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architectural studio:air s1_t2 tutor:bradley elias
jaime ka wing lee
CONTENTS 04. INTRODUCTION 06. PART A_CONCEPTUALISATION 07. DESIGN FUTURING 10. DESIGN COMPUTATION 14. COMPOSITION/GENERATION 18. CONCLUSION/OUTCOMES 22. REFERENCES
I’m Jaime, studying architecture at the university of melbourne. My interest in arts and design began at a very young age, probably due to the influence of my dad, who’s an arts teacher/ part-time lecturer, I was introduced to all forms of arts like painting, sketching, photography etc. although I enjoyed my time doing arts and crafts, I never really considered them as a possible future career.I had dreams of becoming a fashion designer, a pilot,
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professional protographer... careers that could take me to different places around the world, to see things in differnt perspectives, to experience unique cultures and traditions...architect was not in my mind at all until the last year of high school when I was introduced by a friend to an architect who kindly offered working experience at his firm during the summer break. I could onfidently say without doubt that that summer, changed my life. I was fascinated by how buildings work, how something so real standing tall and majestic on the ground could initially be just a ‘thought’ in an architect’s mind. I then on realised that this career is a perfect one for me, being able to see something you’re a part of creating and people benefiting from it is truly rewarding. The journey of studying architecture, apart from the countless consequtive late nights, has thoroughly been enjoyable. I was introduced to architectural dr softwares during that summer work experience and I’ve since been using them frequently in design subjects and my own design work outside uni, however digital modelling was never my forte, hence I am quite anxious about this studio as we not only need to model digitally but also further derive designs using softwares. Although I am somewhat scared but I also feel excited about learning new techniques and softwares that could further extend my design options.
PART A. CONCEPTUALISATION
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Design Futuring 01.
Precedent 01 Name\\ Heydar Aliyar Center Architects\\ Zaha Hadid Architects Location\\ Baku, Azerkaijan Year\\ 2013
This example of Hadad’s work, I think represents a ‘future thinking’ in the design industry. In architecture history, buildings have almost always been quite rigid in shape, perhaps technology hasn’t been that advanced in allowing people to work with much flexibility. But this design of Hada’s has really triggered my feelings towards the evolution of forms in architecture. Although this might not be a computer generated design, but the boldness of this work is truly fascinating, the flexible, elegant curves extend to the interior of the building, creating an even stronger emotional impact to the occupants. This project reminds us that architectural design is always moving forward, what would be considered as ‘impossible’ and ‘unsafe’ in the past can be made ‘possible’ and ‘comfortable’ in the future. The curved mass of the entire design is what shows the futuring in design.
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Precedent 02 Name\\ One Central Park Architects\\ Ateliers Jean Nouvel Location\\ NSW, Australia Year\\ 2014
Design futuring doesn’t only mean the futuring in shapes and forms, but also about how well it can harmonise the relationship between human and the environment. Sustainability is a big issue in today’s society, since human behaviour contributes enourmously to the effect of such, architecture plans an even bigger and influential role in assisting and controlling the consequences of human behaviours, limiting the negative outcomes that would be produced, eg. pollution. One Central Park’s architectural
design portrays exactly the ultimate harmonization and peacefulness between human and nature by inserting plantations of all sorts into every detail of the building, making it seem like the structure is being wrapped by nature. I think this design demonstrates a sense of futurisation because it’s very open to new ideas and concepts, the architects were not afraid of showcasing the need of society to protect plantations by maybe only designing a roof garden or a tranquil vegetated lounge, but to fill up the entire
frame of the structure with plantations, creating emphasis in the design purpose and accurately convey the strong message of sustainability. On top of the plantation elements, this building features an incredibly impressive cantilevered structure, hovering to the penthouse of the tower next to it, this definitely is another wow factor of this building, not only its rarely seen in architectures these days but also suggests that there are unending possibilities in this industry.
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Design Computation
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As computers become more competent in handling human needs in all sorts of perspectives, designers also began to rely more heavily on the aid of computers, whether it’s structural calculations or form generation, it is also extremely common for communication processes to be relied on computers. Computers are basically something not to live without!
How it affects design process? Computor softwares provides aid in research. Architecture and design are inclined to be human-oriented nowadays. The big picture or purpose is always about benefitting human and the environment. Satisfying human needs or even providing more than expected in doing things that we might never think would be possible.
Computer softwares previde great assistance in all stages of a design process. Beginning from the research stage, seeking out for what potential users need and want in a building. Design development is where usually using the outcomes of the research in finding the most desirable deisgn form, then using softwares to accuratle document the design for construction.
res earch desig n devel opm en t doc u m en t at i on Computer aided design softwares affected designs in ways that they are seen to be more... / organi c / h uman- o ri e nt ed / f ree f o rm / sus t ai nabl e / u nexpe c t ed This advancement redefined the practice from being simply a space FOR human activities to having human activities DEFINING a space. Needs come before design, affecting the features within the structure.
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precedents-generative human oriented designs.
Name\\ Spiratomic Space Designers\\ Loop.ph (spatial laboratory) Location\\ Petersburg Russia Year\\ 2010
This is a responsive project is a spatial
genearative, emergent light and sound environment with a luminuous and growth which is dependent on users’ participation. The concept of this emergence. How complex systems and patterns would emerge to create effect.All it needs for it to generate these patterns are simple interactions.
