design journal YIFAN WANG_ 385831
architecture studio air 2012
PASSAGE SCULPTURE in Visual Communication
WEEK1 PERSONAL PROJECT
Although the final result does not look completely the same as in my mind, It demonstrates the designing concerns. Someone argued that the circular surfaces were impossible to float without frames. While, designers always imagine futures and explore virtual visions instead of solving real problems continuously. Indeed, this explanation established only if I can skillfully use computational tools to translate data to the model layout. Moreover, This project is only a shallow practice of rhino modeling. Architecture requires deep thoughts or conceptual contributions behind the designing. Thus, i need to avoid the misapprehension of architectural design as exclusively a form-making exercise. is the greatest in art. “Architecture Every work is a work of art. �
Richard Meier
This passage sculpture was my first attempt on Rhino modeling in the Visual Communication subject. My idea was to create the spatial and visual experience for people passing through. I was not satisfied because, to be a sculpture, it did not explore the connection with the environmental conditions.
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM STATE OF ART OF PROJECT
ANAN
Architect Frank Gehry FIRM : Gehry Partners, LLP
JAPANESE NOODLE BAR STATE OF ART OF PROJECT
ADVANCING ARCHITECTURE DISCOURSE The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, designed by Frank Gehry, which is a prime contribution to the architecture discourse in past two decades. The museum is considered a shining example of contemporary architectural art. The building is so impressve that it might overshadow the value of art collections inside. The building is clearly recognizable for its twisted , currying lines and interconnecting volumes. It was almost instantaneous credited with promoting the Basque city in the world. It looks exactly as we imagine a real art work – innovative, also in a functional style. It explores the inevitability of a diversity of forces influencing any architectural designs. Therefore, this project advances architecture discourses definitely.
“ Architecture, of all the arts, and is the one acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul.
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Ernest Dimnet
The geometric structure developed for the project consists of a series of distorted hexagonal cells organized by a geometric pattern on the floor and the ceiling. The cells are developed and can be inhabited in different manners. The cells are made of 20mm thick acryl panels that span 3.5 m from floor to ceiling and are covered with graphic patterns produced by a selection of young graphic designers from Japan. An algorithm has been developed that runs as a Maya plug-in to minimize the number of angles and radi for the different panels.This project adopts the well established qualitative research methodology of grounded theory to examine the architects’ own discourse, to establish a hierarchical structure of factors of cellular-structure from this primary source of data. Thus, it could be one of the art project and advaces the architecture discourse.
AnAn Competition: 2005 Location: Wolfsburg, Germany Area: 370 sqm Architect: Hosoya Schaefer Architects AG, Zürich
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ANAN Reference List
TEXTS
Baan, Marc Rader & Meinel, U, 2005, Hosoya Schaefer Architects AG, Source: http://www.hosoyaschaefer.com/2005/01/anan/. Eenest Dimnet, 1928, The Art of Thinking, Quotes:� Architecture, of all the arts, and is the one acts the most slowly, but the most surely, on the soul�, pp28. Joseph F. Wong, 2009, The text of free-form architecture: qualitative study of the discourse of four architects, pp 237-236.
PHOTOS
Guggenheim Bilbao Museco, 2012, Source: http://www.guggenheimplus.es/en/. Iwan Baan, 2007, Home & House Design, Source: http://www.nhitshis.org/anan-noodle-bar-japanese-interior-design-by-hosoyaschaefer-architects/.
