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PORTFOLIO YUQING SHI B.Arch. Harbin Institute of Technology 2012 - 2017 M.Arch. The University of Tokyo 2017 - 2019 Email: useko515@qq.com Tel: +86 15804608975 LinkedIn: YUQING, RACHEL SHI

SHI

YUQING

M.Arch student in the University of Tokyo

PROFILE Architectural master’s student, currently studying in G30 program in the University of Tokyo. Interested in architectural design, structure design, visual design and computational fabrication.

EXPERTISE Architecture design Concept design Visual and grapgic design

Photography and documentation Video editing Scheme planning

EXPERIENCE Internship | Sep.- Nov. 2016

Architectural Design and Research Institute of H.I.T.

Involved projects: - Design of Personnel Training Center in Changchun Finance College in Changchuan, China; Graphic design of hotel and campus planning.

Internship | Nov. 2016 - Mar. 2017

MAD Architects

Involved projects: - Paris Montparnasse Tower Competition: 3D modeling, 2D drawings, Photoshop, Illustrator and Renderings; - Nanjing Zendai Himalayas Center (Construction Phase): 3D modeling, 2D drawings, Photoshop, Landscaping and Renderings; - Quan Zhou Convention Center: 3D modeling, 2D drawings, and Landscaping.

Part-timer | Mar. 2018 - now

TeamLab

Visual Team Mainly in charge of 3D rendering by Maxwell

AWARDS First Prize

D3 Natural System competition

Honorable Mention

Evolo Skyscraper Competition

Excellent Work Award

AUTODESK_REVIT Cup National Sustainable Architectural Design Contest for College Students

Top 100 Candidate

New Architects of Asia in China

Outstanding Assignment Work Award

National Higher Education Teaching Plans Contest for Architectural Design Students

2015

2015

2014

EDUCATION Bachelor of Architecture | 2012-2017

Harbin Institute of Technology, China

- GPA: 91.35/100 - Ranking: 3/101 As an architectural student, I have lots of experience in architectural design and conceptual design, winning multiple international competition such as 2015 Evolo Skyscraper Competition, 2015 D3 Natural System Competition etc.

Exchange student | 2015-2016

National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan - GPA: 90.0/100

Master of Architecture | 2017-2019

The University of Tokyo, Japan

- Currently studying in G30 program of The Advanced Design Studies Program (T_ADS) at The University of Tokyo’s Department of Architecture. Mainly research on the integration of digital technologies in design and construction processes being used for expressing personal tendencies through the creation of new architectural practices as well as novel aesthetics.

TECH SKILLS Rhinoceros Grasshopper Sketchup Maxwell Rendering Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Adobe Premiere Pro Adobe After Effects Adobe InDesign

2014

CONTACT

2013

Email: useko515@qq.com Tel: +86 18004615086 LinkedIn: YUQING, RACHEL SHI

UPDATED IN APRIL 2018

THE SHALE NATIONAL CULTURAL CENTER AND THEATER IN YUELONG MOUNTAIN Pengyang County, Ningxia Autonomous Region, China

[ THEATER / ARCHITECTURE DESIGN ] INDIVIDUAL WORK Scale: 8600 square meters Year: Senior Time: March-July, 2016 Awards: Excellent works award of National Higher Learning Commission of China

Yuelong Mountain sits in a landscape which is formed gradually eroded by triburates of Yuelong River, exposing layer after layer of roke and shale. Located on the south side of the mountain, the site adjoins the government offices in north and scenetic river park in south with an altitude difference of 18m. Throughout the concept of the flow of people eroding different altitude ·of architecture volume, this project intends to provide easily accessible service of various cultural performances and public-available multi-function spaces both indoor and outdoor by creating interactive landscape volumes.

