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CASE FOR INNOVATION
How Architecture can contribute specifically to Gateway Competition document:
Architecture is a continually transformation of culture of interaction between ideas, texts, drawings and buildings. In this digital age, architecture is viewed as a power project in the digital modern age, we has witnessed successful of architectural reform in few precedents: Rejection of conventions of traditional architecture- value of scu Scultpure through digital design- Emphasis in searching for the origins (characteristics, philosophy reflects the usage of a building as a tool of social communication) wit Sculpture in modernism- social engagement with urbanism –people, surroundings and anthropologic activity Relating to wyham project: visual impression that brings engagement with culture and art to drivers before reaching the city
Innovations and promise of computation: To achieve the actual realization of design inspirations, technical tool through innovative use of computer aided design becomes the key communication tool that explores di cess of modeling, the headspace model comes alive with better accuracy through the aid of computation. In short, the use of digital tool and technology allows modeling of c
Unique usefulness of Parametric Modeling aid in Gateway Project Through the use of parametric design tools, by imputting external data like intensity of sunlight and wind velocity (for the Gateway project) as parameters into the design, to maintain relationships by rules. In other words, since all the resultant forms are associated to the initial parameters, they all relate to each other. Thus, if one para As explained earlier, interactivity is the ultimate goal of this Gateway project. A two-way interaction between the built and natural environment is favourable. For instanc remain a one-way transfer of information. For an example of a two-way interaction in the nature, plants proved to be a perfect to look into. For example, photosynthesis, kn producing changing form that lead to the change of experience just like case precedents, a knowledge known as metamorphosis
Project: The Water Cube, National Architect: PTW Architects Location: Olympic Green, Beijing.
Aquatic Centre
In this project, water cube, inspired by cells and soap bubblesThe design of The Water cube, which had won 2009 RIBA international award was merely inspired by association and integration of water as a structural and thematic leitmotiv, with the square, to accomodate as an aquatic competition venue for games, public multi function leisure and fitness facilities. Viewed from the interior space, the spaces are modelled out of an underfined cluster of foam bubbles, that reflects celebration and imitation of a condition of nature that is transformed into a condition of culture and structuralstrength. This gigantic pavilion aesthetic is a pure expression idea that demonstrates a form of water, responsive to its physical and urban setting, depicting principles of chinese architecture, embodied with latest use of technological tool and process and materiality.The Water Cube appears as serene, energy engaging, ethereal and poetic, with changing moods that directly respond to people, events and changing seasons. This building design has shown its signifcant use of materiality and employment of advanced computer software technology. The building was built of visually striking, energy efficient and ecologically friendly materials. For instance, the exterior of the building was made of 4000 transparent dual ETFE (Ethylene tetrafluoroethylene) cushion envelope, like water bubbles with great thermal efficiency and was based on unique lightweightconstruction, derived of the water structure in the state of aggregation of foam. Behind the randomized facades, there is a strict geometry micmic from natural systems like cells and modular structures that was simplified into repetitive units, generating a highly rationalised design . These unique pattern of integrated structural steel with facades and interesting interior space was done through the use of digital fabrication- cnc cutting, stereolithography and use of digital blueprint in various stages of this design. Technological innovations and design with new inspiration of micmicry of nature as a reaction to changing environments and society. Thus digital modeling with improvement of technology in architecture is current zeitgeist that generate interest for future design
Project: Cleveland Medical Mart Architects: LMN Architects Venue: Downtown Clevel and Convention Center FACADE DESIGN The design tries to reinforce the envelope system by using digital design and fabrication to embracing the use of precast concrete, which have high potential to form different pattern by using different types of mold, and it would be a great material for fabrication, the details about fabrication will be illustrated on the next page. Moreover, the designer creates a unique, sculptural façade system on the concrete wall. However, they got a big challenge due to the limited time was allowed, since they just have 8 months to complete pre-design, schematic design and design document. He achieves the goal by using grasshopper for envelope system study. To generate and adjust the pattern of windows, he just needs to map different image in the grasshopper to create different façade geometry. It gives a huge variable for the façade design during the design process, bring a new method for architects to design the building, and help to explore lot of iterations in a rather short period of time, giving a much faster feedback loop. PANEL FABRICATION The design team tries to achieve the goal of generating a desired visual contrast by using the minimum depth of texture. And they tried to produce a certain models to study the effect of visual contrast. Natural light can reveal different effects on the complex surfaces. However, physical model is the only method to ensure a more predictable final project. Thus, they use the technology of fabrication, it allow them to use sort of materials for the models, which save them lot of time on building conceptual models.
