Metaniawati Limanto Student No: 618475
Semester 1/2013
Group 8
EXPLORING CONCEPT
Sunflower represents its beauty that really captures my attention
once I saw it. According to King (2004), it characterises the brightness during summer and its gigantic yellow flower heads always follow the sun which portrays the idea of happiness in the summer. Furthermore, its disk depicts spiral pattern in nature that is related to Fibonacci Sequence (Segerman 2013). Thus, its pattern also shows the brightness proportion which relevant to Poling reading.
ANALYTICAL DRAWING Symmetry
Balance
ANALYTICAL DRAWING
Movement Recipe 1. Imagine 5 various sizes of circles from the same center. Plot 3 points that divides them to three parts. 2. Plot 3 spirals from the center to the points on the perimeter twice with a small gap. 3. Divide the surface to 2 parts. 4. Repeat to each circle. Movement
3D MODELLING Based on my movement analytical drawing, I made a 3 dimensional form of the sunflower disk pattern. The spiral movement of the pattern inspired me to extrude it by using A4 papers. Firstly, I cut the A4 paper with the same width. Next, I folded them into 5 scales of triangle size and stick each of with masking tape. Then, I repeated this step 3 times so that they can form a better circle. Moreover, I cut the height gradually downward to the center. Lastly, I rolled them for a while so that it would curve and stick them by spiralling all together in one center with masking tape.
Digital Model of Emerging Form
3D Extrusion of Pattern
3D MODELLING
Emerging Form Free from Base
Digital Model of Emerging Form
For the second 3 dimensional form, I made up another spiral extrusion which was a little bit more complex. This time, the spiral made of two elements similar to the analytical drawing which are triangle and rectangle. First of all, cut the A4 paper with the same width. Then, I folded into three 50% scaling sizes of triangles and rectangles. Next, spiral all the big triangles and rectangles in one center by 120 degrees angle to form a circle. The biggest size of the triangles and rectangles became the main base. Then stick the bigger sizes to each of them in a higher height. Lastly, tape all the triangles together in the center.
PRECEDENT EXAMPLES
Cybertecture Egg, Mumbai, India, was designed by James Law Cybertecture. The pattern of this building is similar to the disk of sunflower. It can be seen from the picture that the spiral starts from one centre and the scale grows wider as it goes outwards. Thus, the spiral does not only go one way, but two ways. Lastly, this building was inspired by the world ecosystem that allows life to evolve.
PRECEDENT EXAMPLES
Swiss Re Headquarters, 30 St Mary Axe in London, UK was designed by Foster + Partners. This building attracts me because of its shape which is very similar to sunflower disk. Its tower represent the center of the disk and the pattern follows by Fibonacci sequence. It can also be seen from a distance that the pattern goes spiraling the building, as it goes downwards it gets wider. It is similar to my model that it gets wider outside. The purpose of the idea in this building is to respond the constraints of the site that it will reduce wind deflections compared with rectilinear tower of similar size. Therefore, this design considers the environment comfort at the ground level.
Reflective In the Poling reading, he maintains three stages of analytical approach which was quite helpful for me in understanding my chosen pattern. The first stage is about simplifying the pattern itself by noticing its characterization of individual parts of the still life and recognizing the repetitive forms, lines, shapes and shading. This helped me to find the Fibonacci sequence on the disk of the sunflower by imagining the path of the disk as dots. The second stage is about finding the tensions in the structure by drawing the linear forms on the pattern also considering the colors and representing the dotted lines. This stage made me able to find the balance of spiral on the sunflower that can be seen clockwise and anti-clockwise. Lastly, is “translation� which focused on making a more abstract solution by examining the construction limits to lines and tensions between forces will conclude in a range of concealed constructions and exact expressions. To sum up, these stages really helped me to analyze the pattern carefully and able to find new structures from one pattern. As a result, I came up with a few drawing on the other pdf file that represents movement, balance and symmetry in my pattern. Furthermore, I was introduced to the pattern theory which has a lot of functions such as decorative system, material system, spatial device, static representation and dynamic representation. From the lecture, I realized that all living creatures represent their own pattern. It is related with the Pattern Formation in Pattern by Ball that he maintained how they formed in interactions. This reading helped me finding the idea that the sequences of the seeds in the disk and I did a research that they are based on mathematical algorithm which is Fibonacci sequence. Moreover, I followed the seeds on my sunflower pattern by making dots then I found that the amount and movement of the seeds are identical with that formula. According to Biomimicry Guild, Fibonacci sequence works very well in the growth that it will be packed uniformly in the disk. Then I draw a curve from the center until the end of the dots. I found the spiral pattern all over the disk. Biomimicry Guild also maintains that the spiral allows the maximum number of the seeds that it starts from the center and pushes the others outward. Therefore I make the model bigger as it goes outwards.
MODELS The design of this model was inspired by by the techniques which was applied on my paper models and Fibonacci sequence of the sunflower disk. This lantern model was designed to be hold by hand. Its foundation is made of sphere while the layers are made of flatten cylinders. The techniques which are used in this model are scaling, spiralling and symmetry. To form this model, just stick the layers on the base from the big scale to smaller scale.
MODELS
This model can use cut light effect to represents the light that comes from inside to the petals.
MODELS
This model is made of one element which is triangular prism. It is based on the analytical drawing which was made of triangles. Similar to the first model, this one uses the idea of scaling and spiralling. However, this model extrudes outwards forming curves. Moreover this model was inspired by a sword. Therefore, the holder is on the middle of the lantern and divide the lantern into two equal parts which are above and beneath.
MODELS
For this model, I planned to use filtered technique to distort the ligth and focused on the pattern of the lantern.
MODELS
This model is a further design of the second model in cone element. Instead of arranging the element upwards and downwards, this model extrudes downwards and outwards. It is started from one centre that spiralling the arm. Then it extrudes downwards. In addition, the sizes of the cones are using scaling techniques so that each of them has different sizes. The height of this model is approximately 600mm.
MODELS
The way to form this model is just spiral the extrusions in one centre then curve each of them outwards with different angles.
EFFECTS
Elisa Strozyk designed a modern lamp name Miss Maple. The design is very unique due to the material she used wooden textile as the skin and steel as the foundation. Thus, she did not use plain surface, but broke it down into a grid of triangles.
EFFECTS
This inspires me to make my model more abstract. I combinet it with another design of lamp that uses diffusion technique which scales as it goes downwards and uses filtered technique. I planned to make the pattern of my surface spiralling in two ways like sunflower and made of grids to make a textural surface. Moreover, the grid goes bigger as it goes downwards.
REFERENCES http://www.abc.net.au/gardening/stories/s1215673.htm. http://www.elisastrozyk.de/seite/woodtex/lamps.html http://www.fosterandpartners.com/projects/swiss-re-headquarters-30-st-mary-axe/ http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au/~segerman/papers/sunflower_spiral_fibonacci_metric.pdf. http://www.worldarchitecturenews.com/index.php?fuseaction=wanappln.projectview&upload_ id=2361