STUDIO AIR 2016, SEMESTER 2, TUTORS Manuel #8 Wanqing Li
Content Introduction p4 p5 A Conceptualisation A.1 Design Futuring Strata Tower
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Stepped Garden Tops House p8-9
A.2 Design Computation Bird’s Nest
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Tori tori japanese restaurant
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A.3 Composition& Generation Guangzhou Opera House
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As Autumn Leaves
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A.4 Conlusions
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A.5 Outcomes
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A.6 Appendix - Algorithmic Sketches p18 References
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Introduction
My name is Wanqing Li and Joy is my english name. I am currently in second year of architecture major. I came from North east of China, this is my fourth year in Melbourne. In my view, architecture is an interesting major, architects may change the world and change the future by designing. In my past study in architecture major, I found design something can be really interesting. Every time we start from a simple idea, and develop that to a real model, that always give me a sense of achievement. Sometimes we work in group, ideas collides together to make a new idea. And we can lean from each other as well. Besides, I lean about how others develop their design as well. Which really help me on how to thinking. Last semester, I leant digital design and fabrication. We are in group of three making a sleeping pod together. After few meetings, we generate our ideation design, and make a weable, inflatable, comfatable sleeping pod. Which can keep personal space as well. Actually, the model we fabricated at last are not exactally the same with our original design. It had been develop several times, after many experiment on materials and how to inflate, that finished finally. We were proud of ourselves. FIG.1: INFLATABLE SLEEPING POD
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FIG.2: INTERIOR SIDE OF SLEEPING POD
FIG.3: BACK VIEW OF SLEEPING POD
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The Strata Tower is a forty-story, luxury residential building, completed by 2013 in Abu Dhabi. At a height of 160 meters, the Strata Tower are the tallest building in the Al Dana precinct.
A.1 DESIGN FUTURING Strata Tower
The architectural apperance is the result of a strategy of simultaneous twisting and tapering the geometry that constitutes the tower form and gestural aspects.
Al Raha Beach, Abu Dhabi, UAE Our world are being destruction rapidly during human develop their countries. Many aspect of our environment are being recession. We human beings have reached a critical moment in our existence. Thus, it is essential for architecture to think about how to design our future. ‘The ‘state of the world‘ and the state of design need to be brought together.’
Strata Tower have a large skylights set into an articulated roofs capes of the base producing an architectural composition that provides a compelling dune. Natural light filled the interior environment for housing an array of lounges, spas and interior pools. Which can saving electricity make the architecture sustainable. FIG 6 STRATA TOWER
Abu Dhabi’s surrounding desert and sea, embracing and reflecting the everchanging light and atmospheres that enfold and contain it. Gives a nice view of desert and sea, attract more visitors come and visit here. Consequently, stimulating economic development.
FIG 4 TOP OF STRATA TOWER
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FIG 7 STRATA TOWER FIG.5 STRATA TOWER DESIGNED BY ASYMPTOTE ARCHITECTURE
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FIG.10 SECTION OF STEPPED GARDEN TOPS HOUSE
FIG. 8 STEPPED GARDEN TOPS HOUSE FIG. 11 ELEVATION
Stepped Garden Tops House in Nha Trang by Vo Trang Nghia and Masaaki Iwamoto In recent years, density of population in the world are rapidly increasing. Thus, average living space are decreacing. In coastal of Vietnam, a stepped garden tops house has been designed. The lack of extra space on the site led the architects to create a roof garden on the building, featuring a large assortment of trees, plants and flowers. (5) The garden roof house also contains a series of small planted courtyards, helping to bring in extra daylight, and creating a visual connection between the interior and the roof garden above. (5) The garden roof not contain only beauty of vegetation, but also shows sustainability and flaxibility in the use of space on the roof. Gives great users experences for the residents. FIG.9 COURTYARD FIG.12 ELEVATION 8
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A.2 DESIGN COMPUTATION
Due to the stadium was built for the Olympic, many aspects have to be thoughtful. Getting every audience close enough to clearly watch the game. Creating a good atmosphere and designing an elegant building. To achieve the optimum design, designers widely used parametric design software. That helps them try different variation of design digitally, calculate the capacity of this architecture and can solve out sightlines,bowl geometry. Computing the pattern not only design the pattern. Which can be a more efficient way to design and solve problems on design.
BIRD’S NEST, CHINA Beijing National Stadium also known as The Bird’s Nest’ are located at the south of the centrepiece Olympic Green, Beijing. It is a landmark architecture built for 2008 Olympic Game. The Steel structure of bird’s nest was designed by Herzog & De Meuron Architekten, Arup Sport and the China Architecture Design and Research Group.
