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Tu t o r M e h r n o u s h K h o r a s g a n i
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content Introduct ion p.4,5
Conceptualisation
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" Design Futuring "
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" Design Computation "
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"Composition / Generation"
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"Conclusion"
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"Learning Outcomes"
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Appendix -
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p.8,9,10,11.
p.12,13, 14,15.
p.16,17.
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Algorithmic Sketches
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Santiago Camarena
resume Studing previously at
Iberoamericana University Mexico City Architecture and Urban Design
Environments Melbourne University Autocad Revit Rhino grasshopper (recently) 3ds Max Maya Illustrator Photoshop InDesign
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have been studying Architecture and Urban Design in Mexico for the last 3 years. I started, as many others to study mentally and emotionally young. Where everything around us is based on perceptions, empiric and natural at all times. Initially, the stimulus of the material world starts making sense in our hearts and minds. Then I drenched myself in the humongous study of Architecture. Nowadays architecture practice is staring to reinvent itself all over again. design as a part of architecture is seeking the design researchers to explore new possibilities. Related in an internal and external survival and adaptation of the conext. And when I mean context I like to picture the biggest reference we have available of our environment, Earth. The question that values my perception of architecture is the importance of the possibilities of human quality of life. And being clear that any hope of a better quality of life will lead a sustainable design. Where the Earth and its own generous environments are the only reason we are here, breathing, growing and learning. The natural environments adapt and regenerate. Now, it is time to adapt and regenerate our urban environment to Earth, through new ways of design.
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duction I have worked with digital programms and tools, in a graphic way to representate shapes or function of complex architecture programms. With graphic techniques in Revit and principally 3d Max. I was introduced in my previous studies to a studio called Augmented Materials. Where we were approching design in a "new way". The material was now the principal case of study. Materiality as a research technique to explore cualities of systems and structures. This is when for me, conventional architecture started spinning a revolutionary quality of design.
Urban and Architecture Intervention, Mexico City 3D Max , Rhino
Study to find; elements, systems, design. Those that can keep us calmed within ourselves, in our homes, in our cities and in our natural environments. To be part of the evolution of design, pointing forward technology and sensitivity. By bringing qualities that make life enjoyable, responsible visionary and human.
Social Housing
Traditional Model Representation
Shell House, Artechnique Remake Model 3Ds Max
Wicker
Augmented Materials Research https://issuu.com/santiagocamarena/ docs/book_interactive
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Science / Technology / Design Computer - Architecture design- production man-machine - praxis
Felix Candela Candela is a great inspiration of shell sculptoric buildings, by 1958 he conceive paraboloids as a new way to propose strcutures. With no intelligent technology he too his own inspiration for reinforced concrete based in nature. The building "Los Manantiales" is a restaurant sited next to Xochimilco River in Mexico City, Where Candela wanted to express the extention of organic shapes of the surrounding landscape towards afunction of interactions between men and nature. With parabolic structures mashing together to create an open plan for a general function. The building lacks of function purpose, and becomes more a sculptoric element. Buti this is a great resemblance example to look forward in this contemporary century.
(Architecture Clasis) ClĂĄsicos de Arquitectura: Restaurante Los Manantiales / FĂŠlix Candela (by Karina Duque 2011)
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design futuring
A1 Design practice is the key to develop society direction. Through history the design content in Architecture has been a study of shapes and forms, function and direction always trying to reinvent itself to grow according its own time. The extend of architecture creativity has expand to technology. The capacities of man-computer avilities to function and think becomes one. They have took-off to the unstopable technological train ahead of us. If we learn how to use technology in the best way of our abilities, our creativity is exploring in different forms, human and computer creativity conceptualized by data.
IMAGEs both: (Architecture Clasis) ClĂĄsicos de Arquitectura: Restaurante Los Manantiales / FĂŠlix Candela (by Karina Duque 2011)
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rchitecture along it´s own evolution and the way it has tried to reinvent itself. Towards a manner of uniqueness and exploration of shapes. With technology to satisfy the necesities the new man is living at a period of time. We can encounter different examples of architecture through new technologies. Some of them more than 50 years old where computer creativity wasn't part of the creative design. Felix Candela (p. 8) is a good example of technology of the moment put in practice. Shigeru Van (next example) is another master mind of the use of technology available to propose a structure design that is answering to the system of a new necessity.
Shigeru Ban Architects
Shigeru known as the paper architect has a specific way to apply conventional knowledge to new structural alternatives. Structural sophistication with organic materials. He refers to an architecture that seeks for quick, cheap and sustainable measures to build. “The nine bridges Golf Club“ building has a big roof cover, in a rare tree-form timber columns. This structure was designed according to the regulations of Korea regarding the amount of timber buildings seize. The wooden structures are inspired in summer cushions of Korea called “Bamboo wife”1. The big inspiration of Ban is reflected in parametric structures that accomplish a system to be more efficient. Spotlight: Shigeru Ban by Jan Doroteo, (Archdaily, 2016)
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A1 Human necessities of the present moment are global, are the well-being of all type of ecosystems as we know them. These environmental needs are more than ever the precursor to define a creative way of design. The time we are living requires bigger responsibilities. The ones we are facing today and the ones that are already a warning.
