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D I G IFOLIO E S SEMESTER 1, 2018 Melissa Tan 912630 Xiaoran Huang #3

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//about me

melissa tan email: melissa.ym.tan@gmail.com

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EDUCATION

2017 - current 2011 - 2016

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Bachelor of Design Korowa Anglican Girls’ School

work experience

2016

Icon Inc

2018

Junior Tan T-shirt & Menu design

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exhibitions

2017

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skills

Rhino Grasshopper Unreal Photoshop Illustrator Indesign Fabrication

FOD:R Exhibition

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reflection

It is within the culmination of art and science that crafts my experience of architectural design. Through my life I have been drawn by not only the artificial landscapes but also by the unequivocal experiential disposition afforded by nature.

Perhaps, it’s the symbiotic relationships of organic elements that catalyses my understanding of a functioning program, or the constraints of earth’s resources that spark my interest in optimising designs for minimal waste.

Technology has acquiesced a new typology in design that allows for parametric thinking through modelling and prototyping. Through Digital Design, I have been able to explore many capabilities of the Rhino add-on Grasshopper, creating designs that were inconceivable beforehand.

I found it particularly fun to experiment with environmental and atmospheric scenes in Unreal Engine 4 as the controls and editing tools seemed familiar to both Grasshopper and gaming commands.

My focus in design reaches beyond the computations of a functional, aesthetically pleasing volume in space, rather a concentration on materials, form and program. In order to achieve a good design I believe in also looking into both its immediate and greater context, accomplishing its brief while also allowing opportunities for growth in the future.

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M1

Precedent Study

M2

Generating Design Through Digital Processes

M3

Queen Victoria Garden Pavilion

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m1

Diagramming Design Precedent

ISOMETRIC 1:250 Within the Kensington Gardens of London, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of SANAA designed a floating aluminium cloud for the 2009 feature of the annual Serpentine pavilion. The form of its metal structure wreathes between the trees of the park, furthermore enhanced by its ephemeral qualities with its reflective undulating roof suspended completely by delicate columns. Thus, an open plan is formed allowing the structure to be accessed from all angles, with exception to ground conditions. Through an exploration of the pavilion’s structure an understanding of the circulation space and primary assembly areas can be formed as well as the thresholds of the form.

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Panelled surface

Structure

Primary Circulation Space

Supporting columns + glass enclosure

Areas of assembly + intermission

Ground Plane

Entry ways

THRESHOLDS (PERMEABILITY) 1:600

CIRCULATION 1:600

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m2 generating design through digital process

Task one Interlocking four pointed stars and rectangular prisms coalesce to form the panels that undulate along the curved waffle structure. Through this connection of three-dimensional forms, square voids are generated, acting as ‘two-dimensional’ panels. It is through these voids that sunlight is able to be filtered into the interior volume, diffused in nature as the light refracts off the surrounding angular structure. As one walks through the form, they are guided through by the twisting surfaces, whilst simultaneously encouraged to draw their eye up towards the sky.

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Surface and Waffle Surface extends past the waffle drawing the eye beyond the limitations of the structure.

Gaps within the mesh act as windows into the volume

Blocks follow the twist of the structure, enhancing and emphasising the curvature Square blocks create another facade that echoes the waffle structure

The Structure has an open top, creating a large volume within

Star structure connects square details whilst still allowing light in

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Design Matrix Lofts

1.1

1.2

1.3

1.4

{Index Selection}

{Index Selection}

{Index Selection}

{Index Selection} 1.3 Rotated by 90*

Paneling Grid & Attractor Point Paneling

2.1

2.2

2.3

2.4

{Attractor Point Location}

{Attractor Curve Location}

(Random Attractor)

{Index Selection}

3.1

3.2

3.3

3.4

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Deconstruct Brep into surfaces

Divide 4 curves into points

Draw lines and loft

Insert pt attractor

Morph 3D to create panel surface

Creating Srf

Copy and rotate srf at 90*

Create Brep to be panelled in Rhino

Srf Domain to create panelling grid

Generating panels

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panels

Deconstruct Brep into vertices

Contour along Z and X axis

Contours From srf

Z-Axis

Create curves from end points

Loft and intersections

Entwine (flatten)

X-Axis

Interlocking intersections

Cull Index and offset curve to form loft

Extrude curves to interlock

Move contours then loft

Trim each brep with another brep

Create edges to join curves to be laser cut

Computational process 10

waffles

laser cut X9

X18

Y8

X8

Y7

X7

Y6

X6

Y5

X5

Y4

X4

Y3

X3

Y2

X2

Y1

X1

Y0

X0

X17

Panels

X16

X15

X14

X13

X12

X11

X10

Waffle

Waffle laser cut

As both surfaces were symmetircal the waffle was resultantly a multiply of one another.

SImilarly, the panels on each face were almost identical, however ranged very slightly due to the attractors used previously.

