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Digital Design - Module 01 Semester 1, 2018 Jiahong Huang (900513) Samuel Lalo Studio 12

Week One

Reading: Zeara Polo, A. 2010. Between Ideas and Matters.

According to Zeara-Polo, the diagram does not play a representational role in the design process but provides an organisational and can have a performative quality depending on how it is deployed. Explain how Diagram is different from Signs and Symbols? (100 words Maximum)

As described by Zeara Polo, diagrams do not transfer a kind of specific meaning from an item, which means that diagram is more like a broad tool that organize each piece of information and structure behind, like a picture that combines many items in one but tries to tell a story, an emotion or sensation. Unlike icon which represents a kind of stuffs and symbol that transferring a special meaning, diagram plays different role that presents more and transfers more, but also make them organically work together.

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Week One

Precedent Analysis

Left. Image of SANAA Serpentine pavillion.

Top. Tracing from plan.

Right. Adjust the shape and height of roof and columns.

Bottom. Rhino model of the Pavillion.

1. Searching information online to get understanding of the pavilion.

2. Defining the position of each element of the pavilion and trace them from images provided.

3. Adjusting the height of the pavilion and extrude the them.

4. Making each curve a surface or solid.

Resource: Heathcote, Edwin, Serpentine Pavilions: best and worst, 2016, Iconeye, https://www.iconeye.com/opinion/comment/item/12480-serpentine-pavilions-the-bestand-worst

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Week Two

Reading: Hertzberger H. 2005. The in-between and The Habitable Space Between Things, from Lessons for Students in Architecture.

Herzberger discuss how design should not be extreme in its functionality. Use your precedent study to explain how the pavilion allows for an appropriation of use. (100 words Maximum)

According to Herman Herzeberger’s expression, a place should not be restricted by its functionality, a threshold is needed for transition between two spaces or even make them as one. The SANAA Serpentine Pavilion is a good example for which it makes the boundary of space indistinct, such as the completely opened structure obscures the edge of nature and an architecture, the pavilion itself can be used as a path or like a usual architecture, and the interaction of pavilion and the park make the space continuous.

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Week Two

Isometric

Isometric of SANAA Serpentine Pavilion The structure of is pavilion is simple, several thin columns on the floor support the roof, make the pavilion an open structure. Two pieces of transparent patterns make part of the space partly enclosed.

The pavilion is set in a park in front of a building, is the connection between the building and the park as a threshold.

It connects to the entrance of the park and together with the entrance, it is the threshold of the park. People can randomly access these two spaces by any way, as if they are in one that the pavilion is a part of the nature and nature made up the pavilion, which caused by the open structure, so that the nature and entrance is the entrance of the pavilion.

In the pavilion, people can access everywhere within it. Seats and tables are randomly placed, no structure stop people’s feet from walking in, only some gravels guide people to more appropriate positions. The partly enclosed spaces made by transparent patterns provide a windshield and protected environment but no break the nature.

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Week Two Diagrams

Cirlulation

Threshold (permeability)

1. Structure columns at top define the position of roof and the circulation space.

Columns and roof in the middle and at top tell main part of the pavilion, but due to it is incompletely overlapping with the base of pavilion, the threshold is uncertain and can be infinite expanded.

2. Primary circulation space in the middle shows where people may be and the population density.

3. Circulations at the bottom represent routes that people may move along and where people cannot walk.

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Appendix

Process in Rhino

Trace shape of pavilion from plan

Build translusent wall

Build columns

Allocate position of columns

Set height of each column

Build surface of floor

Adjust the height of top and rebuild

Adjust the roof surface and scale it Build the surface of roof

Set all surface in group

Make 2D and export to Illustrator

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Appendix

Process of main diagram

Change the lineweight of diagrams and arrange them

Colour the diagrams to show property

Add detail in diagrames

Complete the whole diagram

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Appendix

Process of diagram of circulation

Draw circulation

Adjust circulation and details

Arrange the order of different layers of circulation

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Appendix

Process of diagram of threshold

Set layers of diagram for threshold

Allocate structure to show threshold

Draw the threshold

SANAA - Serpentine Pavilion 2009 Isometric 1:80

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4800mm

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Structure

Primary Circulation Space & density of population

Structure

Threshold on site

Circulation paths

Circulation 1:200

Thresholds (Permeability) 1:200

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Bibliography Heathcote, Edwin, Serpentine Pavilions: best and worst, 2016, Iconeye. Accessed March 12, 2018. https://www.iconeye.com/opinion/comment/item/12480serpentine-pavilions-the-best-and-worst

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