IMAGEs both: Spotlight: Shigeru Ban by Jan Doroteo, (Archdaily, 2016)
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“ Economic, technical and cultural conditions have change radically. Its is very important for our coulture and our society, as well as for technology industry, to find good solutions…
Along this path industry and technology will join with the forces of thought... “
Mies van der Rhoe, cited in Curtis, architecture since 1900, p.271)
Miguel Angel Aragonés Mar Adentro1 is an ocean resort, product of Aragones knowledge and inspiration between what he learned from functionality of the Modern Movement and pieces of interaction with new technologies. The nest in the middle of the water breaks the hardness of the concrete surrounding. Result of parametric shell/nest to embrace and give shadow to the cafeteria and bar of this area. The project is juxtaposition of the architecture we often know and the one we are starting to conceive. It might be as important to the project that any other structural system. The organic feeling works as a tree to reconcile with nature.
Mar Adentro/Miguel Angel Aragones (Archdaily Online, 2016)
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The judgement of computer interrupting creative thinking and practice has been part of this
era. The translation of creativity has now reached a new meaning. Creativity has always been explained through tools that help us make this mental “art� process visual, or reachable for other intuitions. Tools, technology applied to creative design has been part of the media to reach what the mind wants to express in all types of design that we know today. Where does Computer Design is not a tool or a technology? This new era, these new necessities are seeking for technology to work hand by hand. We can refer to the architecture Modern Movement. When architects where trying to find a new language a new technique that had meaning to the time they were living. When they were looking for reactions to function in this past Modern world. The reaction they where trying to discover is part of the same evolution of function. What is really the function nowadays? If the function was a sum of operations, of responses of what this space wants to achieve. These modern ideas where trying to open the possibilities of living, not only related to reinvent shapes, related to new possibilities of leaving facing the Modern world they were experiencing. What are the possibilities of this contemporary world (2017)? What responses we want to achieve?
IMAGES, from left to right; -Mar Adentro/Miguel Angel Aragones (Archdaily Online, 2016) -Mar Adentro/Miguel Angel Aragones (Archdaily Online, 2016) -Mar Adentro/Resort (official website, 2017)
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“The problem of the modern dwelling is primarily architectural, in spite of its technical and economic aspects. It is a complex problem of planning and can therefore be solved only by creative minds…” Translated by the german by Philip Johnson. From Mies van der Rhoe. (Museum of modern Art. New York, 1947)
ICD, ITKE and Stuggart Biomimetic as a way to develop construction design. We face technology as we usually know it the shapes and formes are restricted to the materials the society has grown in their industries. By investigating the properties of nature and the way their internal systems work as structures is an excellent way to grow this systems in scale and discover structures and freedoms of design. An example of this study is, the Research Pavilion 2013-20141 of ICD, ITKE and Stuggart. They constructed a bionic research pavilion. By the strategy of biomimetic, studding shells of a bug they developed a robotic way to produce a reinforced fibre polymer structure. Which would allow a hard structure and a big length of freedom. The material, form and robotics lead to the construction of this pavilion.
ICD/ITKE Research pavilion 2013-2014, ( A. Menges, J, Knippers, Stuggart University, 2014)
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Today is the moment to relate to what we have learned and the circumstances we are living on.
Sustainability, Technology, Computer, Man- Computer. The answer of all of that may need to be a sum of all this questions, a technological, environmental, sustainable and man-computer. Tecnhology is the respond to make our contemporary necessities achievable. What is necessary in this new century? Maybe the most advanced technology we have, computation, is the one that in hands of designer can shape the world. Is time to relay context of an architecture project to the biggest picture of context available, earth. Does the symbiosis of man and computer will give direction to new systems of reaction?
Images Both: ICD/ITKE Research pavilion 2013-2014, ( A. Menges, J, Knippers, Stuggart University, 2014)
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Honeycomb Morphologies
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Another Biomimetic example of ICD. honeycomb structures by developing a double layered system with increased shear resistance in which each cell size, shape, direction and orientation can be different2. The constraints yielded in these experiments informed the development of a honeycomb deriving growth algorithm that defines the honeycomb morphology as folded overlapping strips in response to given design input.