Panel laser cut Complete

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m2 generating design through digital process

Task two Within the confinements of a cylindrical form, a stellated octahedron and cuboid are constructed in series resulting in interestingly convoluted voids, heavily juxtaposing the barren four walls of the cube. This not only allows for the angular, geometric interiors to be accentuated, but also grants space for people to seek shelter. Once again, the notion of diffused, soft lighting is introduced through refraction, however, the octahedrons penetrate the cuboids, resulting in harsh cut out shadows. Interestingly, these cut outs acquiesce a view through to the other side of the structure, granting not only light but interaction.

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SOLID AND VOID Views of the geometric depressions are also afforded through holes on the other side

Insert at least 100 words on your process of creating your task 01 of Module 02.

Tessallated, geometric volumes within the structure cannot be traversed Light is still able to permeate through small openings that are connected to the cubic volumes

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Large gaping entry ways allows this structure to be navigated

Design Matrix Grid Manipulation Distribution Testing Shapes

1.1

1.2

1.3

1.4

{Curve + Point Attractor}

{Point + Random Attractor}

{Random + Random Attractor}

{Random + Point + Curve Attractor}

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2.2

2.3

2.4

{Basic}

{Point Attractor}

(Random Attractor)

{Random + Curve}

3.1

3.2

3.3

3.4

{Sphere}

{Dodecahedron}

{Stellated Octahedron}

{Stellated Octahedron}

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Computational process Form bounding box

Divide box surfaces into individual breps

Random attractors through middle grids

Further customise through curve + pt attractors

Create Grid through Srf Dom num

Form Grid

Cellulate Grid into mesh

Randomising Grid Interior

Scale distance by factor and point attractor

interior volumes

Platonic Octahedron

Platonic Cube

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3d printing

Stellated octahedrons interact with cuboids

Although a great tool in 3D modelling, I found some difficulties in extracting support material out of my model (however, this was greatly anticipated). Using PLA 3D Printing is often a fast and relatively inexpensive way of showing prototypical models but is less accurate than powder printing.

The cylindirical prism cuts through the stellated octahedrons at various points, crafting multifarious views into the volume.

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m3

This 4900mm x 4900mm metal grid cube structure is divided into 700mm3 boxes.

Within sits a timber tessellated form that molds to create a walkway between spaces, flooring, seating and shelter. Two main volumes construct the interior, dictated by both built-in wooden elements and voids within the grid. Undulating stairs run within the structure itself acting as both steps and seating depending on the time of day, and the events/functions that are occurring above or below. A quartet easily fits within the lower volume, playing out towards an open audience. Similarly, the seminar may occur in the same space or directly above.

As the structure is highly permeable, sound is able to travel easily even to those that sit beyond the pavilion itself. The ground

queen victoria garden pavilion

plane and podium echo the geometric nature of the cube, ranging in heights to accommodate for seating and loitering, whilst also gradually stepping down in accordance to the terrain.

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isometric Box grid acts as the supporting structure for internal volumes.

Despite large voids in space, the structure retains weight and heaviness in the rigidity of its form.

Interior volume is formed by gaps in the grid structure, thus no formal walls and boundaries.

Full cubes are divided into half and are integrated into the structure. They retreat as they move upwards, creating a combination of steps and levels to rest. Each step allows for a different framed view of the landscape and pavilion.

Stepped podium creates variances within the ground plane that allows for seating and gathering.

SCALE 1:100

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Diagrams Stair panels

Second storey

Interior volumes + Grid supporting structure

Stair navigation

Panelled interior

CIRCULATION + occupation 1:150

Entryways of ground floor

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Hazy Dusk

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VR Rendering This proved to be one of my more enjoyable aspects of the module. Experimenting with a range of different lighting as well as materials granted me the opportunity to realise my pavilion design. Although it is still technically a digital render, it has given me a solid idea into how it would appear in real life.

s c e n e 2 Winter Day

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photos Tessallated triangles juxtapose both the structure and surroundings. Thus, a sense of familiarity in organic, soft forms encourage people to venture in.

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Computational Process

Rectangle grid points moved in series

3D grid is formed through vertices

Pipe complete curve - to be edited in Rhino

Wb’s join mesh, loop division, offset mesh

Wb’s picture frame to create triangular panels

Form Piped Grid

Brep is random reduced from previous grid

Interior volume

Boolean interior volume from piped grid & vice versa

Boolean

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fabrication

Process

3D Printing this model proved to be a challenge as a great deal of support material was needed for the thin columns to be formed. As the rods were the minimum radius, many were susceptible to breaking when removing the support material

I chose to laser cut a section of my podium.

Due to the geometric nature of my pavilion, there were only five different combinations of shapes to be sent through. These shapes were then pasted onto one anot=her to create the contours.

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360 image output

Digital Design Semester 1, 2018

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