Xiang Li
CONTENTS INTRODUCTION
PART A CONCEPTUALISATION A.1-DESIGN FURING A.2-DESIGN COMPUTATION A.3-GENERATION A.4-CONCLUSION A.5-LEARNING OUTCOMES A.6 APPENDIX
Introduction My name is Xiang Li, I am currently under the second semester in second yearin the University of Melbourne. I was born in China and I went to Australia for better university education when I was 18.
Yenny- Xiang Li Bachelor of environments Landscape architecture
The reason why I chose this subject is because my obsseion with the parametric geography and I am actually more interested in
digital design and fabrication
architecture than my own major. The process of designing in the parametric ways is really enjoyable to me as well as the rendering. Compared to landscape studio, architectural studio seems provide more opportunities in software and practical skill practices. Taking more architectural studios makes me loving architecture more.
landscape studio 1
A.1 DESIGN FUTURING Nowadays, human beings have already reached a vital point, where great population that could make things change. Since design is anthro-directive which means could to be formed and adjusted consciously. The ways of
‘The state of the world and the state of design need to be brought together.’1
designing should no long be framed by territories and human should think outside the box. In the future, I actually don’t think that environmental sustainability is the only goal our design should achieve. First of all, the future design must be multidisciplinary to achieve its values in many aspects and they even could have various kinds of effects that could transform the world in much better ways . How could our design shape the future world and how could our design tackle common problems that we are facing and also sustain through time? New architectures are shifting to become more environmental and humanized,
CASE STUDY 1 NANJING ZHENGDAI HYMALAYAS CENTER
The innovation of this design is not just about sustainable technology or social and ecological values, the designers want to step further to creating spiritually spaces and the history and culture at the same
time in a modern business centre. They values working with emotions1. By creating the actual natural mountain shape and water scenery, this project seeks to create a spiritual harmony between nature, humanity and meeting urban material needs in a metropolis scale in Nan Jin, which cities in China. The whole building area is 560,000sqm and is composed of 6 zones. The design is inspired by one of the Chinese typical landscape principle ‘shanshui’ style. The theme of combining modernizing city scape and natural taste strives the idea of futuristic design interacting with nature and humanity at the same time. For the city itself, the design on the site not only preserves traces of the city’s history and but also celebrates the high-tech innovations at the age. river valley and the waterways mimic the meandering
glass towers are equipped with vertical sun shading which produce subtle and calming interior spaces with adequate light and ventilation, nevertheless, all the water components in the site, including waterfalls, brooks and pools serve to collect and recycle rainwater, achieving both visual and functional uses. The considerations above responds to current environmental issues. the building offers people with tranquility to confront with high-pressures from urban life. In the desiner team view they do value every single emotional feeling to one single tree, and it’s very challenging to work with nature and the emotional feelings2.
CASE STUDY 2 THREE GARDENS HOUSE IN KUWAIT
shelter for the vegetation from the aggressive Kuwaiti climate. Another important aspect is the circulation inside building are both vertical and horizontal;
‘From the architect. the idea started with a question: Are you able to design an outside space that can be used 365 days a year?’
with pool and some fountains and surrounded with the main social area of the house (Fig). This garden mainly allows the users to engaged with this relaxing and peaceful spaces during the hottest summer time.
The ‘three garden house is designed by AGI architects in Kuwait where the city has extreme desert climate. The dwelling is incorporated with 3 gardens in one single and outer-interior space, including patios, gardens and gyms 1 . The design is mainly about taking new strategies to build a space that the adverse wealth has nearly no effects on human or plants activities.
On other hand, the Summer Garden is situated in the coldest layer 4 with 4 meters below the street level, with the protection of the soil’s thermal mass and the shading by the house volume. To catalyze the evaportranspiration that could refresh the air to upper spaces in the garden, a shallow water pond is installed.
It is indeed a challenge in Middle East area and is quite simple compare moderate climate. However, on the horizon of the global scale, as the global warming and environmental issues has been more and more severe over years, the weather around the world are also becoming increasingly unpredictable and correspondingly the area with extreme weather would be more and more as well. What if one day the weather even become critical to human existence and the environment even lose the seasons? This multifunctional house not only opens up but also achieve the idea of ‘how the future houses could be under adverse climate?’ ‘how to combine both indoor and outdoor spaces, seasons and activities together? , as well as ‘ how the space could be used 365 days a year?’ into reality
the external uses based on the periods in one year and the hours of the day to decide what relative activities could be developed to design the garden, such as evening and daytime actions or summer and winter events. 1
as single outer spaces of the house, but they are visually and physically connected
2.
