UniMelb-Virtuals-Week 3 design Journal

VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS DESIGN JOURNAL

MODULE 1

IDEATION

MARIA KOZACHENKO 620628

WEEK 1

CHOICE OF A PATTERN

Fibonacci spiral

1 Cabbage head with leaves growing in clearly orderly manner. But what is the Rule?

2. There is one more pattern in cabbage leaves 3. When cut in halves perpendicularly to a stalk, a cabbage head reveals three perfect Fibonacci’s spirals going from its centre 620628 - KOZACHENKO, Maria

WEEK 1

DEVELOPING IDEA THROUGH ANALYTIC DRAWING

1. SIMPLIFY

Poling, Clark (1987): Analytical Drawing in Kandinsky’s Teaching at the Bauhaus, Rizzoli, New York, pp. 107-132

2. ANALYSE UNDERLYING FORCES

3. TRANSFORM [1]

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WEEK 1 CREATING A RECIPE

Tooling. Aranda, Lash. New York: Princeton architectural press, 2006: - Nature uses simple rules when creating all the variety of patterns.

- Every pattern can be produced and reproduced if only you know its rule and understand a recipe. [2]

OVERLAPPING CIRCLES 1. Pick up from your pattern or draw a set of points.

2. Draw circles around this points big enough to overlap with one or a number of circles around 3. Fill in the overlapping areas in shades of gray according to a number of overlaps. The more overlaps within the area - the darker the colour.

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WEEK 1 CREATING A RECIPE

CRACKING INTO TRIANGLES 1. Trace your pattern’s main motif (spiral in this case) 2. Find it’s angles or nodes and connect them with lines in groups of three - to get triangles

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CRACKING 1. Choose a shape to be cracked (I used triangles from the previous drawing) 2. Find its centroid.

3. Create subsidiary shapes by connecting the centroid to each end of one edge of the parent shape.

4. Continue until the limit is reached. Choose an iteration of the algorithm whose subsidiary shapes will be left whole. *

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WEEK 1 BALANCE/SYMMETRY/MOTION IN A PATTERN

BALANCE Lighter areas cover more space than those drawn with thicker lines. So two parts of drawing are in balance

SYMMETRY Each spiral is a copy of another one and all start from one point.

MOVEMENT Open, free hand lines which can be continued forever 1

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WEEK 2

EMERGING MODEL

Ball, Philip, 2012: Pattern formation in Nature, AD. Architectural Design, Wiley, 82 (2), March, pp. 22-27.

Self-organised structures appear as a result of interaction of many forces (chemical or physical, cells growing). [3] Correlation with pattern: every new cabbage leaf starts to grow on a naturally “computed” place, which appears to be most effective in terms of getting enough sunlight of receiving enough nutrients.

Lecture: Pattern can be transformed:

MOVE ROTATE SCALE MIRROR PAPER MODEL 1

BASE ELEMENT

MIRROR AND ATTACH

...AGAIN...

...AND AGAIN....

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PAPER MODEL 2: TWISTED SPIRAL

MODEL 2

1. Draw circles of decreasing diameters (scale)

2. Cut circles out

3. Fold triangle envelopes

4. Stack in a pyramid An emerging model of curved spiral consisting of 74 triangle envelopes folded from a paper circle

5. Repeat 1-4 to create a second, mirrored pyramid. Assemble wider ends, arrange a degree of rotation.

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WEEK 2 RHINO MODELLING

1. Draw a base element - extruded triangle surface 2. Copy base element 18 times 3. Scale every element after the first one by 0.90 4. Rotate every element after the first one by 10ยบ 5. When you get a pyramid as a result, mirror it.

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WEEK 3 CLAY MODELLING MODEL 1: TRIANGLE BASE ELEMENTS

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WEEK 3 CLAY MODELLING Left

MODEL 2. SPIRAL BASE ELEMENT Right

Top

Back

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Front

WEEK 3 CLAY MODELLING

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MODEL 2. SPIRAL BASE ELEMENT FITTING

WEEK 3 EXPLORING PRECEDENTS . Shape.

USING PATTERNS OF GROWTH IN ARCHITECTURE Name

URBAN CACTUS

Design

UCX architects /Ben Huygen and Jasper Jaegers.

Place

Harbour of Rotterdam

Description Residential tower with 19 levels reminds of tree mushrooms, artichokes and cabbage. The outlay seems to be borrowed from a natural pattern of growing leaves. Each apartments’ terrace is slightly turned aside from a previous one, so that they do not overlap. This structure allows to capture enough sunlight to turn each balcony into a personal sun-lounging area. The project also includes gardens sitting at the edge of each balcony. [4]

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WEEK 3 EXPLORING PRECEDENTS. Light effects.

OBJECT Zaragoza bridge, Spain ARCHITECT Zaha Hadid Architects PLACE River Ebro in Spain DESCRIPTION The bridge was designed and build to serve as a gateway to Zaragoza Expo 2008. It is a multipurpose space, not only people cross the river via this bridge, it is also an exhibition pavilion. [5], [6] Desired light effect: of all types of light effect I’ve chosen the cut light effect for my future lantern. The light will penetrate through thin cut slits, creating geometric spots of light on walls.

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REFERENCES 1 Poling, Clark (1987): Analytical Drawing in Kandinsky’s Teaching at the Bauhaus, Rizzoli, New York, pp. 107-132 http://app.lms.unimelb.edu.au/bbcswebdav/pid-3861131-dt-content-rid-11937695_2/xid-11937695_2 2. Tooling. Aranda, Lash. New York: Princeton architectural press, 2006: http://app.lms.unimelb.edu.au/bbcswebdav/pid-3861131-dt-content-rid-11937692_2/xid-11937692_2 3. Ball, Philip, 2012: Pattern formation in Nature, AD. Architectural Design, Wiley, 82 (2), March, pp. 22-27. http://app.lms.unimelb.edu.au/bbcswebdav/pid-3861131-dt-content-rid-11937693_2/xid-11937693_2 4. The Urban cactus photo and description http://inhabitat.com/urban-cactus-building/urbancactus2jpg/ 5. The Zaragoza bridge info: http://www.rieder.cc/fr/fr/main/references/reference/1/zaragoza-bridge-pavillon-es/ 6. The Zaragoza bridge info and photo: http://www.zaha-hadid.com/design/zaragoza-bridge-pavilion/