FIG.15 RHINO MODEL OF BIR’S NEST
The circular shape represents heaven, and was descibed as nest as well. A series of cantilivered trusses has been designed to support the roof and shading the seats. FIG.13 BEIJING NATIONAL STADIUM
Computing design are interwovenness for architectural design. ‘Architectual design is deals, in equal measures, with externally imposed constraints, such as site conditions, climate, function, cost, building codes, and so forth. And internally drawn inspiratiopns.‘ Thus, architectural needs to consider alot in their design, both analysis and creation. In this situation, computing can be really helpful on design. Which is quick, never make mistakes. Computing design will make design more raional and usable. FIG.14 DETILE OF THE BIRD’S NEST STRUCTURE
FIG 16 BIR’S NEST STADIUM
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TORI TORI JAPANESE RESTAURANT POLENCO, MEXICO
Digital design and fabricate by high technology will be the future of construction industries. (Design digitally not only save time, but also inspire designers. Sometimes, you will get something different when you doing computation design.) ‘Parametric design as a facility for the control of topological relationships enables the creation and modulation o f the differentiation of the elements of a design.’ It have the ability to create fantastic shapes give designers inspiration. Although Computing design can helps to simplyfy the designing process. However, we still need to make decisions by human brain. combination of human design and computation design can get the best results.
FIG.19 DETAIL OF THE MESH
FIG. 17 TORI TORI JAPANESE RESTAURANT
Tori Tori Japanese Restaurant located in Mexico are designed by architect: Rojkind Arquitectos. The facade for the restaurant employ parametric variation to create a shifting play of light and shadow. The apperance shape like mesh waves. Gives a feeling of fluent and comfortable. Design computation play a significant role on the design of this building. ‘Designers developed the geometry for the two layers of diagrid through a custom computational approach.’
FIG.18 ELAVATION OF TORI TORI RESTARANT
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FIG 20 PATTERN OF DESIGN
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A.3 COMPOSITION/GENERATION
A balanced composition feels right. It feels stable and aesthetically pleasing. By Steven Bradley As Autumn Leaves Beijing, China Generation Design is a kind of design by combinate some simple pattern becomes an elaborate design. Generation by coputational design may have many kinds of variety of possibility combinations. Even you made a mistake on the design, or you changed your plan on somewhere, which is easily to go back and fix the problem. However, sometimes generative design can be hard to accomplish in hand drawing design or physical model. Computational design and fabrication will be a helpful tool to achieve this kind of design.
FIG. 21 GUANGHOU OPERA HOUSE
GUANGZHOU OPERA HOUSE IN GUANGZHOU, CHINA
ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS
Here is a good example of generative design. As Autumn Leaves (AAL) is a spatial installation designed by students of LCD:Laboratory for Computational Design for Beijing Design Week 2013. Located in a historic hutong district in Beijing, This design highlights the existing entrance to Dashilar Factory where emerging creatives exhibit their design.
Architectures and designers mainly design by sketching their ideas or making phisical models for ages. In recent years, computational design and generative design becomes commonly used in the field of design. No matter using which kind of method, the purpose is showing a good outcome of their ideas. Generative design can be a more efficient way to solve problems in many aspects, which allow architecture considered the problem of surrounding environment, structural, spatial. However, shortcomes of generative designs do exists. Computational design cannot be totally learnt by every designers. Which requires quite a lot knowledges. Otherwise, that can takes long times to design. Guangzhou Opera House located in Beijing, China was designed by Zaha Hadid Architects. The Achitectures generative design by parametric model, and fix the appearance of the architecture, structure and details design. Using software to rendering the model gives a direct feels of the building. Generation design gives architecture convinient. 14
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FIG. 23 AS AUTUMN LEAVES MODEL IN BEIJING CHINA
FIG.24 DESIGN MODEL ON SITE
Designers start from geometric patterns and related them to the natural elements. AAL used parametric design tools makes that a variable and locate components for ease of assembly. Designers were digitally fabricated those individual components (leaves) using laser cut acrylic and pre-assembled into groups, then aggregated on site. Using computational design can easily transform, variable the combination digitally. Makes the design more perceptual intuition ,can be change anytime. Fig.22 Elevation Of Guanghou Opera house
FIG 25 AS AUTUM LEAVES
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A.4 CONCLUSION
A.5 OUTCOMES
In the first two week studies, I found that our world are being destruction rapidly during human developing. Many aspect of our environment are being recession, so we need to consider how we designing the future. Computational design and industry fabrication are no doubt bring architecture design to a new generation. Designers not only confined to express ideas, but innovation and develop by computational design. It gives us great convenience. In the Part A study, I was start to understand how parametric design work on architecture design approach. And its advantages and short comes. I intend to generate computational design, improve my design quality make it looks more fluid and professional.
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In my first three week of study, I leant a lot on computational design. And I understand computational design is not only a tool helps me make digital model, but also can helps me to develop my thinking of design. It can always give me variety possibility of design. At first I think computational design is a waste of time, we need to take time to lean and familiar with how to use, it is hard to operate. It’s not like direct sketch manually or make a physical model intuitive and convenient. Through the air studio study, and learning softwares, I found computational architecture design is not only convenient, but also gives me inspiration in design process, change the simple geometric pattern into a threedimensional model, then the deformation, can transform to a variety of design. In my design last semester in earth studio, we designed a pavilion on an island to hide secret. Due to my digital design skills were limited at that moment, my design conception was limited as well. I can only consider some easy design with simple materials and easier to make. After this part of the study, I think computational design and parametric design can make my work look more novel with a better quality.
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A.6 APPENDIX - ALGORITHMIC SKETCHES
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