The third garden, which lies on the roof, is an ideal place in cold days and also hot summer nights. A perforated skin that is made by anodized aluminium covers the winter garden to protect the space from solar radiation and also protect the privacy of the users. The same rooftop skin with the function of on the gap roof to maintain the privacy and also serves as the
- by creating multiple routes and possibilities for the users to reach the destination in a more or less direct way - by both interior and exterior way3
A.2 DESIGN COMPUTATION As Kalay stated in Architecture New Media;’ Computers are superb analytical engines which could deal with huge amount of dataset repeatedly and rapidly without arithmetical mistakes ’. The conveniences that computer offers aid our design a lot, initially, from drafting to modeling even simulating the reality situation has become tangible now.
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After the emergence of the ‘non-standard design’ which accelerated the processes of popularizing computation and also the applying new technologies into materialization, one typical example is the François Roche of Newterritories, who bring architectural formation into genetic forms. The high-speed development of software technology and the increasing brought the parametric design onto the stage of the new century. Although the parametric design is composed by algorithms and been used as a medium of controlling topological relationships in software, it actually has already beyond the traditional ways of thinking of design.
Because of computers’ capability in dealing modulating and creating of rules and variations and, evaluating the structure and also its high level of variability, it shifts the ways of design in a more convenient ways which made this kind of design becoming preferable for new ideas’
Currently, thinking through the logic of algorithm to the architectural generation in design has been the major trend, which this kind of process could also be described as mathematics interweaving with aesthetic values.
CASE STUDY 1 LOUVRE ABU DHABI
The most outstanding and parametrized part of this museum is the museum-city , At the plan view, a perfectly radiating and freely perforated woven geometry could be observed. This architectural masterpiece was formally inspired by the traditional Arab Emirates roof and culture, geography, and history of the country but also the modern vision of innovative parametric design taste. The designer meant to create the visual effect of ‘’rays of sunlight passing through date palm fronds in an oasis ’’1. In reality, the projection also creates a cinematic and dreamy effect named as’ rain of light’ which represents various metaphors and might also be provoking to visitors beneath in such
The ceiling dome is a complicated geometric structure with 180 meters in diameter, which is consisted by 7850 unique stars 2 which are repeated and distributed in various sizes on the layer and it is overlapped and rotated by 8 different layers.The amazing ceiling design is largely attributed by computation the light- based parametric design . 3The geometry structure pattern is shifted from tradition to by parametric logics. On the other hand, the light performances of the project was integrated into the design process because the designer cannot afford to take into light on human body comfort and energy consumption.
FIGURE 8. THE LIGHTING INTENTION MAP UNDER THE DOME.
For lighting system computation practices1
- preliminary lighting simulation with Buildings’ 3d models
The 3 main goals formatted by the designer, Jean Nouvel,
- the lighting intention map, in order to perform inverse natural lighting simulations
- a rain of light -variation of light levels and the temperatures - comfort is a part of the design. ( Schuler, 2008) The major problem for materialization of light was to decide the suitable perforation ratio of the dome in order to achieve the suitable level of temperature under the dome for users comfort while also maintaining the ideal lighting effects. An inverse lighting digital model has been built and used in processing the
-inverse natural lighting with the prototype in order of the dome components onto the museum city - computing the dome perforation ratio -for forwarding lighting approach, checking the In this term of studies, computation helped the designers to select the best script for the most ideal appearence of the ceiling dome.
CASE STUDY 2 HAZZA BIN ZAYED STADIUM, AL AIN
This multi-functional stadium with 25,000 seats has been the recognizable landmark of the city. Almost all the Middle East stadia are built in European, temperate climate style, while he designs team, the Pattern, represented their powerful passive and ruled-based innovative parametric design methodology to deal with regional hot and dry climate problem and they valued both the user’s well-being and the visual feeling, at the same time they also wanted to achieve the balance between the technology and the natural world through the design process. The geometry of parasol roof is designed to passively provide shade for the playground. The outer visually valued facade design1, which also acts as the passive cooling facility, is inspired by the rotating fractural geometry of the date palm fronds which The façade design was mostly done by Grasshopper. The façade was initially covered with 480 kinds of panels which ought to be created from each kind of molds. In order to rationalize the panels for the construction, the custom mold algorithm that design team used to adjust the quantity of mold to assembling had been used to reduce the shapes down to 50 kinds.2 The driving parameters of the development of the façade, Grasshopper also automatically grouped panels and color coded them in night view. This kind of planning providing enough shading for the users and also promote the air 3
The conceptual design of the stadium was preliminary developed in Grasshopper and Rhino. To ensure the unobstructed but also spectacular sight line for audiences, the grasshopper is also used for analyzing the views and adjusting the seat levels. Grasshoppr was also used in the detailed design analysis for checking structural stability, daylight penetration practices, thermal and solar performance4 to ensure structured to satisfy both the demands for shading and architectural beauty.
