Architecture Design Studio : Air ABPL30048
Expression of Interest Jun Zhang Gee Wai Lam Yik Chun Ko
ARCHITECTURE STUDIO - AIR LAM GEE WAI 372547
Content 1.
Site Information
2. Concept 3.
Case for Innovation
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Personal Project - Body Piece
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Port Olympic Fish Sculpture - Frank Gehry
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Guangzhou Opera House - Zaha Hadid
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Contemporary Scripting Programing Culture Research Project
i. Matrix of Combination
ii. Reversed Engineered Case Study - Dior Ginza
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Design narrative
Design Concept
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ii. Refine iii. Fabrication
Site Analysis
This line represents the boundary between the Metropolitan Melbourne and the country side
Werrible Open Range Zoo
The site chosen for our second installation (22000m^2)
National equestrian Centre The site chosen for our first installation (50000m^2)
The Melbourne Water Western Treatment Plant, located immediately south of the proposed Gateway, is one of the world’s most significant wetlands.
Werrible Park Mansion
LANDSCAPE
EYE CATCHING HIGH SPEEN MOVEMENT
LONGEVITY
Concept
PARAME T RIC F STREAMLIN DESIGN SMOOTH
LOATING
Kenneth Ko 397471
BODY P IECE V E irtual
nvironments
I have been engaged in the Virtual Environments project to design a body piece. The course required us to use Rhinoceros to do certain surface creation design based on some natural parametric forms. I have done some research on several natural phenomena. I did an observation on how the movement of water can be when hitting the buman body on the top. However I didn’t choose this idea for my design. At the second time, I tried to research on the flowering process of the flowering plants, which finally became the idea of my final design.
The process of flowering of every flower is quite alike, while they develop into different forms of flower. My design finally became the flowering of pine cone. It is more systematic and can be more parametric when I use rhino to design. In relation to the Gateway project, we took the idea of the parametric design and the idea of digging holes on the surface of the design to create the shadowing effects.
Frank Gehry By
LIMPIC PORT OFISH SCULPTURE
“This fish sculpture was also a landmark in the history of Frank O. Gehry & Associates, inaugurating the firm's use of computer-aided design and manufacturing.� Oliver Dibrova It is made of stone, steel, and glass. Its copper-colored shiny metal plates sparkle in the sunshine and make the sculpture a real eye catcher. The sculpture can be seen from several of Barcelona's beaches. It has become a symbol of post-Olympic Barcelona. The big goldfish seems to float above the sea. The sun is reflected on the golden scales of this fish-shaped sculpture that dominates the waterfront of the Olympic port and beaches of Barcelona.
Technology opens up a new role for computer as a design tool. As such, they provide the benefits of depth and breadth. On the one hand, their computational power can address processes with a scale and complexity that precludes a manual approach. On the other hand, algorithms can generate endless permutations of a scheme. A slight tweaking of either the input or the process leads to an instant adaptation of output. In relation to the gate way project, the idea of curvining the surface in order to achieve smooth movement along the surface had been extracted and absorbed in our preliminary design. And the way of incorporate a sense of movement into static, or immobile, materials.
Zaha Hadid Architects
GUANGDONG PROVINCE, CHINA
GUANGZHOU OPERAHOUSE
“Design is a process we engage in when the current situation is different from some desired situation. And when the actions need to transform the former into the latter are not immediately obvious.” Yehuda E. Kalay
The Opera House is at the heart of Guangzhou’s cultural development. Its unique twin-boulder design enhances the city by opening it to the Pearl River, unifying the adjacent cultural buildings with the towers of international finance in Guangzhou’s Zhujiang new town. Shaped to resemble two pebbles on the bank of the Pearl River, the building houses a 1,800-seat theatre plus 400-seat multifunctional hall, rehearsal rooms and entrance hall. The main auditorium is lined with moulded panels made from glass-fibre reinforced gypsum to create a folded, flowing surface.
Like pebbles in a stream smoothed by erosion, the Guangzhou Opera House sits in perfect harmony with its riverside location. The design evolved from the concepts of a natural landscape and the fascinating interplay between architecture and nature; engaging with the principles of erosion, geology and topography. Fold lines in this landscape define territories and zones within the Opera House, cutting dramatic interior and exterior canyons for circulation, lobbies and cafes, and allowing natural light to penetrate deep into the building.
