final journal

Architectural Design 3: AIR JOURNAL

Min Zhang (Kelly)_389708

EXPRESSION OF INTEREST STAGE

PART A. THE CASE FOR INNOVATION01 Achitecture As a Disourse UK PAVILION by Heatherwick Studio SUNRISE TOWER vy Zaha Hadid02Architecture as an innovation CRYSTAL ISLAND by Norman Forster Urban Oasis by Influx Studio in Manama,Bahrain03 Scripting Culture The Transformation of King’s Cross Station by John McAslan + Partners (JMP) London

PART B. CASE STUDY: CUT DEVELOPMENT & FABRICATE04 CUT Definition-Matrix Exploration of Prametric Model in Metrix05 Case Study_Digital madolling Airspace Tokyo 05 Case Study_Digital madolling06 Process of physical modelling for Gateway project Exploration of ideas and modelling07 Approaching to a closed final physical model for Gateway project Finalise the design concept and physical model08 Project presentation feedback

PROJECT PROPOSAL STAGE

PART C: PROJECT DEVELOPMENT01 RETHINKING: From The Previous Design02 Site Analysis & Understanding From The Brief 03 Conculsion of the main DEVELOMENT DIRECTION04 Conceptural Ideas Development From The Site: - Natural - Humen settlement05 Inspirations -Bridge construction method -Chunk’s move connected 06 Materiality Researches 07 Dimentions Detail: How exciting it can be sit in the site?08 Construction Detail Drawings: Construction methods09 Ideas Generation VS Movements: - Development process viewed from the degital models - Interesting views from colored material rendering - Development process viewed FTER RENDERING FROM RHINO - Lighting: Physical model show day& night time views10 Learning Objectives and outcomes

CONTENT

UK PAVILION by Heatherwick Studio 01 Architecture as a discourse

Richard Williams states:"Architecture is as much a philosophical, social or professional realm as it is a material

one, and it is through the consideration of architecture as discourse that one can engage with it as visual culture... approaches to architecture: architecture as a form of art;

architecture as a symbolic realm; and architecture as spatial experience."

The wavering external surfaces of the Seed Cathedral form a delicate connection between the ground and the sky. It looks like a mass sculpture sitting in the centre of the site. This

is how Heatherwick studio aiming: "bring architecture, design and sculpture together within a single practice. "

Structurally, This piece of art not only gain attention through the dramatic and attractive facade, but also creates curiosity how the building can be constructed. 'The dandelion

pavilion' was doubted could be done, due to its complex form. Eventually, it's constructed successfully by 1 metre thick wood diaphragm framing.

For our gateway project, should attempt it in different built form rather than a traditional built form through computational or physical modelling.

Lighting effects from Interior views

Inspired from the lighting effects and materials

'The UK Pavilion is 20 metres in height, formed from 60,000 slender transparent fibre optic rods, each 7.5 metres long and each encasing one or more seeds at its tip. During the day, they draw daylight inwards to illuminate the interior. At night, light sources inside each rod allow the whole structure to glow.' The lighting technology can be referenced for the gateway project. Utilise the passing car lights to create glowing surface of the structure through reflective materials.

Richard William also common on how is architecture developing as a discourse, "Although attention may perhaps have shifted from the building facade, which, with modernism, has mattered less and less, to what the architectural historian Kenneth Frampton has caBed the 'tectonic'. which is to say, an aesthetic concern with the structure of buildings.“

Sunrise Tower is designed by Zaha Hadid, becomes a skyscraper in Malaysia. This is a multi-functional building including offices, hotels, shops, private housing and large underground garage. The tower rises to a height of 280m, and it's contained 62 overground and 4 underground floors. Computational technology allows the innovation for progress of shifting the facade into a structural skelton in order to achieve stability of the whole building. The building is wrapped by the perforated outer "skin" which is the building envelope.For the gateway project, we can focus on transferring a facade into a structural form building to create dramatic geometric form of the design.