A.3
COMPOSITON GENERATION Algorithms are the inputs and outputs, are the rules, are the method and techniqques, are the fundamental components to made the systems. process and create new aesthetic ideas In old times, people expressed their ideas by hand-writing scripts. Now, by the means of digital tools whose basics algorithms, people could express ideas in a more realistic and direct way. It was initially a tool to convert the images in our brains into the 3d modelling by using calculations, the whole process is like deconstructing the virtual shapes in to single patameters components in brain and rebuild them in software.
‘ This hasn’t simply trannsformed what we can design -it’s had a huge impact on how we build. ----------------------Mouzhan Majidi ‘ With the development of digital tools, the new brainstorms of the ways of design has been gennerated, softwares like grasshopper has various kinds of algorithms batteries are able to give us new inspirations because of its endless functionality . It is very common that changing an input parameter human’s curiosity to the logics behind. Then distiling the logics of algorithms open new ways of thinking and eventually camed up with new generation of forms of deisng. there’s still many possibilities that architects could
A.3 CASE STUDY 1 BEIJING
This is an iconic architecture masterpiece which is designed by Swiss architecture located in the south of the centerpiece Olympic Green. Coming along with the Beijing Olympics Game in 2008, this Stadium is designed and built basically for Beijing Olympic Games 2008 and opened up Chinese’s people’s horizon in modern architecture1. The overall stadium structure is composed of 2 independent parts, the red seating bowl inside, and the outer steel waving facade which is the world’s largest steel construction project2, weighing 42,000tons. The building are always been regarded as the biomimicry architecture of bird’s nest idea metaphor of the ‘great nature’ on the earth to coordinate with the Olympic Green village plan. The deeper intention of the design is to show the co-existent relationships between the Olympic spirit with nature.
The patterns were originated from
parameter tool1. The calculations were so complicated and enormous so that it is very
culture and the fundamental structure
hard and time-consuming to solve manually.
was mainly developed and optimized
The software could help to make sure all
by the parametric design software.
the components are in the right position
In order to achieve the optimum design that
accurately in fabrication stage. The decisions
ensuring the balance between ensuring every
of this design were mostly dominated
audience have good views, creating a good
by the aids of computation process
atmosphere and maintaining the elegant appearance of the building, the parametric design software supported the forward details planning in many aspects; helping to work the good growth of grass, the seismic studies and so on. The of the woven steels seems randomly distributed while the truth proves that the whole structure is designated to be earthquake-resistant and not only every steel was analyzed and followed the rules of the geometry but also the strength of steel girders is been calculated by special
A.3 CASE STUDY 2 BAHÁ’Í TEMPLE OF SOUTH AMERICA
The bahá’í temple of south America, also known as Houses of worship, is designed by Hariri pontarini architects. This sculptural temple is situated on the foothills of the Andes Mountains bordering the cities of Santiago, Chile. This temple represents the 1 . This project is an integration of parametric design and affordable materialization technologies. The structural design was fully developed by the CATIA which is an extensible engineering and manufacturing tool that facilitates the production of extremely complex architectural forms and also It uses a hierarchical approach in data organization. Afterward, the decisions of the skin and the structure texture are selected by multiple pratices of rendering. In the parametric process, the Generative Components is also been used to explore alternative shapes variations. GC is a parametric design tool that facilitates the creation and extraction of design concepts through virtual modeling or scripting2. The major design challenge was to create a design that would be welcoming to people with all faith and cultural complexity, intimacy and monumentality, most important, a solid object that could be ‘dissolvied’ in the light.3 As the response, the uses of lights would be an important expression of this architecture. The project was inspired from many sources. The 9 white and luminous wing edges are inspired by the dappled sunshine projected beneath a canopy. The interwoven strands are inspired by the Japanese bamboo basket, as well as the pieces of shattered glass.4
A.4 CONCLUSION Obviously, in terms of precedent studies in this section and the readings. Currently, majority of the architecture design process have to rely on computation process for its convenience in practices and the fabrication process. To me it seems like if you provide the inputs, the algorithm could give you all the possibilties as the feedback. Sometimes I think the algorithm design process is like a mirror to every individual, because the outcome you will have actually depends on your inputs which is also based on your personal understandings to deal with them In the future, I think it is necessity of them being a main trends, because algorithms are powerful; they incorportes and they are also capable of generates all kinds of rules.
A.5 LEARNING OUTCOMES After the 3 weeks engagement with the about how to gennerate the interesting forms and patterns and distributions in grasshopper has been developed. This breaks my conventional thinking of design ,I tend to attempt various kind of different parameter possibilities. This process allow me to understand the variation and again reinforce my understandings to them. Another very important aspect is that the computation could attribute to both the conceptual and materialization process, in so deep extent, which largely reduced the hidden safety dangers may occur. In addtion, one opposite side of the parametric design is that some incredible deisng could only be a proposal because of the technical probelms.
