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Case for Innovation

01 Architectural Discourse 02 Computational Design 03 Scripting Cultures

Research Project 04 Matrix Practice 05 case study

Gateway Prjoject

06 - 12 Explorations 13 Physical model

Case for Innovation Architectural Discourse

project : Church of Light location :Osaka, Japan Architect: Tadao Ando 1989

Tadao Ando is another architect that I admire.

And the church of light is one of my favorite Ando’s work.

Tadao Ando’s body of work is known for the creative use of natural light and for architectures that follow the natural forms of the landscape.

Located in a quiet residential neighborhood in the suburbs of Osaka, the small Christian church made of silky smooth concrete sits modestly within its environment. The church consists of two rectangular volumes that are both cut at a 15 degree angles by freestanding concrete walls.

One indirectly enters the church by slipping between the two volumes, one that contains the Sunday school and the other that contains the worship hall.

The space of the chapel is defined by light, by the strong contrast between light and shade. In the chapel light enters from behind the altar, from a cruciform cut in the concrete wall that extends vertically from floor to ceiling and horizontally from wall to wall. From this cruciform shape an abstract and universal light seems to be floating on the concrete wall, its rays extending and receding over time with the movement of the sun. The darkness of the chapel is further accentuated by the dark and roughtextured wood of the floor planks and the pews which are built out of reused wood used during construction as scaffolding.

Project: Bogota International Convention Center.

State: Competition.

Location: Bogota, Colombia Design: Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher

Zaha Hadid is one of my favorite architect. And I really like her new design the Bogota International Convention Center recently.

The architectes aimed to creat a new business and civic node for the city of Bogotá that embodies values of functionality, interactivity and innovation, and can act as a catalyst for urban, social, economic and environmental regeneration. The project presents an opportunity to structure a dynamic concept of building and public space, configuring a new urban order with significant improvements to the site’s technical, environmental and public space conditions

A redefinition of the ground mass as a continuous landscape which weaves between the different site components can create a cohesive intergrated facilities. The proposal explores the potential of different visual fields within and around the site to maximize the openness.

the proposal plans to exploit two main axes: the relationship between the new Centre and the Water Plaza and the connection between the car park and Corferias.

The symbiotic relationship between the BICC, the Water Plaza and Corferias, drives and determines the arrangement of the building mass. By shifting it towards the Carrera 40, the building opens up towards the EAAB building’s podium, placing the public space at its core and providing a strong spatially integrated civic space by complementing the Water Plaza with an area where community events can be staged at.

By elevating this public space, the proposal addresses the other main axis of connectivity that are presented by the car park building and Corferias, giving way to a covered podium or plaza that is further articulated by reaching out to Carrera 40, as a focal point for pedestrian access. The space created allows for multiple threads

Case for Innovation 03 Scripting Cultures

In recent years, emerging computational design and manufacturing techniques have been introduced into the world of architecture. The notion of form, the digital esthetic has been discussed a lot, and as the technology moves fast, the early 3d modeling software such as 3d Studle Max, Alias Wavefront and others based on animation, are now more and moer being replaced by Rhino and Grasshopper, marking programming and parameterization of design models much more easier.

Scripting is one of the most important factors in computational design. enables computer programing to be an intergral part of the design process. it opens up a world of opportunities for innovation, allowing the designers to combine the software in their own ways. Scripting is benifical to the approach of the computational design. It collaborate digital fabrication technologies, make the designning more easily and fast. Moreover, digital manufacturing techniques are becoming more and more accessible and affordable. Digital manufacturing buildings are no longer too expensive, but usually affordable and efficient than traditional produced buildings.

The pictures show one of the latest work

by Michael Hansmeyer is an architect and programmer who explore the use of algorithms and computation to generate architectural form. He is currently based in the CAAD group at ETH’s architecture department in Zurich.

This project involves the conception and design of a new column order based on subdivision processes. It explores how subdivision can define and embellish this column order with an elaborate system of ornament.

This work is composed of sixteen million faces and made from 2,700 layers of cardboard. It is the result of a cutting-edge computational process and people’s responses to it are just as improbable. All these columns are composed of 16 million faces generated by computer. To make the design reality, laser cutters sliced the design out of 2,700 individual layers of 1mm-thick cardboard sheets. The layers were then stacked around a load-bearing core to produce a 2.7 meter-high prototype.

