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HAMZAH MANSOOR GRAZI PRADA KRISTIAN TAGLIAVENTO DARYL TAN Architecture Design Studio: AIR ABPL30048 Semester 1 2012
THE COMPETITION BRIEF ARCHITECTURE IN DISCOURSE: WYNDHAM CITY GATEWAY PROJECT BRIEF OBJECTIVES : ‘DEVELOP A PROPOSAL THAT INSPIRES AND ENRICHES THE MUNICIPALITY’ • ICONIC FEATURE • LONGEVITY IN APPEAL • DIALOGUE BETWEEN LANDSCAPE AND SCULPTURE • DAY-TIME AND NIGHTTIME VIEWING OUTCOME : THE LIVING AND BREATHING SCULPTURE • RESPOND TO THE INHERENT CULTURE OF WYNDHAM CITY • RESTORE WYNDHAM CITY AS A SIGNIFICANT CULTURAL HUB • REGENERATE THE LANDSCAPE • PROMOTE USER INTERACTION WITH THE SCULPTURE • DELIVER A STATEMENT, CHALLENGING THE SOCIAL NORM THEREFORE : REITERATE THE CONSCIOUS CONNECTION BETWEEN THE LANDSCAPE, THE USER AND THE SCULPTURE • CREATE A VENUE FOR CONTEMPLATION REGARDING SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT • CRITIQUE THE ECONOMIC FORCES OF CONTEMPORARY URBANIZATION OF THE CITY • FORMULATE AN APPROACH THAT RESPONDS TO THE IDEALIZATION OF A LIVING, BREATHING SCULPTURE
ZA11 PAVILION CLJ02 WORKSHOP+DIMITRIE STEFANESCU
‘THE OBJECT, THROUGH ITS TECTONIC CHARACTERISTICS TRIES TO MAKE LEGIBLE THE NEW ONTOLOGY WHICH IS SLOWLY DEFINED BY COMPUTATIONAL ARCHITECTURE AND THUS BECOMES A SHOWCASE FOR THE DESIGN PROCESSES EMPOWERED BY DIGITAL TOOLS’ DIMITRIE STEFANESCU (2011) PARAMETRIC TECHNIQUES: RHINO + GRASSHOPPER • GEOMETRY GENERATION • LABELLING + ASSEMBLY • FABRICATION METHODS IMPACT ON THE SOCIAL + URBAN ENVIRONMENT • SCOPE OF EXPERIMENTATION • ARCHITECTURE AFFECT
HONEYCOMB MORPHOLOGY ANDREW KUDLESS + MATSYS DESIGN STUDIO + ARCHITECTURE ASSOCIATION
‘INTEGRATION IS INHERENT TO NATURAL MATERIAL SYSTEMS, FOR THEY HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED THROUGH EVOLUTIONARY MEANS
WHICH
INTRICATELY
TIE
TOGETHER THE FORM, GROWTH AND BEHAVIOUR OF THE ORGANISM[...]AN INTEGRATED AND GENERATIVE DESIGN STRATEGY USING A BIOMETIC APPROACH TO ARCHITECTURE AND FABRICATION’ ANDREW KUDLESS (2004) INTEGRATED BIOMETIC STRATEGIES • RESPONSIVE/ADAPTABLE MATERIAL SYSTEM • BIODYNAMIC STRUCTURE DERIVED FROM NATURAL PHENOMENA • RESEARCH INTO APPLICATIONS OF SCALE PATTERNING SURFACE SYSTEM
DYNAFORM
BERNHARD FRANKEN ARCHITEKTEN ‘GENERATED
IN
A
COMPUTER
