Yiru 864046 portfolio final

Digital Design - Portfolio Semester 1, 2018 Yiru Zhang

864046 Han Li+ Studio 17

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email: yiruz2@student.unimelb.edu.au

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After studying the course Digital Design, my skill of using digital techniques had improved in a general level.

Precedent Study

Education: 2017 - current 2014-2017

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Bachelor of Design Jinan Foreign Language School

Generating Design Through Digital Processes Awards / Exhibition: 2017

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FOD:R Exhibition, AFLK Gallery

Queen Victoria Garden Pavilion

For this semester I learned from Peter Zumthor’s design the most, as he was the designe for my precedent study in Module one. He was an architect who did great work on threshold, light and shadow effects. His design gave me an idea that even the form or structure of the building is not that complecated, the designer could still create better threshold and atmostphere, and maximise the user’s experience. And that’s what I want to achieve in my design.

Skills:

Although I tried to learn more from other architects and designers

Rhino Grasshopper

for this semester, my own use of these knowledges still need more practice and experience. I still need to make my design more relate to its function and take more time on understanding requirement for the tasks. Also my skill for using parametric softwires still need to improve in order to express my intention in a better way.

Unreal Photoshop Illustrator Indesign Fabrication add more ++

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Diagramming Design Precedent

The Serpentine Pavilion designed by Peter Zumthor was a great example for a building that in a perfect square shape to have complex circulation. One of the most interesting point for this design was that it brought in a garden inside the building. The structure and the form of the building was relatively simple, but the architect used multiple doors, internal garden and the dark walkway to create multiple threshold and circulation. The design gives the idea that good architecture does not only means complex form or gorgeous appearance, but also consider how people could occupy the space.

Isometric of precedent study

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Circulation Diagram

Threshold Diagram

Circulation Diagram

Threshold Diagram

Use 6 outter doors and 4 inner doors to achieve maximum circulation.

The amount of people flow would change according to site and the direction building.

Using internal and external walls to make a threshold between inside and outside the building. The roof extened to the garden area allows more communication space for users.

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Design Matrix

Lofts

1.1

1.2

1.3

{-263,655,151}

{-113,730,1}

{-314,591,151} {-306,591,151}

{-76,711,151}

Key

1.4

(-135,711,151)

{0,0,0} {24,860,151}

{-126,711,151}

{-276,712,151}

{-126,860,151}

{-126,710,151}

{-105,711,101} {-216,650,151}

{-263,655,151}

{-276,501,1} {-246,561,1} {-255,561,1}

{-276,741,1}]]] {-216.972,1}

{-143,580,1}

{Index Selection}

{Index Selection}

2.1

2.2

{-96.,611,1}

{-113,580,151}

{-126,561,1}

{23.7266,710,1} {-255,711,1}

{-126,710,1}

{-96,711,1}

{Index Selection}

{Index Selection}

{-311,587,221}

Paneling Grid & Attractor Point

2.3

{-38.0871,90,150}

2.4 {-226,701,221}

{-30,90,150}

{-313,588,85}

{-287,644,70} {-228,701,85}

Paneling

{Attractor Point Location}

{Attractor Point Location}

{Attractor Curve Location}

{Attractor Curve Location}

3.1

3.2

3.3

3.4

Design Matrix 1:5

tucture concentrates at top end of waffle, the panelling attractors are also placed here in order to form a

Design Matrix for Task 01-Idea of centralising on one point.

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Attractor / Control Poin

Attractor / Control Curv Grid Points

Surface and Waffle

Design Matrix 1:5

Stucture concentrates at top end of waffle, the panelling attractors are also placed here in order to form a better enlocure space.

Using solid stucture at one surface and open surface at the other side creates better threshold between exterior and interior. Also it gives a feeling of stable and safe.

Panels are larger at the bottom and decrease in size towards the top of the volume which gives a feeling of stable and safe.

Using 3*3 grid in order to get lager area of lighting.

Insert at least 100 words on your process of creating your Stucture has larger opening task in 01 order of Module 02.

Exploded Isomatrics1:1 0

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60mm

Use human figures as a reference of the size of the structure as a building

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to form a welcoming structure, and the stucture closes at the top end.

Computation Workflow

Task 01 Grasshopper Script Showing input - associate - output

Use squre as a bounding box for

3D Panelling process. Use panelling

3D panel for the other surface. I also

generating two surfaces and the following design. They are also the base surfaces for the waffle structure.

tool of the grasshopper to create panels on the surface. Use attractor points or curves to make the design more dynamic and flexible, fit the generall purpose.

made attempts on 2D panels but I found solid 3D panels fit more on my design.

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Computation Workflow

Task 01 Grasshopper Script Showing input - associate - output

Use contour for z axis and fixed

Use extruded geometries to trim the

Create text label for each laser

distance on surfaces, offset to generate the base plane for waffle structure.

structures in order that it could fit in each other and better support the structure.

cutting pieces.