Urban lobby is a speculative development of the Central Point office tower in London. It depicts a contested transcient space. Designers investigated the creative and critical speculations on how one addresses contemporary mdoes of urbanity and interfacing. These spaces include board rooms, private open spaces eg. business lounge. The form is generated from the image of strands of hair.
Name\\ Urban Lobby Architects\\ MRGD Architects Location\\ London, England
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Composition Generation
Precedent 01
Name\\ Smart Masonary Architects\\ Zaarchitects
This project Zaarchitect has taken to embark on is to change the concept of masonary as we know them and incorporate digital fabrication techniques. Modern technologies allow dead-weight to be optimised and minimised, in another words, ensuring structural loading requirements while also minimising the mass of the building. The complex geometries generated can also be replicated in great precision thanks to generative computational softwares. This assists the production of the accurate seamless effect between each component that traditional masonry might not be able to achieve.
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Precedent 02
Name\\ Danish Mosque Architects\\ Henning Larsen Location\\ Copenhagen, Denmark Year\\ 2016 The soon-to-be-built new modern mosque designed by Henning Larsen in Copenhagen is an example of computational design contributing changes to the architecutral discourse, through improving and modifying traditional monumental designs and structures, people can observe and experience the transition of architecture moving into a more advanced, digital age. The application of computational design is not merely for the aesthetics, I believe it takes advantage of this digitalise advancement in creating more comfortable spaces and experiences for users., through lighting and other accessities.
This modification of a traditional mosque would also create a more approachable and welcmoing feeling for any nonislamic believers. It has been mentioned in the proposal that this new mosque aims to bring younger generations in contact with the monument while also keeping elements of the tradition in respect to the older generation. It’s clearly seen that the computarised generation is more attracted by the younger generations of society, symbolising the futuring in design .
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conclusion. Design is a tool to reflect society’s values, needs and desires. It’s not something you can follow a manual on but of experience, trial and error. Today’s society is moving towards cyber-based, communication, leisure, research...you can never escape from being in contact with the internet or any kind of digital devices. The design industry also is relying much heavier on digital softwares, they assist designers in not only in documentation and research but also design generations and developments. In the field of architecture, effects of such can be seen through the rising works of parametric, computer-generated designs. These gnerated designs have stregths and weaknesses but most importantly, I personally think they show an evolution
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of societal change and advancement. My intension for this design project would be, relating to my definition of design, a reflection of societal values, with a focus on human needs and desires, mainly surrounding the topic of sustainability and environmental protection which I think is appropriate given the nature of the project site. I think it is important to have a design in this approach because human are lacking quiality interactive experience with nature, I hope my design would arouse people’s curiosity and their desires to make a change to the environment. The target user groups would be families, working class around the area and school students. This design is intended to benefit, in the big picture, the environment and consequently the users and the ecology in the site.
outcomes. I walked into the first studio feeling nervous and had no expectations of what’s going to happen. The terms ‘computation’ and ‘grasshopper’ gave me chills as they are never things that I am fully confident in. After understanding the structure of the course and our tasks for the week, knowing that there are resources and guides for us, I immediately felt much more at ease. The first three weeks of the course have been very informative and useful in terms of getting the basic touch of what we have to do for our design project, while watching tutorials and getting a grasp of grasshopper, the readings are incredibly helpful, especially the precedents we were to research relating to the readings, they provided a fuller picture of what’s to be expected from the course and along what lines we have to base our designs on.
I now have more knowledge and understanding in the field of computational design, which I used to have practically none given I was ‘scared’ of it, and I find it very interesting as the forms generated are indefinte, it’s a practice of not having full control of a design, letting the rules and mathematics lead you to a generative form. My previous designs are sll pretty linear and performance-based, I didn’t put much attention in creating fancy shapes and forms, I only expressed my concepts and ideas in forms that are direct, easily formulated and simple. Looking back to these projects, I think I can definitely improve my designs using computational designs to generate more interesitng forms wvhich can possibly convey a stronger message that fits into my design concept.
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REFERENCES A1. DESIGN FUTURING cover photo https://www.etsy.com/market/sage_leaves precedent 1 all photos from http://www.archdaily.com/448774/heydar-aliyev-center-zaha-hadid-architects/ precedent 2 all photos from One Central Park: http://www.archdaily.com/551329/one-central-park-jean-nouvel-patrick-blanc/ A2. DESIGN COMPUTATION cover photo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMnvNAlz3Xo precedent 1 all photos from http://loop.ph/portfolio/spiratomic-space/ precedent 2 all photos from http://www.dezeen.com/2007/11/01/urban-lobby-by-mrgd-architects/ A3. COMPOSITION AND GENERATION cover photo http://people.ece.cornell.edu/land/courses/ece5760/FinalProjects/f2009/nic4_sck76/nic4_sck76/ precedent 1 Rawn, Evan. “Digitized Stone: ZAarchitects Develop “Smart Masonry”” 13 Mar 2015. ArchDaily. Accessed 13 Mar 2015. <http://www.archdaily.com/?p=609108> all photos taken from the above website, courtest of Zaarchitects. precedent 2 Rosenfield, Karissa. “Henning Larsen Receives Planning for Danish Mosque” 19 Mar 2015. ArchDaily. Accessed 19 Mar 2015. <http://www.archdaily.com/?p=611429> Wanande Christian, ‘Copenhagen to Get New ‘Designer’ Mosque’ 17 Mar 2015. The Copenhagen Post. Accessed 19 Mar 2015 <http://cphpost.dk/news/copenhagen-to-get-newdesigner-mosque.13042.html>
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