THE WATER CUBE
WEEK 2 CASE FOR COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN
The architects proposed a simple symbol for this building that would express water, as well as the box of bubbles. The greastest challenge was to find a structure that could uniformly fill the 3D space between the skins. That means it needs ‘a new type of frame geometry, resulting in a naturalistic sea of bubbles of varying size and shape on the cladding’. The inspirationn of starting point was the soap-film bubbles. And the computational modeling was to achieve space-filling arrangement of similar cells, of similar volumnes. In the virtual design model, the polyhedral bubble cells were arrayed in ahorizontally and vertically oriented packing. it created an appreantly ‘naturalistic, random, non-repeating and organic pattern’ on the facades. The Water Cube project practised the celler-structure in large scale. Moreover, the processeses passing from conceptual design, structural optimization and symbolizing culture. Therefore it broadens architecture discourse by interfacing the fields of designing, engineering and biology. In this case, architecture and biology share the their languages to approach the concept. Computational modeling becomes an essential tool, or media for designer to simulate the complex structures from their concept. And rethinking about the Water Cube, which kind of thought behind to push designer to seek the “non-repeating“ cells? The answer maybe exploring the nature of bubble-like structure. Accutually, there are still many potentials to seek the innovations. For the same concept “bubble”. the Input data could be other complex biological principles such as dynamic movement and cellular binging...
PTW ARCHITECTS
BEIJING, CHINA
Reference List
TEXTS
DIGITALWATER PAVILION
Arcspace Features, 2004, Source: http://www.arcspace.com/architects/ptw/.
CARLO RATTI ASSOCIATI
Burry, J & BURRY M, 2010, The New Mathematics of Architecture,’ a new type of frame geometry, resulting in a naturalistic sea of bubbles of varying size and shape on the cladding.’ naturalistic, random, non-repeating and organic pattern p87-89, p249-250.
PHOTOS
This present building serves as a manifesto for digital and contemporary computational design techniques. It is not always easy to achieve such effects when dealing with real materials such as timber and concrete, but the reconfigurable and responsible effects that I would like to discover in the Gateway project.
Water Cube, CH, 2009, http://www.chrisbosse.de/watercube/newnight.jpg Water Cube Office, 2008,Source:http://en.beijing2008.cn/46/39/WaterCube.shtml
CASE FOR INNOVATION The Digital Water Pavilion is a simple case for innovation though computational design. It originally sited at the entrance to EXPO 2008 in Zaragoza, and EXPO have always been ideal venues in which to promote innovation in architecture. The pavilion walls are formed of digitally controlled water curtains, with embedded sensors that signal the approach of visitors and create openings in the water to allow passing.
Joseph F. Wong, 2009, The text of free-form architecture: qualitative study of the discourse of four architects, pp 237-236.
“We take that responsibility,
and our partners in innovation around the world, very seriously -- that’s why we’re proud to provide the computing power needed for Architecture for Humanity to help improve living conditions for so many people. Jonathan Schwartz
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WEEK 3 CASE FOR SCRIPTING CULTURES
SEROUSSI PAVILION PARIS, FRANCE
Architects are ultimately choreographers of systems, and the benefits of teaching programming in an architectural context are manifold. If architecture wants to survive as a discipline, it needs to engage the culture of innovation and computing. (Mark Collins & Toru Hasegawa, Proxy)
Contemporary Scripting Cultures The architects generate mesmerizing outcomes systems and material from the computer-coded inputs and rules. There is a significant exchange between physical embodiment and its computational eye of creation. John Holland described that as ‘’ a lot coming from a little’’. However, there is no clear scientific definition of the concept.
Design Philosophy Criticism The project stems from investigations into potential organization at macro level. It has interests to combine the performances and expressive design approach. However, As the concept is only ‘complexity’, everything from low-level rules become high-level through self-organization. The potential illustrated that it diverged strangely from ‘emergent processes’ in nature. The complex work we see is not seeking to innovate enough. Scripting cultures should be much deeper enquiry and the quest for discovery new approaches. h t t p : / / w w w . b i o t h i n g . o r g / ? c a t = 5
WEEK 4 COMBINATIONS OF MATRIX According to Kayla, computational tools broadens the search processes for further considerations. The candidate solutions should be chosen from further development. And the search method would use the combination of depth and best first. Instead of searching the right solution, we look for a solution that closest to the Gateway project.