SITE PLAN

BACKGROUND

Pengyang County sits almost in the middle of China, where the altitude belongs to the second stage of China’s geography. Located in the middle part the hilly and gully region of Loess Plateau in Pengyang County, ,Yuelong Mountain belongs to loess hill landforms. The terrain has a feature of higher northwest altitude and lower southwest landforms. Pengyang County in Ningxia Autonomous Region was first established in 1983, and now entering a new circle of urban development, with our site as a cultural center and civic plaza serving nearby citizens.

The stratum of most of the piedmont regions is formed through the erosion of the loess and sedimentation from the transition of river to lake. Therefore, the landform of Pengyang County varies from erosional landform, tectonic denudation landform to erosional accumulation plain.

North-to-south section space order

CIRCULATION DESIGN

The circulation system

SECTION

The circulation of site

The circulation of the main volume

The circulation of subsidiary and multi-function building

SOUTH ELEVATION

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FLOOR PLANS down

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up up

down down

multi-function hall � Autodesk � � � � � � �

up

up

up

up

multi-function hall entrance lobby

up down

multi-function hall meeting room

women’s bathroom

meeting room

multi-function hall

men’s bathroom

down

down

VIP lounge

office

down

office office

men’s bathroom

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lounge

entrance hall

equipment entrance

Women’s bathroom

VIP lounge down

stage back hallway upper space

down down

women’s bathroom

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up

VIP lounge

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service lounge

office down

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office office

down

stage back hallway

Men’s bathroom

dressing room dressing room

dressing room

elevator

under the stage area

down

dressing room

up

fire control room

dressing room

stage

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dressing room

equipment entrance

down

side stage

side stage

down elevator

down

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dressing room

lounge upper space

entrance lobby upper space side stage upper space

up

down

up

up

entrance hall

up

orchetra pit upper space

hall entrance

down

tool storage

up

hall

down

down

hall upper space

side spotilght room

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up

orchetra pit down

down

stage upper space

down

down

up

hall entrance down

side stage upper space

stage upper space

side spotilght room

up

side spotilght room

side spotilght room

lounge upper space

lounge upper space

hall upper space

up

up up

small music hall down

up

equipment space

up

down

down

up

hall up

women’s bathroom

down

down

up men’s bathroom

up

down

down

up

up

dome

light control room

lounge upper space

sound control room

lounge

lounge upper space

men’s bathroom

women’s bathroom

exhibision hall lounge

down

Ground Floor Plan

STRUCTURE ANALYSIIS

4.700m Floor Plan

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AUDITORIUM STRUCTURE

MULTI-FUNCTION ROOM STRUCTURE

8.650m Floor Plan

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-3.300 m Floor Plan

MAIN STRUCTURE

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The main structural support is steel frame structure.

In order to support the inclined volume of lobby space, the overhang structure is achieved by bracket columns.

The whole outline of the auditorium is campaniform.

The balcony has 356 seats.

The number of the seats located on the first floor is 589.

The seats in orchestra situate in a 18 meters long and 7 meters wide orchestra pit.

Roofing adopts thin shell structure.

The stage roof also adopts truss-work structure.

The wall’s supporting structure adopts batter posts on the top of periphery beam.

The lobby is integrated with exhibition function and has four elevation: 0.000m; 3.500m; 7.500m; 12.500m

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Due to the long-span space characteristic of auditorium, it adopts trusswork structure.

On the south side is a batter wall whose upper side clings to the north, optimizing the sound environment of the multi-function room.

The main structural support is steel frame structure.

The overhang stage is supported by horizontal lenticular beam and vertical variable cross-section beam.

The whole outline of the auditorium is campaniform.

Columns are divided into two types including ones that directly support the roof and ones conveying beams’ weight to the ground.

In order to achieve perfect visual and audial performance, the ground of the floor is lifted gradually.

The lobby volume of mul-function rooms is indented to further emphasize the volume above.

The batter posts which support roof’s periphery beam directly sit on the ground

Utilizing altitude difference to create outdoor audience seats.

The stage and office spaces that locate in the northern part are intended to balance the inclined south-side lobby volume.

