DESIGN STUDIO

AIR

WENJIE SUN 698711

CONTENT

-PART A. CONCEPTUALISATION

-PART B. CRITETIA DESIGN

-PART C. DETAILED DESIGN

INTRODUCTION

When I first decided to study

architecture, I simply liked drawing and

thinking something new. After one year I

realized architecture are not only about

drawing and thinking but also achieving

my thinking and drawings to a real

through some useful techniques. I then

realized the importance and necessity of

learning and grasping the skill of digital

design.

Digital design was a complex concept for me as I was lack of such

knowledge, however through different course learning I started to

thinking digital design as a level up to physical design. The digital tools

would help design easier and save times. From 2D design to 3D design,

the digital designing tools are taking place of many original way of

designing and drawings. However digital design requires higher skills to

create a good design, therefore I still need training and studying on the

way of digital design. I believe with the development of technologies the

digital design will become more reliable and popular.

WENJIE SUN

PART

ACONCEPTUALISATION

A.1DESIGN FUTURING

This project integrate fabrication using digital design and achieved an “encoded structure” (1). By completing this design, the architects are able to articulate how digital design could engaged into the design process. It allows the control of complex interactions between material elements, also indicates the generation of data from machine.

1 Rivka Oxman and Robert Oxman, "New Structuralism: Design, Engineering And Architectural Technologies", Architectural Design, 80 (2010), 14-23 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ad.1101>.2 Tony Fry, Design Futuring (Oxford: Berg, 2009).

Gramazio & KohlerWest Fest Pavilion

Zurich, 2009

DFAB, 2010 <http://thefoxisblack.com/2010/10/26/west-fest-pavilion-by-gramazio-kohler/090410_084_produktionroboter_mk_179/> [accessed 7 March 2016]ROETHLISBERGER, MARK, 2009 <https://1mein.wordpress.com/2014/03/01/me-inarchitecture-west-fest-pavilion-by-rok/> [accessed 7 March 2016]roethlisberger, mark, 2009 <http://www.rok-office.com/projects/west-fest-pavilion-0084/> [accessed 7 March 2016]

This project surely instigates changes to design thinking. As indicated in the article that computer-controlled production tools were not widely underused, therefore the design of West Fest Pavilion is able to introduce new opportunities for design, which is designing in a more flexible condition meanwhile keep the original constructional logic.

This kind of design would indicate the idea of design intelligence which Fry brought out (2). As the West Fest Pavilion explore the possibilities of design process, it is kind of design which enable to think beyond the essential requirement. In relation to the “critical design” that Dunne introduced, “critical designs are testimonials to what could be.” The project is referring to the idea of critical thinking for design which is being sceptical and hence achieve the new way of structuring.

Aedas with AECOM and Buro HappoldXRL West Kowloon Terminus

Hong Kong

With the consideration of design futuring, this project extend the concept of environment in cities. As Fry indicates in the article, design needs to think of the current state of the environment we live in order to sustain both the design and the environment. This project blend into the environment and create interactions between people and the architecture rather than creating a regular station in the city. The project mentioned about creating unusual spatial qualities and uncommon perspectives. This kind of thinking refers to the critical thinking of breaking the original thinking and finding another concept of designing. As the roof is designed to be a path for the users and provide a view at a higher level.

1 Rivka Oxman and Robert Oxman, "New Structuralism: Design, Engineering And Architectural Technologies", Architectural Design, 80 (2010), 14-23 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ad.1101>.2 Tony Fry, Design Futuring (Oxford: Berg, 2009).

BuriHappold Engineering, 2016 <http://www.burohappold.com/technical/express-rail-link-west-kowloon-terminus-structural-excellence/> [accessed 7 March 2016]Gammon construction, 2012 <http://www.gammonconstruction.com/en/html/projects/projects-f6a6c74b5766409d871b9231c3e795b2.html> [accessed 7 March 2016]

Skyscraper, 2000 <http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=884850> [accessed 7 March 2016]

hinking the moment would help create a more sustainable design as people are starting to realize the situation and consider about the future. Such way of thinking would hence lead to a design intelligence, thus environment are built to a longer-lasting condition. Therefore the design that will be expected are those who take unique ideas while considering the current situations.

