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2015_S1_5 SOPHIE TRAN 570960
2015_S1_5 SOPHIE TRAN 570960
Sustainability
Biomimicry
What is biomimicry? A nature-imitating search for new material effects, based on biological precedents – often referred to as biomimicry or biomimetics [1]. Biomimicry is a new discipline which refers to projects and researches about the functionality and performances of nature world. People involve in this discipline are biomimics [2]. They do not use the organisms in the design and innovation but only using the blueprints or the recipes from the organisms for innovation of new materials and designs. These create algorithm that can be put into a software program that analysis a minimum amount of material, as an organism must, for the maximum amount of strength of a parametric mode[3]. Therefore, biomimicry is an incredibly powerful way to innovate sustainable with new material and structure for designs which solves human problems.
Spanish Pavilion
What biomimicry can delivery
2005 World Exposition Aichi Japan Foreign Office Architects (FOA) 2005
“If we could learn to make things and do things the way nature does, we could achieve factor 10, factor 100, maybe even factor 1,000 savings in resource and energy use.”[4]
The project is inspired by honey comb structure. The architects study how honey build an extraordinary structure to store their food. And they explore an algorithm that allows them to figure out and control the sides of the hexagons as well as fabrication process. As the result, the external walls express series of irregular earthenware hexagons of mixed colors. These walls are an outer skin, separated from the inner pavilion which provides interesting lighting effect around the pavilion. This highlights the interaction between internal and external space.
Changing the sides of the hexagon to create many unsual shapes and new patterns. The definition’s hexagons are constructed with individual lines, this allows control over the shapes of the hexagon rather than a fix shape.
Matrix of iterations From the definition of the Spanish Pavilion, I try to explore the possibilities of the definition, change existing parameters, input geometries and component options. I also try to produce unexpected outcomes, investigate and push the capabilities of the definition to develop new forms and structure.
4 of the most successful outcomes in three-dimensional [1]
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MATERIAL AND EFFECT INSPIRATION
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Esplanade is by Marina Bay in central of Singapore. It was built over a large scale to reflects the harmonic balance between man and nature. The structure of internal and external express the building as the world’s top performing arts centre , thus bringing Singapore to the forefront of the international arts scene.
The concept behind this project is biomimicry because the concert hall and the theatre are designed to resemble the appearance of a durian and are constructed of spherical concrete roofs and glass panels supported by specially designed framing . The durian-shaped and structure is studied to create sun shading have elaborately designed fins angled in various directions to catch the suns rays as it moves across the sky. The linking garters supported by V-shaped columns are three-dimensional and have been constructed to eliminate electrical distortion, a key factor in providing an interference-free environment for computers.
Changing the images that creates the patterns of the offset hexagon. The patterns can be varied as many as possible.
Changing the offset sides of the hexagons.
Esplanade Complex
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