INTERIOR DESIGN ENTRANCE HALL INTERIOR

AUDITORIUM INTERIOR

dark emulsion paint for entrance overhang dark emulsion paint for entrance ceiling

down

wood texture GRG panels

metal mirror panel

down

Entrance hall

side stage

down

Half translucent synthetic resin board with LED inside

up down up

Second floor lounge

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS (PLAN)

ENTRANCE HALL INTERIOR MATERIALS Beige stone panel

men‘s restroom

Rosewood color furniture LED light bar

Wood texture Fire and sound proof door suspended ceiling Dark stonepanel Half translucent synthetic resin board with LED inside

Glass balustrade

ACOUSTIC ANALYSIS (SECTION)

VISUAL ANALYSIS

Wood texture suspended ceiling White GRG suspended ceiling Half translucent synthetic resin board with LED inside

absorption placed at the rear of the hall

performance area

depression angle of 20 degrees

reflectory front stage area panels

sound source

reflection compensation for balcony area

stall area acoustic reflection analysis balcony area acoustic reflection analysis

performance area

A reflectory front stage area provides strong early reflections while absorption is placed in seating area and rear of the hall.

direct acoustic wave for stall and balcony area

reflection compensation for back of the stall area

sound source

This provides proper level of acoustic gain and avoid recognizable echo. The reverberations of each frequency are approximately from 1.03s to 1.65s

depression angle of 19 degrees

elevation angle of 10 degrees

curtain line elevation angle of 45 degrees

depression angle of 7 degrees

This provides proper level of acoustic gain and avoid recognizable echo. The reverberations of each frequency are approximately from 1.03s to 1.65s

EAST ELEVATION

LOOP OF HILLS MEMORIAL SPACE DESIGN OF ZHAOJUN TOMB PARK Hohhot City, Inner Mongolia Province, China

[ EXHIBITION / ARCHITECTURE GRADUATE DESIGN ] INDIVIDUAL WORK Scale: 106.7 hectares Year: Senior Time: March-June, 2017 Awards: Excellent Graduate Design of School of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology

The design theme of the graduate program is Hohhot Zhaojun Tomb Park Design Research. Under this background, the theme of my graduate research and design based its motif on the measures used in memorial feature of the spiritual space in the religious architecture in Hohhot, and mainly attempts to apply those measures for site planning, architectural concept and structural design in the planning of Zhaojun Park and hope to first create a promoted Zhaojun Park, integrating the need of Hohhot city, the mingle of Han culture and Hu culture that existed concurrently in Hohhot, as well as the expected infrastructures for tourism.

URBAN BACKGROUND GEOGRAPHICAL BACKGROUND

URBAN LANDSCAPE ENVIRONMENT

THE ROAD OF HISTORY AND CULTURE

Sta te R oad

POPULATION DEVELOPMENT AND CITY TIMELINE

General Suiyuan City General’s Office

URBAN LANDSCAPE ENVIRONMENT

The North Mosque

The Great Mosque

Hohhot has a long history and splendid culture. It is one of the birthplaces of Chinese civilization, and also the frontier of the merging of nomadic civilization and agricultural civilization, as well as the forefront of culture communication and integration. In Qin period, King Zhao Wuling set its caputal here as Togtoh County in the southwest of Hohhot site. During the period of the Republic of Suiyuan Province, Mengyi after the merger, Hohhot became the capital of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

ZHAOJUN CULTURE IN HOHHOT Christian Church Five Pagoda Temple

URBAN CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT

Xi Li Tuzhao

Jokhang Temple Zhaojun Tomb

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For visitors who first come to Hohhot, Zhaojun Tomb is the door to the culture and history of Hohhot, and therefore, it is essential to further develop its cultural value .

ARCHITECTURE DESIGN LARGE SCALE SITE DESIGN

LARGE SCALE SITE PLAN

LARGE SCALE SITE DESIGN ANALYSIS

Architecture in Zhaojun Park is divided into historical and cultural center building in central area, and the historical and cultural center of the building and landscape are mainly unified as “the LOOP of mountain” approach of design.