A.2DESIGN COMPUTATION

FREE, Museco Soumaya, Mexico City, Mexico, 2011

1: Rivka Oxman and Robert Oxman, Theories Of The Digital In Architecture.2: Yehuda E Kalay, Architecture’s New Media (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004).

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In this project the computation design affect a lot to the final outcomes as the form and details are too complex to present using a 2d drawing. It is easy to understand that the design process would focus more detailed on form generation (1) and design thinking. Within these concepts of computation design, the process of thinking would hence be influenced as well. In this project, as introduced, use 3D technologies to generate complex and iterated patterns as the façade also the computation design is used for every layer for the building. In comparison to the nature design process which introduced in Kalay’s article,(problem analysis, solution synthesis, evaluation and communication) (2), the computation is rather benefits to these process than changing the design process.

The Museo Soumaya focused more on form and appearances of the building. As indicated in Oxman’s article, “Form generation … are emerging as integrated process in digital design.”, which suggested that a form generation would be an important factor in future design for people used to have the thought of “ form following the function”.

As design is a clearly aimed process, computation expand the range of conceivable and achievable geometries in the design process rather than changing the initial steps of design.

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Altair, 2016 <http://www.altairatc.com/EventHome.aspx?event_id=42> [accessed 13 March 2016].Wired, 2010 <http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-11/26/museo-soumaya> [accessed 13 March 2016].

Herzog & De Meuron, Messe Basel – New Hall, Basle Switzerland due for completion April 2013

This project does displayed the internal idea of computation design of the Herzog & de Meuron team. The team focus on the performance when using a computational tool in design rather than ornament. They indicated that some of the performance tools could sometimes be distract, therefore a computational tool emerges from the architectural idea should be primary considered for the development of a form (3). This kind of concern could provide a further thinking of performance of the design. As computational design is becoming widely used, the focus on the design thinking would be rather important in a digital design process.

In this particular project, the concept is overlapping boxes with a well generated façade using digital tools. Despite the concerns, computation tools provide opportunities to extend the simple idea to a depth of complexity of the building. In referring to the theory that other from the Natural design, the digitally informed design can actually produce a second nature (4), the computational design give designer “the freedom to reinvent architecture with each new project rather than consolidating the original style”.

3: Brady Peters, "Realising The Architectural Idea: Computational Design At Herzog & De Meuron",Architectural Design, 83 (2013), 56-61 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ad.1554>.4: Rivka Oxman and Robert Oxman, Theories Of The Digital In Architecture.

John HILL, 2013 <http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=1452550&page=2> [accessed 13 March 2016].OpenBuildings, 2016 <http://openbuildings.com/buildings/messe-basel-new-hall-pro-file-44977> [accessed 13 March 2016].

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A.3COMPOSITION GENERATION

FOSTER + PARTNERSNATIONAL BANK OF KUWAIT HEADQUARTERS

KUWAIT CITY,KUWAIT, 2007

GALLERY OF NATIONAL BANK OF KUWAIT, 2007

AS EXPLORED BEFORE, COMPUTATION IS PLAYING AN IMPORTANT ROLE IN ARCHITECTURE DESIGN. PARAMETRIC MODEL WAS INITIALLY USED TO PRODUCING VARIOUS OPTIONS FOR THE

DESIGNERS, WHEREAS IT IS CURRENTLY IN USE OF INTEGRATING THE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PROCESS AND GENERATING A MORE COMPLEX

FORM OR FUNCTION FOR AN ARCHITECTURE. IN OTHER WORDS, “COMPUTATION IS REDEFINING THE PRACTICE OF ARCHITECTURE.“ (1)

IN THE PROJECT OF THE NATIONAL BANK OF KUWAIT HEADQUARTERS, THE DESIGNING TEAM USE PARAMETRIC MODELING TO GENERATE FAÇADE AND THE FUNCTIONAL USE OF EACH ELEMENT ON THE FAÇADE. IT TIGHTLY LINK THE GEOMETRIC RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ITS ELEMENTS (2). THIS ARTICLE INTRODUCES A DETAILED THINKING OF THE STRUCTURE OF THE ELEMENTS USING PARAMETRIC MODELING THROUGHOUT THE DESIGNING PROCESS. THE DESIGNING OF THIS ARCHITECTURE SHOWS THE GENERATION THOUGHTS IN DESIGN (WHERE THEY USE A MAJOR ELEMENT AND CREATE OTHER STRUCTURE BASED ON THIS KIND OF ELEMENT) RATHER THAN JUST USE COMPUTATION TOOLS AS PART OF ACHIEVING THE DESIGN THOUGHTS.

