C.1 PART B FEEDBACK
Through part B study, personally I gain more opportunity to learn and control grasshopper script, whereas the design part is relatively weak and current project is lack of deeper site analysis and form flexibility subject to urban-scale project. In part C, together with my group mate, we still insist the idea of combining plants and form together to create bee embassy to help blue banded bee to establish permanent colony around Melbourne. In order to do that, our project starts with different scale urban analysis and further we will discover more variety of structure based on Part B practice outcome.
C.1 FINALISED DESIGN PROPOSAL
One word: Rebuild One sentence: To rebuild the habitat of blue banded bee and to rebuild the relationship between bee and human beings.
Nowadays, animal extinction rate has been growing rapidly from last ten years. Many animals are going to extinction because of human actitivities. As human building up houses, cleaning up forests, filling up rivers, they are invading some animals’ habitat and by losing habitat, those animals could not live anymore.
One paragraph: The entire project will be considered as two parts. The first is to build the habitat for bees to rest. The second is to make the relationship between human and bees become closer and nicer. The project is set under an urban landscape. The reason for that is because the blue banded bee can only fly 300m a day and by placing various projects on various sites could help them to inhabit in more places at urban scale. Except for the bees, this project will also introduce plants to the structure. One reason for that is to dedicate the structure, reduce the feeling of fear when human beings directly facing a bee or a bee facing a human and another important reason is to attract bees to the chosen sites as accoding to researches, they particularly like matted flax lily, tomato flower, lavender etc.
Also, when human adore a particular animal, their predators or similar species will be affected which could also cause certain species go to extinction. If animals could talk, human beings will be considered as the most hateful enemy to them. It’s time to rebuild the relationships between people and animal as friends, allies of sharing the same world.
Diagram showing bee daily flying restriction
The blue banded bees are solitary bees, nest normally occurs in place like soft sandstone cliff, soil or sometimes in mudbrick, soft mortar of old brick building or the soft earthen banks underneath houses). Secondly, they particularly like the dry shaded area under houses that are raised off the ground to keep the home cool but mortar or mudbricks with a high concrete content usually discourage them.
In order to build the continuity between different potential site and to make the form better correspond with the surrounded natural environments, the route of this urban project will be cut by the urban circulation, such as the pedestrian pathway, railway or the natural barrier such as the Merri Creek. On the other side of circulation, the form will consistently wave and twist around the natural features like tree.
Storm King Wall by Andy Goldsworthy
Although they are solitary creatures, many of them may build their nest burrows in the same spot, close to one another, like neighbouring houses in a village. Female blue banded bees build their nests underground, but males don’t build nests. They roost for the night clinging to plant stems, and are often observed sitting in a line along the same stem.
C.1 SITE ANALYSIS
Small grain Scale 1: 8000
C.1 SITE ANALYSIS 1. Forest
2. Playground
3. Lawn
4. Street green feature
5. Grassland
6. Riverbank
7. School playground
8. Basketball playground
9. Backyard
13. Community garden
14. Backyard
25. Children playground
20. Street green feature
26. Children playground
31. Street green feature
32. Park
15. Community garden 21. Grassland
10. Street green feature
16. Park
11. School playground
17. Farm
12. Riverbank
19. Backyard
18. Street green feature
22. Farm market
27. Playground
28. Street green feature
23. Street green feature
29. Forest
24. Riverbank
30. Merri creek
33. Street green feature
34. Park
35. Riverbank
C.1 SITE ANALYSIS
Medium grain Scale 1: 160000
1. Forest
2.Children Playground
3. Wetland
4. Natural reserve
5. Street green feature
6. School playground
7. Rail green feature
8. Street green feature
9. Merri creek
13. Backyard garden
14. Community garden
15. Community garden
10. School playground
16. Lawn
11. Community garden
17. Backyard garden
12. Community garden
18. Community garden
19. School playground
20. Natural reserve
21. Natural reserve
22. Park
23. Rooftop garden
24. Park
25. Street green feature
26. Merri creek
27. Community garden
28. Backyard garden
29. School playground
30. Football playground
31. Park
32. Rail green feature
33. Backyard garden and street green feature
34. Lawn
35. Street green feature
C.1 SITE ANALYSIS
Large grain Scale 1: 800000
1. Natural reserve
7. Forests
2. Golf club
8. Wetland
3. Wetland
9. Merri creek
4. Golf club
10. Street green feature
13. Backyard garden
14. Community garden
15. Reserve park
16. Farm
5. Cemetery
11. Cemetery
17. Park
6. Natural reserve
12. Riverbank
18. Race course place
19. Natural reserve
20. Cemetery park
21. Park
22. Natural reserve
23. Playground
24. Flower market
25. Wetland
26. Coast area
27. Botanic garden
28. Park
29. Highway green feature
30. Highway green feature
Matted flax lily
Tomato flower
Myrtle
Lavender
C.1 SITE ANALYSIS
Nature
Leisure facility
Street feature
Market
Sports playground
Among more than ninety potential sites, those could be subdivided into five categories based on their size, natural characteristics and social characteristics. In order to explore the variety of form deeply, we decided to choose two of them, the natural environment and leisure facility to do more specific design.
