Air journal week 2

STUDIO AIR 2017, SEMESTER 2, JACK LIANGZI ZHAO

BIOGRAPHY I’m Liangzi Zhao, and you can call me linsey. I’m studying architecture at the University of Melbourne who comes from a small county in China. I have been interested in architecture since high school. At then, when I walked on streets or traveled to another city, I was fascinated by the local architecture those including modern skyscrapers and old cottages, which is pleasant to appreciate the connections among human, architecture and nature.

At the beginning of studying architecture, due to my limited skills some designs and concepts with complex form always cannot be reached until I knew parametric design. I’ve already had some experience of digital technologies applied in the field in architecture when I was taking Digital Design and Fabrication. Studio Air will bring me much more potentials in the future. Digital technologies has revolutionize design industry, and it is irreplaceable nowadays. Thus mastering digital design is inevitable trend for our architecture student. I believe studio Air will bring me more experience and skills than I expect.

So far technical skills includes Rhino, AutoCAD, Photoshop and Indesign.

Fig.1 Studio Earth project: Herring Island

Fig. 2 Digital Design and Fabrication Project: Second Skin

1.0 Case Study Project: 2050 Vision of Paris as a "Smart City" Architect: Vincent Callebaut Architectures Location: Unbuilt

Fig.3 Vincent Callebaut's 2050 Vision of Paris as a "Smart City"

Fry states we are confronting our human being's nemesis-a defuturing condition of unsustainability. Defuring situation includes exhausted unrenewable resources and polluted natural enviroment. Population explosion is regards as the major factor that contributes to current situation. It is hard to tack the population issue during a short term while defuturing is imminent. so we rely on design aganist the still accelerating defuturing condition of unsustainability.

French firm Vincent Callebaut Architectures proposed a plural high-rise building which generate positive output.

The plan consists of eight tower systems those intend to locate at in Paris and they fit in existing structure of city.

Each of them tend to decrease enviromental impacts when provide physical function for citizens.

Undoubtly, the proposal is revolutinary, as it transforms energy-use architecture to which provide dual functions.

Positive energy output is based on the strategies of relieving demand on energy derived from natural resources and generating extra self-sustaining energy. Passive heating and cooling, solar panel and rainwater collection are utilized in every tower, which siginificantly reduce energy use.

Although it is a proposal rather than built already.

Undoubtly, the proposal is revolutinary, as it transforms energy-use architecture to which provide dual functions.

It is still encourage people to live in a eco-friendly life and contribute to a sustainable future.

Fig.4 Conceptual sketches of the eight tower schemes.

Fig.5 Photosynthesis Tower

Fig.6 Mangrove Tower

1.0 Case Study 2 Project: Aequorea Architect: Vincent Callebaut Architectures Location: Unbuilt

Fig.10 Aequorea Underwater exterior

Fry presents polar ice is melting faster than we expect and vast area of land will be immersed in the water. So ocean is the best alternative of inhabitation for human being.

Vincent Callebaut Architectures propose a concept -Aequorea, which is multi-function oceanscraper that built through 3D printing. The constrcution material is composite material that make of recycled waste produced by human being.

Aequorea discard need for coal, oil, gas or nuclear energy to obtain light, as bioluminescence is adopted and used for double glazing of apartments, which derived from symbiotic organisms that emits light because of containing luciferin. In addition, there are a series of turbines array as star pattern, turing the currents into electricity. Regarding of heating and cooling system, Aequore plant microalgae that absorb CO2 generated by people's respiration.Through photosynthesis and biomethanation, more energy can be produced.

2.0 Design Computation

Before understanding the real meaning of computation and computerization, it seems like the difference is ambiguous. Architects use digital tecnologies to alter existing project or copy and store it, which is defined as "computerisation". While "computation" , enable designers increases capability to solve complex problems.

Sean Ahlquist and Achim Menges define computation as "the processing of information and interactions between elements which constitute a specific environment; it provides a framework for negotiating and influencing the interrelation of datasets of information, with the capacity to generate complex order, form, and structure."

Peters states computation has thepotential to beyond the creativity of designer, as it always provide inspirations and generates unexpected results.

2.0 Case Study 1 Project: Research Pavilion Architect: ICD/ITKE Location: Stuttgart Date: 2012

Fig. 11 ICD/ITKE Research Pavillion 2012

This research pavillion was designed and fabricatded

by ICD/ITKE in 2012, which conducted both biomimetic design strategies and digital fabrication and construction. The research aimed to research morphological principles of arthropods' cuticle.

Form finding is developed by simulation and iterations.

Certain aspects of simulation rely on computation and calculation, which includes complex geometry of the shell, fibre orientation, fibre arrangement. Baed on the standard computational finite element analysis (FEA), the first model was completd first, which follwed by its performance evaluation, and then making tentative adjustment and improvement. After this, iterative simulation commenced until the results reaching optimisation.

Compared to traditional process of physically prototyping , computational simulations use only a few hours to harvest much more results and optimise the strategy as soon as possible.

Regarding to robotic filament winding process, weatherproof manufacturing environment is built. the robot is coded with parametric definition of the winding motion paths.

The collaboration of form finding methods, the computational simulations and innovative robotic fabrication breed a high quality performance of the pavillion.

Fig. Fibre Orientation

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2.0 Case Study 2

Project: National Bank of Kuwait Headquarters Architect: Foster + Partners Location: Kuwait Date: 2007

As located at the areas with one of the most harsh cliamtes on the earth, architects take the responsbility to deal with the problems caused by environment. The fundamental geometry is determined by fins that are built at east and west facades to function as shading. In parallel, fins provide structural suport for floor plates.

Physics team adopted parametric model that links the geometric relationship between its elements, which enables team to quickly generate different scenarios and evaluate each performanc, and architects adjust the location of fins according to those feedbacks.

Eventually, the optimisation leads to the most sustainable and comfortable results.

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