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PART B CRITERIA DESIGN student name: Yenny, Xiang li student number: 766220 TUTOR: FINN
B1. BIOMIMICRYNature has been a constant source of inspiration in the design in the design. It is a notable innovation ,that may be billions years old, in design biomimicry had become evident mainly in contemporary design, expressing by a wide range of forms and functions. The intepretations of nature in and other disciplines by aborbing motifs and employing them atistically. However, nature is no longer used only for ornament, but as a constitutent element in the discovery of forms. In the architecture realm, natureoriented design seems to always be relevent with modern society crisis and also to re-establish the relationship with an environment perceived as out of balance.
The ways that biological system solves problem are enginneering ways. If we look back the history of evolution, all the creations that have extincted versus all that are still alive today, proves that nature made adjustment automatically according to the phenomenons biological solutions are the result of millions of failed prototypes. Perhaps that is the reasons of Biomimetic designs, by using nature as the model to solving problems by, as Adriaenssens says in her biomimicry discoveryâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC; uses very little material and places it in the right place.1
My thread pavilion--knitting building, showing the molecular structure and also the attraction of them between each other. This artwork opens the door of new ways of thinking about structure and the relationship of implying the structure by technology. Biomimetic and digital architecture provide solutions, new understandings, new forms and generative systems to explore the complexities of natural form and internal geometries
In terms of advancements in technologies, the design works of bionics in which naturally occuring structure becoming more and more feasible, the material searches are also materials that are different from normal always bring innovative outcomes.
B2. Case study one -------MORNING LINE by aranda lash It is an interdisciplinary interplays for not only architecture, but also combines mathematics, art, cosmology, music and science. The morning line is initially developed from truncated tetrahedron which is a pyramid with the corners chopped off. The subdivision fragmental surfaces and the lines generated makes every point in the sculpture attaches to another point. Which makes this line forms throughout the geometry. This kind of pavilion is building whose architectural language directly expresses by its content on structure.
T project attracts me is its unique forms, the fractal and elegant lines forms and also the continuous small to large segments shows the modularity of each part-----the subdiivision process throughout the whole project, which is actally the most intriguing part to my personal preference. In the view of biomimicry, the subdivision process or the forms that indicate recurring subdivision exists everywhere. Subdivision could be named as a basic principle of nature. As the designer said in one interview, he want design something universe, the structure demonstrates the process of simultaneously generating itself and falling apart.
As the pictures shown on left hand side, the diagram of Darwin’s evolutionary or the ways of growing, proves that subdivision process exists everywhere in different ways. The most evident one is the forms of natural creactures, the ways trees’ branches growing, the tree leaves patterns, coral. rivers, My prototype design is also been inspired by the subdivision forms.
‘ Nature is lazy, but also intelligent.’
Matrix 1- morning line species 1 Side segments;5 Subdivition factor;0.324, 0.324, 0.378 Evaluate curve: 0.5 Jitter: 7
wbMeshwindow Distance=3 wbCatmullClark level=5
wbInnerPolygons
wbCaepet
mesh view
Distance=5.317
Distance=5.317
wbCarpet Distance=7.1 wbBevelEdges distance=10
wbMeshwindow distance=3
wbMeshwindow Distance=3 wbCatmullClark level=5
attractive points- the strongest wbPictureFrame wbCatmullClark level=1
wbMeshThinken distance=0.14
level
species 2
wbOffset Mesh
wbOffset Mesh wbLaplaceHC Smooth naked edges: 0.74
wbWindow Distance=0.58
wbOffset Mesh wbCarpet Distance=7.1 wbLaplace level=5 wbCatmullClark level=3 wbBevwlEdges level=10
wbOffsetmesh wbLaplaceHc Distance=1.75 wbTriangules level=1 wbFrame distance=9 wbLoop level=3
wbOffset distance=0.900 wbLaplaceHC wbCarpet Distance=2.4 wbLaplace wbCatmullClark level=3 wbLaplaceHc Distance=1.75 wbTriangules level=1 wbFrame distance=9 wbLoop level=3 wbBelbelEdges distance=7
perspective view
wbLaplaceHC wbTriangles Level=1 wbFrame wbInnerpolygons level=1
WbOffset mesh wbLaplaceHC wbCarpet Distance=4.2 wbLaplace wbCatmullClark level=5
species 3
wbMidedge level=1
wbMidedge level=1 wbStellate distance=0.3 wbFrame distance=5
wbMidedge level=1 wbStellate distance=0.3 wbFrame distance=5 wbCatmull level=2
Applying attractive points in wbFrame wbCatmull level=3
Applying attractive points in wbFrame