An abstracted Doric column is used as an input form to the subdivision processes. Unlike the minimal input of the Platonic Solids project, the abstracted column conveys significant topographical and topological information about the form to be generated. The input form contains data about the proportions of the column’s shaft, capital, and supplemental base. It also contains information about its fluting and entasis.

The input form is tagged to allow the subdivision process to distinguish between individual components. This allows a heterogeneous application of the process, with distinct local parameters settings. In addition to distinguishing among tagged components, the process parameters can be set to vary according to the input form’s topography as well as its topology.

The result is a series of columns that exhibit both highly specific local conditions as well as an overall coherency and continuity. The ornament is in a continuous flow, yet it consists of very distinct local formations. The complexity of column contrasts with the simplicity of its generative process.

Research Project 04 matrix practice

Research Project 04 matrix practice

Research Project 04 matrix practice

Research Project

04 Matrix of Inspiration

Research Project

04 Matrix of Inspiration

Research Project

04 Matrix of Inspiration

Research Project 05 case study

Airspace Tokyo is a four-storey, mixed use residential and commercial building designed by Tokyo architect Hajime Masubuchi of Studio M. And the public faces of the building were developed by the Faulders Studio in San Francisco.

The screen conceived as a protective airspace. The cellular design and double layering of the screen is like the lush vegetation. In the night, the screen modulates views in and out of the building, and casts shadows of the geometric voids onto the street.

We choose this building as our case study project since it is the one which is quite like our ideal design for the gateway that we try to create an structural, tridimensional, and vivid project, Not been made of planar fa?ade and without skin.

Research Project 05 case study

Research Project 05 case study

The pictures shows the process of making the structure by using grasshopper. we just randomly create several points in Rhino on a plan, and then use these points as center-points to create circles around it. and also et boundaries between the edges of circles. As the distance between centers are different, the circles shows irregular and unique shape.

These are the outcomes. they are different and has various shape. They are created by increasing number of points, rearranging points, changing radius of circles and resetting boundaries.

Our gateway project designed has also used some of the structures created in this stage

case study models

Gateway Project

Gateway Project

Apply EOI into Case Study, transferred 2D facade into 3D structures, Using multiple single sheets lean against each other to make them able t

06 Exploration of Structure

stand. and the shadows make it more vivid

06 Exploration of Structure Three sheets form into triangle shape , make it stable Insipired us to design a gateway goes across the highway above head, that cars will be travel through this tunnel.

Gateway Project

07 Exploration of Materials

Gateway Project

07 Exploration of Materials

testing with different by using shwoing by different colors

steel .

Dark color steel will observe most of the light and reflect a little, therefore it will be harder to see at night. Steel is the strongest material in these three, it also function as the most load bearing layer for the structure.

acrylic

Refraction and reflection will both happen in acrylic, will make it glowing at night when carlight shine on it

Reflective Materials Reflective Material (Red) has the highest level of reflecting light, it will reflect the car-light at night that obvious for drivers to see, has similar function as a traffic sign and vehicle back light.

Gateway Project

08 Exploration of Light

demonstrae what the structure may looks like at night when car driving through the gateway.

People inside the gateway will experience the “shining� structure.

Gateway Project

09 Exploration of Twisting

Gateway Project

10 Exploration of Bending

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11 Exploration of Making Model

Gateway Project

12 Exploration of Overlay

Gateway Project 13 Physical Model 1

inspired by the overlay idea as we chose to use plastic sheets the material is more flexible that curve are created as an resulte of natural load . Each layer of the structure has a different degree of curve.

Cars will drive under the structure into the channel that formed by the hollows of layers.

Gateway Project 13 Physical Model 2

While we pour water on the model, structure sag down to the ground that create another from.

With this structure, sound of car driving pass will also be deflect towards different direction, may reduce noise pollution for neighbor areas.

Wind load is very small .

Curved shape roof make less air pressure on top of it when wind travel pass, which can cancel amount of structure dead load.

Gateway Project site plan

plan A Plan B

After the discussion, our group got two plans response to the site choose. We all aggreed to put the gateway project between site A and site B, which across the princess freeway. Therefor, cars paasing by could have an chance to experience the gateway.

Feedback from presentation: about site choose. the choice of site makes that only people from one direction could have chance to experience the gateway. this will be consulted and solved in final submission.