STUDIO AIR GE YAN 692176
PART A A.0 Author Introduction A.1 Design Futuring A.2 Design Computation A.3 Composition / Generation A.4 Conclusion A.5 Learning Outcomes A.6 Appendix - Algorithmic Sketches
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A.0 Author Introduction My name is Ge Yan, one of students in the University of Melbourne, majoring in architecture. As an international student, studying in the university, especially with architecture major, I was continually challenged, not only the language but essentially the high expectation from each subjects. · At the first year, I considered architecture as a problem-solving method which have capacity to bring new ideas. Along with time, even I was totally exhausted with fihishing assignment, I realised I should put myself together and looking at it in a different way. Now I’m still on my way to find who I really am and what I want to achieve through studying in architecture. I’m trying to think differently and deeper, and and to put myself into a designer’s position. I am getting close to my real self and express my pure feelings and understanding through design.
A.1.0 Design Futuring As is decribed by Fry 1, our human beings are sacrificing the future to sustain current life. Human centredness is regaeded as main problem leading to being unsustainable. And the diversity of design have the responsibility to work as one the world shaping forces. What is more, what the designer designed keep on designing in the future. That is, the design ethic was proposed, starting with changing our thinking, then what and how we design. That is how the architecture contributes to effect with its theory. 1Tony Fry, Design Futuring: Sustainability, Ethics and New Practice (Oxford: Berg, 2008), pp. 1-16
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A.1.2 Lumen - Jenny Sabin Studio
The winner of MoMA PS1’s 2017 young architects program
The project has been designed to evolve, providing respite from the sun during the day, and emitting an ethereal glow after sundown. This is not what makes the project one that enables sustainability, it’s made of tubular structures in a lightweight knitted fabric, with a canopy of recycled, photo-luminescent, and solar active textiles that absorb, collect and deliver light. The fabric also host a misting system to cool off visitors taking refuge from the sun. It will serve as a temporary urban landscape for MoMA’s outdoor music series.
Image: http://www.jennysabin.com/lumen/
Image: http://www.jennysabin.com/lumen/
A.1.3 Glow - Prof. David Mainwaring & Leanne Zilka Installed by RMIT master student Leanne Zilka. The researchers improved longlife phosphorescent glow material so that there is now a persistent visible afterglow that lasts many hours after light exposure. The extended afterglow means new opportunities have emerged to reduce energy use in lighting public spaces, in architecture and in the arts. The use of knitting machine and nylon into fabric tube to improve the long-life afterglow. The tubes can then be installed in various arrangements in cities. Along with this project, the designer is passing a message of renewal and sustainability.
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A.2.1 Design Computation In the architecture world, the current concept of architecture design is a blend of both the traditional methods of hand drafting and the use of design computation. In this era of rapid technological society, there is the need for architects to lay a solid foundation on the latest advancements of technology and computing in the built environment design.
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A.2.2 Dragon Skin Pavilion - LEAD Back to the early 1960s, people started to use the computer aided architectural design tools (CAAD) in the production of drawings from inception to 2 completion. It increased productivity instead of hiring many draftsmen. People can quickly created different alternatives and identifying the best 3 ones to save effort, time and costs. Just like the Dragon Skin Pavilion, which is an architectural art installation. It is also a combination of digital fabrication and contemporary digital design. It allows the architect to execute an accurate construction process by using a computer programmed 3D master model to generate all the cutting files for the dragon skins. Those design computation simplfy algorithmic procedures and gives the most precise calculation slot.
2 Rivka Oxman and Robert Oxman, Theories of the Digital in Architecture (London; New York: Routledge, 2014), pp. 1-10 3
Department of Architecture, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, The Impact of Computer Aided Architectural Design Tools on Architectural Design Education, (Journal of Architectural Engineering Technology, 2015)
A.2.3 Arbour - Josh Haywood
Architects rely on drawings and models of their projects to aid in their work. The contemporary computational design softwares help them to get the precision to develop a precise model and get the scenario visualisation. For example, the Arbour is the digitalisation of geometries in parametric models. Architects can manipulate their 3D design by using computation softwares to confirm their plans and design quaility. They also can collect accurate as-is data on sites to create pinpoint models for real spaces in order to improve the structural integrity.