Applying attractive points in wbFrame wbWindow distance=10
wbSierpinski level=1
wbSplitQuads level= wbCatmull level=1 Applying attractive points to wbWindow distance
wbSierpinski level=1
wbSierpinski level=1 wbSplitQuads level= wbCatmull level=1
Applying attractive points by explode mesh
Area
pull
pt domain start domain end
wbCarpet distance=10
wbCarpet distance=10 wbLoop level=1 wbBlur level=1 Applying attractive point on wbCarpet by changing distance wbInnerPolygon level=2
wbCarpet distance=10 wbLoop wbBlur
bounds
Remap
construct domain
wbCarpet distance=10 wbLoop level=1 wbBlur level=1 Applying attractive point on wbCarpet by changing distance
wbCarpet distance=10 wbLoop level=1 wbBlur level=1 Applying attractive point on wbWindow in changing distance of the gaps
wbCarpet distance=10 wbLoop level=1 wbBlur level=1 Applying attractive point on wbCarpet changing distance
wbCarpet distance=10 wbLoop level=1 wbBlur level=1 wbMidedge level=1
wbCarpet distance=10 wbLoop level=1 wbBlur level=1 wbMidedge level=1 wbCarpet distancc=9
wbCarpet distance=10 wbLoop level=1 wbBlur level=1 wbMidedge level=1 wbCarpet distancc=9 wbLoop level=6
pattern details
wbMidedge level=1 wbFrame distance=10
wbMidedge level=1 wbFrame distance=10 wbloop level=1
wbMidedge level=1 wbFrame distance=10 wbloop level=1 Applying attractive point variations in wbWindow by changing distance
SUCCESSFUL ITERATIONS
B3. CASE STUDY 2 ---AIR SPACE TOKYO,
JAPAN, by Faulders Studio
This building is designed for multi-family dwelling uses with 3,000 sq ft exterior voronoi skin. The facade which is inspired by the uniquely dense vegetation, that used to be on the site. It recrates a foliage-like fragmented views from inside, the sunlight is refracted by the metallic surfaces. This screen facade not only provide privacy from street to users living in the building, but also buffers the weather from the exterior walkways and terraces. In the views of design, space with the sepatated living units above. The screen is consisted by double layers of voronoi pattern, the 2 layers was separated by 20cm air gap. I am always interested with voronoi patterns because it is a common pattern in expressing ideas about biomimicry, the interesting part of that is the distribution of each cells arranged by chance, controlling those unpreditable data is an interesting process.
B3.2 Reverse engineering
method 1-----by voronoi 2d
overlapping 3 by 2 or 3
B3.2 Reverse engineering meth-
od 2 -----by voronoi 3d
B4.
CASE STUDY 2 MATRIX
species 1--2D variation
species 1-1
species 1-2
species 1-3
species 1-4 straing the celling division process
species 1-5 celling division process in second time
species 1-6 third time cells divisions
species 1-7 division using attractive point
species 1-8 division using attractive point
species 1-9 division using attractive point
species 1-10 lines interference to voronoi + attractive curve using in scaling
wave to form the transition from 6 sides to 4sides
species 1-11 lines interference to voronoi
1-12 wave to form the transition from 6 sides to 4sides
1-13 wave to form the transition from 6 sides to 4sides
1-14 wave to form the transition from 6 sides to 4sides
Species 2 3D voronoi
extract outside surface structure distance=2 wbFrame
extract inside surface structure distance=2 wbFrame
species 2-1 join 2 parts together distance =2 wbLoop
dealling the outside and inside with different ways to have more continuous form
species 2-2 join 2 parts together distance =11 wbLoop+ wbLaplace
join 2 parts together distance =11 wbLoop+ wbLaplace+wbThiken+wbCatmull
join 2 parts together width =22 wbMidedge+wbFrame+wbLoop
species 2-3 join 2 parts together distance =11 wbLoop+ wbLaplace+wbThiken
join 2 parts together width=22 wbLoop+ wbLaplace+
join 2 parts together width =22 wbSplitpolygons+wbLaplace+wbFrame+wbLoop
species 2-4 join 2 parts together distance =11 wbLoop+ wbLaplace+wbThiken+wbCatmull
join 2 parts together width=22 wbMidedge+wbFrame
join 2 parts together width =39
join 2 parts together width =39 wbLoop+wbLaplace+wbWindow+wbCatmull
join 2 parts together width =50 wbloop+wbLaplace+wbMidedge+wbFrame
join 2 parts together width =60
join 2 parts together width =50 wbLoop+WbLaplace+Wbmidedge
join 2 parts together width =13 wbloop+wbLaplace+wbMidedge+wbFrame
join 2 parts together width =60 wbInnerpolygon+wbLaplace+wbCatmull
join 2 parts together width =50 wbLoop+WbLaplace+Wbmidedge+WbCatmull
join 2 parts together width =60 wbloop+wb.innerPoly+ wbLaplace+wbMidedge+wbFrame
join 2 parts together width =60 wbInnerpolygon+wbLaplace+wbCatmull+wbMidedge+wbWindow
SPECIES 4. Extruding Voronoi surface randomly
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SSpecies 4-3
SSpecies 4-4 SSpecies 4-5
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SSpecies 4-7 SSpecies 4-8
SSpecies 4-9
SSpecies 4-10 SSpecies 4-11
species 6. Lunchbox patterns making voronoi effects
U=40 V=20
Spcies 3. Combing two diamond grid False+True largest hole size =4
Spcies 1. Combing two diamond grid False+True largest hole size=10
Spcies 4. Combing two diamond grid False+True largest hole size=6