SITE PLAN

Park Plaza’s planning is mainly based on the central axis. Walking to the north along the central axis, people pass through the service buildings to reach the historic centre of the Zhaojun Tomb Park.

ARCHITECTURE VOLUME GENERATION

The greening is divided into the entrance greening, the landscape into the park center for is the second greening ring, and then we will reach the core of the park landscape greening.

ARCHITECTURE DESIGN F1 FLOOR PLAN OF 0.00M ELEVATION

F2 FLOOR PLAN OF 5.500M ELEVATION

B1 AND B2 FLOOR PLAN

F2 FLOOR PLAN OF 4.200M ELEVATION

SECTION

ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STRUCTURE STUDY

EXHIBITION FUNCTION AND CIRCULATION

PLAN A PERSPECTIVE AND ASSESSMENT original curve / surface

PLAN B PERSPECTIVE AND ASSESSMENT

original curve / surface

original curve / surface vector to split surface

vector to split surface

vector to split surface

rib’s original curve rib’s original curve

generation of V-shaped steel groyne arch

PLAN C PERSPECTIVE AND ASSESSMENT

Main volume span and steel groyne arch section height

Main volume span and steel groyne arch section height

rib’s original curve

rib’s curve point extraction

generation of V-shaped steel groyne arch

Main volume span and steel groyne arch section height

rib’s curve point extraction

generation of X-shaped steel groyne arch

Due to the long span of the architecture, which in some places can reach up to 50 meters, I firstly considered several options of structures that might affect the indoor space perception of the architecture, and used parametric method for research.

SOUTHWEST FACADE

NORTHEAST FACADE

SOUTHEAST FACADE

NORTHWAST FACADE

ARCHITECTURE DESIGN 4.200M PLATFORM STRUCTURE ANALYSIS

5.500M PLATFORM STRUCTURE ANALYSIS

EXPLODED VIEW OF INTEGRATED STRUCTURE

The main detail design includes the structural design of the platform of 4.2m and 5.5m, as well as the detail joint design of the main intersection, double arch structure and the roof and glass curtain wall.

EXHIBITION SPACE

LOUNGE

WEST ENTRANCE

AIR MONUMENT ATMOSPHERE BACKGROUND DATEBASE

[ SKYSCRAPER / CONCEPT DESIGN ] GROUP WORK (main concept, modeling, and diagram) Year: Junior Time: February, 2015 Collaborator: Yifei Hu, Zifeng Sheng, Juntong Zhang, Yanan He Awards: HONORABLE MENTION, EVOLO, 2015 http://www.evolo.us/category/2015/

Nowadays, there is growing problem in global climate. Studies on atmosphere components provide possibilities for people to learn the law of climate changing. However, detected datum don’t include all the components of the atmosphere. We hope Air Monument is capable of getting atmosphere samples automatically throughout or even beyond human civilization, and store the samples with self-functioning system. With time passing, the building will become a library to study atmosphere components changing with the most resources. In the meantime, future techniques will allow more thoroughly studying atmosphere, providing better ways to respond to climate change.

BACKGROUND

The significance of atmosphere components study

Air samples are more important than datum

Caution of scientific management

Since the industrial revolution, global atmosphere has changed observably, leading to problems like global warming, ozone depletion, and so on, which put huge threat to human development. Therefore, the observation and study of atmosphere components is quite important. Carrying on long-term steady observation of atmosphere components and its relevant qualities is essential for learning atmosphere components and its changing process.

There is limited datum from detecting existing air samples. And there is possibility that some unknown substances make much difference during climate changing process but could not be detected for now.

Therefore, air samples are the most comprehensive data resources. Today’s scientific researches often need early air samples. Modern advanced techniques also helped discover atmosphere component like hydro fluorocarbon, which were not paid attention to before.

