Professional Practice 1: BIM (building information management)

ARCH30004 Professional Practice 1: BIM (Building Information Management)

AMDC Redesign Serpent

Nicholas Aylward- 101092817 Matt Tagle- 10677968 Dang Duy Minh Huynh-101683745 1

The Brief To propose a human centered design and innovative skin that is responsive to environmental conditions.

The design of a facade should also represent the identity of the School of Design at Swinburne University of Technology, including technical attributes.

Building facades often defines the character of a building before anyone is acquainted with it, but the functionality and purpose of facades are much greater than merely having an aesthetic design. Here we aim to create a meaningful and thought provoking design while transcending our building’s current functional capacity.

We want to create an efficient design that can adapt well to different weather conditions and lighting conditions while remaining thought provoking and interesting in its physical form.

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Contents Site Analysis

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Panel Development

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Design Concept

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Final Development

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Final Proposal

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Physical Model

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Work flow analysis

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Reflective Journal

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Site Analysis Understanding the current site and its environmental conditions is vitally important as a base point to work from it allows us to see which parts need the most adressing to those that only need minor intervention.

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Sun Path Analysis The environmental influences on a building not only affect its function, but can also influence the way its users interact with it.

Looking at the sun’s path and articulation throughout the seasons is a key aspect that we have drawn in shaping of the design process. It gives us an understanding of the annual conditions while also allows us to assess how the environment affects the local area.

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Winter & Summer Sun Angulation

Winter South West Perspective

Winter North East Perspective

Summer North East Perspective

Summer South West Perspective

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Radiation Analysis Looking further at the environmental influences on the current AMDC building allows us to see just how great these effects come to be. During the summer months, the northern facade comes to be highly affected while receiving relief from surrounding buildings. It is noted that almost all facades are affected differently from the environment, showing the importance of a highly adaptable and efficient design.

Summer South East

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Winter South East

Summer North West

Winter North West

Winter

Spring

July 15th

Sunrise 7:33AM

Midday 12:00PM

October 15th Sunset 5:19PM

Sunrise 6:36AM

Midday 12:00PM

Sunset 7:37PM

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Summer

Autumn

January 15th Sunrise 6:14AM

Midday 12:00PM

April 15th

Sunset 8:44PM

Sunrise 6:46AM

Midday 12:00PM

Sunset 5:54PM

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Panel Development Moving forward into the design process, we decided to go for the approach of paneling system. With this, we hoped to achieve a design that can be efficient for the multiple environmental influences and allows for adjustments depending on the programs incorporated within the internals of the building. The final product aim is a structure that could allow for environmental optimization and collection.

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Hand Sketches Our first approach to panel design was to look at the key aesthetics that we hoped to achieve, basing iterations on multiple sources from nature to other incidents.

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Layout Iterations Following panel development, we assessed possible outcomes by looking at multiple arrangements such as relations to focal points, radial, gradual transitions, pattern layouts and several others.

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Digital Panel Development Following basic hand sketch development, we moved to digital modeling with the aid of Rhino and plug-ins such as Grasshopper & Lunch-box. We were then able to see what the panels would look like in a larger scale of arrangement. We also used Photoshop to create a simplistic vision of designs, which showed us a sense of scale and familiarity with the building’s current structure.

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Rhino, Grasshopper, Lunchbox developed iterations

Basic renders to demonstrate possible outcomes.

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Design Refinement Detailed analysis of the structural components of the paneling system is vital to grasp a better understanding of what we attempt to achieve and look for in moving forward. As noted in the right we looked to multiple materials for in which we hope to use finally landing on the use of solar panels mounted to a alloy metal due to its highly lightweight yet strong features making it perfect not only for aesthetics and strength in harsh environmental conditions.

With using a paneling system with a gyroscopic attachment we looked at possible mounting iterations finally selecting a central location as at the time we believed it best suited our purpose, this comes to be reassessed in the secondary development stage,

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Internal view from elevator shaft to show basic concept of design

Materials

Glass

PTFE

Plywood

Sheet Metal

Concrete

Ceramic

Solar Panels

Brass

Fiberglass

Heat Resistant

Mounting Iterations

Panel Axis Rotation

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Design Concept Within the early stages of development, we had a design that we hoped to continue with. We created a parametric system to create a gradual transitioning arrangement to ensure the user’s vision was not compromised, while also making sure to allow for maximum sun coverage to the solar panel systems. With this design concept came some limitations, such as limited panel oscillation, poor aesthetics, inefficient arrangement, and low levels of optimisation, that inevitably forced us to look to other options.

