PORTFOLIO Summer 2016 Washington University in St. Louis zifanwang@wustl.edu 314-762-7120
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Contents
Site and Space
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Constructing a Site Constructing an Encounter Constructing an Event
Voluming the Surface
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Collective Housing
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Microdistrict
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Constructing a Site Stage I of Site and Space
Constructing a site
“How to map a site? Use certain characteristics as the object of study and survey the site to obtain data and records. Later on transform these data to 2D drawing and 3D model.�
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6 Setting rules to transform the density of soil into patterns.
Raw Data Arrow combinations
Data trend represented by arrows
Constructing a site
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Constructing an Encounter Stage II of Site and Space
Constructing an encounter
“Do you see spaces formed from the previous mapping? Can you make a place for encountering using a similar language? Can you instead of extruding but to form a space of volume?�
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Encounter [in’kauntə] n. 1. a minor short-term fight 2. a casual or unexpected convergence 3. a casual meeting with a person of thing 4. a hostile disagreement face-to-face
Constructing an encounter
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Constructing an Event
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Stage III of Site and Space
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“What is the importance of landscape? How to integrate landscape into the overall form. If you are interested in water flow of rain and the soil erosion, how are they mapped and related to the architectural design of spaces?�
Constructing an event
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Voluming the Surface Team work from “Performance Enhancing”
Voluming the surface, team member Ruicong Tang
“What will happen when architecture meets fashion? Can fashion design become a source of inspiration for better performance of architecture? That is what this course is about, performance enhancing, through the marriage of fashion and architecture.”
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References and geometry study
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twist
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layering
repeat
shadows
patterns
patterns
Generative Diagram of the Custom Fabric
Analysis by: Zifan Wang, Ruicong Tang
Surface to Volume Study
Developing Process
Traditional fabric-based pleating
Form transformation
Plastic strips attached onto seperate strutural pieces
When a material is twisted, moment occurs and the material tends to go back to its original form. This every first study model shows how it starts to twist as a whole when we try to fix the ends to the top and bottom structural stripes. This is a challenge for us as it is not a problem when the twisted stripes are fixed on a solid surface. Also it remains its ability to change shapes under external forces.
Voluming the surface
Ability to transform under external forces
Plastic strips attached onto a rigid surface
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Structure, connection and form development
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Challenges:
1. Stripes need to be attached to some looped structured pieces, which is not ideal for aesthetic looking. 2. The overall object starts to twist due to the forces generated from the twisted pieces. The whole structure is not stable.
Voluming the surface
The design of a two-layer system becomes the solution for the structural problem we have before. The idea is that one layer twist clockwise and the other twists counterclockwise such that the moments will balance and the whole structure will be stable on its own. Connection “tabs“ are developed under such scheme to anchor the points where stripes start to twist and connect one stripe to another. The whole form design follows those two principles of making to make sure the dress can be made physically.
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Prototype for testing
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Grasshopper _computational design
Exploded Base surfaces
Front and Back surface
Exploded Right View
Voluming the surface
The complexity of the design demands digital modeling as a tool to subdivide the surface into twisted stripes. Grasshopper becomes the best option since we have rigid logic to follow in making the dress. The code finally works after many iterations, although there are still small things we cannot fully address.
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Voluming the surface
The final dress still looks a little different from the rhino model, since rhino does not take in the material properties of the plastics we use. However, the process of design and making turns out to be very similar to an architecture project and is what should be valued the most: concepts, forms, iterations, making and perfection.
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Collective Housing
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“Can you design by hand? Use only pencils, papers, and physical models to design a 30-unit housing for people live and travel in Niseko, Hokkaido. You will see the design can be interesting even for a collective housing project.�
Site Research Collage
Collective Housing
Initial Designed Perspective for a single unit
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Iteration I
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Single Unit Plan
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A typical floor plan for collective housing
Iteration 2
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Iteration III
120~150 degrees
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3rd level floor plan
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Ground level floor plan, top view of the underground movie theatre
Collective Housing
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Microdistrict
Hybrid of residential and production programs
Microdistrict
“Microdistrict is an urban design concpet created by the socialists: the Russians. In a microdistrict, people work in one specific industry and live around. How can this concept apply to modern metropolitans, such as Seoul?�
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Study of local building scales
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CNC Building mass on site
Building mass iterations
Design concept development The private passages
The undulating roof surface
Residential levels
The office ring, with three social space connecting to third level administration section
The public passages
Microdistrict
The underground level workshops and stations
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P2 P5
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P1
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Ground Floor Plan, 1:1000 in metrics
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P3
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2nd Floor Plan, 1:1000 in metrics
Microdistrict
1st Floor Plan, 1:1000 in metrics
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P2_Sta
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P1_Entry way perspective
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P4_Exterior roof ramp, connecting residential levels
aircase up to second floor, view towards the entry way space
P3_Social space perspective, view towards the upcoming staircase
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P5_The inner garden perspective, under one bridge
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2nd Floor Plan Cut
1st Floor Plan Cut
Ground Floor Plan Cut
Microdistrict
Section Perspective of section A-A’
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PORTFOLIO Summer 2016
Washington University in St. Louis zifanwang@wustl.edu 314-762-7120