Design Selection Criteria: 1. Sandstone-like (structure more like sandstone in order to attract bee to rest here) 2. Adaptibility (can be applied to various site, change according to site conditions) 3. Interaction (interact with human beings in order to rebuild relationships) 4. Variety (variety of different scale of cell structure as flowers will also be considered) 5. Flexibility (cells are flexible to be renewed, changed and cleaned to offer good environment for bees to live healthy) Input: lines from the chosen iteration
Change elements: Domain (>300m or <300m)
The range of domain construct a list
Cut the list and the rest will be selected lines
Left selected lines to construct the overall form of the structure
C.1 FINAL DESIGN PROCESS DIAGRAM
Loft curve based on site iteration or construct the pavilion form by kangaroo
Surface to Mesh
Extract point. Apply Points on Mesh Use of Kangaroo to balance the circle packing
Sort Item to differentiate hollow cell and practical cell
Use split surface to generate the hollow surface
Set the area point to move from random distance
Cap List Generate patterning through circle packing Control of: 1. Numbers of circle 2. Random range of difference scale of circle pattern 3. Density of pattern on mesh
Hollow List
Extrude
Extract the original circular curve in different position
Scale down to create random cell form
Set the range of the move vector from original pattern Set domain of the moving patternâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s radium
Extract the settled circular curve in a random size
Form view in urban scale - distance between two site approximately 300m
Extrude
Adjust
Bake
Bake
C.1 FINALISED DETAILED FORM
C.1 FINALISED DETAILED FORM
C.2 PROTOTYPE OVERVIEW Aimed Cell structure
C.2 PROTOTYPE - MUD MOUDING Small cell (for one bee)
The use of clay correspond to blue banded bee preference of clay, the model process is quite sucessful but the result form is not smooth and the overall structure is quite hard control
Medium cell (form multiple bees ) Prototype overview
This structure try to explore the 3d cell interior structure to allow bees habitate, the interior space could be interconnected could be not, this one not very sucessful because of the overall structure is too plain
Medium cell (form multiple bees )
This prototype try to explore more flexible 3d interior cell form, the opening shows good result where as the overall structure remains not smooth and it is quite hard to control the result form.
C.2 FAILED PROTOTYPE PROCESS
C.2 PROTOTYPE - FINGER JOINT
The use of finger joint in large cell is quite good whereas later it shows that the finger joints structure is hard to cap on the top and bottom and because of the interlocking, which is the connection between different size of cell, the outcome structure become less strong and it is hard to support the weight of soil
C.2 PROTOTYPE - MUD MOUDING
C.2 PROTOTYPE - CONNECTION PLATE Prototype diagram
Assemble process
C.2 PROTOTYPE - MUD MOUDING Outcome of medium cell
C.2 PROTOTYPE - CONNECTION PLATE
C.2 PROTOTYPE - MUD MOUDING z
FINAL OUTCOME Connection process between different cells
To connect different size cells, another connection plate need to be put inbetween the connection plates from cells, the connection remain pretty strong and compared with finger joint prototype, this kind of cell is easier to cap and the result structure shows good capability of holding soil.
C.3 PROTOTYPE FINAL OUTCOME
C.3 FINAL OUTCOME
C.4 LEARNING OUTCOME
During Part C research and design, with my group mate, even during the process we still feel struggling about parametric design, because of the practice on iteration and deeper analysis on the urban site, we eventually decided to focus more on the overall flexibility and adaptbility of overall form to make the structure have more potential to be suitable with different sites. During the process of making prototype, the failed experience make me realize the importance and difficulty of practicing to transfer the digital form to actual structure. Even though personally Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been thought the parametric design rely to much on the digital software, but the process of making models make me realize other aspect of parametric design and the aim of this project also push me to have more consideration of designing future in later study.
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