YIRAN-LI_901144_FINAL JOURNAL

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YIRAN LI 901144

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INTRODUCTION

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I prefer drawing to talking . Drawing is faster and leaves less room for lies.

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-Le Corbusier

Hi, I’m Yiran, a third year architecture student in the Univer¬sity of Melbourne. Like what Le Corbusier said, I’m more of a doer than a talker. I like to translate my ideas into 3D sketches, so that they are clear and can be easily interpreted. Also, drawing in 3D helps me to visualize things better.

“A drawing is worth a thousand words.”

Design is not just about passion and experience, it is about communication. There are thousands of languages in the world, however I use drawing to tell others about my design language. Instead of using words, I use sketches or digital drawings to convey message to other people.

DESGIN FUTURING

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“ Without sustain-ability neither we nor have a future.

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-Tony Fry

Nowadays the resources on earth are very limited, our planet system are negatively changing due to human activities. Do we really have a liveable environment for our future? Like Tony Fry said, “we only have a future by design1 “. The architecture is at the state of invoking to changes, architects should consider the sustain-ability of architecture in the future.

The design we have now is suitable for the present environment, but climate are changing. Architects need to think beyond the changes. If we want to have a sustainable future, we need to re-direct ourselves towards a far more sustainable mode of planetary habitation2.

Now we are moving to a new age called “digital design”.I think that exploring more about computational design can make the future better. As Dunne said, “to find inspiration for speculating through design we need to look beyond design to the methodological playgrounds of cinema, literature, science… 3” We can learn design from our daily lives, like how Biomimetic Principles have been introduce in design. During the air studio, ‘Silk pavilion design’ by MIT Media Lab was used as a case study to show how computational design interacts with nature biologically and robot fabrication.

1.Fry,Tony, Design Futuring: Sustainability, Ethics and New Practice ( Oxford:Berg,2008). pp.1-16 2.Fry.p.6 3.Dunne, Anthony &Raby,Fiona, Speculative Everything:Design Fiction ,and Social Dreaming (MIT Press,2013) pp.3

A.1.1 ICD-ITKE Research Pavilion 2016-17 Architects : ICD/ITKE University of Stuttgart Location: Stuttgart, Germany Project Year :2017

Fig.1 ©Burggraf/ Reichert

This project is a research pavilion exploring building-scale fabrication of glass and carbon fibre-reinforced composites.1. The pavilion was built by a team of architects, engineers and biologists. They take full advantage of this fibre composite material which is lightweight and its span. This type of material is highly used in other industries, but has yet to be developed in architecture. Robots are used to ensure the accuracy of the work and the UAV which have the ability to move uninhibited (Fig.2). They combined these new technologies and test a new kind of material and I think the product was very impressive.

They were studied the leaf miner moths. The larva of the moth can spin on a curve leaf to make a “hammock” on it (Fig.4). This project clearly demonstrated the potential of fibre composites materials. The use of robots and UAV can save a lot of time and improve the veracity. ICD-ITKE has been doing this kind of pavilion for several years. They were inspired biologically and innovated their work further with material science, construction design and digital design. Back in 2011, they used plywood to build the research pavilion which was inspired from sea urchin.

Every year they try something new and test out the material’s adaptively and plastically.

They are showing the potential of the combination of biological and computation design. I never thought that the strategy of biological design can be use in construction, we should learn from nature and dream bigger. When people have desire they will have the impetus to do it.

1 ”ICD-ITKE Research Pavilion 2016-17 / ICD/ITKE University of Stuttgart” 18 Apr 2017. ArchDaily. Accessed 28 Jul 2018. <https://www.archdaily. com/869450/icd-itke-research-pavilion-2016-17-icd-itke-university-of-stuttgart/> ISSN 0719-8884

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© ICD/ITKE University of Stuttgart

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© ICD/ITKE University of Stuttgart

Fig.4 © ICD/ITKE University of Stuttgart

Fig.5 ©Laurian Ghinitoin

A.1.2 HygroSkin-Meteorosensitive Pavilion Architects : Achim Menges Architect, Oliver David Krieg , Steffen Reichert Location: France Project Year :2013

Fig.1 ŠICD University of Stuttgart

This pavilion is about climate-responsiveness in architecture1. The architecture will respond to the climate change without the machine to control it. There is no external energy to support the building. The “window” on the façade will open up depending on the humidity. From the diagram on the right side, the higher the humidity level, the bigger the opening of the window. Humidity changes from 30% to 90%.

