Architecture Studio AIR | S1 2017 | Algorithmic Sketchbook

STUDIO AIR 2017, SEMESTER 1, MEHRNOUSH KHORASGHANI JACKSON ZENG

TABLE OF CONTENTS PART A: CONCEPTUALISING

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A0 INTRODUCTION 00 A1

DESIGN FUTURING

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A2

DESIGN COMPUTATION

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A3

COMPOSITION GENERATION

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A4 CONCLUSION 00 A5

LEARNING OUTCOMES

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A6

APPENDIX - ALGORITHMIC SKETCHES

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PART B: CRITERIA DESIGN

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B1

RESEARCH FIELD

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B2

CASE STUDY 1.0

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B3

CASE STUDY 2.0

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B4

TECHNIQUE: DEVELOPMENT

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B5

PROJECT BRIEF & SITE ANALYSIS

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B6

TECHNIQUE: PROTOTYPES

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B7

TECHNIQUE: PROPOSAL

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B8

LEARNING OBJECTIVES & OUTCOMES

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B9

APPENDIX - ALGORITHMIC SKETCHES

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PART C: DETAILED DESIGN

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C1

DESIGN CONCEPT

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C2

TECTONIC ELEMENTS & PROTOTYPES

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C3

FINAL DESIGN OUTCOMES

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C4

LEARNING OBJECTIVES & OUTCOMES

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C5

IMAGE REFERENCING

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ALGORITHMIC SKETCHBOOK WEEK 1: LOFT & CUP MODELING PROCESS

LINE, DIVIDE POINTS, RANDOMIZE VECTOR X, CREATE NURBS CURVE

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CONCEPTUALISATION

COPY CURVE, MOVE X

LOFT

CUP

P BASE SURFACE, JOIN

ADJUSTMENTS

SET CUP HEIGHT SET CIRCLE, SWEEP

SET NURBS CURVE DEGREES

SET NUMBER OF RANDOM X VECTORS

CONCEPTUALISATION 5

2D PATTERNING: I EXPERIMENTED WITH THE HEXAGONAL GRID AND MADE ALTERATIONS IN SIZE BASED ON THE PROXIMITY TO A NURBS CURVE DETERMINED

BY RANDOMIZED CONTROL POINTS. USING MULTIPLIERS AND MIN/MAX COMPONENTS I COULD CONTROL THE HEXAGONAL PATTERN’S SENSITIVITY TO THE CURVE.

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CONCEPTUALISATION

ALGORITHMIC SKETCHBOOK WEEK 2: 2D & 3D PATTERNING

3D PATTERNING: I EXTRUDED THE 2D SURFACES INTO 3D FORMS AND THEN MOVED THEM USING THE SAME RULE THAT DICTATES THE SURFACE SIZE, ADDING A MULTIPLIER TO CONTROL Z-AXIS MOVEMENT SENSITIVITY.

CONCEPTUALISATION 7

WEEK 3: GRIDSHELL LUNCHBOX EXPLORATIONS HEXAGONAL CELLS

QUAD PANELS

U VALUE PARAMETER

V VALUE PARAMETER

DIAMOND PANELS

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CONCEPTUALISATION

HEXAGONAL STRUCTURE

THE LUNCHBOX GRASSHOPPER PLUGIN SIMPLIFIES THE PANELLING PROCESS FOR GRIDSHELLS. PANEL COMPONENTS TAKES A SURFACE AND TESSELATES POLYGONAL PANELS OVER THE SURFACE STRUCTURE COMPONENTS TAKE A SURFACE AND TESSELATE A POLYGONAL GRID OVER IT, OUTPUTTING A GRID OF POINTS AND LINES AT THE VERTICES AND EDGES OF THE CELLS

GRID STRUCTURE

CONCEPTUALISATION 9

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CONCEPTUALISATION

CONCEPTUALISATION 11

IN-TEXT REFERENCES A1 DESIGN FUTURING [1] “AIR-STALAGMITE: A SKYSCRAPER TO SERVE AS A BEACON AND AIR FILTER FOR POLLUTED CITIES-EVOLO”, EVOLO.US, 2016 < HTTP://WWW.EVOLO.US/ COMPETITION/AIR-STALAGMITE-A-SKYSCRAPER-TO-SERVE-AS-A-BEACON-AND-AIR-FILTER-FOR-POLLUTED-CITIES/> [ACCESSED 13 MARCH 2017].

