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If I was to realize new buildings I should have to have new techique. I should have to design buildings that they would not only be appropriate to materials but design them so the machine that would have to make them could make them surpassingly well. - Frank Lloyd Wright
Table of Contents INTRODUCTION 4 KNOWLEDGE OF DIGITAL DESIGN 5 PART A CONCEPTUALISATION 6 DESIGN FUTURING 8 REFERENCE 12
INTRODUCTION
My name is Xincen Jiang, a third year student major in architecture. I was born and raised in Hangzhou, a wonderful city in south part of China. And when I was 18, I came to Melbourne as an international student to gain a higher education. For my career, I was always thinking of doing something meaningful and fascinating. And the thought brings me to study architecture. It is a career that contains full of opportunities and challenges, which is worth doing for rest of my life. I am not good at using computer to do the design and have limited knowledge of parametric and algorithmic thinking. But I am still looking forward to the outcomes after I learn the grasshopper. As to parametric design, my first thought would be the Beijing National Stadium, Walt Disney Concert Hall or Greg Lynn’s Blob-wall. And just a glance of these projects, you can feel their futuristic. It is a challenge to learn the expression of parameters and rules for me, but I believe the experience will be surprisingly good and bring me a new version of architectural design. 4
Introduction
KNOWLEDGE OF DIGITAL DESIGN
In the old time, crazy deisgn ideas were efficient they are. Later, when I gradually always limited by feasibility. But nowadays, get used to it, I get acquainted with the computering skills give designers more benefits of software using. The simplex opportunities to create‘impossible’stuff. It line can no longer satisfy the future, more seems like a magic tool that can turn whatever pluralism is required in design, which you thought into reality. But I do not have can be achieved by the digital techinque. rich experience on using deisgn software like rhino or its plug-in tool grasshopper. I refuse to use these applications at very beginning, because I did not realize how
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PART A CONCEPTUALISATION
DESIGN FUTURING Frank Fehry Walt Disney Concert Hall 2003
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LA | Disney Hall - The visual salience concert hall in the United States. Disney of the Walt Disney Concert Hall lies in Hall possesses a caliber and an architectural its exquisite stainless steel exterior and merit that attract tourists from far and complex postmodern style. The Walt Disney wide. Concert Hall, also known as Disney Hall, is the fourth hall to join the Los Angeles Music Center. Its sleek curves and intricate structural patterns are matched by no other
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Steel Elements
Three Columns
At the beginning, Gehry was thinking
Large Douglas fir columns are placed
of using stone to manage the cover, but
at the entrance of the Ralph M. Parsons
he changed his mind to pick stainless
Foundation Atrium Hall at Disney Hall.
steel instead. All the curves that Gehry
Resembling tree trunks, the columns
envisioned made the building difficult to
represent Disney Hall’s dialogue with
construct. The only way to cope with the
nature. Besides, the columns contain the
challenge is using the aerospace software
inner workings of the building and deliver
called CATIA (Computer-Aided Three-
air conditioning and lighting to the main
Dimensional Interactive Application) to
lobby.
piece the steel beams together. The project actually was very historic and labor intensive that many of the steel workers signed their names on the structural beams.
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DESIGN FUTURING Frank Fehry Walt Dissney Concert Hall 2003
The Opera House design is the latest realization of Zaha Hadid Architects’ unique exploration of contextual urban relationships,
combining
the
cultural
traditions that have shaped Guangzhou’s history, with the ambition and optimism that will create its future. The idea of the design has been particularly influenced by river valleys, and the way in which they are transformed by erosion. The lines in the landscape define territories and zones within the Opera House, cutting dramatic interior and exterior canyons for circulation and also allowing natural light to penetrate deep into the building.
The combination of mutiple culture in deisgn is one of the trends of future architecture. Just like the Guangzhou opera house, it requires to combine western and Chinese opera at the same time. But the challenge is the features of these two kinds of performance are
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totally different. With the western opera, the focus is on natural acoustics which takes precedence over the drama. While the Chinese opera is more about the dramatics with the audio relying on the audio requirement.
The horseshoe-shaped auditorium in the middle of the building is constructed from in situ reinforced concrete. And the columns and walls of the building are set at crazy angles.
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REFERENCE LIST
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