Foundations of Design : Representation, SEM1, 2017 M3 JOURNAL - PATTERN vs SURFACE XIA XINYU(Emma)
(873017) Carl Areskoug Studio15
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WEEK 6 READING: SURFACES THAT CAN BE BUILT FROM PAPER IN ARCHITECTURAL GEOMETRY Question 1: What are the three elementary types of developable surfaces? Provide a brief description. Answer: The three elementary types of developable surfaces are: - Cylinders: cylinders are solid which consist a set of parallel straight lines, we can make a surface of the cylinders by prescribing a profile curve and extrude it in any direction by a parallel extrusion. - Cones: cones have one sole vertex point that consist of many lines which are all end at a given profile curve. - tangent surfaces of space curves: tangent surfaces of space curves are polygons with set vertices, whereby two consecutive vertices make the edges of the polygon and three consecutive vertiexs make up its surfaces.
Question 2: Why is the understanding of developable surface critical in the understanding of architectural geometry? Choose one precedent from Research/Precedents tab on LMS as an example for your discussion. Answer: It is significant to recognise the importance of the developable surfaces when we start to construct a place which is safe, unique and full of imagination. the surfaces can determine the final image of your building and different surfaces will creat variable look of your constuction, so the surfaces are meaningful to the buildings. Take Cloud canopy by Maddison as a example of showing the importance of develpoable surface. we can image the developed view of the buiding when we consider it is seperatable.
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PANELLING 2D PATTERN
2d Panelling, Pattern: Triangular
2d Panelling, Pattern: Wave
2d Panelling, Pattern: Dense
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VARIABLE 2D PATTERN
The unit pattern is a consist of triangles and curves. when I make this 2D
The unit is a combinaton of 5 squares and make it looks full of abstraction.
The unit pattern is a star with a circumcircle. I use the
panel, I choose two adjacent curves as the attract curves and the units
In this 2D panelling, I choose two opposite lines as attract curves.
rotate command and make these units rotate between 0-90
become smaller when they near the two curves.
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degrees.
3D PANEL TEST PROTOTYPE & TEMPLATE
Use laser cut to print the 2D panels unroll surfaces without tabs
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WEEK 7 READING: DIGITAL FABRICATION
Question 1: What is digital fabrication and how does it change the understanding of two dimensional representation? Answer: Digital fabrication is a way to represent the generative form by computers like traditional drawing. this techenique minimize the gap between the design and the actural making proccesses of production or construct the buiding you have drawn. Three- dimentional modelling offers architectors to think out of the plan views or out of paper, thet can clearly know how the object look like. However, the twodimentional representation cannot change some tiny problems as we have done the drawing.
Question 2: Suggest two reasons why folding is used extensively in the formal expression of building design? Answer: Folding offers people to make 3D models from 2D surfaces by precising geometry to creat complex and unique structures. Folding can use materials like papers which are cheap, eco-friendly and easy to do hand-making and this is also a effective way for engineer to build structures or make some changes on the structures.
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EXPLORING 3D PANELLING
3D panelling by Rendered in isometric SE view in this model, there are 60 3D units and 40 2D units, which creat a image of Chinese knot.
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UNROLL TEMPLATE OF YOUR FINAL MODEL
All of the 2D panels when I put it to a A1 ivory card to print out.
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PANELISED LANDSCAPE
final model with both 2D and 3D panels.
Detail of 3D panels
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APPENDIX
origin surface with two grids
two different 3D models used to make the final panel two infrout of other four is the final model, left two behind are meshes, other two are origin models without using corner point.
Processes when making models.
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