Human behaviors have large impacts on atmosphere components and global climate change. In the 21st century, even if governments and scientific institutes have shown growing concern on environmental problems, without public consciousness of protecting the environment, it’s still not so optimistic of improving atmosphere pollution. There is reason that scientific approaches of improving the environment is too far away from everyday life. Thus, to show scientific work to the public in a better way, is essential to alarm them.

CONCEPT

In the process of atmosphere research, compared with insufficient data collection from current tests, direct air sampling owns more significance over the aspect of a comprehensive research on the existing circumstance.

With the passage of time, the collection of air samples will increasingly gain significance, benefiting human being in the future.

Air Monument will store the air samples in chronological order, in resemblance with document files, constituting a huge atmosphere data base.

The main volume floats high above human activity zone, with wind power generation and pneumatic structure, supporting its self-function, so that Air Monument will survive any disasters and exist far beyond human civilization.

Thousands of years later, when filled with air samples, Air Monument will finish its mission on collection and the stored air sample will benefit further research on the influence that the atmosphere has had upon human civilization.

DETAIL DESIGN

Suspension devices: The suspension devices are provided by the gasbags inside the circle, filled with helium which is lighter than air, to get enough buoyancy to float.

Auto-run devices: The outer skin is divided into two layers. Through the aerodynamic-formed design of the inner groove, high-altitude wind is led into of the vertical axis wind turbine inside the circle. Auto-run devices guarantee the skyscraper could still function even when human beings are extinct, until the air samples are abundantly collected.

Storage devices: The storage of atmosphere samples involves non-light, steady temperature, steady pressure and other relevant environmental conditions.

The storage devices are arranged in chronological order. The air gathering jar is connected by silica gel airway tube and sampling devices, for atmosphere sampling use. According to different atmosphere sampling requirements, there are atmosphere components jar and atmospheric particle jar.

Sampling devices: According to the air assessment from each part of the circle, the atmosphere sampling devices will choose the optimized sampling site. The assessment structure consists of concentration meter, anemoscope, etc. The collecting component includes getter pump and vacuum pump, delivering samples through vacuum pipeline to each storage device which represent a certain time.

THE ROOT

BATTLES AGAINST FLOOD AND LAND EROSION Soil fixation and the restoration of living land in Barisal River, Bangladesh

[ RENOVATION / CONCEPT DESIGN ] GROUP WORK (main concept, modeling, and diagram) Year: Junior Time: Feburary, 2015 Collaborator: Yifei Hu, Zhibin Li, Zongmin Li, Yan Li Awards: FIRST PRIZE, D3 NATURAL SYSTEM, 2015 http://www.d3space.org/competitions/

Growingly aggravating abnormal climate phenomenon and various factors have been eroding precious land of Bangladesh, forcing climate refugees to flee from their own home. This project utilizes the theory of the configuration characteristic and physiological function of natural root system in soil-fixation and hopes to realize its goal by bio-mimic root system with original strong anchoring force and shear resistance of its natural system, thus providing climate refugees with floatable comprehensive infrastructures, all of which are designed to be easily built by local residents.

CURRENT SITUATION IN BANGLADESH

As the abnormal climate phenomenon growingly aggravates, alongside with severe deforestation, frequent invasion of flood and rising sea level have been eroding precious land of Bangladesh, forcing a great number of climate refugees to flee from their own home. As flood often comes quietly at night, poor civilians who live right next to flowing water have developed the habit of packing their requisites into an emergency package right next to their bed for immediate escape, and as a result, they are forced to move every year. Also, with each flood invasion, the waterline merges the cultivated land, and as is often the case, due to insufficient drainability of the land, as long as the field is flooded once, it will be unable to cultivate for several years.

BIOMIMIC

This project utilizes the theory of the configuration characteristic and physiological function of natural root system in soil-fixation and hopes to realize its goal by biomimic root system with original strong anchoring force and shear resistance of its natural system.