SUNRISE TOWER by Zaha Hadid 01 Architecture as a discourse

CRYSTAL ISLAND by Norman Forster

02Architecture as an innovation

Contemporary computational design helps to solve problems and raises more architecture possibilities to modern world through innovation. 3D structures are able to be transferred from through digital modeling to real construction consistently and accurately. - Achieve large scale architectural design- Efficiency of produce design process and construction accomplishment. - Unlike traditional design method, allows the design expressed in "smooth" curve structure an d achieve structural stability, which towards to future innovation computational design.

Parametric design using computer technology has led to a new way in architectural design. Designers now can create spaces and structures in a more continuous sense, instead of making individual “blobs”, they can consider the building as a whole and generate ideas by making and placing parametric forms.Relate back to our gateway project, this project is more convincing to discribe how computational design can be achieved a structural design rather than a facade.

Kalay states: " they always have side effects and aftereffects, which may render the solution unacceptable for reasons not directly associated with the problem itself."

This photo capture has proofed that the design can be done by grasshopper and can be seen as a parametric design. Rotat and repeat one spiral several times by using a fixed reference

This is a design proposal for a large-scale public square in Manama, Bahrain. The project focuses on providing a metropolitan platform that not only links the city's historical urban fabric and the new modern together but also encourages pedestrians to meet and stay under a sheltering pavilion structure. Again computational design allows the "skin" of architecture express structural and special form effectively. The feature of 'organic' in this design proposal emphasis humanity is more centralise now. Also it reveals how computation assists the designers to contribute their creativity on innovating such large scale design and dramatic built form. The designer utilizes computation skill to develop an idea to achieve better life style and living conditions. In another word, the building form is not only achieving artistic beauty but also the functionality and new idea like 'organic design' approaching.From this project, we are inspired to attempt complex pattern of the facade but achieving very pure simple form structurally through

computation design.

Urban Oasis by Influx Studio in Manama,Bahrain

02Architecture as an innovation

" Expression of Interest" 03 SCRIPTING CUlTURE

"At its simplest... facilitaing a far greater range of potential outcomes for the same investment in time."

Scriping Cluture has been engaged since 19C. Until now, it has become more mature and common use in the architetural design process through years and years development. Degital design speculation provides opportaunities for the designers to create much greater range of possible outcomes.Improve the efficiency of conducitng design outcomes, reduce the limitations of aproaching protential possiblities of the design outcomes. From JMP's 'Transformation of King's Cross Station', degital design assists to achieve such extraordinary geometry form work and provide better design conditions for large scale design like this. This dramatic interior space creates very spectacular view for passages getting on or off from this station. This King's Cross station becomes a piece of monument architecture in London.

the transformation o f K i n g ’ s C r o ss station b y J o h n M c A s l a n +

Partners (JMP)

london

Exploration of Prametric Model in Metrix 04 CUT Definition-Matrix

Started with a ‘surface’, play with the pattern that could be created with group of cirles, -as the circles getting smaller or getting bigger.

First attempt to change the shape of the origin “surface”.

Attempted to play with the surface created by ‘larger circles’. It gives very different patterns compared to the images on the right page. This set of CUT definition can help to achieve more irregular size of the ‘circle’ to create different patterns.

Attempted to get more dramatic visual impacts by ‘twisting’ the orign ‘surface’ to get a flowing and smooth structure-like digital model. They can be with different kind of pattern as a “facade” appearance.

A twisted ‘surface’ expressed by zise of the circles gradually changing from large to small. This outcome is not closer to achive a ‘smoothy’ structure.

Airspace Tokyo 05 Case Study

Airspace Tokyo is a four-storey, mixed use residential and commercial building,which is designed by Tokyo architect Hajime Masubuchi of Studio M. And the public faces of the building were developed by the Faulders Studio in San Francisco. The screen conceived as a protective airspace. The cellular design and double layering of the screen is like the lush vegetation. In the night, the screen modulates views in and out of the building, and casts shadows of the geometric voids onto the street.In fact, I like the way they explored the lighting effects through layering the panels with irregular circular hollows. Howerer, for our gateway project we can do more than that, which is not just a deign of ‘facade’. We can create an more stable tridimensional and vivid structural “object”, - Explode the whole structure without skin.