(1: BRADY PETERS AND XAVIER DE KESTELIER, COMPUTATION WORKS.2: DUSANKA POPOVSKA, “INTEGRATED COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN: NATIONAL BANK OF KUWAIT HEADQUARTERS”,ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, 83 (2013), 34-35 <HTTP://DX.DOI.ORG/10.1002/AD.1550>.

FACIT HOMESHOUSE OF CELIA AND DIANA

HERTFORDSHIRE, 2011

OTHER THAN USING ALGORITHMIC THINKING IN DESIGNING A COMMERCIAL ARCHITECTURE, IT IS ALSO INTERESTING TO LOOK AT HOW ALGORITHMIC THINKING INVOLVED IN RESIDENTIAL DESIGN.

4 CONCEPTUALISATION

IN THIS PROJECT, THE DESIGN, ENGINEERING, RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, PROTOTYPING, PRODUCTION AND ASSEMBLY PROCESSES

ARE ALL UNDERTAKEN BY SINGLE ENTITY, PARAMETRIC AND DIGITAL PRODUCTION METHODS(1). THIS PROJECT FOCUSES MORE ON

CONSTRUCTION DIRECTLY BY PARAMETRIC DESIGN. HENCE THIS REQUIRES HIGHLY ACCURACY OF ALGORITHM DEFINITION DURING THE DESIGN

PROCESS TO CONSTRUCT A STABLE ELEMENT (2). WITH A INTRODUCTION TO ALGORITHM FROM WILSON, IT IS CLEAR INDICATED

THAT SUCH PROCESS REQUIRES MORE TECHNICAL SKILLS OTHER THAN DESIGN THINKING.

COMPUTATION IS NOT ONLY INTRODUCED IN DESIGN PROCESS BUT ALSO IMPORTANT

IN THE CONSTRUCTION PART, BOTH OF THEM REQUIRE ABILITY AND INTEGRATION

WHEN USING DIGITAL METHODS.

1: BRUCE BELL AND SARAH SIMPKIN, “DOMESTICATING PARAMETRIC DESIGN”, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, 83 (2013), 88-91 <HTTP://DX.DOI.ORG/10.1002/AD.1560>.2: ROBERT A WILSON AND FRANK C KEIL, THE MIT ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCES (CAMBRIDGE, MASS.: MIT PRESS, 1999).

CONCEPTUALISATION 5

CONCLUSIONA.5

IN STUDYING PART A, IT IS IMPORTANT FOR ME TO UNDERSTAND THAT COMPUTATION DESIGN IS NOT JUST A TOOL FOR HELPING DESIGN PROCESS BUT A PART OF DESIGN THOUGHTS. WITH THE COMBINATION OF THE THOUGHTS FOR FUTURE ARCHITECTURE DESIGN AND THE USE OF COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUE, I FOUND IT IMPORTANT TO SEE THE CHANGES AND BENEFITS IN USING

COMPUTATION FOR DESIGN PROCESS. COMPUTATION IS ABLE TO GENERATE COMPLEX FORMS IN A MORE CONVENIENT WAY. ALSO WITH THE COMPUTATION DESIGN THINKING, I WOULD THINK OF GENERATING FORM USING ALGORITHMIC THINKING FORM THE INITIAL STATE OF DESIGN RATHER THAN USING THE DIGITAL SKILLS AS A TOOL TO HELP ACHIEVING DESIGN PRODUCTS.