The “windows” will adjust the brightness and air flow of the interior.

Biomimetic Principle became more and more common in architecture. In this pavilion, they study the spruce cone’s behaviour, study how it transforms during humidity change. It don’t spend energy to respond to the climate, it also don’t rely on external force. Spruce cone just self-respond to the surrounding environment, they will need to absorb moisture to make themselves consistent with the surrounding humidity.

Fig.2 Process -responsive component ©ICD University of Stuttgart

The design team are using computation and test of the plywood‘s adaptation. The project have the high-precision, they use computation design to get the pavilion form, they use robot to fabricate the plywood models. To study of the material behaviour combine with the computational design, it’s explode more possibility of the future.

This project show the performance materials, the design team study of the ancient materials and use biometric principle to make the material “intelligent”. The natural resource is limit in the Earth, It’s important that to develop the materials.

1 “HygroSkin-Meteorosensitive Pavilion / Achim Menges Architect + Oliver David Krieg + Steffen Reichert” 09 Sep 2013. ArchDaily. Accessed 5 Aug 2018. <https://www.archdaily.com/424911/ hygroskin-meteorosensitive-pavilion-achim-menges-architect-incollaboration-with-oliver-david-krieg-and-steffen-reichert/> ISSN 0719-8884

â&#x20AC;&#x153;When architect have a sufficient under-standing of algorithmic concepts, when we no longer need to discuss the digital as something different , then computation can become a true method of design for architecture.

- BRADY PETERS

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DESGIN COMPUTATION

Computation design is a new form of digital design thinking by changing the values to control the geometric forms. It is a new way to transform design ideas. Computation never gets tired and they do not make mistake, they are faster than human production. However, they do not have the ability of creativeness, and requires the use of our creative work with those geometric forms1.Digital design has been developed and evolved in recent year.

Now, fabrication design has also contributed to architecture design. Architects are inspired from nature, learn biologically and combine it with digital design. “This is an age in which digitally informed design can actually produce a second nature.”2

As Kalay mention in Architecture’s New Media, design process have four phases, namely Problem analysis, Solution synthesis, Evaluation and Communication. I think design is more interesting in the process and it does not only emphasize on the results. During the design process, we will identify the problems and provide a solution for it. Design processes are more dominant in a project. I think that computation design is a tool to help the designer think “out of the box.” The designer tend to form the pattern of thinking and providing solution, but computation design is to provide another way to process, which indicate that form may not really need to follows function.

1Yehuda E.kalay, “Architecture’s New Media :Principles, Theories, and Methods of Computer- Aided Design” ,(Cambridge,MA: MIT Press,2014).pp.5-25.

2 Rivka Oxman and robert Oxman,eds,” Theories of the Digital in Architecture”(London;New York :Routledge,2014).pp.1-10.

A.2.1 Museo Soumaya Architects : FR-EE / Fernando Romero EnterprisE Location: Mexico Project Year : 2011

Fig.1© Rafael Gamo

The Soumaya Museum is located in Mexico and is a unique architecture in the city. The Museum is a large scale architecture, the whole building is like an organic and asymmetrical sculpture. Due to the asymmetry shape of the building, each visitor can have a different experience from different perspective. Due to the architectural complex, the interior also need to match up with the exterior .Nowadays the architecture become more complex, as a designer we should learn and work with this kind of complex.

From Fig.2 is that they use software to show node data extraction on each panel. Fig.3 shows the concept model of this museum, we can see the generation ideas of the museum. They used the parametric modelling techniques to figure out how many percent of hexagonal belong to the most curved zone, and how many belong to the regular zone.1 The exterior is a double curved surface and the red colour structure in fig. 5 is the steel column .The whole project required complex computational technology. This is an example to show how new possibilities are used to build an architecture form. Computation design is help architect to formulate and envision the form. I am fascinated by the building, like how the surface is composed by hexagonal which is a regular geometry shape and still can make the perfect curve of the building.

1 Fernando Romero and Armando Ramos. Computation works: The builing of algorithmic thought,(Artmedia,London,2013).pp.67-69 2.

