Digital Design - Portfolio Semester 1, 2018 Wing Chun Ng
826182 Junhan Foong + Studio 13
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Wing Chun Ng email: wingn1@student.unimelb.edu.au
Content:
Education:
Reflection:
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Diagramming Design Precedent: Bad Hair
2017 - current Bachelor of Design 2016 Diploma of Secondary Education, Hong Kong
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Generating Design Through Digital Processes
Skills:
The journey towards compiling this collection of works has been laborious yet fruitful. I have always wanted to improve my graphic design fluency and instinct in order to streamline my design workflow. Digital Design has allowed me to further discover my prefered design language and representation, which would be of great value in future design challenges.
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LARK: ascending
However, a journey of such epic proportions would not mean nothing if everything was just smooth sailing. For many of us Grasshopper and Unreal Engine are brand new design tools which, comparable to calculus in mathematics, would hand us the autonomy to acheive a common design goal with multiple solutions
Unreal Photoshop Illustrator Indesign Fabrication
at our dispossal. It is a common saying that “all roads lead to Rome,� but that is only valid if we know the different pathway options available. What has been achieved within this portfolio does not represent the complete competency of my design abilities. I aspire to harness my full design potential in order to allow me to create innovative and sustainable solutions for real world scenarios. I hope that all the skillsets and attitudes I have encounterd during this extraordinary journey would take me to the next level.
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Diagramming Design Precedent: Bad Hair
The Bad Hair pavilion created by Margaret Dewhurst of the Architectural Association (AA) in 2007 might seem messy and unresolved at first sight, which should be taken as an intentional aesthetic decision, but in actual fact it is comprised of superimposed layers of mathematically generated geometric forms in which each layer was slightly rotated along a common origin point to varying extents. It is therefore appropriate to assume the adoption of “regularity in chaos� as a main concept in its creator’s design process. The two design-related take-away from this exercise would be the use of a common parametric language to generate highly rulebased yet varied forms, as well as the subtle manipulation of these individual forms to transform structural regularity into formal chaos.
Isometric view of precedent study
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Diagram 01
Diagram 02
Circulation diagram
Threshold diagram (highlighted parts indicate threshold indicators)
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Generating Ideas Through Digital Processes 5
Design Matrix
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Surface and Waffle
A hollow waffle structure allows for the creation of an interior volume.
The more perforated panel allows plenty of sunlight to penetrate through the outer layer, defining a more open space.
Sculptural panels with numerous equally sized openings defines a more reserved space while still allowing minimal light to pass through.
Individual modules within the panel are triangular in form and of increasing volumes and spacing from bottom to top.
Individual modules within the panel are quadrilateal in form and of equal volume and spacing from one another.
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Individual modules constituting the two panel series were modelled according to the concept of “contrast�: While one panel series were uniformly sized and arranged as well as an emphasis on quadrilateral surfaces, the other were scaled and arranged according to a preset attractor point along with an emphasis of triangular surfaces. Various panelling iterations were explored in order to generate an optimal form and orientaion of the modular series. The waffle structure is then modelled acurately in order to hold up the panel series with respect to the pre-determined orientation of the panel series.
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Computation Workflow
A tailor-made surface was made by connecting of four parametric points as as the basis for the
A modular panel series was introduced on the previous surface by the induction of a pre-designed
overall form and orientation of the panelling series
mesh module unit
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Computation Workflow
The basic waffle stucture is constructed with the panel surfaces defined, which dictated the final
1mm slip holes were created on the horizontal and vertical elements of the structurein order to secure them
Individual parts of the waffle structure were separated to streamline model fabrication
form of the structure itself
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workflow
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Left: Laser cutting lines for panel series and waffle structure Right: Gluing process of panelling strips
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SOLID AND VOID
Regular octahedrons of differing sizes were arranged according to a 3x3x3 cubic grid which was governed by two randomly placed attractor points. This composition was then placed within a solid triangular prism in order to boolean out volumes from the priam in order to introduce voids within the prism.
Large openings within the model allows plenty of light to enter the interiors of it.
Where the solid and the geometry meets slopping planes act as in-between spaces between one opening and the other.
The solids left behind act as structural columns that defines the threshold of space explicitly.
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Design Matrix
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Computational Process
A simple cube formed the basis for the formation of parametrically produced geometrical patterns and
Point grids were introduced among the cube, which were then manipulated by the introduction of
intersecting octahedron solids were positioned and scaled in accrdance to the manipulated
the trinagular prism form
two attractor points (in red)
point grids
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M2 Task 2 3D Printing
A print preview of the final model form in the MakerBot interface
The printed model
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Blending design with the landscape form was a primary concept that was extensively exlored during the course of the design progress. The graciously sculptured wing-like canopy, as well as the excavated landscape, allow audience of varying sizes to ocuppy the vast volume with ease, though extra attention has also been given to lure unassuming passerbys by creating an intentional void in between the canopies. The combination of timber and concrete used gives users obvious clues to the programmatic options available within the pavilion while giving it a humanistic touch.
LARK: ascending
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Axonometric
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Design Iteration
This was a direct translation of my overall design concept, thus its sloppy design characteristics
This was a refined version of the concept, but resembled massing blocks rather than a pavilion
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Organic form gave this iteration aesthetic quality, albeit its generic overall form
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Computational Process
A geometric field was defined by manipulating a triangular series in terms of scale and rotation with
The geometric field was extruded and superimposed over the pre-designed canopy solid in order to boolean volumes out of the canopy in order to create llight-permeable voids
reference to attractor points
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Fabrication process
Left: Lasser cutting lines for the landscape pancake and stage shell Right: MakerBot interface showing optimal printing orientation which reduces printing time
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360 Image Output
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