LEARNING OUTCOME

A.6

8 CONCEPTUALISATION

IN THE BEGINNING OF THE LEARNING, WITH NO EXPERIENCE OFUSING COMPUTING TOOLS, I WAS ONLY CREATING SHAPES AND FORMS IN THE SOFTWARE. HOWEVER WITH THE INFORMATION LEARNED FROM THE LECTURE AND READING, I STARTED TO UNDERSTAND THE MEANING OF USING ALGORITHMIC TOOLS

TO GENERATE DIFFERENT FORMS. THEN I STARTED LOOKING AT GENERATING RATHER THAN THE SHAPE WHICH WAS MADE BEFORE. THINKING ABOUT HOW A FORM COULD FURTHER GENERATE USING

DIFFERENT TOOLS WILL HELP ME UNDERSTAND MORE ABOUT COMPUTATION DESIGN IN THE FUTURE STUDY OF THIS SUBJECT.

CONCEPTUALISATION 9

A.7ALGORITHMIC

SKETCH

10 CONCEPTUALISATION

THERE SKETCHES MAKE ME STARTED TO THINK OF CREATING FORMS

WITH THE HELP OF DIFFERENT TOOLS. ALSO I REALIZED THAT USING

A DIGITAL TOOL IS IMPORTANT FOR IDEA GENERATING. AND IT IS

A SKILL THAT I NEED TO FAMILIAR WITH, PRACTICE WITH.

CONCEPTUALISATION 11

12 CONCEPTUALISATION

CONCEPTUALISATION 13

REFERENCES BELL, BRUCE, AND SARAH SIMPKIN, “DOMESTICATING PARAMETRIC DESIGN”, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, 83 (2013), 88-91 HTTP://DX.DOI.ORG/10.1002/AD.1560

FRY, TONY, DESIGN FUTURING (OXFORD: BERG, 2009)

KALAY, YEHUDA E, ARCHITECTURE’S NEW MEDIA (CAMBRIDGE, MASS.: MIT PRESS, 2004)

OXMAN, RIVKA (2014), AND ROBERT OXMAN, THEORIES OF THE DIGITAL IN ARCHITECTURE

OXMAN, RIVKA, AND ROBERT OXMAN, “NEW STRUCTURALISM: DESIGN,ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGIES”, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, 80 (2010), 14-23 HTTP://DX.DOI.ORG/10.1002/AD.1101

PETERS, BRADY, “REALISING THE ARCHITECTURAL IDEA: COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN AT HERZOG & DE MEURON”,ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, 83 (2013), 56-61 <HTTP://DX.DOI.ORG/10.1002/AD.1554>

PETERS, BRADY, AND XAVIER DE KESTELIER, COMPUTATION WORKS

POPOVSKA, DUSANKA, “INTEGRATED COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN: NATIONAL BANK OF KUWAIT HEADQUARTERS”,ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, 83 (2013), 34-35 HTTP://DX.DOI.ORG/10.1002/AD.1550

14 CONCEPTUALISATION

WILSON, ROBERT A, AND FRANK C KEIL, THE MIT ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THECOGNITIVE SCIENCES(CAMBRIDGE, MASS.: MIT PRESS, 1999)

POPOVSKA, DUSANKA, “INTEGRATED COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN: NATIONAL BANK OF KUWAIT HEADQUARTERS”,ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, 83 (2013), 34-35 HTTP://DX.DOI.ORG/10.1002/AD.1550

CONCEPTUALISATION 15

PART BCRITERIA DESIGN

B.1RESEARCH FIELD

T a k i n g t h e i d e a o f parametr ic technology design to part B research, Patterning is one of the best way to express such design approach. Patterning bring complexity to both the structure and the appearance to a design. In addition, thinking of the connection between each element would become an important factor when doing patterning design.

-Warehouse in ShanghaiThis project is highlighted by its unique façade. With each rotating of the box, the façade appears as wave patterns, such pattern brings attraction and complexity to the architecture. On the other hand, considering the fabrication, the connections between the boxes should be well considered to avoid collapse of the building. Patterning used in this project brings fluidity and aesthetic to the architecture.

-Dior in Shinsaibashi, OsakaThis Dior building is the same with the one in Ginza. Unlike the previous project, the façade of this building is more simple with single surface. The façade is more focusing on the image referenced to the wall and the effects provided with other component such as light. Looking at the wall in detail, the patterns are expressed by circles with different radius. Also the lighting makes the façade look more complex.