Fig1-5 , Museo Soumaya / FR-EE Fernando Romero Enterprise" 28 Nov 2013. ArchDaily. Accessed 10 Aug 2018. <https://www.archdaily. com/452226/museo-soumaya-fr-ee-fernando-romero-enterprise/> ISSN 0719-8884

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A.2.2 Digital Grotesque II Architects : Michael Hansmeyer and Benjamin Dillenburger.

Project Year : 2017

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This 3d printed grotto is designed by Michael Hansmeyer design team .Michael is an architect who used computation to generate and fabricate architectural forms. In computation design, the digital program can provide thousands of solutions for design, but how we know which one is the best solution for all of us? In this case the design team invite 100 volunteers to train the computer. Volunteers are required to watch some images, then the computer will calculate and analyse the user’s preferences. After a while the computer will build out the abstract geometric form that have emotion res- Fig.2 onance with human.

I am fascinated by the shape of the structure, as it’s very detailed and full of richness in form exploration. The structure has a white coat on the structure surface which is to help the structure to be more stable and ensures the surface is smoother.

They are using algorithmic called mesh-grammars. By Fig.3 using this input to produces multiple output. We can only design what we are thinking. We cannot handle complex form or mathematics design. Hence, computation and digital fabrication are useful tools to allow the architect to process more attractive architecture forms. From fig 3, we are able to see how accurate detail that digital fabricate can do. They add sandstone in 3d printing, which is new to the architecture printing, if we develop more on this type of printing, it may help to restore the historic architecture.1

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Fig.4 1 DIGITAL GROTESQUE – TOWARDS A MICRO-TECTONIC ARCHITECTURE, http://saj.rs/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/ SAJ-2013-02-M-Hansmeyer-B-Dillenburger.pdf 2 fig1-4 https://www.archdaily.com/868540/this-mysterious-3d-printed-grotto-challenges-boundaries-of-computational-geometry-and-human-perception

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Composition/Generation “

Computational designers are more than just creators of complex 3D models or the developers of digital tools - BRADY PETERS

Brady peters talked about “computerization" in ‘computation works’.

The designer usually practice and process their design process in their mind.1‘‘Computation means the digital design is not only a tool to present the design idea, it’s also a process thinking .The designer uses code to adjust their design to get their ideal form. Brady peters also talk about “Algorithmic thinking”.2 Nowadays a lot of designers are using code and computation to design the architecture.

When they share this code to others, the other designers can use this code to develop more, to explore more of the computation design.

It’s like a code library, designers can share their algorithmic thought.

Computational design can simulate the material performance and also to test out the physical properties of the structure .It give the designer’s an opportunity to practice . The designer can get feedback through this kind of practice .Therefore, the designer can increase efficiency and also get better communication in the industry. Generation design can be generate from image, natural or object form our daily life .They set a rule then using computation to design it. Generation is a design method to explore form.

1 Brady peters, “Computation works -The Building of Algorithmic thought” ,(John Wiley & Sons, 2013).pp.10-15.

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A.3.1 Data MoirĂŠ Architects : Synthesis Design + Architecture Location: San Francisco, USA Project Year : 2016

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This project is an interior wall in Watson Experience center. This project wants to show how data can affect our built environments1. Those complex patterns on the panel is representing the data from our mobile phones. The designer uses his own database to create those patterns on the panel. To use the parametric modelling out the massive data. Due to the large amount of data, human is unable to analyse that, hence we need to rely on computation design. The wall is a spiral shape to allow users to experience the space.

It’s an abstract way to allow users to read the statistical and data analysis. The two layer panel is made by aluminium. From diagram Fig.2, we can see that they use voronoi pattern for the exterior layer, for the interior layer, they used Delaunay pattern which is more complicated. By combing those two layers, it makes the project complete. The wall give a moiré effect due to the patterns changing on the panel. So the visitors can have a visual experience while they are moving in front of the wall.

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They light up the area between this two layers. I think that is able to attract more people into the wall. After the users get into wall, they are still surrounded by the complex pattern panels, just like us, where we are surrounded by digital network daily. The project idea is generated from the data, instead of showing how the mundane and wordy data statistics are, they are showing the digital mapping by using architecture. It’s an alternate way to present ideas.

