EOI II

STUDIO AIR_SM 1

EOI II: DESIGN APPROACH GEOMETRY STUDENT: WILL QIAN- 531514

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TUTORS: MIKE & ZAC

PART B. EOI II: DESIGN APPROACH CONTENTS B.1. Design Focus p. 4 B.2. Case Study 1.0 p.5-11

B.3. Case Study 2.0 p.12-25

B.4. Technique: Development p. 26-31

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B.5. Technique: Prototypes p. 32-39

B.6. Technique Proposal p. 40- 41

B.7. Algorithmic Sketches p. 42- 45 B.8. Learning Objectives and Outcomes p. 46

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B.1. DESIGN FOCUS

. architecture as consumption, production and thus a field of visual culture. . explored the way architecture is a philosophical, social and professional realm. . explored architecture as cultural investment. . Potential to minimize material waste, while maximizing physical space. . Expose/ externalize the structure within the exterior envelope. . Create interesting and innovative forms and patterns from simple geometries. . Ease in fabrication.

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B.2. Case Study 1.0

VoltaDom Skylar Tibbets

-Uses geometry and parametric design to orientate views and lighting.

-Allows maximum space.

-Ease of fabrication and assembly, whilst also providing an artistic sculpture.

-Different experience of the external vs the internal.

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B.2. Case Study 1.0

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Parametric exploration

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B.2. Case Study 1.0

D O M E S P O L Y G O N S

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Matrix Domes: I used the parametric of the Voltadom as the primary standard. And I tested it by using the duplicated domes with different width, heights and shapes. Domes seem to be good to reflect the lights and have good presentation. However, domes are difficult to constructed steady.

Polygons: then I used polygon components instead of domes. They were kindly more stable than domes. In addition, they are better in representing the speeds with the linear borders.

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B.2. Case Study 1.0 CONES

SPHERES

CYLINDERS

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Cones are similar to domes, but with sealed tops, which probably solve the problem caused by the unstable structure of voltadom.

Spheres are great to be used to express the speed by the half of it becoming sharper and sharper, and they look like drops from plan view, the transformation of them are kindly express the acceleration.

The cylinders are transformed from circles to triangles, which also express the convertion between complexity and simple.

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B.3. Case Study 2.0

Canton Tower Architect: IBA: Mark Hemel & Barbara Kuit Structural engineer: Arup

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Learning Outcomes

- Structure is exposed on the external envelope.

- Structure is defined by a twist in the building, used parametric design to generate.

- Purposely designed to attract international visitors and be the city’s new icon.

- producing cultural capitol and becoming a cultural investment to the area.

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B.3. Case Study 2.0

STRUCTURAL CONCEPT

The tower was designed by Information Based Architecture and Arup. The Arup team led by structural engineer Prof. Dr. Joop Paul introduced near mass customisation to the joint design, in combination with parametric design methods, and applied a simple structural concept of three elements: columns, rings and braces, to this more complex geometry.

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THE TWIST

The form, volume and structure of the towers is generated by two ellipses, one at foundation level and the other at a horizontal plane at 450 m (1,480 ft). These two ellipses are rotated relative to another. The tightening caused by the rotation between the two ellipses forms a “waist� and a densification of material halfway up the tower. This means that the lattice structure, which at the bottom of the tower is porous and spacious, becomes denser at waist level.

The waist itself becomes tight, like a twisted rope; transparency is reduced and views to the outside are limited. Further up the tower the lattice opens again, accentuated here by the tapering of the structural columntubes.

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B.3. Case Study 2.0

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Parametric exploration

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B.3. Case Study 2.0

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Rendering

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B.3. Case Study 2.0

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LIGHTING TESTS We considered about using the Canton Tower twisted structure to design a twisted tunnel for the Wyndham project. We also learned how to minimise the materials by its structure. And we made the prototype of this kind of tunnel. Meanwhile, we did some lighting tests to see how the geometry shapes on the tunnel will perform the shadows at night.

The issue was that the prototype was not quite good to describe the topic of geometry.

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B.4. Technique: Development

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Parametric exploration

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B.4. Technique: Development

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B.5. Technique: Prototypes

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B.5. Technique: Prototypes

The bottom parts of the structure are supposed to be embedded into the earth to firm the whole tunnel.