In aligence with the phsical root system, we provide micro-bio soil fixation system to further solidate soil.

SOIL STRUCTURE WITH BIOMIMIC ROOT SYSTEM

Hydraulic pressure palification

Utilizing the hydraulic pressure drill to facilitate the palification process.

Biomimic “root” system has a shorter construction period compared with actual plants.

Hydraulic pressure palification

By dispersing the micro-bot in actinoid directions and routes that lead pipes that will be the bases to forster microbes to solidate the soil.

Micro-bio soil fixation

SOIL STRUCTURE WITH BIOMIMIC ROOT SYSTEM

FLOATATION MACHANIZM

BEFORE FLOOD

DURING FLOOD In the meanwhile, this project provide climate refugees with a floatable comprehensive infrastructure that include basic living units, dock, instant-assemble road panels, farmland units etc., all of which are designed to be easily built by local residents. In times of flood, the whole community will float with wasted water barrel, saving residents’ lives as well as its livelihood, the farmland.

The tube contains the culture medium of heavy-metal ions’ solidification microbe to solidate soils.

Biomimic root system finish its palification in a very short time cycle.

The whole infrustructure floats alongside the flood through the floatation structure formed with waste water barrels.

UNIT STRUCTURE The roof utilizes local Makoko technology and roofage consists mostly of straw that can be found locally.

Structural support is the combination of lightweight steel and wood, minimizing weight load of the flotation layer beneath.

FUNCTION LAYER

For the floor, wood is not only used tu form lattice structure, but also used in the flooring.

Flotation layer mainly reuses water tanks to form boyant structure.

Each boyant tank is mutually connected by rope and between them is the support structure which also reinforces the severity of the whole flotation system.

FLOTATION LAYER

The perpendicular foundation entrench itself deep into the ground.

At the tip of the perpendicular structure, is the drill structure containing pipe system, pully structure and micro-bot launching space.

ROOT LAYER

This project provide climate refugees with a floatable comprehensive infrastructure that include basic living units, dock, instant-assemble road panels, farmland units etc., all of which are designed to be easily built by local residents. In times of flood, the whole community will float with wasted water barrel structure, saving residents’ lives as well as its livelihood, the farmland.

UNIT STRUCTURE

Equipped with alterable table-flap,the commercial unit can transform into a temporary dockyard when flood intrudes,which is able to provide waterborne traffic to local residents .

These undefined platforms can transform for use as temporary aid stations where casualties can stay safely with foods ,water ,health care and accommodation.

In order to protect trees that can’t be removed from waterlogging, we use this unit to provide contact with fresh air with four extendable fences holding back water .

THE BARRACK REBIRTH

HISTORIC COMMUNITY PROTECTION AND RENOVATION Cultural and historic center based on the current inhabitance o f senior citizens, Harbin, China

[ RENOVATION / ARCHITECTURE DESIGN ] GROUP WORK (main concept, modeling, and diagram) Year: Junior Scale: 3000 square meters Time: 2014 Collaborator: Yifei Hu, Wenjun Yu, Yan Li Awards: HONORABLE MENTION, AUTODESK REVIT SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION, 2015

SKELETON BRIDGE DIGITAL BALANCING WORKSHOP Design Fabrication Studio workshop towards Digital Fabrication Lab Pavilion 2018

[ MASTER’S RESEARCH WORKSHOP / SYSTEM DESIGN ] T_ADS, the University of Tokyo Obuchi Lab

INDIVIDUAL WORK Scale: 700MM * 700MM * 700MM Time: February, 2018

Curent 3D-printing technologies continue to emphasize novel form-finding techniques and machine centered precise construction process, failing to adequately critique the process of human who are involved in making process.This project will showcase an alternative vision of “Printing the world.” A radically different view of the 3D-printing process that utilizes new technologies to augment, rather than replace, human labor and intuition in the construction process will be displayed.