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1 Isabella Baranyk. "Big Data Becomes Architecture in This CNC-Milled Screen Wall for IBM" 29 Apr 2017. ArchDaily. Accessed 10 Aug 2018. <https://www. archdaily.com/870095/big-data-becomes-architecture-in-this-cnc-milled-screen-wallfor-ibm/> ISSN 0719-8884 2 Fig1-4, "Big Data Becomes Architecture in This CNC-Milled Screen Wall for IBM" 29 Apr 2017. ArchDaily.

A.3.2 Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport - Terminal 2 Architects : SOM Location: India Project Year : 2014

Fig.1© Rafael Gamo

This International Airport Terminal is located at Mumbai, India. Due to the high technology and elegant of the structure, it became the landmark of Mumbai. The designer draw inspiration from lotus, as seen in fig 5.The roof of the Terminal become an art sculpture, which allow visitors to experience the local culture. This flowing roof is throughout the whole airport, forming a continuous design language.

The design team used complex algorithmic in the architecture. This large scale architecture is build up by computation design too. The shape spread out from the column. Each geometric shapes flow to different directions. From Fig.3, we can see that the construction is very complex.

As Peter mention “Architecture is currently experiencing a shift from the drawing to the algorithm as the method of capturing and communicating designs.”1 We are at the new stage of design, design can use algorithm to communicate the ideas. The designer can use cad, grasshopper and other software to produce their idea. Back the old days, we only can sketch out our ideas, but now we can use algorithm to build the larger and complex architecture like this airport terminal.

1 Brady peters, “Computation works -The Building of Algorithmic thousght” ,(John Wiley & Sons, 2013).pp.10-15.

2 Fig1-5 , Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport - Terminal 2 / SOM" 17 Feb 2014.

ArchDaily. Accessed 10 Aug 2018. <https://www.archdaily.com/477107/chhatrapati-shivaji-international-airport-terminal-2-som/> ISSN 0719-8884

Fig.2 © Rafael Gamo

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Fig.5 ©Adam Weisman

Conclusion Computation design is a tool for designer to transfer their idea in the real world. Sometime we are able use sketches to present our design ideas, but at times we are unable to sketch to present 3d model or the complex form of the design. Therefore, computation design becomes a very useful tool. Like this sketch (fig.2) from Frank Gehry of Disney concert hall, it is a rough sketch and we can only understand the basic form of it. Hence, we would need to use digital design to deal with this kind of complex form.

Some designers prefer designing in computer programme.

To achieve our sustainable future, we should develop more about recycle material, computation design and robot fabrication etc.

Fig.1 Š JRC/Alamy

Learning outcome At first I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; like computation design, I think design need to use sketch to produce our thinking, or built concept model to present our ideas. Computation design sounds too rigid to me. Because I think computation design is just about complex math, but after my research, I felt that its very useful and crucial to understand what computation design is.

Through those precedent, we learnt about computation design, robot fabrication and sustainable materials. Those are very interesting topics to talk about. I think these topics can really change our future, and I hope I can learn more about these topics from this studio.

Fig.2 ŠFRANK GEHRY

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BIBLIOGRAPHY 1.Fry,Tony, Design Futuring: Sustainability, Ethics and New Practice ( Oxford:Berg,2008).

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2.Dunne, Anthony &Raby,Fiona, Speculative Everything:Design Fiction ,and Social Dreaming (MIT Press,2013)pp.3 3. ”ICD-ITKE Research Pavilion 2016-17 / ICD/ITKE University of Stuttgart” 18 Apr 2017. ArchDaily. Accessed 28 Jul 2018. <https://www.archdaily.com/869450/icd-itke-research-pavilion-2016-17-icd-itke-university-of-stuttgart/> ISSN 0719-8884 4.“HygroSkin-Meteorosensitive Pavilion / Achim Menges Architect + Oliver David Krieg + Steffen Reichert” 09 Sep 2013. ArchDaily. Accessed 5 Aug 2018. <https://www.archdaily.com/424911/hygroskin-meteorosensitive-pavilion-achim-menges-architect-in-collaboration-with-oliver-david-krieg-and-steffen-reichert/> ISSN 0719-8884 5.Yehuda E.kalay, “Architecture’s New Media :Principles, Theories, and Methods of Computer- Aided Design” ,(Cambridge,MA: MIT Press,2014).pp.5-25.

