Wojciech Karnowka - Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology - exchange portfolio (2017)

Wojciech Karnowka Work Sample 2017 BA (Part I) University of Westminster

VOLUTA, FABFEST 2017 Built, July 2017, Architectural Robotics Theatre (A.R.T) Design Development | Scripting | Fabrication | Assemblage

Partners: Mentors: Team:

AKT II, Rhino McNeel Evangelia Magnisali, Marios Tsiliokos, Spyros Efthymious Wojtek Karnowka, Calvin Sin, Laura Nica, Zhini Poh, Constantina Avraamides, Josh Ricketts, Martin Vasilev, Drew Yates

Voluta is an interactive light installation, speculating on the way robotic choreography and interaction alters spatial perception through a poetic approach on space navigation. The pavilion spirals around a 6 axis industrial robotic arm, which scans its surroundings and through sensors translates geometrical data into different light colour transmission.

Parameters such as material translucency and controlled transparency through perforation were essential drives during the design process.

Overall the pavilion is a result of a conversation between the properties of the selected material and the robotic fabrication process. A bottom - up design approach was followed where form finding was the outcome of constant observation and feedback deriving from the proposal

Manual panel testing

Robotic panel fabrication process

The pavilion was fabricated using digital fabrication tools, as well as a 7 axis industrial robotic arm for the reassembly of the bespoke modules that forms the pavilion. Precise wire tensioning of each unique element facilitated the on site assembly of the parametrically generated global geometry.

Voluta is the outcome of interdisciplinary collaboration between the Architectural Robotic Lab of fABE Fabrication Lab and AKT II Structural Engineers. VOLUTA is part of the Architectural Robotic Theatre (A.R.T) series of projects, kindly enabled by the Quintin Hogg Trust.

Process diagramatic explanation

HOUSE FOR THE APOCALYPSE Design Studio, Year 1 Semester 2, University of Westminster Design Development | Speculation| Fabrication

House For the Apocalypse is a speculative term long project, where the main task was designing a shelter prototype for potential disaser caused by famine wave.

Client needs are determined by the need of living and experimenting with new technologies. As a design solution I focused on potential rice production process between people and drones, autonomus flying machines. Coexisting people and drones would create collaborativelysupply rice supply in south London district - Deptford

CLIENT

SEEDS PURCHASE

CLIENT

SHELTER LIFE

DRONE

SHELTER LIFE

Site location

LOCATION SEARCH

GENETIC MODIFICATION EXPERIMENTS

Main road

LOCATION SEARCH

SOWING

SOWING

TRANSPLANTING

REGULAR WATERING

REGULAR WATERING

Context Canvas

HARVESTING AND STORING

WAITING TO MATURE

Diagram showing traditional rice growing process and potential solution - process split into collaboration between client and drone HARVESTING AND STORING

Maps showing surronding exsisting site context Site location

Buildings outlines

HOUSE FOR THE APOCALYPSE Design Studio, Year 1 Semester 2, University of Westminster Design Development | Speculation| Fabrication

Challenge was to design a shape - stucture that would allow to coexist both drones and people in the same building.

Using concepts model I came up with idea of using brick-like logic to create horizontal sections - spots where drones could sit creating unique spaces inside the building - unioning people and drones.

reference to the curve (building horizontal contour)

curve offset

rectangle population

Algorythm seeks for optimized form in terms of views (analyzing context) an also looks for optimal sun-light conditions.

Given results are comparsion to the typical high rise building topology, we can find anywhere in the world

shape union

Brick logic generating - for one curve

Brick logic generating - for multiple curves (contours) Generative optimization results - comparing to typical high-rise topology building

HOUSE FOR THE APOCALYPSE Design Studio, Year 1 Semester 2, University of Westminster Design Development | Speculation| Fabrication

Choosen places were analyzed in terms of radiation in period of the year starting from first day of january till last day of december.

Diagram shows possibilites ofanalysis based on avaliable EPW data of potential spots for growing rice in the city

Deptford map - heating as potential growing spot analysis

HOUSE FOR THE APOCALYPSE Design Studio, Year 1 Semester 2, University of Westminster Design Development | Speculation| Fabrication

III LEVEL FLOOR PLAN SCALE 1:50 HOUSE FOR THE APOCALYPSE

HOUSE FOR THE APOCALYPSE Design Studio, Year 1 Semester 2, University of Westminster Design Development | Speculation| Fabrication

III LEVEL FLOOR PLAN SCALE 1:50 HOUSE FOR THE APOCALYPSE

HOUSE FOR THE APOCALYPSE Design Studio, Year 1 Semester 2, University of Westminster Design Development | Speculation| Fabrication

House for the Apocalypse - perspective

HOUSE FOR THE APOCALYPSE Design Studio, Year 1 Semester 2, University of Westminster Design Development | Speculation| Fabrication

House for the Apocalypse - perspective

HOUSE FOR THE APOCALYPSE Design Studio, Year 1 Semester 2, University of Westminster Design Development | Speculation| Fabrication

Section model - 3D printed in powder

HOUSE FOR THE APOCALYPSE Design Studio, Year 1 Semester 2, University of Westminster Design Development | Speculation| Fabrication

Section model - 3D printed in powder

DATA MAPPING Design Studio, Year 2 Semester 1, University of Westminster Graphic design| Coding| Big data modeling

Data mapping is an ongoing project - as part of my research for current brief (Smart Hub: Urban Farming) Looking at open-acess data from differet platforms (here Flickr.com) I came up with idea of mapping information to understand activities, movements or relations that data for is either not visible or simply doesn’t exist.

I focused on Albertopolis which is area centred on Exhibition Road in London. It contains a large number of educational and cultural sites. I was curious is obvious potential of this places would be reflected in people online activities.

Using Python language syntax I analyzed aproxmiately 200 000 photographes taken in radious of 1 kilometer (with center in National History Museum).

Photographes were filtred and split into groups.

Criteria was “Key-words” in photographes descriptions. Words might be associated with particular emotions - I created 6 groups (distingushed with color): Tiredness, Exhaustment, Intrest, Lost, Bored and the ones having Fun. At the very moment I am at the stage of writing conclusions about results and potential use in different fields.

Flickr - photo map based on flickr’s API colors represent emotions, that particular photographes had association with, analysing tags

PHOTOGRAHY BROWSING ENGINE

TIREDNESS EXHAUSTMENT

basic cell 20 m x 20 m

REQUEST PHOTOGRAPHES WITHIN CALLED RADIUS

relation to the site

photography location

FILTERING PHOTOGRAPHES INCLUDING CALLED TAGS

LOST

EXTRACTING SPECIFIC LOCATIONS

BORING

MAPPING DATA

INTEREST

FUN

DATA MAPPING Design Studio, Year 2 Semester 1, University of Westminster Graphic design| Coding| Big data modeling

Flickr - exploded photo map based on flickr’s API colors represent emotions, that particular photographes had association with, analysing tags.

TIREDNESS EXHAUSTMENT

basic cell 20 m x 20 m

relation to the site

photography location

LOST

BORING

INTEREST

FUN