Project: Boston’s Treepods Architects: Influx Studio Venue: Boston, USA
This project’s aim is to create, using biomimicry, an air cleaning and Project, Interactivity is the one of the targeted outcomes. A two-way i favourable.
This urban project seeks to create, using biomimicry, an air cleaning a nature, the Dragon Blood Tree (Dracaena cinnabari) is unique and natura found in cities around world- pollution. Its branches at maturity produ create a canopy that provides a maximum of shading surface. The way tha ligent design system.
The idea is creatively demonstrated with the aid of computation aided d a design on mind into reality and can be delivered through communicatio Digital modeling are capable of providing accurate information and maki does not only ease the 3D modelling, it also gives vast opportunitues t that match with concepts and inspirations of biomicmicry. Architecture, nor experience but defines more as architectural discourse, that serves problems.In considering the key aspect of the site, we can adopt the us of its fucntion that is evidenced in the case precedent, for instance, facades can give different impressions and senses of feelings to the vi keep changing during the nighttime
Project: Taiching Metropolitan Arhitects: Toyo Ito Venue: Taichung City, Taiwan
Opera House
“Architecture has to follow the diversity of society, and has to refle can’t contain that diversity.” Toyo Ito The design is an open structure which actively engages its surrounding opportunities for myriad encounters between high art and popular art, auditorium, interior and exterior. This project is both a horizontally Even before entering one of the three theatres, the Sound Cave is perc "acoustic space," which, in three dimensions connected forms. With com an opportunity to explore interaction of volumetric changes and flexib ingly to its functions, design intent and motive.
As a good precedent to site project: this has provided a connection an virtual touch to drivers at high speed motion, like the case study thr shift and reactivity of materials.
rful tool that serve this purpose of transformation of ideas and philosophy as a response and reaction to the changing needs of everyday life. Specifically parallel to this ulpture display in urban setting. th computer aided design
ifferent desired possibilities, both expected and unexpected outcomes with paper as the only material. Besides benefiting the quality of design outcome and accelerating procomplex forms and structure possible with satisfactory quality and precision.
, the resultant geometry would be efficient, in terms of its energy generation, and use of energy. This leads to another important aspect of parametric design: its ability ameter is changed, the entire geometry will be updated. ce, a high-tech solution should be avoided, ie floors that light up when you walk on them, color changing walls or hypersurfaces. These are all necessary innovations yet nown as the process by which they produce energy, happens on the cellular level yet affects the pigmentation of the leaf. Also, we are interested to explore possibilities of
CO² catcher integrated urban device. In Wyndham Gateway interaction between the built and natural environment is
and CO² catcher integrated urban device. Learning from ally inspiring as solution responding to most problems uce an umbrella shaped crown optimizing its form to at its canopy allows the wind flow demonstrates an intel-
Project: Aggregated Porosity Canopy Architects: UNstudio and Zaha Hadid Architects Venue: Hunan University school of Architecture, Changsa, China In this design project, usefulness of digital tool such as rhino and grasshopper is demonstrated provides a freedom to explore complex compositions of form. Certainly historically plans have been drawn by hand to document intricate built elements, but not with the speed, accuracy or opportunity to study the three dimensional characteristics so completely. Even so, nothing replaces the need to build and mock up sculptural elements in the process of study. Utilizing the accuracy of digital design tools and laser cutting , the canopy’s design team was able to assemble each fabricated piece into an aesthetic plywood sculptural canopy. In this project, we embrace the opportunities for precision and accuracy that digital tools offer, while standing firm on the need to built and create by hand. This seems an excellent example of how old and new processes can come together to create beautiful, functional solutions that responding to site context.