/ GEOMRTRY / // STRUCTURE UNIT RESEARCH

Fig. 4 A unit that consists of two compressive components: a triangle and a rod in the center; and tensile strings in between.

Fig. 5 A unit that consists of two triangle compressive components, and forms a triangle prism. Firm in vertical direction, but unstable in horizontal direction.

In tensegrity structure, the unit design is rather crucial for a feasible structure. In this process, I experimented on several unit form and found out that for a triangle based unit, the following component shown in Fig.7 has the highest structural performance.

// GEOMETRY SCRIPTS

Input Parameters: - Module numbers - Base curve - Triangle size - Graph mapper adjustments

Base support module

Regular support modules

Front view of skeleton bridge Output Components: - Compressive components' position and angle - Compressive components' length - Tensile components

Side view of skeleton bridge

Fig. 11 Perspective view of skeleton bridge geometry Fig. 6 This is a unit composed of 6 compressive triangles conponents but not very applicable for further development.

The shapes of tensegrity icosahedra depends on the ratio between the lengths of the tendons and the struts.

Fig. 7 Different shapes of tensegrity icosahedra

Top view of skeleton bridge Fig. 15 Three views of skeleton bridge

Fig. 12 The initial parameter of the geometry include module number, base curve and the size of the triangle. And the curve can be of any form, which makes it possible to use the reconstructed curves for regeneration of geometry.

Also, the scale of the module can be controlled by graph mapper.

Fig. 16 Due to the nature that lower a module is, more weightwould be loaded onto it, the bottomn modules should be stronger and larger than top ones.

According to this feature of the structure, I used graph mapper to adjust the scale so that the geometry would have higher performance in structure.

Fig. 13 The base support module is the first to be constructed and differs from general modules which are costructed by connecting middle points and vertexs.

Fig. 17 Graph mapper adjustments - pattern 1: same scale size through the curve.

Fig. 14 The export components are piped compressive units, their length and tensive strings that connects them.

Fig. 18 Graph mapper adjustments - pattern 3: wider bottom module scales.

// UNIT CONPONENTS Top View

Side View

Parallel View

Fig. 8 This is a module of right helix tensegrity unit.

It rotates to stay stable.

Top View

Side View

Parallel View

Top View

Side View

Parallel View

Fig. 9 For the general modules which are other than the base module, the compression units are connected from the middle point of bottom triangle.

Fig. 10 For the base module, the compression units are connected from the vertex of bottom triangle.

/ MATERIAL AND TOOLS /

/ WORKFLOW / CONSTRUCTION

OPTIMIZATION

FEEDBACK

grasshopper analysis

POSITION

vive tracker guide

Fig. 19 Compressive material: wood chopsticks with PLA twined ends.

vive tracker bake

CONSTRUCTION LAYER n 3D pen printing

gain GEOMETRY CENTER

keep the geometry center of the end of unit as close to target arc as possible

UNIT ANGLE keep if the geometry center as close to target arc as possible

grasshopper output

New position and angle of the component in LAYER n+1

CURVATURE the curvature of the line that composes of geometry centers should be continuous

Fig. 20 Tensile material PLA and 3D print pen.

According to the nature o`f "Tension + Integrity = Tensegrity", materials for this project are chosen as wood chopsticks ad which has high compressive resisting performances and 3D printed PLA strings that has tensile features.

Fig. 23 This chart shows the workflow of building the tensegrity structure and presents three rules for optimization.

/ OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM / // FEEDBACK SCRIPTS

Geometry scanning: baking the bottom points of each layer to define its geometry center

lighthouse

Fig. 21 Vive tracker for guiding and scanning system geometry center vive tracker

Optimization: regenerate a new guiding geometry

grasshopper monitor

Fig. 24 The script enables vive tracker to locate a certain point in the geometry and bake it in Rhino.

new layer

3D pen

comparison of old target geometry and new target geometry after scanning

Construction: draw a new layer of the geometry using 3D pen

target geometry

Fig. 22 Working space with two lighthouses, guiding and scanning vive tracker tool, caliberation tool and feedback system in grasshopper. Also showing the first layer of construction.

