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
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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
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CONCEPTUALISATION
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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/