Spcies 5. Combing one diamond grid and one triangular grid True+True
Spcies 2 Combing one diamond grid and one triangular grid False+True largest hole size=10
Spcies 6. Combing two diamond grid True + True
B4.2 SUCCESSFUL ITERATIONS
B5.1 Structure prototyping
B5. PROTOTYPES FORMING FINDING ORIENTED
SCALE: 1:15
SCALE: 1:6
B5.2. CELLS SYSTEM PROTOTYPE VERSION 1
B5.3. CELLS SYSTEM PROTOTYPE VERSION 2 SCALE: 1:6
B5.4. CELLS SYSTEM PROTOTYPE VERSION 3 SCALE: 1:6
Since the version 3, I abandoned the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Frameâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; part of the biomimicry cells and selected its counterpart to use as the cellular system, the inside individuals to continue my idea. Because I want expressing the idea more vividly, so I connecting each individuals by lining up the nearest vertices to each other by joints, so that each panels would be able to rotating and moving
inspired by cells division process in matrix
in one certain postition. The material is still plywood, the effects and the weight are
B5.5. CELLS SYSTEM PROTOTYPE VERSION 4 SCALE: 1:1
Version 4 is the detailing design based on version 3, so they are sharing the same idea, but version 4 including more fabrication process. Small holes around the central division part has been added for more acoustic uses since the material has already changed from plywood to MDF, and this also enhancing the main concept of my design the process of the subdivision as well.
In addition of the central division cell, the voronoi like lasercutting foam are been glued, to help with absorbing more voices and strengthening the main topic---subdivision process. Also, foam are also the perfect material for acoustic due to its density and texture. I also tried felt, but seems like foam has more biomimicry features in terms of apperance. The foam I found is a safe foam which does not contain any elements would be detrimental to health. Initially I want try to sttiching those foams by using the new-added small holes around, but I just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have time for doing that. I also tried the nylon tie as the connection, but it dosenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have enough also need to be replaced in my next line are time-consuming as well.
B6. TECHNIQUE: PROPOSAL
F way. My design concept comes from the 2 case study research, one provides the subdivision idea and one allows me exploring the ways voronoi work. With the purpose of designing a cellular structure but not framing the particles and also making my design looks ‘living’ as much as possible. The counterpart of the usual voronoi had been selected as one of the major medium. And also another main topic for my design is to symbolize the continuous subdivision process, which has been expressed by both the structure and also the canopy cells. The acoustic pod I was trying to achieve is by using the panels and foam to neutralize the impacts of sounds. The gaps between cells panels and the cells’ division holes to make sounds permeable, and the acoustic materials could absorbing them.
Based on my acoustic research, actually every material could absorbing some voices. And the ability of acoustic for one material depends on its density , which relates to letting the sounds coming in, and also the ability of containing air-----air is the medium for sound’s transmission.
B7. LEARNING OUTCOMES
I’ve learnt quite a lot in the last few weeks. a tool to reverse engineering existing projects. With the knowledge I’ve learnt, I’ve started to build my own scripts to achieve my design intent. This is to me of particular importance. Because it arms me with advanced techniques to combine my interest in biology with architecture. This is something that I always wish to do but never managed to achieve. In the coming week, I will have a closer look at the shortest distance algorithm in order to avoid the overlapping of braches and the cells. And also seaching for more feasible structure of my design. Secondly, this studio pays great attention to fabrication methods and the question of how to make sure the form is able to be perfectly come up with. But I do believe I need to work on the fabrication detailing more carefully. Because currently, there are lots of disecrete elements in my system but the problem of how to join them together hasn’t been tackled well yet. I will continue work on this in the following week. Thirdly, I’ve learnt to stay strong in this intense period as well. Because I’ve just experienced a data loss issue, which really means I have to start every thing from scratch again. I guess the take away lesson for me is to make sure I always upload a copy of my
B8. ALGORITHM SKETCHES
PART C -
Detailed design
Contents C1-1 preview and interim feedback C1-2 proposal and concepts
C2-2 Version 1 C2-3 Version 2 C 3 Fabrication practices process C 4 Learning outcomes
C1-1
intetrim feedback and goals
Accordning to the crit feedback inpart B, the focal points of part C are:
cable ties are not suitable in to be used as joints.