Fig. 25 When the tip of scanning device gets close to target point, it gives back a feedback by making beeping sound.

Fig. 26 The loop of actual work flow, including construction, scan, feedback and optimization.

/ ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION PROCESS / // CONSTRUCTION

// OPTIMIZATION CONSTRUCTION

OPTIMIZATION

// FEEDBACK

FEEDBACK

CONSTRUCTION

OPTIMIZATION

grasshopper analysis

POSITION

vive tracker guide vive tracker bake

CONSTRUCTION LAYER n 3D pen printing

gain GEOMETRY CENTER

keep the geometry center of the end of unit as close to target arc as possible

UNIT ANGLE keep if the geometry center as close to target arc as possible

grasshopper output

vive tracker bake

CONSTRUCTION LAYER n

LAYER n+1

3D pen printing

gain GEOMETRY CENTER

the curvature of the line that composes of geometry centers should be continuous

Fig. 28 The bases are at first fixed by glue gun.

Vive tracker tool guided geometry positioning and 3D pen construction.

Fig. 29 Construction of the first layer.

OPTIMIZATION

UNIT ANGLE

vive tracker bake

New position and angle of the component in LAYER n+1

CONSTRUCTION LAYER n 3D pen printing

Fig. 30 After first layer of construction, using vive tool for baking.

// RESULT

gain GEOMETRY CENTER

keep the geometry center of the end of unit as close to target arc as possible

UNIT ANGLE keep if the geometry center as close to target arc as possible

grasshopper output

New position and angle of the component in LAYER n+1

CURVATURE

CURVATURE

the curvature of the line that composes of geometry centers should be continuous

the curvature of the line that composes of geometry centers should be continuous

Fig. 31 Gain geometry center using the three baked points.

POSITION

vive tracker guide

grasshopper output

keep the geometry center of the end of unit as close to target arc as possible

keep if the geometry center as close to target arc as possible

FEEDBACK

grasshopper analysis

POSITION

vive tracker guide

New position and angle of the component in

CURVATURE

Fig. 27 Using vive tracker tool to guide each point of the structure.

CONSTRUCTION

FEEDBACK

grasshopper analysis

Fig. 32 Determining the new position of the new module.

After using the vive tracker tool to scan the new geometry, the script automatically generate its geometry center for analysis

// OPTIMIZATION DURING CONSTRUCTION

Fig. 33 Screen monitor of positioning new layer's module.

After the optimization by analysing the geometry center of the target unit, it generates a` new geometry to achieve target geometry and structure.

In optimization process, I used interpolate curve to connect the geometry center of first layer scan points and the rest 9 layers' geometry center in order to generate a new base curve, then generate a new target geometry.

Fig. 34 The comparison of target geometry and newly generated geometry from scanned first layer construction.

// DEVIATION ANALYSIS The possible causes of outcome deviation are as follows: 1. The accuracy of Vive tracker tools and lighthouses are influenced by human movements and lights; 2. Human errors causes components to move slightly after positioning; 3. When constructed with 3D pen, the PLA needs to intertwine in order to stick to compressive components and also to each other, which causes the components to move and deviate; 4. The frangibility of tensile material PLA increase the difficulty to construction accuracy.

Fig. 35 Top view comparison.

Fig. 36 Side view comparison.

// CONCLUSION Through construction, optimization and feedback process, we can know the following things: 1. The final outcome, although deviates from original target geometry slightly, has hit the target of a self standing tensegrity arch; 2. The workflow of construction – optimization – feedback and new construction is feasible; 3. Vive tracker tools have small deviations which are around 1~5cm according to the environment condition, so there would be smaller deviation when applied to a larger scale construction.

Fig. 37 Perspective view comparison.

Fig. 38 Comparison of target geometry and each layer’s construction

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