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In brief, models are really essential to architects and engineers. Computation design provide them a more convenient way to finish projects quickly, efficiently and within budget.
A.3.1 Composition / Generation
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hought, (Architectural Design, V. 83, NO. 2, 2013), pp. 08-15
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A 3.2 Research Pavilion 2014-15 - ICD/ITKE
Biomimetic architecture is design that is influenced by biological processes5. This multidisciplinary technique of architectural design is what informed the 201415 Research Pavilion by ICD/ITKE. The pavilion demonstrates the architectural potential of a novel building method inspired by the underwater nest construction of the water spider. Through a novel robotic fabrication process an initially flexible pneumatic formwork is gradually stiffened by reinforcing it with carbon fibers from the inside. The benefit of this project was that it came up with a way to construct complex structures while minimising material bulk. 5 Rivka Oxman and Robert Oxman, Theories of the Digital in Architecture (London; New York: Routledge, 2014), pp. 1-10
A 3.3 Situation Room - MARC/THEVERYMANY
In the project of MARC/THEVERYMANY, digital and material utilisation scaled from a unit, to a system of units, and then an entire project, where each nature of unit is tested at 1:1 scale. The algorithmic think inspire the designer go beyond the intelligence of art or design, in contributing to multidiscipline research and collaborative environment. As structure, materials or environmental perforemance can all work as a basic parameter to general a variable architectural form. The computational simulation tool enable architect to design more responsively and adaptively to explore new design options.
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A.4 Conclusion Part A gives us insight into the foudations paving the way of the future of design. It allows us to recognise and describe the direction in wich design is headed, and the techniques, tools and approaches shaping design in the 21st century. Design Futuring, Design Computation and Composition/Generation have allowed for this foudational analysis. Computerisation is the future of design. Through an understanding of algorithms and a multidisciplinary approach, optimisation of materials and design can occur. With greater understanding, future design can aim to help the environment through eco-friendly ideas that are sustainable and sensitive to the environment.
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A.5 Learning Outcomes Under the extrodinary development of computational design, geometry and production are in great potential and possibilities to be variably actualised. Regarding increasing digital continuity of morphogenetic concept, creation and material production as a digital continum, the realisation of the non-standard can be reasonably predicted by fitting with typology, biology and paramedic design. Thus, design have a great capacity to become a mode of architectural generation under the logic of algorithm. In this process, parametric, not only work just as a digital design tool, but merged as a new way of digital deaign thinking.
A.6 Appendix - Algorithmic Sketches Week 1 - Lofting
Week 2 - Pavilion
Week 3 - Point Attractor Single Point Attractor
Multiple Points Attractor
Single Point Attractor
A.7 Bibliography Brady Peters, Computation works: The Building of Algorithmic Thought, (Architectural Design, V. 83, NO. 2, 2013) Department of Architecture, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, The Impact of Computer Aided Architectural Design Tools on Architectural Design Education, (Journal of Architectural Engineering Technology, 2015) Rivka Oxman and Robert Oxman, Theories of the Digital in Architecture (London; New York: Routledge, 2014) Tony Fry, Design Futuring: Sustainability, Ethics and New Practice (Oxford: Berg, 2008)
Image Source http://www.designboom.com/architecture/jenny-sabin-studio-2017-young-architects-programlumen-moma-ps1-02-17-2017/ http://www.jennysabin.com/lumen/ http://www.jennysabin.com/lumen/ http://architecture.rmit.edu.au/projects/glow/ http://www.archdaily.com/522408/icd-itke-research-pavilion-2015-icd-itke-university-of-stuttgart http://www.archdaily.com/522408/icd-itke-research-pavilion-2015-icd-itke-university-of-stuttgart https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1188258724/build-the-arbour-at-burning-man-2015 http://www.suckerpunchdaily.com/2017/02/01/skin-hides-mass/ http://icd.uni-stuttgart.de/?p=12965 https://theverymany.com/14-storefront/