[2], [3], [4], [8] FRY, TONY (2008). DESIGN FUTURING: SUSTAINABILITY, ETHICS AND NEW PRACTICE (OXFORD: BERG), PP. 1–16 [5], [6], [9] DUNNE, ANTHONY & RABY, FIONA (2013) SPECULATIVE EVERYTHING: DESIGN FICTION, AND SOCIAL DREAMING (MIT PRESS) PP. 1-9, 33-45 [7] “ECORIUM OF THE NATIONAL ECOLOGICAL INSTITUTE / SAMOO ARCHITECTS & ENGINEERS + GRIMSHAW ARCHITECTS”, ARCHDAILY, 2013 < HTTP://WWW.ARCHDAILY.COM/423255/ECORIUM-OF-THE-NATIONAL-ECOLOGICAL-INSTITUTE-NBBJ-INCOLLABORATION-WITH-SAMOO-ARCHITECTS-AND-ENGINEERS-GRIMSHAW-ARCHITECTS> [ACCESSED 13 MARCH 2017].

A2 DESIGN COMPUTATION [10] ARCHITIZER [11], [14] KALAY, YEHUDA E. (2004). ARCHITECTURE’S NEW MEDIA: PRINCIPLES, THEORIES, AND METHODS OF COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN (CAMBRIDGE, MA: MIT PRESS), PP. 5-25 [12] “HARBIN OPERA HOUSE / MAD ARCHITECTS”, ARCHDAILY, 2015 < HTTP://WWW.ARCHDAILY.COM/778933/ HARBIN-OPERA-HOUSE-MAD-ARCHITECTS> [ACCESSED 13 MARCH 2017].

[13] OXMAN, RIVKA AND ROBERT OXMAN, EDS (2014). THEORIES OF THE DIGITAL IN ARCHITECTURE (LONDON; NEW YORK: ROUTLEDGE), PP. 1–10 03 COMPOSITION/GENERATION [15] 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 [16] EVOLO [17] PETERS, BRADY. (2013) ‘COMPUTATION WORKS: THE BUILDING OF ALGORITHMIC THOUGHT’, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, 83, 2, PP. 08-15 [18] DUNNE, ANTHONY & RABY, FIONA (2013) SPECULATIVE EVERYTHING: DESIGN FICTION, AND SOCIAL DREAMING (MIT PRESS) PP. 1-9, 33-45

IMAGE SOURCES A1 DESIGN FUTURING [ 1 ] EVOLO, AIR-STALAGMITE: A SKYSCRAPER TO SERVE AS A BEACON AND AIR FILTER FOR POLLUTED CITIES, 2016 <HTTP://WWW.EVOLO.US/ COMPETITION/AIR-STALAGMITE-A-SKYSCRAPER-TO-SERVE-AS-A-BEACON-AND-AIR-FILTER-FOR-POLLUTED-CITIES/> [ACCESSED 12 MARCH 2017] [ 2 ] EVOLO, AIR-STALAGMITE: A SKYSCRAPER TO SERVE AS A BEACON AND AIR FILTER FOR POLLUTED CITIES, 2016 <HTTP://WWW.EVOLO.US/ COMPETITION/AIR-STALAGMITE-A-SKYSCRAPER-TO-SERVE-AS-A-BEACON-AND-AIR-FILTER-FOR-POLLUTED-CITIES/> [ACCESSED 12 MARCH 2017]

02 DESIGN COMPUTATION HTTP://WWW.ARCHDAILY.COM/270592/AL-BAHAR-TOWERS-RESPONSIVE-FACADE-AEDAS HTTP://ARCHITIZER.COM/BLOG/AL-BAHR-TOWERS/ HTTP://ARCHITIZER.COM/BLOG/AL-BAHR-TOWERS/