Digital Design - Module 02 Semester 1, 2018 Kanyanut Duangna
(915985) Jun Han Foong + Studio Number 14
Week Three
Reading: Kolerevic B. 2003. Architecture in the Digital Age
Kolerevic described three fundamental type of fabrication techniques in the reading. Outline the three techniques and discuss the potential of Computer Numeric Controlled fabrication with parametric modelling. (150 words max)
The three fundamental type of fabrication techniques Kolerevic discusses are substraction, addictive and formative. The substractive fabrication remove the volume of the materials using electro- , chemically - or mechanically reductive (multi-axis milling) processes. The Additive builds the incremental form up by adding material in a layer by layer fashion. They are used to create the components in series. The formative restricts the form and heat or steam are applied to a material so it forms to the desired shape through reshaping or deforming. Computer numeric controlled fabrication with parametric modelling helps with the design model to be produce true to the design and at a faster speed compare to a manual way. It can also be very helpful with a much larger scale construction according to the more accurate measurement and direction.
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Week Three
Surface Creation
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Because my theme is twisted tower so the top part of the model should be smaller than the lower part. So a smaller box is created for the top surface to loft. The two surfaces are pulled to be closed to each other and the surfaces become ideally curvy.
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Week Four Panels & Waffle
The two different shapes of 3D are produced to be on the separate surfaces; the first one with linear extrusion and 2nd one with twisted form extrusion. With the even lower 3D objects situated between them in a way that the direction suggests the action of growing higher. The height of the panel are also reduced as they grow higher as well.
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The waffle structure are self supported. It can actually stand on itself even thought the form are quite curvy. The top piece is rotated almost 45 degrees and has no opening.
Week Four
Laser Cutting
The three different panels can easily be unrolled and even easier to locate them since I unroll them as stripes. So the pieces are appeared to be quite long. However for the twisted shapes have quite a more complicated shape than others so I had break stripes since it might overlap with each other. Yet, some of my unroll surfaces happen to be on a wrong side so I had to mirror them again.
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Week Five
The platonic octahedron is used to make my boolean. I combine the two different rotation shapes together so it creates a more interesting shape and effects. However since I used 6x6 grid, it appeared to be quite crowed so I apply Cull nth component to remove them according to the pattern I provided across the script.
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Week Five
I have experimented with vary mixture of shapes such as the cone, sphere and platonic dodecahedron shapes. However when I cut the section out, it turned to be really messy and out of control. So I keep to use the same shapes with different rotation direction.
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Week Five
Isometric
I choose to continue with the platonic octahedron shapes. It seems to be quite a simple shape but with a lot of them overlapping with each other it would create stunning light affect and shadows. The angle of the boolean differences indicates the direction of the light and wind that go through the opening also. The shape is rotated perpendicularly so it varies the permeability of the structure.
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Week Six Task 01
Task 01 Matrix The matrix drawings are represented in a way that tell the progression of my shape. How the model was developed is what it is shown.
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Week Six
Task 01
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Week Six Task 02
Task 02 Matrix The matrix drawings are represented in a way that tell the progression of my shape. How the model was developed is what it is shown.
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Week Six Task 01
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Week Six
Final Isometric Views
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Appendix
Process
The offset grid script at different height
The 3D script
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Appendix Process
Test print with A4 paper
Laser Cut
Wrong panel - has to be mirrored
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