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Basic Arrangement Concept

Secondary iteration concept render

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Final Development Developing further into the design process, we explored the concept of adaptive learning through modeling and saw it as a way of almost installing the basics, then, allowing the iteration and analysis process to show us outcomes while also making educated decisions, moving forward together as a group, and making small interventions at times to ensure that our original aims and aesthetic intentions are still achieved.

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Design Concept Upon completion of the design development, a new panel was selected and we looked into the possible options of arrangements, including size, density and articulation to see which we thought best suited our aesthetic aims. Once completed, we moved on to begin data analysis to further develop this concept into a more efficient design. We also evaluated how the paneling would interact with the environment and the user.

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3 panels

4 panels

5 panels

6 panels

7 panels

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Shadow Analysis and Iterations As our first design intervention, we used an analysis tool and turned to Ladybug to show the heat radiation associated with the coverage of the facade and the panel arrangement. Our original concept (fig.1) showed that the quantity of panels assigned was too many and almost completely blocked the second row. We then looked at possible arrangements to combat this and finally resolved to fig.4, which is positioned angularly towards the sun and creates a comfortable moderate level of coverage.

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fig.4

fig.5

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Adaptive Panel Articulation During Summer Solstice

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Sun Tracking throughout the Day

Some of the key aspects of our design we hoped to involve were user control with the ability to follow the sun and to block the heat during the day. We wanted views to not be limited as the panels can be turned sideways to show a slim silhouette. Furthermore, being able to point upwards with the aid of an inward slanting panel gives them the ability to collect rain water.

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WINTER

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Final Proposal Development of the facade system came to be one that was highly informative and educational. Analyzing components along the way and using multiple programs and platforms allowed us to get the best out of the project and extend our potentials.

As seen to the right the final paneling system is that of a 360 surround one allowing for sun absorption ,blocking and cooling on the north, east and west sides while an aesthetic feature on the south side with a multi-material approach from transparent to completely blocking of secondary light thus showing the technological capabilities of Swinburne University as technologically advanced campus.

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North East View Final Render 31

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Shown here are the dimensional aspects of the paneling system although not accurately constructed it allows a base block for future development and engineering to take place.

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Panel Diagrammatics

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Gimbal Rear

Panel Mounting Location

Points of Rotation

Gimbal Axonometric View

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Section

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Panel Birdseye

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Section A

Gimbal Birdseye

Multi Axis Gimbal

Mounting System

Solar Panel

Sloped for Rain Collection

Paneling System

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Revit Incorporated documentation

West Elevation

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East Elevation

North Elevation

South Elevation

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Physical Model Being able to see how a design interacts and flows in a physical form can show how physical models can be seen as one of the most powerful tools in design. Construction of our model took reference from the North Eastern side of lvl 6 to take for a 1:10 scale as we were all familiar with the space. The physical model also allowed us to get an understanding of the paneling system that was first not possible through computational modeling.

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The process of construction included the use of many tools from digital files for laser cutting (as seen above) to hand gluing and cutting.

This will be documented in the order of work flow.

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Gluing on paper tabs to allow the final panels to be portrayed at an angle

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A laser cut framework with circular pads to represent the gimbal positioning was the combined with glue.

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Panels were then glued in location carefully to ensure they were all positioned at the same angle.

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With the model being at a 1:10 scale, the space was then cut out using Plexiglas and plywood due to their suitable scales and work abilities.

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The plywood pillars and Plexiglas were then glued into place.

The protective paper was removed to reveal the material’s final look.

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The base and top (floorplates) were attached to create the final structure.

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Glue was placed on the paneling system for attachment to the model facade.

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The final paneling system was attached ensuring allignment was accurate with the aid of markers from the digital file.

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The final model allowed us to get a first time understanding of our design in a built envirnoment.

Although this model does not represent our final design due to further developments, it was still highly beneficial as it gave us the opportunity to learn the flaws and strengths and overall we were very happy with the outcome.

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