SIMULATION BY OVERLAPPING THE SPATIALLY TRANSLATED DOPPLER EFFECT AND ENVIRONMENTAL FORCES’ BERNHARD FRANKEN (2001) MATERIALITY+IMPLICATIONS • DUAL ETFE AND PVC MEMBRANE SKIN WITH INFLATABLE NEGATIVE SPACE/VACUUM • SKIN STRETCHED LONGITUDINALLY OVER STRUCTURE TO CONFORM TO
ARCHITECTURAL
IDEA
OF
ACCELERATION KINETIC ARCHITECTURE • ACCELERATION + MOVEMENT • INFLATABLE SKIN INFORMS THE RELATIONSHIP TO AIR + BREATHING
MEDIA-TIC
CLOUD 9 ARCHITECTURE STUDIO ‘IN
THE
DIGITAL
INFORMATION
ERA, ARCHITECTURE HAS TO BE A TECHNOLOGICAL PLATFORM, IN WHICH CONNECTIVITY, NEW MATERIALS, AND NANOTECHNOLOGY ARE IMPORTANT’ RUIZ GELI (2011) INTERACTIVE ARCHITECTURE • RESPONSIVE TO SOCIO-ECONOMIC + ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES • ETFE PANELS REACT TO MITIGATE FACADE CONDITIONS DIAPHRAGM • SIMULATES THE KINETICS OF BREATHING • CELLS INFLATE FORMING AN OPAQUE SOLAR FILTER
TURBULENCE
CUT + FABRICATE RESEARCH PROJECT RESPONSIVE ARCHITECTURE • INTIMATE INTERACTION BETWEEN ARCHITECTURE, THE ENVIRONMENT+ THE VIEWERS/USERS INTERACTIVE ARCHITECTURE • AWARENESS OF SPACE • NON-STATIC/DYNAMIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SCULPTURE+USERS • SENSE OF RELATIVITY TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS • ALUMINIUM SPACE FRAME INFORM A SENSE OF LIGHTNESS+FLEXIBILITY, BUT ALSO STRENGTH+INNOVATION NATURAL COMPLEXITIES • OPTICAL QUALITIES WHERE SKIN AUGMENTS
DUE
SEASONAL EVENTS
TO
WEATHER/
EXPLORATION INTO THE APPLICATIONS OF THE PRIMARY NOTIONS DERIVED FROM THE CASE OF INNOVATION. DISCOVERING THE INTERACTIVE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SCULPTURE, THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE USERS THROUGH THE ANALYSIS OF HOW THE CONCEPT OF AIR+TURBULENCE CAN COMMUNICATE WITH THE ARCHITECTURAL SKIN+STRUCTURE. THEREFORE RESEARCH WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE AN APPROPRIATE SKIN GEOMETRY.
SKIN EXPERIMENT - PROTOTYPE ONE • REPTILE SKIN CUT • APERTURES TO INTERACT WITH THE ELEMENTS • INFORM NON-STATIC RELATIONSHIP + LIGHTING QUALITIES
SKIN EXPERIMENT - PROTOTYPE TWO • SERPENT SKIN CUT • APERTURES INFLUENCED BY ATTRACTORS - SIZE + SCALE VARIATION TO PROMOTE SENSE OF ACCELERATION+BREATHING
STRUCTURE EXPERIMENT • HONEYCOMB SPACE FRAME • UNIFORM APERTURES • EXPERIMENTATION TO DETERMINE A SUITABLE JOINERY SYSTEM BETWEEN STRUCTURE + SKIN MATERIAL
DIAPHRAGM
THE KINETICS OF LIVING+BREATHING
MATERIAL PROTOTYPE ONE.
MATERIAL PROTOTYPE TWO.
MATERIAL PROTOTYPE THREE.