design. in the project stage, digital modelling makes on. ing complex geometric designs more easly. Digital design to discover and experinment with different possibilities , nowadays, is no longer examined as a form of art, sign s as a design and technological reaction to solving seful technique of micmic the nature structure and idea the changes of lighting and colours of the building isitors, where we can see that the images on the facades
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gs in all directions and creates artists and visitors, stage and y and vertically continuous network. ceived as a fascinating and flexible mputing architecture- this has given bility of materials react accord-
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Project: Muscle Bench Architect: Alexandre Moronnoz, Outdoorz Gallery Venue: Urban Project France The bench offers the possibility of sitting or lying down in response to the surface’s relief. Like the fibrous structure of a muscle, the cut metal sheets work with compression and tension to maintain the rigidity of the resting platform. The smooth gun metal gray epoxy finish reflects the light and adds to the sense of lightness. As the sun passes through the metal bars, the shadows mix with the actual piece adding yet another dimension to this exceptional urban bench. Likiewise, This project offers an insight and opportunity of integrating idea of dynamic and fluidity, which is parallel with the design goal of the wyndham gateway project. This idea can be expressed in forms, tectonics (surfaces), materiality, colors, responding to the architecture discourse of materiality. In an engagement between visual perseption and natural environments of Wyndham project, reflective and metal like material with exploration of dynamic curvy form can be adopted which give different visual experience during night and day time. The colour of copper, yellow, have been chose to resemble the concept of “density shift” in Melbourne City. The copper colour is used to resemble the old, vintage feeling of old style architecture discourse which is using the bricks, stones; while the yellow and blue used to resemble the free form, dynamism and fluidity of the new architecture discourse in Melbourne. By using the techniques of arbitrary point and shaders functions in grasshopper, we can control the colours and shadings of the installation, where we can select the exact point of which part we want the colour to be changed and what colour we want to put in the various glass tubes. The number slider in Grasshopper enables us to control the lighting effect of the installation based on the colour mapping we wanted to show
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tenbein Vineyard Facade is a small project successfully used parametric design to fulfill unctional needs of the building without elimng the aesthetic aspect of it. This architecdiscourse of functional and aesthetic contions is one of the goals that our group want chieve in Wyndham Gateway Project.
masonry facade acts as the temperature er and sunlight filter. In Wyndham Gateway ect, this can be translated in terms of air, moshadows, and sunlight filter. Small gaps been brickworks could create different experies through times.
hermore, from the matrix exploration, our up decided that rotation definition is a design ion for delivering the metamorphosis theme. case study uses rotation technique to create ace changes; and it is one of the design soluthat is suitable with our theme of metamorsis.
yndham Gateway Project, our group inded to design a form which can give ‘illusion otion’ whilist motorists passby. With exploraof surface changes in this case study, illusion d be developed as the angle of each brickk is varied. The illusion also could be someg meaningfull towards Wyndham City as imsampler was used to developed it.
her exploration of the case study was done ugh fabrication of the model.
REVERSE-ENGINEERING
Gantenbein Vineyard Facade By Gramazion & Kohler (2006) Zurich, Switzerland
DENSITY
MAN-MADE
HEIGHT
LOWEST: HIGHEST:
TIME (LIGHT&SHADO
Melbouurne City Wyndham
NATURE
LESS-DENSE
DENSER
NODE: Melbouurne City ANTI-NODE: Wyndham To represent the symbolic of a city, the driver will get a narrow view to nature because of the tiny gap between each panel when driving from Melbourne city, it is just like a semi-transparent screen. On the other edge (close to Wyndham), it provide wider view to nature by enlarging the gap between panels, that bring the message “Welcome to Wyndham, welcome to wildlife”
GEOMETRY INPUT: Using a simple plane rectangle form to be the basic geometry of panel
LIFESTYLE
NOISE
POPULATION COMMUNICATION BUSINESS SOCIALRELATION HOUSINGDENSITY
WIN
MONEY
D
FOOD
ASSOCIATION: Force from surrounding Melbourne: Many force/pressure from the city (noise, housing density, lifestyle, money, communication, social relation...) Wyndham: Only one force stress from nature (wind)
OUTPUT: Melbourne: Regular Wynham: Curvilinear
Drivers can only view the first few panels if placing the lowest one are placed at the front, they couldn’t release how long the sculpture is before passing thought it. The shorter panels will create a feeling of pressure, on the other hand, higher one will give a feeling of freedom
ORIENTATION Part of panels might be blocked when different panels get different set back, which means drivers will view different form from different time, location
MATERIAL
DAY
NIGHT
Reflective road signages material
NON-REFLECTIVE REFLECTIVE
Driver can see the scuplture clearly even at night because of reflection of headlight from car The material will change gradually vertically, the scuplture will seem to be dissapear to the sky
The sculpture act as a signpost which alarm the drivers that they are already leaved away city, and entering to the nature, Wyndham City.
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NADIAH HUSNA BINTI THEODORE TONG BENG HEE LIM JESSICA UTAMI
376193 557523 376062 377788
NADIAH HUSNA BINTI BENG HEE LIM THEODORE TONG JESSICA UTAMI
376193 376062 557523 377788