Smooth transitions between disparate elements and different levels continue this landscape analogy. Custom moulded glass-fibre reinforced gypsum (GFRC) units have been used for the interior of the auditorium to continue the architectural language of fluidity and seamlessness. The Guangzhou Opera House has been the catalyst for the development of cultural facilities in the city including new museums, library and archive. The Opera House design is the latest realization of Zaha Hadid Architects’ unique exploration of contextual urban relationships, combining the cultural traditions that have shaped Guangzhou’s history, with the ambition and optimism that will create its future.
The Guangzhou Opera illustrates how the designer brought and conbimed the ideas came from local culture, landscape and topography together in harmony with his own design philosophy. In the gate way project, there is a call of illustrating community culture and innovation. Possibility of achieving both goals by undertaking computational process was seen from the Guangzhou Opera House Project.
“With scripting, computer programming becomes integral to the digital design process. It provides unique opportunities for innovation, enabling the designer to customise the software around their own predilections and modes of working. It liberates designers by automating many routine aspects and repetitive activities of the design process, freeing them to spend more time on design thinking. Software that is modified through scripting offers a range of speculations that are not possible using the software only as the manufacturers intended it to be used. There are also significant economic benefits to automating routines and coupling them with emerging digital fabrication technologies, as time is saved at the front-end and new file-to-factory protocols can be taken advantage of. Most significantly perhaps, scripting as a computing program overlay enables the tool user to become the new tool maker.” Mark Burry When we look at the gateway project, it will be located on a site with unique context. These context such as sunpath, lighting condition and wind pattern allows us to customise a unique algorithm through the design process. All the values that feeds the scripting process result in different simulation of the actural design outcome. The whole image of the project would be affected by the change of a exact value by using scripting and programing during design process.
CONTEMPORARY S CRIPTING PROGRAMING CULTURES
Yehuda E. Kalay
In relation to the gate way project, Marine Gateway illustrates a clear image of how parametric facade and lighting system joined and worked together to generate a incredible expression. It gives a inspiration of light using in our preliminary design.
Asymptote Architecture-Hani Rashid & Lise Anne Couture
“Designer finds an arrangement of forms, materials, views, orientations, lighting conditions, and other elements that come together into a holistic ensemble, where the parts support one another and have and intrinsic structure of their own.�
KAOHSIUNG TAIWAN
MARINE GATEWAY
The new Kaohsiung Marine Gateway Terminal designed by Asymptote is a new state of the art transportation interchange, an urban destination with both terminal and public facilities including exhibition and event spaces for the people of Kaohsiung as well as for national and international visitors. The project transforms the site from its industrial roots into a dynamic urban hub and a global gateway that bring a powerful and electric experience to the city 24 hours a day. The curved form of the terminal hall sits delicately yet majestically above the large open plaza activated by the flow of people moving back and forth between the harbor and the city. From the city, the terminal forms an urban scaled aperture that frames the harbor and water beyond. The sculpted underside of the floating building provides shelter to the urban space from the strong
sun and seasonal rains while at night it provides dramatic illumination for the ongoing public activities, events and celebrations. The interior of the terminal building provides a spectacular culmination; a soaring vertical space naturally lit from above leads up to the large clear span of the terminal hall with sweeping panoramas of the City and the Kaohsiung skyline on one side and of the Sea, the sky and the horizon on the other. These are experienced within a dramatic space defined by the sophisticated geometry of the curved shell roof and the lightweight sculptural panels suspended below where the geometric pattern of the assembly creates ever-changing spatial and light effects, celebrating the events of both arrival and departure.
Matrix of Combinations Arbitrary Points Arbitrary points uses points and surface and the points on the surface will respond and create certain outcomes. As an input, it can produce different effects by using combinations of different associations and output.
Boolean Patterning Boolean pattering demonstrate how patterns can emerge out of the selection of points. It selects points based on the boolean patterning to create a diagonal gap throughout the pattern.
Curve Intersections Curve intersection extracts the existing information for points. From these points, they can by controled to interect together and create interesting geometries.
Surface Grids Surface grids simply divide a surface into grids of points. After divided into grids, different association and output can be connected to create different desirable outcomes.