B.2CASE STUDY 1.0

OMA- McCormick Tribune Campus Centre

This case study uses image sampler to provide uv value for points within a surface framing, then by creating a set of list and reference different shapes to the list, the shapes should be oriented by different integer coming out from the expression.

species 4

species 3

species 1

species 5

species 2

SPECIES 1

These iterations are changing of the slider for the integer.when the slider (b value) is 0, there are no various patterns showing on the grid, as the value increase to 0.5-2.5, there are patterns shown refering to the image sampler. When the b value invrease to >2.5, the pattern started to fail as there are components missing.

SPECIES 2

a*b a+b

Apart from the slider, the expression also change the value of the integer, therefore different expressions would lead to different patterns.Unlike the change to slider, the pattern shown become less similar to the sample image as the expression changes.

SPECIES 3The ratio of black and white area of the image would also result different patterns. From image 1 to 4, white part of the image is increasing and become more spred in the image, the resuld shown on the pattern becomes less consolidated than the two images before.

SPECIES 4In this type of iteration, the surface which referenced to be the frame is changing , and various patterns shows on the surface. A pyramid cannot be successfully referenced due to the sharp edges of the geometry. The geometry that referenced to the defination were continuous surfaces with no sharp edges.

a-b a/b

SPECIES 5When change the curves which w i l l show on the patterns, t he pa t te rn wou l d no t be successfully formed. This may be caused by the radius of each single shape.Also changing the slider for the integer will cause missing of one group of curves, hence t he pa t te rn wou l d no t be successfully produced.

Dividing the oriented curves to points and add one spinforce to the surface, the field lines that go through these points will form ciecles or circular lines due to the position of the spin force.

For this iteration, point charge are referenced to each point which divided from the oriented curves. Then field lines go through points created by populate 2D.The result clearly shows the attraction from each point charge to the field line also there are less field lines created at the eaged of the shape.

Metaball expressed the patterns more clearly because the position of points are regularly spread.

Similar with metaball, voronoi would express more interesting patterns using irregular points than regular points.In this result, the overlapping of the straight lines could form a rather complex appearance of the shape.

When the spin force is not set in the same 2D plane with the points but above the points, field lines will no longer produce circular curves but rather explosion-shape.

4 SELECTED ITERATIONS

This iteration pushed the referenced surface to a 3-dimentional shape, and as a result the patterns are still able to appear.By testing the reference surface of this project, I found out several different types of geometry which could make the definition work, but there are also types of geometry ( which are almost 3D geometry) could make the definition fail.

I choose this iteration because this result is a 2D shape, however to look at the image produced, it looks like a 3D pattern. This result really shows the interesting parts of point charge and field lines.

Unlike spin force in the same plane, the spin force used in this iterartion results a unique shape of field line. Also this kind of shape may be produced by some definitions other than spin force.

This iteration also uses field lines and point charge but in a 3D condition, as a result, some interesting shapes are created. In the excercise of field lines, similar results were created using other component in Grasshopper. Therefore I found this iteration successfull because it help me discover different approach to a similar result.

SELECTION CRITERIAAfter testing the definition and push them to create new form, I find it important for a design to be aesthetic and the ability to be undercontrol. Some iteration I made were unique but did not have the quality for people to appreciate. Also some of the iterations are out of control and results in a pattern that hard for people to look at and understand. In addition the practicability is also important for design, some of the iterations are not suitable or proper to use as a design.Therefore I will choose Aesthetic, Control and Practicability as my selection criteria.

SPECULATESome of the pattern g e n e r a t e d f r o m t h e original geometry would be efficient on producing building facade and some of the iterations would be used to create grains onto a surface. The 4 selected iterations would all be suitable for creating unique grains on a surface, and the metaball iteration on the left would be better for a pattern facade.

B.3CASE STUDY 2.0

Dior, Shinsaibashi, Osaka, Japan

-Initial Thoughts

Base Geometry

Image Sampling

Reference Circles

-ResultThere are no patterns showing on the surface, the radius of the circles are almost the same, faliure for this thought.

-Change Image

After changing the image, there are still no patterns showing on the surface or the patterns are hardly to be seen.This would be cause by the thickness of the lines in the image

This image successfully referenced to the surface, but the range of the grid is too small, the result of this image sampling does not look similar to the original project

Using 2 image sampler to the definition would help appear the pattern more efficiently.As a result, the images are sucessfully referenced to the surface. Although there are overlapped circles on the surface.

