Morphogenetic Design - Integral Envelope July 2020

Morphogenetic Design Integral Envelopes Workshop

Presented By

Rana Hamama

Workshop Tutor

Yusuf A. Fahmy

Morphogenetic Design - Integral Envelope

About Tutor :

Yusuf A. Fahmy Alexandria University B.Sc. in Architecture. · (1999 - 2005) Cairo University Master of Science (M.Sc.), Environmental Architecture · (2009 - 2013) ELISAVA Escola Universitària de Disseny i Enginyeria de Barcelona Master’s degree, Advanced Design and Digital Architecture · (2015 - 2016)

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About the workshop :

Workshop: integral Envelopes.

July 2020 Topic:

Instrumentalization of natural morphologic strategies for generation of multi-functional architectonic envelopes During this workshop the participating students are asked to challenge the artificial distinction between skin and structure through the development of an envelope system that integrates structural and environmental performance.

In this context it is necessary to think of an envelope not as threshold dividing inside and outside, but as a filter that meditate between macro-environmental conditions and micro- environmental provisions. Following biological example without –and this is important- the attempt to mimic nature but instrumentalise natural strategies.

Evolutionary strategies for design :

The aim of this workshops to deepen the idea of form as a result of a process, which we understand as more valuable than the form itself. It is an inductive design process, where we don’t start from an architectonic program of necessities, already predetermined, nor an ideal and unique model to which reference design.

Therefore the process is opened to number of formal options that otherwise would not have had even the possibility to exist.

Workshop structure :

Selection of biological system

The starting point of the workshop experiment is the investing of a biological situation in which the distinction between structure and skin is dissolved.

Proliferation rules of the system 2D

From the selected natural system to extract and formulate specific relation between the structural logics, geometric principles and performative aspects of the investigated system that will be then be described as parametric variables and operative growth rules of the system to be explored.

Proliferation rules of the system 3D

and catalogue/evaluation of system potentialities of outputs having established the parametric variables of the material system on day 01, rules for an algometric growth process will be developed that enables the proliferation of the systematic relations into a complex ,differentiated 3D envelope.

Implementation of digital production

systems that will feed differentiated tectonics into the digital system. Production of digital models.

CAD CAM Partial manufacturing of pre-prototypes to test tectonic potentialities. Detailed prototype.

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Content : - INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................................

- Voronoi diagram

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-SELECTION OF BIOLOGICAL SYSTEM ..............................................................................................

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- Pattern of Dragon Fly wing - STUDYING DRAGON FLY WING ...........................................................................................................

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- FINDING THE RULE ............................................................................................................................................

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- 3D COMPONENTS

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- PROTOTYPE ...............................................................................................................................................................

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- EXAMPLES FOR MORPHOGENETIC DESIGN METHOD .............................................

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- Introduction - Voronoi Diagram

In mathematics, a Voronoi diagram is a partition of a plane into regions close to each of a given set of objects. In the simplest case, these objects are just finitely many points in the plane (called seeds, sites, or generators) - Voronoi in Nature

-SELECTION OF BIOLOGICAL SYSTEM - Pattern of Dragon Fly wing You can find a Voronoi diagram in nature, such as in dragonfly’s wings.

Dragon Fly Wing

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- STUDYING DRAGON FLY WING

- Pattern analysis : understanging the gene of the pattern 2

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- Proliferation Rules of the systenm 2D

- Defining the pattern using intersection points Morphogenetic Design - Integral Envelope

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- Re-Creating the pattern using the intersection points 4

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- Re-Creating the pattern using Boundaries from original shapes Morphogenetic Design - Integral Envelope

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- Difining the centeriods of the original pattern boundaries .

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- Connecting the centeriods creating triangular shapes.

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- Proliferation Rules of the systenm 2D

- Connecting the centeriods creating quadilateral shapes.

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- Proliferation Rules of the systenm 2D

- Connecting the centeriods creating quadilateral shapes.

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- Proliferation Rules of the systenm 2D

- Following the natural division of the pattern to create new shapes.

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- Creating curves inside the quadilateral shapes.

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- Proliferation Rules of the systenm 2D

- Creating traingles from the centeriods of curves.

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- Creating curves inside the pentagon shapes.

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- Creating star shape from the centeriods of curves.

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- Creating curves inside the triangulare shapes.

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- Creating more curves with stars shape from the centeriods of curves.

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- Proliferation Rules of the systenm 2D

- Creating more curves with stars shape from the centeriods of curves.

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- Proliferation Rules of the systenm 2D

- Creating more curves represent flory shapes .

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- Proliferation Rules of the systenm 2D

- Creating more curves from trianular shapes .

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- Proliferation Rules of the systenm 2D

- Creating more curves represent flory shapes 2.

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- All shapes overlapping together.