Overlapping Soilids ImageSampler
Curve Intersection Linear Math function
Explicit Grids Image Sampler
Using surface normals Math Function
BoolearnPattern Polygons
Curve Intersection Linear Math function
Attractor Points + 2 Graphmappers +Component
Arbitrary Points Mulitiple Maths Functions
Using sets Paneling Geometry
Arbitrary Points Rotation
Curve Intersections Attractor Points
Explicit Grids Usingsets
MATRIX parabole& & square
purline
bezier & sine summation
side view
attractor points; 2 graphmappers; component
artitrary points; multiple math functions tan(x)*sin(y)*z
tan(x)*tan(y)* z
WEEK 5 CASE-STUDY PROJECTS
BANQ RESTAURANT OFFICE-DA
FURTHUR EXPERIMENT
“ Frame the view, but not merely exhibit it, Make richer experiences. ”
Architecture Effect The Spacing between the ribs is variable. The ribs far away is compressing and the nearby is releasing. This model maintains the densities of surfaces from different angles, If this model applied on the GATEWAY site, it could create a subspace in 3 seconds for visitors passing-by. The model itself doesnt have patterns, while visitors enjoy the surface motions, shadows and lights in pace with their own movement. The model emphasises the users’ visual experiences on the way between the urban and countryside.
Effects
Digital Model
The case study of Banq restaurant appears simple. The transformation of the developed one was aim to add shadows and light effects. Panels become thinner and hollowed so that increasing the penetrating of the lights. Comparing its architectural effects, the initial characteristics of relesing and compression effects decrease. For the materility, shinning metal structure is better in the considerations of wealthering and aesthetics.
HILLS PLACE CASE-STUDY PROJECTS This case is not difficult to build model, while the essential point is, How does it reflect the architecture effects on the specific building? It changes facede structures and advancing the viewing points pentration. In the Gateway Project , this model will lose its panels functions. The fluied surface and the pointing direction needs more effects. It left many blankets to be filled.
Amanda Levette Architects
PHYSICAL MODEL EXPLORATION This physical model is based on the definition of the Banq restaurant interiors. The lightweight timber has beautiful textures but the physical model is made by plywood. The plastic sheet is such a malleable material when heated, it needs to sit on a frame, when it cools down. its shape will follow the form of the frame. Thus, a wooden frame with contour of the gateway site was adopted and further experimented. The transparent material is flexible in high temporature so it cannot be cut and have perforation performances. As the transparent sheet is dull in shape, the light changing is not apparent, either. It can be bended and not to strech.
Reference List w4-6 TEXTS
Kalay, Y, 2004, Architecture’s New Media : Principles, Theories, and Methods of Computer-Aided Design, Branko, 2003, Architecture in the Digital Age: Design, Spon Press, London.
PHOTOS
PHYSICAL MODEL -CASE STUDY BANQ
Arch i D ai l y, 2008, S ou rcces: h t t p : / / www. a rch d a i l y. com/34887/10-hills-place-amanda-levete-architects/. Horner, J, 2009, Source: http://yatzer.com/BANQ-restaurantby-Office-dA
The initial project is only the practice and experiement of the material , we need to find the concept behind to support design approach. Meanwhile, the further exploration of models need highly relate to the Gateway project. It is not only to show eye-catching shape to visitors, but also to be a hieratical cultural representations of Wyndham City.
The Wyndham City has a short history from 1862, the population of the first centry was small untill the hot period of immigrations. The population and the city development soared from 1970s. If the concept formation moves to the abstract level, it can be claimed that the frame is a representation of population structure of Wyndham City and reflects its development in two hundred years and indicates the future.
FURTHER DEVELOPMENT
The transparent malleable materials and overlapping pattern. these ideas will be further investigated and modified to create the most satisfying result to suit the goals of our teams as well as Wyndham city council
Population structure of Wyndham City
SITE REBULD National Population Figures, 2012 Wyndham_Growth_Snapshpt_20120417