6.Rivka Oxman and robert Oxman,eds,” Theories of the Digital in Architecture”(London;New York :Routledge,2014).pp.1-10.

7.Fernando Romero and Armando Ramos. Computation works: The builing of algorithmic thought,(Artmedia,London,2013).pp.67-69 8 .DIGITAL GROTESQUE – TOWARDS A MICRO-TECTONIC ARCHITECTURE, http://saj.rs/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/SAJ-2013-02-M-Hansmeyer-B-Dillenburger.pdf 9.Brady peters, “Computation works -The Building of Algorithmic thought” ,(John Wiley & Sons, 2013).pp.1015.

10.Isabella Baranyk. "Big Data Becomes Architecture in This CNC-Milled Screen Wall for IBM" 29 Apr 2017.

ArchDaily. Accessed 10 Aug 2018. <https://www.archdaily.com/870095/big-data-becomes-architecture-in-thiscnc-milled-screen-wall-for-ibm/> ISSN 0719-8884 11.Brady peters, “Computation works -The Building of Algorithmic thousght” ,(John Wiley & Sons, 2013).pp.1015.

IMAGE A2.1 Fig1-5 , Museo Soumaya / FR-EE Fernando Romero Enterprise" 28 Nov 2013. ArchDaily. Accessed 10 Aug 2018. <https://www.archdaily.com/452226/museo-soumaya-fr-ee-fernando-romero-enterprise/> ISSN 0719-8884 A2.2 fig1-4 https://www.archdaily.com/868540/this-mysterious-3d-printed-grotto-challenges-boundaries-ofcomputational-geometry-and-human-perception A3.1 Daily.

Fig1-4, "Big Data Becomes Architecture in This CNC-Milled Screen Wall for IBM" 29 Apr 2017. Arch-

A3.2 Fig1-5 , Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport - Terminal 2 / SOM" 17 Feb 2014. ArchDaily. Accessed 10 Aug 2018. <https://www.archdaily.com/477107/chhatrapati-shivaji-international-airport-terminal-2-som/> ISSN 0719-8884

B.1 Biomimicry

The right image is a facade that can "breathe". Those holes on the surface will change depending on the interior and exterior temperature. The design concept is based on the biomimicry, the study of the organic skins behavior. Those holes will control the air flow and lighting. Nowadays, there are a lot of biomimicry architecture designed like these.

The designers try to learn from the way Nature functions.1 They can give us a chance and opportunity to have a better solution of sustainable. Some of the architecture form is inspired from Nature, but the Biomimicry architecture is more focused on the functions from Nature. The Nature have a diversity of materials, we have a lot of things to learn and develop. To use the computation work with Biomimicry architecture, it allows us to see the micro-structure of the design .Can made our design process more sufficient.

1. Michael Pawlyn , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijIfdswvh5U&t=142s 2.Jan Doroteo. "Let Your Building "Breathe" With This Pneumatic Faรงade Technology" 11 Jun 2016.

ArchDaily. Accessed 11 Sep 2018. <https://www.archdaily.com/789230/let-your-building-to-breathewith-this-pneumatic-facade-technology/> ISSN 0719-8884

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B.2 The Morning Line Architects : Aranda Lasch Location: Seville, Spain; Istanbul, Turkey; Vienna, Austria; Karlsruhe, Germany Project Year : 2008-2013

http://arandalasch.com/works/the-morning-line/

This Morning line was designed by artist Matthew Ritchie and Daniel Bosia . Matthew say that one day he is talk about â&#x20AC;&#x153;how to make a building that could contain the university" with Daniel.

Then they think to design a building that rather than having a model of the universe inside it. So they start look at what's an architecture or an art should be. They think about the form in a space, and they devised the system to create separate organized space in Morning line.1 The morning line is fascinating because of its mathematics, the form and the structure. Also the scale of the art, the geometry from is growing. Each face can be an art, one face connect with another one, the whole geometry form is smoothly dispersed on the floor.