-Creating Facade

The next step is to make a vertical facade appear such pattern.However the circles created on the facade keep in a horizontal way.

-UnrollBrep

As image sampl ing is not working, I thought of unroll b rep and reference the pattern back onto the original brep.

Box

UnrollBrep

Create Points

Image Sample

Evaluate SurfaceCircle

B.4TECHNIQUE:

DEVELOPMENT

Radius changing of the circles effectively changes the appearance and the intensity of the pattern.Aesthetic:2Control: 4Practicability: 4

W h e n t h e r a d i u s become too large , there are overlapping of the circles, which caused the intense look of the surface.This kind of overlaps wou ld have l ower p o s s i b i l i t y f o r practiceablity.

This set of iteration is changing the values inputed to the replacement set.Each value controls some of the circles, unlike the previous iteration, changing the value would cause sudden changes to some of the circles rather than all of the circles.Aesthetic: 3Control: 2Practicability:3

These iterations focused on changing thereferenced shapes to rectangle for further 3D solids.The 3D outcomes looks better than rectang les because it is hard to control the length and width of the rectangle and avoid overlapping.For the 3D iteration, the cy l inder appears h igh ly density of the pattern and create an attractive outcome.Aesthetic: 4Control: 3Practicability: 2

Lower value in practicability is because such 3D shapes would not be constructed without any connections.

As explored before, image sampling would have an importand effect on the outcome patterning, therefore changing the image of the will help me further understand each values of the definition.Some of the images require larger radius of the circle, some require more uv value on the unrollbrep.Aesthetic: 4.5Control: 4Practicability:4

Apart from the image sample, the Brep on which the circles are referenc ing , is a lso important. A s s h o w n i n t h e definition, UnrollBrpe is used in Grasshopper as a beginning, therefore the brep which used to unroll are limited.The requirement of an unrolled brep is that there are no overlapping surfaces after unroll.As a result, different s h a p e s w o u l d b e produced but some of them could not show the patterns.Aesthetic: 4Control: 3Practicability:4

Point charge and field line is hard to control because there are too many values in the list and the software could easily fail if there are more work in progressing. In addition, the position of point charge and the point for lines to go through are important, as the result in the second picture would happen.Aesthetic: 2Control: 2Practicability: 1

When I change the point charge to spin force, the lines begin to form interesting shapes.Unlike the iteration in case study 1, this project is in 3D shape, therefore spinforce would effect better to the lines.Aesthetic:4.5Control: 4Practicability: 3Sp i n Fo r ce w i t h

attracting fieldSp i n Fo r ce w i t h repelling field

The iteration below contains 2 spinforces in different orientation, The image on the right hand side is produced using pipes over the lines.These iterations shows how much a project can be pushed and how we could think of our design using software.

B.5 / B.6PROTOTYPES

&PROPOSAL

In this section, the prototypes are cons idered and tested w i th the combination of the design proposal, after analysing the information on the site, the use of my researched technology is referring to my initial thoughts and things I discovered on the site.

SITE- CERES ENVIRONMENT COMMUNICATION PARK

chookarea

communitygardens

honeylanemarketgarden

dam

organicmarket

playspace

bikeshed

energyparkentrance

When I walk around CERES Park, I found many places a little messy, although the market and the gardens are really attractive. Among these places I think the bike shed is more impressed to me. There are many people using that space and the picture in the middle shows that the area is really messy with all old bikes and the tiers. Therefore I was thinking creating something to hide this area.

A f t e r d o i n g t h e r e v e r s e engineering, I thought I may also use circles in my own design. When I walk in the park, there were lots of spaces where bike wheels appeared. Along the road or even a tree house is constructed by a bike wheel looks like the bike shed.

Referring the tecchnology that I explored in the case studies, image sampling is important, to choose an image for the sample, I choose tyre patterns

W h e n I t h o u g h t a b o u t t h e connections, I thought of the wheels of the bike, the strings are connected by a central axis. so I tried to create connections in my design like that. If I use strings, the connection between each cylinder would be weak, but when I use panels, even with the same pattern on the top view, it will be more connected when we look perspectively.

For the detail of the connection, I choose a mechanic way. Because I t h i n k t he pa rk i s about energy saving and fr iend ly to the environment, a simple way may refer to this idea better.