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Be mindful with every branch, in part B there is one
branch could not satisfy the design brief as well.
focusing on the form is also a major task in Part C
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Make this area as a full system instead of a one wall system
according to the surroundings and thinking about how to make it acoustic in terms of the overall form and also materials.
be use and also how to join them, and also a big chanllenge would be about detailling and attaching the panels to the structure underneath it.
C1-2
Design proposal and concept
PART B DESIGN OUTLINE Starting with the case study 1 the process exist everywhere in nature
Setting the goal of designing the
C
forms that indicate the state of natural
the panels in Case Study two, mainly
growth to bring the sense of nature
manpulated by using voronoi scrpt
-the tree or vein-like structure
on 2D scale to achieve the forms
and the cells panels system.
that obey the cell division process.
PART C PROPOSAL
A 3D dome-like form consisted by 3 curvy surfaces on 3 sides, top, left and right and make them have the feeling of continuality.
Bring the sense of nature to the
The panel would have the abilty of
From the site map, we could see
allowing sounds and air entering
the back part is the part that
providing some interests and
with some internal space and
also bring some imaginations
materials to weakening the weave
need to be the most acoustic part because of the kitchen and also the printing machine
C2-1 -DESIGN VERSION 1 FINAL RENDERING
-DESIGN VERSION 2 FINAL RENDERING
C2-1
-version 1
Better wireframe structure by using exoskeleton
panel form attempts by using 3D voronoi
The 3d voronoi are all going in a box range, thus the shape of the voronoi are much harder to control than 2D voronoi, usually the size of each voronoi cells could be shrink by applying attractive point on 2D , but it wont make much difference on 3D because the shape is formed in a box, after multiple times of attempts I found that they nearly stay in no change and thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot problems came alongth . Therefore, the voronoi cells could not
lunch box hexagon cells
Shortest walk triangular shape
triangular+Lunchbox +deformed shape
applying holes with acoustic function
forming the surfaces
overall effects
C2-1
-version 2
- thinking about the part panelling system used in part B
- poping hexagon cells on each triangular panels only make things super complicate
-some panels near the edge are usually not complete and they also shows the disconnection between your panels and the structure
-thinking about making panels on extra large scale and working with the frame work as the relationship like leaves and branches
- making the panels big, too much complexity of the overall forms is actually not good in design.
Final form version 2
C3-version 1 Fabrication Acoustic consideration
For the version 1, increasing the acoustic feature of the back
Scale consideration Because of the thricky structure, the fabricating them is to 3D pringting
part, in my design intents , the
them and putting the panels on
back part of the dome would
that, because the largest dimensions
meant to be covered by double
of normal 3D pringitng machine is
layered soft mountwood without any holes on inside layer, the gaps between each cells would be enough for them allowing sounds
25cm x 20cm x 15 cm, so I decide to fabricating with the scale of 1 to 20
- Joints for panels connections
With the aid of grasshopper sctipts, the closest parts between evety surfaces and the connection lines has been generated automatically, H-shape clip could be made easily through the lines, but because they are all have different orientation which means they are not parallel to each other, so adjusting them on to one plane manually is required
-Labelling and arranging
With the aid of grasshopper sctipts, we could label each components during the process of fabrication to ensure the accuracy and avoid mistake, but arranging the panels on to one plane is also an manual process
Lasercutting templeates with 300 joints and 230 panels
3D printing structure
To help to locate each panelsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; locations, small protruding spines had been designed on the start and ends points on each line segments. In coordinance, the small
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-The structure that the additional
rings that compatible with the
branches with the printing base
base has been removed.
spines has been an additional
provided automatically.
part to the panel as well.
Material-woodmount board
But this material is a big Thinking about scale and performance of materials, the material should be very thin. As for better acoustic effect, it canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be too hard as well.
the woodmount board could have really good details even with 2mm thickness, the material is also soft because it is actually made by layers of wood papers, so it should be good in absorbing sounds
reason of the faliure of the model because the joints
And if you touch each of them with several times, the material would be softer and also really
made by mountboard as too soft too connect them tightly, the joints kept falling during the fabrication process.
between panels and also very unneat surfaces and joints in the prototype version 1.
3D printing pen
The uses of 3D printing pen here is mainly for melting the protruding spines which looks actually quite rudimentary after locating the panels 3D printing pen- heating mode
temperature of 160 cels degree
Even it is a faliure one, but the panels still shows the good details of etching, the idea of cells has been represented perfectly.
Double-layered back for acoustic reason
C3-version 1 Fabrication
Learning from the lessons from version 1, I decide just make a few panels with double wood-layered feature in the scale of 1 : 5 instead of making hundreds of useless joints and panels. And also I would print the whole model together to have better overall effect.