1. 'The Last Scattering' - Matthew Ritchie with Daniel Bosia, Arup AGU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuAgtpdVqHs

B.2.1 SPECIE1.1 -cluster

SPECIE1.2 -Item -cull -shift paths -cluster

SPECIE1.3 -Brep wire frame -vector 2pt -Bezier span -shift paths

SPECIE1.4 -Circle -prep frames -loft

SPECIE1.5 -Mesh -wbloop

Matrix SPECIE1.6 -Item -cull -shift paths -cluster

B.2.1 Specie1.7 -Polygon -DeBrep -Scale

Specie1.8 -Platonic Octchedron -DeBrep -Scale

Specie1.9 -Mesh -webstellate

Matrix

B.2.2 SPECIE1.2 -Item -Cull -Shift paths -Cluster

Aesthetics : Structure: Flexibility: Relevancy:

This iteration has been selected because it shows the good structure in the modelling .The bigger hexagon on bottom , and the smaller hexagon at the upper structure . It shows the hierarchy of the structure.

SPECIE1.3 -Brep wire frame -Vector 2pt -Bezier span -Shift paths

Aesthetics : Structure: Flexibility: Relevancy:

This iteration shows the good flexibility in the modelling . The geometry shape are smooth flow to one direction. Compare to other iteration ,the count of geometry is not too much or too little .

Successful Species SPECIE1.4 -Circle -Prep frames -Loft

Aesthetics : Structure: Flexibility: Relevancy:

This iteration is shows the good structure and aesthetics in the modelling . Compare to other iteration this one structure is not too heavy and it's shows the tension between those pipes .It's look like a installation art.

Specie1.9 -Mesh -Webstellate

Aesthetics : Structure: Flexibility: Relevancy:

This iteration has been selected because it shows the good structure in the modelling .The bigger hexagon on bottom , and the smaller hexagon at the upper structure . It shows the hierarchy of the structure.

B.3 Airspace Architects : Faulders Studio Location: Japan Project Year : 2007

Fig.1© Ken Lee

https://www.flickr.com/photos/kenlee2010/6836131818/

This is a 4 story residential with a photography studio, the residential is surrounded by the dense vegetation, and the facade of the architecture makes this building more unique. The voronoi facade allows the natural light into the interior. A lot of architecture have voronoi facade, a facade which can be interactive with natural lighting, based on the voronoi form on the facade it can allow the less or more sun to come into the space. The voronoi is generally based on the points which can define the pattern.

I am very interested in how to use grasshopper to form those patterns and how to develop more patterns on the facade.

https://www.faulders-studio.com/AIRSPACE-TOKYO

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Reverse Engineering

B.4 SPECIE 2.1 -Surface -popGeo -Srf cp -Voronoi -Map srf

SPECIE 2.2 -POP 3D -Voronoi 3d -DeBrep -Pipe

SPECIE 2.3 -Pop3d -Voronoi 3d -Planar -Curve -Area -Surface split -Item

SPECIE 2.4 -Pop3d -Voronoi 3d -Item -Pull -Weave -Partition

Technique Development

B.4 SPECIE 2.5 -Pop 2D - Evaluate Curve -Closest points -Hull -Voronoi -Graph mapper -Planar srf Changing the number of movement factor

Changing the number of closest point to move out

Changing the Eval

Changing the Bezier curve in Graph mapper

Technique Development

B.4.1 SPECIE 2.1 -Surface -popGeo -Srf cp -Voronoi -Map srf Aesthetics : Structure:

This iteration has been selected because it shows the good structure in the modelling .It shows the hierarchy of the structure.

Flexibility: Relevancy:

SPECIE 2.2 -POP 3D -Voronoi 3d -DeBrep -Pipe

Aesthetics : Structure: Flexibility: Relevancy:

This iteration shows the good flexibility in the modelling . The pipe compare other iterations is not too thick, and don't have too much pipe in one structure.

Successful Species SPECIE 2.4 -Pop3d -Voronoi 3d -Item -Pull -Weave -Partition Aesthetics : Structure: Flexibility:

This iteration is shows the good volume and aesthetics in the modelling . This iteration is not too simply like others, and it also show the spaces between the spaces.

Relevancy:

SPECIE 2.5 -Pop 2D -Evaluate Curve -Closest points -Hull -Voronoi -Graph mapper -Planar srf Aesthetics : Structure: Flexibility: Relevancy:

This iteration has been selected because it shows the aesthetics of the structure. The bigger geometric form is at the right side , the smaller one at the left side .It shows the hierarchy of the structure.