Design Research Agenda by Achim Menges (ICD University of Stuggart, online) 2 AA Emergent Technologies and Design (M. Hensel, A. Menges) 3 ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2011, Stuttgart University, 2011 1
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generat ion Today computation has had a big push in the design environment. Computation as the top
technology in our hands, have give us tools to compress design and expand it in numerous possibilities. Composition as an element of representation form, might not be enough to understand the numerous qualities of systems available. But when the Composition meets the Generation, designer become thinkers and researchers towards systems and materials.
Materials and nature itself is again the most important conceivable element of construction and design. The “digerati” research designers learning again from nature. Generative ways to set a design production of multiple updates. When we look at nature and becomes an associative and dependant factor, synthesize as a system with real and measurable data. Theories of the digital in Architecture by Rivka Oxman and Robert Oxman
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(Routledge, London and New York, p.1-9.)
ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion
Sea urchin’s plate skeleton morphology was the research towards this pavillion. Using freeform surfaces representing different geometric characteristics while developing two distinct spatial entities: one large interior space with a porous inner layer and a big opening, facing the public square between the University’s buildings, and a smaller interstitial space enveloped between the two layers that exhibits the constructive logic of the double layer shell.3
IMAGES, from left to right; -AA Emergent Technologies and Design / Honeycomb Morphologies (M. Hensel, A. Menges, M. Weinstock) -ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2011, Stuttgart University, 2011
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INTENDED DESIGN I would like to explore pattern systems towards the manipulation of cells or geometry for the construction of vaults. A intelligent constructed shelter/apiary for Bees. Our honey suppliers, Are in danger of species. Bees importance in the natural environments it´s bigger than we can imagine. The best pattern making architects of nature. Bees have taught men the complexity and simplicity of hexagonal patterns, wax hives pattern structural systems. The best example of representation of the system is ICD previously mentioned (refer previous page). My interest is Not to follow the hive or honeycomb pattern system towards the representation of its own system. I wish to explore different geometry patterns to create a shelter / apiary for bees. Researching the optimal conditions for the reproduction of bees in merry creek. The gentrification of bees can be the biggest detonator of developing flora and fauna. And its preservation. Computation intervention to help develop the research of conditionings of habitad for a specific native stingless bee specie.
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A4 A5 Where is the design going? What are we searching? And why? These are the questions that
ring hardly in new generation minds. Living an episode of change towards something to come, but barely touchable and conceivable. The new Modern stage is coming to reinvent design. And with this comes a great responsibility towards the future. We are suffering the futuristic and mechanisation of a not conceivable design that grew as an excitement of the unknown.
Only by the help of the computation we are able to make processes quicker in analysis and representation. Our minds can give a program of rules and this rules become a tree of relations represented in data. And a graphic method available to take data into a physical material. By encouraging design to a sustainable way of reconciliate with the Earth. My experience of architectural computing, has been drenched in knowledge. The material of the Lectures and the readings are really explicit and well pointed to understand these new theories. When at first everything can sound abstract and rudimental, the course has lead me to understand computing as a tool of research design, while conceiving the world in a sustainable way,
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selection of sketches in particular gain my attention while playing with pattern geometry. These sketches show the relation between surfaces, out of lines with specific pattern geometry scaled by an external distance factor. The analysis of surface divided in different sets of lines and point embedded with a specific geometry helps to understand a simple system of shapes and interactions between elements. The geometry starts becoming part of the shape and the shape is conditioned by open and close spaces of scaled patterns.
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Bibliografy AA Emergent Technologies and Design (M. Hensel, A. Menges, M. Weinstock) http://www.achimmenges.net/?p=5123 (Architecture Clasics) ClĂĄsicos de Arquitectura: Restaurante Los Manantiales / FĂŠlix Candela by Karina Duque 5 Julio, 2011 http://www.plataformaarquitectura.cl/cl/02-95859/clasicos-de-arquitectura-restaurante-losmanantiales-felix-candela Design Research Agenda by Achim Menges (ICD University of Stuggart, online) ICD/ITKE Research pavilion 2013-2014, by A. Menges, J, Knippers, Stuggart University, 2014 (online, http://www.achimmenges.net/?p=5713) ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion 2011, Stuttgart University, 2011 http://www.achimmenges.net/?s=honey Mar Adentro/Miguel Angel Aragones (Archdaily Online, 2016) <http://www.archdaily.com/787732/mar-adentro-miguel-angel-aragones/> -Mar Adentro/Resort (official website, 2017) http://www.maradentrocabos.com/ Mies van der Rhoe, cited in Curtis, architecture since 1900 Spotlight: Shigeru Ban by Jan Doroteo, 5 August, 2016 http://www.archdaily.com/792108/spotlight-shigeru-ban Theories of the digital in Architecture by Rivka Oxman and Robert Oxman (Routledge, London and New York, p.1-9.) Translated by the german by Philip Johnson. From Mies van der Rhoe. (Museum of modern Art. New York, 1947)
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