Explict Grids: Square and Hexagonal Works similar to a surface divide, but square grids make more equal in both directions and the arrangements are in the x and y directions. However, hexagonal grids provide diagonal arrangements.
Overlapping Patterns Overlapping patterns create offsets to the orginal surface and produce a layer on top or above. Overlapping patterns can be used to connect with other associations and outputs to create a dynamic form of patterns.
Surface Normals Surface normals are surfaces that are free formed instead of flat. It is similar to a flat surface that different associations and output can be connected to produce different outcome. Instead, the outcome on a surface normal is more dynamic and interesting.
Dior Giza is designed by Kumiko Inui who draw inspiration from the cannage pattern of the signature Lady Dior handbag. The facade was developed as a double-layed skin comprised of two independent surface: an outer perforated layer seperated from an inner, printed layer which is fibre-optically illuminated. In the inner layer, the cannage pattern is scaled down 30%, which combined with the offset between the two layers to produce a hazy, moire effect.
The facade of this building is a good example showing the power of parametric design in creating virtual images by overlaying several screens at a certain distance in between them. In this reversed engerneered case study, we are trying the reproduce the same effect by using grasshopper. Process one: In the first step, we first create a surface and we use surface divide to make a grid of circle dots. Then we use an image of the dior cannage pattern in the image sampler to arrange the size of the dots according to the cannage pattern. This basically makes the outer layer, which resembles the outer facade of the Dior Ginza. Process two: After we create the outer layer, we move on to the inner layer. As mentioned, the inner layer consist of dots that are 30% smaller and are 34cm apart from the outer layer. We do this by overlap pattern in grasshopper. We make an offset of 34cm and reduce the radius of the dots by 30% and we successfully create the inner layer. The Dior Ginza facade, which uses overlapping pattern to create virtual images deeply inspires us and we have further developed this idea into our design.
‘The Dior facade presents itself like an architectureal apparition; a ghost like volume articulated solely through the luminous effects of its carefully edited surface’ Kumiko Inui
DIOR GINZA Reversed Engineered Case Study
Concept We have the concept of fluid motion in the design to indicate the importance of the adjacent wetland. We first draw the shape of a water droplet and try to produce a long and narrow design which flows dynamically beside the road.
Control Points Curve Makeing 2D shape
Option 1: Image Sampler Surface frame is used to divided the surface to produce grids of dots. The dots are arranged in different size by the image in the image sampler to produce a unique pattern. The outcome is satisfactory as the pattern is easily seen.
Control Points Curve Preparing to loft
Lofting Making 3D surface
Option 2: Pattern Overlay Inspired by the Dior Ginza facade, we found the overlaying pattern very interesting. We tried the pattern overlay with the association of image sampler and wish to produce virtual images. The result is satisfactory and we look forward to it.
Rebuild surface Modifying the surface Option 3: Data Driven Extrusion Extrusion is made on the dots on the grid. The extrusion follows the association of the image in the image sampler to produce a dynamic wave form.
Option 4: Data Driven Rotation The dots in the grid begins to rotate away from its original position following the association of the image in the image sampler. Some dots were rotated out of the surfac.
Refining Design After expermenting with different association and output, we have decided to adopt the overlaying pattern associated with image sampler. However, we want to refine the design by playing with the lighting of the installation.
First Installation in site B After we have decided on the use of overlapping pattern and image sampler as association, we refine our design by exploring the lighting effect in the stallation. We use Data Driven Shading to produce two contrasting colour on the inner layer according to the pattern of the image in the image sampler. This contrast in colour produce a colour gradient to the installation and produce an more interesting virtual image through the overlapping pattern.
Second Installation in site A After we have decided on the use of overlapping pattern and image sampler as association, we developed our second installation to respond to our first installation. This second installation uses fluid motion as the core idea as well. To fit into the landscape of site A, it is longer in length and follows the shape of the site boundary to produce a landscaped installation. The second installation is located opposite to the first installation, responding to each other to enrich the streetscape.
Fabricating Design After making design decision, we have to materialize the design to further explore the possibility of the design. We fabricate two sheets of polypropene sheet with grids of dots associated with image sampler, with the dots in the inner sheet 30% smaller than the other sheet. We successfully produce virtual images. With the use of different light colour, the colour gradient is clearly seen.