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-The triangle express the dirction from Geelong to Melbourne.

-The tunnel is designed also with a twisted shape which is similar to the case study 2- Canton tower.

-Triangular shape is chosen for minimizing the usage of the materials.

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B.5. Technique: Prototypes

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Physical Modeling

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B.5. Technique: Prototypes

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Innovation

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B.6. Technique Proposal Feedbacks from tutors:

-Why did we make a tunnel to express architecture as a consumption, production and thus a field of visual culture?

- Does the tunnel explain the culture or the topic of GEOMETRY accurately?

- There are massive numbers of built tunnels in the country. Would a tunnel effectively describe the local particular elements?

Apparently, the tunnel is much more like a surface rather than a kind of geometry, though it contains some sort of geomterical components.

- Why not bulid anything else rather than building a tunnel? How about designing an arch? And it would be more effective to descirbe the geometry and reduce the material usage.

- Also, there are lots of engineering issues that have to be solved before the fabrication. As the surface of the tunnel is corrugated, the connection among each trangular components would be different and the stablity of the tunnel would be a big issue due to the twisted shape.

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Terms of settlements:

1. Build an arch instead of tunnel.

- An arch could perform any kinds of shapes - It could be much more like a geometry than a tunnel - Can be twisted and would still have self- support structure - Can express culture with different formations

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B. 7. Algorithmic Sketches

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Advantages and limitation of using the arch: - Arch is better in representing geometry than a tunnel as a surface - Costs less than building a tunnel - Alternative formations to perform the geometry and therefore express the multiple cultures - An arch is always an arch, and the culture of Wyndham can not only be descirbed by a single arch, no matter how complex or simple the form is.

So why not use the arch as the new starting point, but tranformed it with different geometrical elemnts. And building sculptures would be another solution to bring the custumes into a journey or a gallery rahter than a boring arch.

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B.8. Learning Objectives and Outcomes It is really interesting to explore in the world of grasshopper as I can use different parameters to generate many interesting outcomes for the project. Learning grasshopper is initially hard as I was not familiar with it. However, I am quite happy with to use it as I can get some new skills through learning from the tutorials. The outcomes of it are really amazing.

In this part B assignment, we initially seek for the ideally object that can express the culture and arts of Wyndham which we are focusing on. We started with learning from some good precedents that relate to geometry. They are all really interesting and I slightly understand what elements that a geometrical object should contain.

It is also quite helpful to study the parametric diagram which relates to the case study, and that was the start point of our exploration.

Our objective is to use geometry to express the complex culture of Wyndham and also to contrast with the Melbourne city. We initially saterted with learing from both the Voltadom and Canton tower. We used the concept about the twisted form and minimise material usage of Canton tower to design our first prototype. And we got an idea of making a twisted tunnel, and was later considered as our main object for this project. Because the site for this project is part of the high way, and we are supposed to design a getway.

We are glad to know that the different types of geometrical shapes have impacts on designing the tunnel. The different geometrical shapes were perfectly tested in our design process, and we finnally found that triangle is the best geometrical shape to minimise the usage of material for the budget. Also the triangle is the best one that has the most stable structure. Meanwhile, we do apperciate that we learned how to connect each components of the tunnel with some kind of innovated joints.

Though, a tunnel is not good eanough to describe the topic of geometry as it is much more like a surface, we learned the other purport of using geometry, that is geometry is good for minimising the use of materials.

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Bibliography http://arts.mit.edu/fast/fast-light/fast-installation-skylar-tibbits-vdom/ https://www.google.com.au/search?q=canton+tower&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei =vc6QUbGaN4j1iQ fQjYCIAw&ved=0CEkQsAQ&biw=1920&bih=991 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2032496/Canton-Tower-Ferris-wheel-worlds-highest1-500ft-located-Guangzhou-China.html https://www.google.com.au/search?q=henry+segerman&newwindow=1&hl=en&source=lnms &tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=2A2RUb-oIY-ZiQeIl4GICw&ved=0CAoQ_AUoAQ&biw=1304&bih=616

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