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- Finding th rule How dragonfly wings get their patterns

Harvard researchers have developed a computational model that can mimic, with only a few, simple parameters, the complex wing patterns of a large group of distantly-related insects, shedding light on how these patterns form.

One of the biggest mysteries in nature is how complex patterns— such as leopard spots or zebrafish stripes—form. This research lays out a framework that could help answer many of these open questions in the evolution of diverse tissue patterns.

The researchers compiled a database of more than 500 specimens from 215 different species of dragonflies and damselflies and developed an algorithm to differentiate each individual shape made from the intersecting veins on the wings of the insect. The researchers found that while the patterns on each wing are unique, their distribution is strikingly similar across families and species.

Based on these similarities, the researchers built a developmental model for how these patterns can be formed.

The researchers proposed that an unknown inhibitory signal diffuses from multiple signaling centers in the regions between the primary veins. These inhibitory zones emerge randomly and repel one another, and then prevent secondary veins from growing in certain areas. As the wing grows and stretches during development, those zones could form the complex geometries of the wing as the veins grew around them.

The researchers tested the model on many different insect species—including distantly related insects—and generated life-like reproductions of wings.

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The hindwing of a dragonfly. Dragonflies are among a group of insect species that have a complex network of veins, partitioning the wing into hundreds or thousands of small, simple shapes. The shape and position of these secondary veins are endlessly variable, generating unique patterns on each individual wing. Credit: Harvard University

A differentiated, or segmented, wing outlining each individual polygonal shape made from the intersecting veins. Credit: Harvard University

Dragonflies and damselflies have particularly elaborate vein patterns. The researchers compiled a dataset of wings from 232 species and 17 families of dragonflies and damselflies. Credit: Harvard University

- Finding the rule

while the patterns on each wing are unique, their distribution is strikingly similar across families and species. Based on these similarities, the researchers built a developmental model for how these patterns can be formed.

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- Finding th rule Architecture of the Dragonfly Wing Maria Mingallon who graduated from the AA and its currently a professor at McGill University, along with students Jheny Nieto, Sakthivel Ramaswamy and Konstantinos Karatzas, study the architectural applications of the dragonfly wing. Videos, more images and potential architectural applications included in the rest of the post.

In the words of the team “the morphology of the dragonfly wing is an optimal natural construction via a complex patterning process, developed through evolution as a response to force flows and material organization.

The wing achieves efficient structural performance through a nonlinear variation of pattern, corrugations and varied material properties throughout the structure.�

Below is an excellent diagram showing how the dragonfly wing is divided into various shape areas that are designed to handle force very differently, quadrilateral, pentagonal and hexagonal.

The team explains that the seemingly random variation in the natural pattern of the wings were in fact optimized to allow rigid and flexible configurations along the span of the wings that allow for a logic based use of ambient energy for the purposes of flight.

Based on the above diagram the general geometrical conclusions arrived at by the team were as follows: 1. The patterns of the wings follow the general tensile forces exhibit on the wing2. The various shapes carry the responsibility of determining the amount of stiffness or flexibility in that area of the wing.

For example the quadrilateral areas on the edges determine the more rigid and stiff portions of the wing while the largely compartmentalized hexagonal areas are responsible for the areas more likely to bend and sway.

Furthermore, connections between the cells also determined the degree to which adjacent cells were free to bend, that was also highlighted in the research: “Two main types of joints occur in the dragonfly wings, mobile and immobile. Some longitudinal veins are elastically joined with cross veins, whereas other longitudinal veins are firmly joined with cross veins. Scan24

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- Finding th rule ning electron microscopy reveals a range of flexible cross-vein and mainvein junctions in the wing, which allows local deformations to occur. The occurrence of resilin, a rubber-like protein, in mobile joints enables the automatic twisting mechanism of the leading edge.”

After understanding these various characteristics of the wing that could be applied to structural design elsewhere the students began to model their findings and ran various test deforming the meshes and analyzing the responses. Below is a video demonstrating.

The interesting part of all biomimetic research are its potential applications to the field, the next excerpt is a summary from the team expressing how they feel their research can be applied to construction techniques.

“Specialization of different areas for support and deformability is nearly universal in insect wings. These properties present to us an interesting field of research on structures that could change constantly, but retain their equilibrium through a complex geometrical logic. Buildings can be envisaged as envelopes made of complex flexible foils, abstracting the geometrical logic of the dragonfly wings. The property of rigid quadrangular geometry and a more flexible polygonal geometry could be used to build a surface…the experiment was focused on deriving the different morphologies that could be obtained by passive deformation under uniformly applied loads. The distribution of constrain points within the grid follows a similar logic to that of the dragonfly wing, in which the mobile and immobile joints are distributed in order to enable corrugation in a particular direction.”

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- EXAMPLES FOR MORPHGENETICE DESIGN METHOD

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Different Applications in many Feilds as interior design, fashion, and pieces of jewelry 38

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