Week 6 presentation

WEEK 6 PRESENTATION CONTENTS: • Indicative site map • 3D site model • 5 key points of the selected site • Relevant work

Jianqing (Peter) YAO 615245 Architecture design studio: Air 13

5 Key Points Of The Selected Site • The users are mainly family members with their children and people ranged between 15 to 40 years old who have very good physical strength. (Cyclists, runners, etc) • Relatively clear vegetation area (Open view when standing uphill) and attractive view of Yarra River and natural environment.

• Relatively high level of both sides of the riverbed referring to the water level.

• Major access to the Main Yarra Trail. (Critical location) • Spatially interactive with the feature of both water and earth.

Case Study 1.0 POSSIBILITY ANALYSIS • Developed from LAVA - Green Void 2008

Possibility analysis of potential geometrical form finding allows to push the geometry form to its limits so that we are able to find the critical value and the maximum strength when the geometry is in a relaxed situation performed by the Kangaroo Physics of Rhino Plug-in.

While I am playing the original Green Void grasshopper definition, I developed two

more different types of restriction plus a free-form matrix and a series of parametrically evolutionary . One of the two restrictions is that the geometry has a fixed spatial boundary (iteration 2) which limits the overall size while it is performing. This is a crucial condition as the selected site is a open field which has minor spatial limitation.

Another form finding (iteration 3) is that the geometry contains a fixed intersection points which appears to be a radial form. Unlike the former one, this possibility allows infinite size of the geometry due to the changeable parameters of multiple lines by using the Exoskeleton definition in grasshopper. If these two possibilities combine together, an unlimited geometry would take place within a finite boundary which has the potential to maximum of the geometry’s performability. As for the free form (iteration 4), anchor points are dragged freely to form new geometry based on a formulated skeleton in 3D perspective.