Digital Design - Module 01 Semester 1, 2018 Zhiyu Shen (900778)
Joel - Studio 15
Week One
Reading: Zeara Polo, A. 2010. Between Ideas and Matters.
According to Zeara-Polo, the diagram does not play a representational role in the design process but provides an organisational and can have a performative quality depending on how it is deployed. Explain how Diagram is different from Signs and Symbols? (100 words Maximum)
Symbols, icons, and indexes are all signs. A symbol is a sign which refers to its dynamic objects through a formal representation. However, diagrams are opposed to symbols and signs. It does not represent any dynamic objects, instead it is used as a tool describing the relationship and actions and/or performances of the dynamic objects within the system. Diagrams may exist in different dimensions of reality (not restricted to only three-dimension), unlike symbols and/or signs. Dissimilar to symbols and signs, once a diagram receives information (“determinant form of mediation�), it would then become drawings which can be universally understood by many others.
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Week One
Precedent Analysis
TOYO ITO SERPENTINE PAVILION 2002 Firms - Balmond Studio and Toyo Ito & Associates Architects Architects - Toyo Ito, Cecil Balmond, and Arup Client - Serpentine Gallery Trust Area - 309.76 sqm Location - Kensington Garden, London, United Kingdom Design and Materials The Serpentine Pavilion focuses on modern and contemporary art. The design is inspired from the arrangement of cubes that enlarges as it rotates, composed by Balmond. The main structure (intersecting lines) is made of supportive steel blades. The facades (the triangles and trapezoids) are aluminium panels or chequered-patterned glass. Photos - by Sylvain Deleu (2002) - https://www.archdaily.com/344319/serpentine-gallery-pavilion-2002-toyo-ito-cecil-balmond-arup/
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Week Two
Reading: Hertzberger H. 2005. The in-between and The Habitable Space Between Things, from Lessons for Students in Architecture. Herzberger discusses how design should not be extreme in its functionality. Use your precedent study to explain how the pavilion allows for an appropriation of use. (100 words Maximum)
As pictured by Herzberger, architects should responsible for adding value to their design, which can be achieved by increasing functionality of a design. Although the Toyo Ito Pavilion is designed in a very basic shape - four walls surronding a rectangle space with a multi-material roof, it achieves different functions, which is different from tools which are designed for a single function. There are four entrences formed by opening the random shape created by the lines on each facades. The design is very essence, which can host many different programs. So that this pavilion then becomes an “instrument”, rather than a “tool”.
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Week Two
Isometric
ISOMETRIC - TOYO ITO SERPENTINE PAVILION 2002 This is a South-East isometric view of the Toyo Ito Pavilion, which can give a emphasize on the entrances (stairs). It is generated by command “Make2D� in Rhinoceros 5 and graphically altered using Adobe Illustrator. The structure of the pavilion are modeled in 3D (has deepth). Line weights of solid, galze and base are 0.25 pt, while the structure is 0.1 pt (to show the deepth of structure more clearly). The structure, solid and base are white, and the glaze has a dark tint with transparense so that the objects beneath the glaze can be seen.
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Week Two Diagrams
Circulation
The density of people
There are one entrance each facade, which contributes to the circulation (as primary circulation shows in the diagram). People usually would prefer to enter or exit through openings that are relatively large and tall. So people may more tend to use the South opening. Secondary circulation areas are areas outside the primary circulation areas. Secondary circulation areas in Toyo Ito Pavilion are mainly used for seating and gathering.
Solid
The primary & secondary circulation
Threshold
Glaze & Structure
The roof of Toyo Ito Pavilion is made of two differnent material - aluminium panels and glass, which gives the space inside a very fantastic atmosphere of light. It is really interesting that the architects created such a pavilion with radom shaped appearence and shadow by using a rectangle shaped land. Shadows & Furniture The circulation path
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Appendix Process
< The line work of solid traced in Rhinoceres
The line work of structure traced in Rhinoceres >
< Import the original plan and section drawing to Rhino.
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Appendix Process
< Use command “PlanarSrf” to make the closed curves in to surfaces as glazing of the building.
^ Use these commands to make every facade, then rotate and < Use command “ExtrudeCrv” to make the closed curves in to
move them together to create the pavilion.
solid as solid of the building.
(In picture, from left to right: base, structure, solid, glaze.)
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Appendix
Process
< Overlap them together to get the whole pavilion.
Using command â&#x20AC;&#x153;make2Dâ&#x20AC;? to get the linework, export by layers into Adobe Illustrator and colored by live The model in rendered mode in Rhinoceros 5.
paint bucket.
(bottom left corner)
(bottom right corner)
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Bibliography
“Serpentine Gallery Pavilion with Toyo Ito”, Architizer, accessed 11 March 2018, https://architizer.com/projects/serpentine-gallery-pavilion-with-toyo-ito/ “Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002 / Toyo Ito + Cecil Balmond + Arup”, ArchDaily, accessed 11 March 2018, https://www.archdaily.com/344319/serpentine-gallery-pavilion2002-toyo-ito-cecil-balmond-arup “Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2002 by Toyo Ito and Cecil Balmond with Arup”, Serpentine Gallery, accessed 11 March 2018, http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitionsevents/serpentine-gallery-pavilion-2002-toyo-ito-and-cecil-balmond-arup “Serpentine Pavilion 2002”, Balmond Studio, accessed 11 March 2018, http://www.balmondstudio.com/work/serpentine-pavilion-2002.php “Toyo Ito “gulped” when asked to design the 2002 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion”, Ben Hobson, accessed 11 March 2018, https://www.dezeen.com/2015/09/03/movie-serpentine-gallery-pavilion-2002-toyo-ito-cecil-balmond-arup-julia-peyton-jones/
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