• EXPLORING THE NOTION OF
• CELLULAR MEMBERS
• HONEYCOMB STRUCTURE
THE SCULPTURE AS A LIVING
• IMITATE THE AFFECT OF
• INVESTIGATING THE JOINERY
ORGANISM
BREATHING THROUGH INDIVIDUAL
SYSTEM BETWEEN MATERIALS
• OPEN TO THE ELEMENTS (WIND)
INTERACTION
• IDEAL ‘BREATHING’ SYSTEM FOR
• IMPLY USER INTERACTION
• HIGHLY DEPENDENT ON DIRECT
INFLATION AND DEFLATION
• CAPACITY TO ‘BREATH’
SOURCE OF AIR TRANSMISSION
• CONTROLLED PUMP/VACUUM
THROUGH INFLATION+DEFLATION
• EITHER VEHICULAR OR AIR
SYSTEM CREATING NEGATIVE
DEPENDING ON USER INTERACTION
• DIRECTLY LINKED TO CONCEPT
CHAMBER BETWEEN SKIN LAYERS
SERPENTINE DREAM THE CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT: RESPONSIVE MORPHOGENESIS
CONTINUING WITH DIGITAL EXPERIMENTATION: DRAWING INSPIRATION FROM THE MEANDERING RIVER + SERPENT FORM • USING GRASSHOPPER TO DICTATE AND DETERMINE THE
RESPONSIVENESS
OF
SURFACE
DEFORMATIONS
• OPTIMIZING THE SKIN STRUCTURE TO ESTABLISH SCALE AND ANGLES FOR GREATER LIGHT PENETRATION + AIR EXPERIENCE • SCULPTURED FORM TO EMERGE FROM THE LANDSCAPE HIGHLIGHTING CONNECTION TO CONTEXT + USER EXPERIENCE • APPEARANCE OF ENCLOSURE OR CONSTRICTING IT’S PREY, PROVIDES A SENSE OF CONTEMPLATION FOR THE DAILY COMMUTERS REGARDING ENVIRONMENTAL + ECONOMIC HARM
ECDYSIS: SCALE
KINETICS OF SCALE: REGENERATIVE STRUCTURE
ECDYSIS LITERALLY MEANS ‘TO TAKE OFF’ OR ‘STRIP DOWN’ : APPLICATION TO THE OVERALL CONCEPT OF REGENERATION. • DELIVER AN ICONIC FEATURE THAT INFORMS THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE LANDSCAPE AND THE SCULPTURE. • ITERATIVE MODELLING TECHNIQUES USED TO SCALE THE ORIGINAL VOLUME • RESPONDING TO PREVIOUS EXPLORATIONS DEFINING USER EXPERIENCE • RATIONALIZING CONCEPT INTO A WORKING OUTCOME FOR FABRICATION I.E. MATERIALITY AND JOINERY SYSTEM
BIBLIOGRAPHY BOOKS
Kalay. Y (2004) Architecture’s New Media : Principles, Theories, and Methods of Computer-Aided Design (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press), pp. 5 - 25 Killory. C (2008) ‘Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh’, in Detail in Process. 1st edn (New York: Princeton Architectural Press) pp. 112 - 117 Koch. K (2004) Membrane Structures (London: Pretsel) pp. 236-239 Kolarevic. B (2003) Architecture in the Digital Age: Design and Manufacturing (New York; London: Press), pp. 3 - 62 Kruger. S (2009) Textile Architecture (Berlin: Jovis Verlag GmbH) pp. 196-197 Moussavi. F (2006) The Function of Ornament (Barcelona: Actar), pp. 5-14 Pawlyn. M, (2011) Biomimicry in Architecture (UK:Riba Publishing) pp. 1-128 Sebestyen. G (2003) New Architecture and Technology (Oxford: Architectural Press), pp. 1-155 Williams. R (2005) ‘Architecture and Visual Culture’, in Exploring Visual Culture : Definitions, Concepts, Contexts (Edinburgh: University Press), pp. 102 - 16 ONLINE SOURCES http://a-ngine.com/ http://e-cloud9.com/ http://franken-architekten.de/ http://matsysdesign.com/ http://nedkahn.com/wind.html
Competition Brief/Case For Innovation/Expression of Interest
‘Parametric design is in itself not so interesting. It needs meaning. We need to combine the possibilities of the virtual with how we discipline the real in a new way’ - Ben van Berkel. UN Studio
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