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Task 01 Full Page Photo

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Task 01 Laser Cutting Linework

Insert photos of assembly process or other detail related to your fabrication process

Laser cutting unrolled 2D panels and waffle structures. Even had trimmed gaps the structures aree hard to get together without glue.

Need consider more on the way to stick panels and structures together.

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Design Matrix 1:5

SOLID AND VOID

ning at the top allows more natural sunlight o into the space and makes the space lighter, h creates interesting threshold.

The cubic overall form was inspired by Peter Zumthor ‘s Serpentine Pavilion. I tried to take the voids in different sizes to increase diversity in the structure, and increase its function as an architecture from the scale of 1:50.

ces that are not intersecting with er gives a sense of privacy and seen as a double-storey room.

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Connection between intersa space can be used as pathw to different rooms and create circulation.

Solid area in between space a wall-liked feeling which inte more of the seperation of dif space. opening space near the grou be seen as a simple entrance space and creates circulatio the space.

spaces of different sizes could be fferent function.

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Design Matrix

Grid Manipulation

1.1

1.2

1.3

Key

1.4

{0,0,0}

{137,32,135}

Grid Points

{79,60,128} {134,117,121}

{93,100,127} {80,80,81} {44,123,124}

{75,-59,48}

{71,66,85}

{50,116,109}

{103,133,28}

Sphere Distribution

{4 Point Attractors}

{3 Point Attractors}

{Curve Attractor}

{Curve Attractor}

2.1

2.2

2.3

2.4

{80,80,81}

{71,66,88} {55,100,119}

{50,116,109}

(195,63,-43)

Sphere Transformation

{Volume Gravitational Centres}

{Point attctors}

{Point Attractors}

{Curve Attractor}

3.1

3.2

3.3

3.4

Design Matrix 1:5

Insert your Design Matrix for Task 02 Maximum diversity

Opening at the top allows more natural sunlight to go into the space and makes the space lighter, which creates interesting threshold.

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Attractor / Control Poin

Attractor / Control Curv

{77,74,165}

(35,29,23)

Computational Process

Task 01 Grasshopper Script Showing input - associate - output

Create a 3*3 point grid on the surface, and use 3 layers of these grid as base for the following development and design.

Further change the base points in order to change the position and size of the spheres to create diversity in voids.

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Take my own geometry into the script. Use panelling tool and move the centroid of geometries onto the points created before.

M2 Task 2 3D Printing

Task 02 3D Printing Makerbot Screenshot after calculation.

Final 3D print part.

Place thicker and more flat surface on the buttom to minimise support structure for 3D print.

Use boolean difference to deduct geometries from the cube. Take the part that contains the most diversity in space.

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M3 - Spiral Pavilion

The upper level could be used as a stage for the band performance while stairs could be spaces for people who want to see the performance.

Steps allow people to seat in daytime and could be used as audience space for concert.

The wooden material used for seatings makes it feel warmer.

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Structure is created using panelling tool in Grasshopper. The hexagon shape create different threshold of light and shadow. The sloping trend allows shadow to be created on the ground.

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Exploded Isometric 1:25 0

500

PROJECT TITLE

1500mm

The step down creates a threshold helping to differentiate the landscape from the pavilion itself, leading up to decking and entrance.

The decking is made of glass on top and metal for structure(generated

by Grasshopper). The material’s reflection of sky and its transparency makes people closer to the natural environment. The edge of decking could be used as seatings.

Isometric

My design concept is to use a simple cylinder structure to create more circulation and threshold of the building. The panels are to increase its light effects, use white concrete as its material in order to reflect more color from the light. The seminar could be held inside the building as there would be cover from the top and the space can contain 15 people to seat loosely. The band for the concert at night could stand on top of the overall structure, people could stand around the pavilion or on the stair to listen to the band. The pavilion has 2 main entrance and the stair could be used as a pathway to the upper storey as well as seating.

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Design Iteration

Generate from curved surfaces. The design contains 4 entrances, and the roof could be used as performance space.

Use spiral surfaces to create a complex structure with multiple entrance and light effects. But it is too complex to finalise all the details and doesn’t fit the function of the pavilion.

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Use spiral form as a general idea. the internal space was to used as a lecture space, the structure had two storeys and the upper storey could be covered by a spiral roof on top of it. But the structure’s circulation was too simple and too enclosed.

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Computational Process

Part of Module 3 Grasshopper Script Showing input - associate - output

Use a circle as the basement to do further development. Devide the circle and use the midpoint of the curves as centers to the colomns.

Use series of commands to create a spiral stair around the structure. The height could be adjust by different parametrics.

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Use voronoi command to create the support for the base decking.

The panals are created by 3D pannelling tools.

Fabrication process

Use 3 different materials- mount board for waffle and ground, clear perspex for decking glass and column and plywood for decking support.

The 3D panel was made by 3D print.

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360 Image Output

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