B.5

Laser cutting

The right side image is the first attempt , as a whole structure with triangulated surface, the surface is hard to bend and is inflexible, only able to bend in one direction.

The above 4 images are the second attempt ,the smaller component joined together to form the whole structure, we are able to create a flexible form. Those images is to show how we experiment joining parts together to form a structure for better flexibility in our desired form.

B.6 CLIENTâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S ANATOMY

MEASUREMENT / DISTINCT FEATURES

Can be identified by the distinctive

Y shaped groove behind the nose leaf

The bat also have long, strongly ribbed ears.

Head: up to 25mm long Forearm length: 39-41 mm Body length: 40-50 mm Weight: 8-10 gm

PROBLEM Over the years, this microbat species has been endangered due to main reasons such as deforestation, loss of tree hollows (their main habitat) in which this species greatly depends on tree and tree hollows for shelter and reproduction DISTRIBUTION Found across Australia, except for coastal Queensland, in a range of habitats from arid desert to forest, agricultural and urban areas.

LESSER LONG EARED BAT HABITAT Female/ Male

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Females live in mainly tree hollows , higher above ground.

Average openings: 3-8cm Analysis: Internal space is more spacious/ deeper / fully enclosed

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Males mainly live in barks or cracks of timber , lower above ground on tree branches or tree trunk.

Analysis: Internal space is tighter / shallow / half enclosed

B.6 LIFE CYCLE

Roost singly or in small groups (mainly)

Babies usually born in twins and live with mother

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Spring female pregnant Babies born in late spring or summer

Maternity roost in groups of around 15 female bats

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LESSER LONG EARED BAT BEHAVIOURAL ANALYSIS

Bats sleeps through most of the day and hunts for food in the night. When hunting, they fly around bushes and shrubs and low ground to search for insects

hunts alone and live in oups

The bats are sensitive to heat , their body temperature is usually around >32deg. And will be torpid at lower temperature <25deg.

B.6

Proposal

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FABRICATION - 3D PRINTING

For fabricate method we are using 3d printing, the geometry shape is able to achieve through 3d printing , but the organic shape edges are quite rough. The model is very easy to use 3d printing fabricate. But the rough edges has more natural looking, which is very fit to our client.

B.6

Surface - Digital exploration

We explored different types of surface that can be suitable for the bat's habitat. The iterations are explored through design parameters like Delaunay mesh and pop3d . The last one has been selected because it has better potential interims of sufficient depth for the client, considering their current habitat depth.

B.6 Process

Outcome

Surface - CNC Milling

For the fabrication we are using CNC Milling ,those images is to show the fabrication process. The tools are sing in the process are flat nose and ball nose to carve out the different surface.

B.6

Proposal

B.6

Proposal

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Learning outcomes Objective 1. Interrogating a brief Before starting on B2 and B3, I did not really read the brief. This resulted in researching an incorrect case study for my partner and I, especially where we need to propose a design. Hence, we changed one of our case study.

Brief is quite important to our design process, and we should read though the brief to ensure we are on the right track. Like we need to know why we are doing this .There are some good questions in the brief, we need to think through those question when we are designing .That’s will keep our design relevancy .

Objective 2. An ability to generate a variety of design possibilities for a given situation.

Computation of iterations was very useful tool with the form finding. From the case study I explored some new grasshopper definition. Although sometimes it’s hard to use grasshopper to get the form I want, but after developing those new definition in grasshopper. I am one step close to my desired form.

Objective 3. Skills in various three-dimensional media During the air studio, I have learnt a lot new things, like grasshopper and different type of fabrication. Initially, to understand the scripting logic in grasshopper is hard to me, but after trying some development and found more videos to practice, it’s getting better. For fabrication, some of the parts are hard to understand the logic behind it. Such as CNC, but after going through the fablab video, CNC is a good fabrication method to print out our model.

Objective 4. An understanding of relationships between architecture and air To have common sense of scale in the real life, so that when we design an architecture, we can simulate the architecture in our brain to have the sense of the spaces. To transform the design idea to a physical model, we need to choose the right material.

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C DETAILED DESIGN From the part B presentation , we need to study of the interior volume for bats . The propose deign we show on the presentation is not suitable for bats . The interior volume is too big for the them and we need to study of the tree bark , how dose the tree bark relate to our design , and how to create a environment that make bats comfort.