In one to one scale, the thickness of one compound panel system ( including double-layer wood, felts and internal space) is about 90mm i. As for the material choice of panel, I decide for the panels stable enought for jointing and double layered them would have better acoustic quality.
Panels types 1-bolting
Lasercutting outcomes
Bolting diagram of each panels, the diameter of the bolting holes is 4.5mm
The plan view of lasercutting panels type 1,with only additional bolting holes. Using bolts to connect double-layered panels is a stable method but it would increase the weight with a big proportion to the whole structure.
Continuing using the H clip connections between panels
2 types of bolts with close diameters and length has been tested
Lasercutting outcomes
Panels type 2-joints
The plan diagram of each panels with special joint that designed to connect the out side layer and inside.
The plan view of lasercutting panels type 2, the cutting pattern for joints add some addition
Continuing using the H clip connections between panels
interests, this type of joint has an big advantage: it is more invisible and aesthetic han bolting the 2 layers, while bolting might be more stable as well.
Types 2-joints design details
The original shape, with
Lasercutting outcomes
2.8mm for tight connection
The original joint second panel in the midlle
counterpart, too big for panel, so I decide to reduce
the panel would possibly
the thickness of
fall due to the gravity
joint material from 6mm to 3mm
The material using is perspex for
For tight connection, the
its thinckness and also translucent
counterpart size is 2.8mm and it
features, bolting method is too
works successfully without falling
obvious comparing with this one.
because of gravity, because joints orientation are towarding upwalds.
Voronoi-like fabric shape
Lasercutting outcomes
For acoustic effects, the felt has been chosen as a key part in the middle for absorbing sounds with 1to 2 mm thinkness, for the full scale fabrication, the felt would be much thicker with more prominent effect
the evidence of burnt by lasercutting machine is a little bit obvious, but it is still the scale of 1: 5. With one to one felt, it
Lasercutting felt diagram, same shape and size with panels to increase the acoustic potential surreptitiously.
Assembly process- panel type 1
The M5 size bolts was really stable and tight, but it is too short because the H-clip is connecting the bottem part with the thinkness of 6mm
The 3/16â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;&#x2122; size bolts are perfect with the appropriate length, 18mm and also suitable tightness.
Assembly process- panel type 2
Further improvement-long joints
mini electric-cutting machine could trim those joint in Even the joints between panels are used only on bottom layer,
to approprite length to ensure the quality of the panels
sometimes it is still too long with would emerge at the middle part,
apperance. However longer joints could ensure the stability
and it would affect the overall feeling of the panels.
of the connections between each structure, so only the joints that exposed too much need to be trimmed.
Toothed joints between structure and panels
For the panels that is needed to be connected with structure, using toothed edges. And designning
The performance of those 3D pringting margins are really good ,
the compatible 3D printing
the assembly process above is quite simple as well, and another
toothed margins combined with the structure itself.
TESTING THE CONNECTION OF STRUCTURE WITH PANEL TYPE 1
TESTING THE CONNECTION OF STRUCTURE WITH PANEL TYPE 1
3D printing
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The reason for printing the whole model including all the
making the whole model is to have an overall effect in reality, so printing them together would have better continuality and the shape would be accurately performed, one disadvantage is that it could not demonstrate the materia. Cleaning the additional base material of the model to get the smooth shape.
Discovery Lighting effects of 3D printing materials
Back view of the design, could see the gradual convergence of voronoi holes from front to back.
C-4 LEARNING OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOME OBJECTIVE 1 ‘ INCORPORATING DIFFERENT BRIEFS AND INSISTING A CONSTANT PRINCIPALS’ For me it is like at different stage, the brief may changing all the time , but I am always insist my base points, nature and subdivition
OBJECTIVE 2 ‘ THE PARAMETRIC TOOLS PROVIDE OUR DESIGN WITH A LOT CONVENIENCE’ I learnt how parametric modelling could assist my fabrication process as wekk as thinking about more varieties and possibilities
OBJECTIVE 3
‘THE MODEL MAKING SKILL AND WORKBASED DESIGN ABILITY’ After engaged with more practical model making environment and also with multiple methods, the testing process during making models improved my skills.
OBJECTIVE 4’ ACTALLAY MAKE SOMETHING IS AN ENJOYFUL PROCESS ALREADY. The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul, even in the process some manual adjusting for hundreds are tedious. but the outcome are always satisfying.
OBJECTIVE 5 ‘ THE IMPORTANCE OF GROUP WORKING ‘ Because I am doing the whole project along so I realized that the workload is really heavy and also one people’s cabability is really limited by limited time and energy.
APPENDIX
BIOMIMICRY- TREE-LIKE DESIGN (------------In the star night)
BIOMIMICRY- CORAL- LIKE SHAPE (------------
cosplaying coral groups
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