B.7LEARNING OBJECTIVE

&OUTCOMES

I f ound th i s part rea l l y he lp students understanding more about conmutation design, also push students to develop the skills.When I was doing this part, I have better understanding of the concept of Grasshopper and be able to use my understanding to support my case study and design thinking.In addition, while looking at other students' work during the interim presentation, I find that although we are doing same area of researching, prople are able to come up with really different ideas, I think this may be the interesting point of learning computing and pushing each project to it's extreme.

B.8APPENDIX

PART CDETAILED DESIGN

C.1DESIGN CONCEPT

The advice from Interim presentation and PartB journal showed that my design was not detailed enough and I should think of the form and the detail connection.Originally I use clip for connection without thinking much about the form.After thinking more about the design and discussion with group members. We decided to focus on the users on the site

According to the experience on the site, there are less feeling about the water although the Park is just beside Merri Creek. Therefore we think of increasing water concept to our design.

Also we are thinking of combining the ideas from each member.

To start with, the site is re-considered. In order to combine the ideas from each group member, we thought of different possibilities such as form and appearance.

The form we considered is relating to water, combine with image sampling, Therefore the initial thought of the form was fistly decided.

Also with the consideration of site, we initially thought of creating a resting spot and sculpture to the site.

The original site I choose was near the bike shed, however the place is a little narrow to place a wall or sculpture. In addition, we would like to provide resting spot through our design, the bike shed is crowed by people who need to repair bikes, a resting space may not be necessary for this kink of users.

Initial idea of the technique process is -create a surface

-offset the surface

-use water shaped image sampler

The initial thought was quite simpleThen we thought about the connections and the appearance of the design. We decide to create two directions of surfaces to create clip intersections.

The idea of connection and fabrication is focousing on the idea from my interim design. This kind of connection is quite simple but we would like to focus more on the form and the appearances.

The reason we choose cliping is that from the experience of interim prototype. If the distance of both panel is suitable, the result would be strong enough

Initially we also thought of using bolts or screw to create kind of panel which is not fixed but move with wind.Taking this idea as an start, we thought of the vertical part may be more important and the main part of the design.

C.2TECTONIC ELEMENTS

&PROTOTYPES

After we tried to work out our initial idea as much as possible, we decided to use clip connection but consentrate on the form of each panel.Firstly we tried to fabricate a simple version of the conceptual result. The result showed that the connections are supportive for the concept model to stand.

However looking at the appearance and taking the ideas from tutor, we found that current form of design is too complex which make the design concept too seperate.Therefore we tried to discard half of the design instead of making it a loop-shape.In addition, the horizontal panels looks too wide since we wanted to create seating, but maybe we took this thought too much. We would like to focus more on vertical panels and the concept we want to use,

Rethinking of the form we want to create, the flow of Merri Creek is considered. Relate to the position of the site, the top part of Merri Creek is hence used to generate further form.

Studio AirMerri Creek Site Plan

This kind of curvey shape not only refer to the shape of the river, the curve itself refers to the shape of wave, which may remind people of water. However this kind of idea is not enough. Since the design would be horizontal part and vertical part, we then may need to think of another element or concept for the design.

Using image sampling would create effective patterns. Additionally, taking the idea from previous prototype, we need to improve the form of the vertical panels. Therefore we decided to image sample on vertical panels.

Instead of using a curvey shape for vertical panel, we tried to start with rectangular panel and then use image sampling to change the appearance.

The image we choose is water pattern which are quite strong in shade contrast, therefore the effect of patter on the panel would be stong.The process is same with what we thought before. Create single panel and offset followed with image sampling to create water pattern to the panels.

Reffering to the requirement of the brief, we are designing a wall shape design to the site. Therefore if we concentrate on the vertical panels, the design may bring experiences to the users in the site.

During the discussion, one of the member achieve similar effect on Aqua Tower iteration, therefore we thought we might want to achieve such effect on the design.

But we are not able to achieve regular grid shape on a curvey panel. Since we still want to achieve the grid effect, we are thinking form grid shape by vertical and horizontal panels.

We choose to use the Merri Creek flow shape as the horizontal part of the design. Instead of using single panel, the panels are multiplied to both make the wall more stable and construct grid shape to the wall.

