches. For instance, the implications on strategies for cladding and panelization of surface of J.Natterer’s work, he used geodesics on surfaces for the beam layout in his “polydome“ construction. The smoothness and toughness can be easily illustrated in a single structure, the developable surface brings out a diversity and complexity in an architectural constuction.
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PANELLING PATTERN
Testing 2d Panelling, Pattern: Wave, Box, Diamond
Testing 3D Panelling Module 1
Testing 3D Panelling Module 2
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VARIABLE 3D PATTERN
FIrst Attempt to use three modules to create 3D pattern
A different 3D pattern by using another 3 modules
A different 3D pattern by using 3 modules
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3D PANEL TEST PROTOTYPE & TEMPLATE
First Sucessful Completed Modules. First Attempt to unroll surfaces,
I forgot to take photos of the other three modules and they’ve been destroyed. The one illustrated is the only one that i recovered so it is a bit rough.
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WEEK 7 READING: DIGITAL FABRICATION
Question 1: What is digital fabrication and how does it change the understanding of two dimensional representation? (Maximum 100 words) Digital fabrication is turning the design representation and generation into a new form which differs from the traditional handmade process by using digital media and sofeware tools. It helps to speed up the whole process by minimising the steps to the exact constuction stage. The kind of automation ensure that the materials are able to be manipulated with a certain high degree of accuracy and cut down the time consuming process in the previous ages.
Question 2: Suggest two reasons why folding is used extensively in the formal expression of building design? (Maximum 100 words) Folding creates surfaces from flatness to a three-dimensional vocabulary, in architecuture folding is theoretical concept and the most literally material operation. It proves to be economical as the surfaces could be created by folding only one continuous piece of material rather than joining two seperate pieces. Folding can bring different typologies of space into one another, such as a landscape within a building structure. It can create an aesthetic appeal to a strcture due to the inclusion of layers that evoke interest due to their complexity and unique pattern.
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EXPLORING 3D PANELLING
Final Work Illustration in Rendered Mode
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UNROLL TEMPLATE OF YOUR FINAL MODEL
Final Unrolled Surfaces
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10 Modules are used in total
PANELISED LANDSCAPE
Final Work - Top View
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The idea of my work is to visualize and rec known Pleasures‘ of Joy Division. The wav triangulated, as the curves could not be est triangle represents the peak of the wa relatively low so that I used trapezoid, sm patterns to illustrate. The proportion of 3D
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create the album cover ‘Unves of oringal graphic have been unrolled completely. The highave and other components are mall triangles as well as some 2D D and 2D patterns is about 7:3.
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Details of 2D and 3D Patterns
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Details of 2D and 3D Patterns
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APPENDIX
Using the glue and clips to connect each modules
Using the glue and clips to connect each modules
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The front side of completed modules