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MACRO-SITE TREES AT MERRI CREEK

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In our micro site analysis of Merri creek , we specifically analysis those tress that has the suitable surface for the bats and consists of tree hollows and cracks in tree barks that we thought bats would prefer.

Also , unlike the cool climate in other parts of Merri creek, this area has more sunlight which is good for the bats as they are sensitive to low temperatures.

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LAYERS OF A TREE

In order to understand how cracks are formed on tree bark, we researched the layers that form tree bark.

OUTER BARK TO DECAY AND RIP

In decaying trees, outer bark is the first layer to decay and rip.

SITE ANAYSIS CRACKS UNDER TREE BARK FORMA

CRACKS BETWEEN THE BARK RIPPING FORMED

Overtime, these layers of tree bark ripped further and iin different places, forming cracks between layers.

The bats mainly live in old trees, in tree hollows or cracks. These cracks are usually formed under loose tree bark ripping off old decaying trees.

Hence, these habitat spaces such as the cracks formed under tree bark are an important habitat space for the bats. The cracks are mainly formed due to loose tree barks from decaying trees. These diagrams illustrate a rough idea of how cracks are formed.

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TREE 1

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MICRO-SITE TREES AT MERRI CREEK

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To understand what kind of space the cracks under barks formed, we analysed 3 trees at Merri Creek. These trees all have different levels of decaying tree bark. For tree 1, the tree barks ripping formed longer layers that created elongated internal spaces or cracks between the tree barks.

On tree 2, it shows shorter layers forming narrow internal spaces and some wider spaces formed between layers. On tree 3, it shows longer layers that form long narrow wedges and shorter layers that form smaller wedges. All these layers forming the internal spaces show a variation of scale in terms of depth and size

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DESIGN PROCESS DESIGN PROPOSAL 1

target to large group of bats

target to small group of bats

To get a smaller scale of the habitat we try to use hexagon panel to make a smaller pocket for the bat. In addition, the habitat has different scales, which bigger for the pregement and smaller for the small group which relay on the bats habit.

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DESIGN PROCESS FABRICATION 3D PRINT

target to large group of bats

C.2 Sketches protection from rain

Space for bats Tree bark

Simulate the tree bark

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DESIGN PROCESS DESIGN PROPOSAL 2

Make it 3d The hexagon shape are not that relate to the design proposal. Thus we change the geometry shape.

We make the same in the section of the bat habitat to the section of the tree bark, and to barrier the water in raining day, we add another component to form the shape.

The single panel overlap each other and has gaps between set a place for bats. As time goes, the panel may break and will form a new habitat for the bats.

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Surface Define

We try to use grasshopper to simulate the tree-bark texture. The first roll surface are not very complex, is a weave surface. The second roll is about layers.

Through this surface define ,we learnt a lot of grasshopper definition,is very useful for our further develop.

C.2 DESIGN PROPOSAL 3

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DESIGN PROCESS DESIGN PROPOSAL 3 & 4

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The other two we try at the same time is also make a pocket form for the bats and add texture to the surface.

But is hard to defined the space, everything is a bit messy ,so it may cannot work in the real life.

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Flow object along the surface

DESIGN PROCESS DESIGN PROPOSAL 5

Each pocket for different group of bats, the group can be small to 1to2 bats.

The last one has been selected is because the various shapes and structures.

Make it more natural

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Surface Define

By changing the number of U and V in rebuilt surface can resulting different kind of rough surface.

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Holes are drilled at the edges of the model.

CONNECTION TO THE TREE

Model is connected to the tree using screws.

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FABRICATION 3D PRINT

Because we want to have a rough surface on the object so by raising the extruder layer at different levels, we can get the textural surface for our models

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DESIGN PROCESS FABRICATION 3D PRINT

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FABRICATION 3D PRINT POWDER

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FABRICATION 3D PRINT POWDER

Learning outcomes

I think i really learn a lot of things from this studio. For me the grasshopper is the hardest part in this subject. After 12 week in studio air although i still have many things need to learn, i am quite confident use grasshopper apply on my future work. And our group really try a lot of fabricate method , like 3d print , cnc , 3d powder print,and laser cut. That's really useful for my future learning. Now i am really familiar with those fabricate method. I think we didn't mange our time very well,so it's a bit rush at the final stage.