The perspective view of this render, the vertical panels block too much light so that it looks quite massive as a whole.

Since initially we want to make the panels look hollow, we started to think of another way to achieve such appearance other than regular grid shapes.

According to the idea of using bike tyre as one of the pattern, we thought that we could use diagonalise definition in Grasshopper to create similar pattern.

The diagonal lines are created according to the shape and the width of the panel. Lines will become tighter when the width of the panel become smaller. We thought the reason of this condition is because that the diagonal line is created according to mesh pieces. Therefore the lines become very compact.

After the diagonal lines we used Weaverbird frame definition to make the lines into frames and use Weaverbird naked outline to make the frame outlines so that the linework would be fabricatable.

The rendered result is effective showed. We therefore want to fabricate such design.However at this stage the panel still cannot be fabricated. Since the geometries on the panel are too small to cut, we need to change the width of each frame.Although we tried to change the scale of the panel, the geometrie are still too small.

After this we tried to solve this problem.Since the minimum cutting area of Laser Cutter is 8mm*8mm, We though if we cull the small geometries which are under limitation, the panels should be able to be fabricated.

From the result of culled panel, the geometries are culled too much so that the panel does not look hollow anymore.Therefore we tried another way to make the pattern more effective on the panel.We change the total width of the rectangular panels so that the diagonal lines would be rather loose.Also we tried to seperate the single panel with small pieces of rectangulars. When the panels are divided into small pieces, there are less width changes, therefore the diagonal lines would not become too tight.

Although there are still small geometries under limitation, culling these geometries would not affect too much to the appearance to the panel.

The main part of the penel keep the diagonal pattern, only parts near the outline are culled. Therefore we may use this way to further construct our design.

After we decided to use this pattern of panel, we started to render out the design we had achieved so far.

C.3FINAL DETAIL MODEL

Since our design is devided into horizontal part and vertical part, we fabricate them seperately.

The horizontal part contains groove to connect vertical panels.

We choose MDF because the material is hard enough and the color is similar to timber.However we miss the dimention of the grooves, the distance are not enough for MDF, therefore we were to choose 1.8mm card board for vertical panels.

If there are groove on the vertical panel, the model would be more stable to construct, however due to the hallow pattern on the panels, it is impossible to openings, therefore only the horizontal part contains connection openings.

Since the panels are effective and fabricatable, the panels are fabricated about 30 pieces.

PROBLEMS WE MEET

During the process of fabrication, we met some problems as well.

- Since there are too many geometries on the vertical panel, we scaled up the panel so that most of the geometries are able to cut in Laser Cutter. This causes that the horizontal panels are smaller than verticle ones. Although the connections are still working, the model looks taller than it should be.

- The opening on the horizontal panels are not wide enough for MDF to be the material for the verticle panels therefore we choose card board. The model will stand well still but the appearance is not ideal with the rendered one.

- As indicated before, the vertical panels are not avaliable for openings. Therefore although the horizontal panel openings would still make the model stand, we need assistance of glue.

- Because the horizontal panels are not large enough comparing to the verticle ones, therefore we use less than 30 panels of verticle columns, as a result, the curve effect are not as strong as it in the render.

CONCLUSION

From the study and excercise of this semester I think I had learned more than computation design skills.

The first several week we are able to learn Grasshopper which is a new software to me. After several week learning, I shall create many interesting shapes using grasshopper, but generating complex form on a design may still seem a bit difficult for me. This is when I think I should improve more on my learning skill. Since all the students starts at similar point, but some of them are able to create more complex form. I think from the first several week I have not only learn how to use a new sofware with computational thinking, but also remind me that I may need to improve my skill of learning and excercising.

The interim presentation really helped me further grnerate my idea in the final part. Dividing in groups really increase the efficiency of each individual. Although I think our group had some trouble in managing time, we would have more possibilities and design more in the last four weeks.However I feel really lucky to be in such a inspired class, during the Final presentation, I see potentials of my classmate and various approach of designing and trying. This I think is the most important thing I have learnt from this class. I am able to consider more when I design. Also I learn skills.

Overall I think the class really helped me and inspired me, and I would like to further develop computation design to help me in future projects.