Airspace Tokyo 05 Case Study_Digital madolling

This photo capture shows the outcome of the case study, which is created from Rhino and Grasshopper. Randomly create several points in Rhino on a plan and use these points as center-points to create circles form. Set boundaries between the edges of circles, to stop them from reaching each other. Inorder to express the cirles in a irregular shape, the distance between centers need to be changed.The outcome is very successful to show the organic and random patterns. We can utilise this simple panel in Rhnio to create as much as possilble 3D digital models or physical model through prefrabication.

We use the ogirinal outcome to create some other varible outcomes through increasing increasing number of points, rearranging points, changing radius of circles and resetting boundaries. They are all shown below.In order to create a more structure-like model for our gateway project. The most with less hollows and the eages is thick and stronge enough is chosen to work through our gateway project modelling making, which is the one cirled in red retangular.

Exploration of ideas and modelling 06 Process of physical modelling for Gateway project

Premiler ideas: 1. Overlaying the single sheets 2. Ramdonly lean the single sheets together

1.Overlaying the 3 single sheets, this outcome is very similar to our Case study- facade through multiple sheets overlaying each other. This very simple facade form design could give us very impressive starting point.

2. Ramdonly lean the sigle sheet togetherAttempting to make the 2D ‘facade’ panel to stand towards a 3D structure-like object. There are 3 sheets leaning together to be able to stand. However, we need to explore on the idea of materials used to achieve this kind of structue to be stable. And the created shadows under structure looks like another layer of patterns crossing with boxboard sheets.

2. Ramdonly lean the sigle sheet togetherIn order to make the structure to be more stable by itself, we use half of the sheet to connect a trianglar combined by tow other sheets. Looking through structure, with shadow on ground and structure above, created a tunnel of the pattern. This the initial idea that we generated from- inspired us to design a gateway goes across the highway above head and allow the vehicle travel through a tunnel.

Acrylic

Steel

Reflective Material


After approaching premite ideas, we worked on materiality and how the lights from the environmental conditions can contribute to our design.

Apply different colors to each layer. To achieve reflective effects from the lights naturally grenerated from the environments by apply different materials to the design. We decided to have three layers. From outside to inside, there are: Steel (Dark), Acrylic (Transparent), Reflective Material (Red).These three layers have three levels of reflecting light. 1. Reflective Material (Red) has the highest level of reflecting light, it will reflect the car-light at night that obvious for drivers to see, has similar function as a traffic sign and vehicle back light. 2. Refraction and reflection will both happen in acrylic, will make it glowing at night when car-light shine on it. 3. Dark color steel will observe most of the light and reflect a little, therefore it will be harder to see at night. Steel is the strongest material in these three, it also function as the most load bearing layer for the structure.

We also explored the lighting effects of our premite ideas in night. It creates a mock nite sence how the car lights would ineract to our design while the vechiles travelling through this short of tunnel.LIGHING EFFECTS EXPLORATIONS


Physical model cannot achieve ideal twisting and hard to keep twisted shape stable.Instead using single sheet, we found out several sheets joining head-to-tail to each other make it easier to twist and form relative smoother surface at the inside of curve. Sheets insert into each other at the edges, may need more stable joints in real-life construction, such as large steel screws to hold two parts together.

EXPLORING ‘‘SMOOTHLESS” OF THE STRUCTURE

This is one of our physical models that is generated from twising and materiality, which is more stalbe to be standed.Three multiple-layer sheets are overlayed and jont together to create this simple flowing structure form. Structure load transfer from the top to two bottoms of the arch.In the future design, we may have several identical arches along the highway, increase the distance that car would travel under the gateway.

Finalise the design concept and physical model 07 Approaching to a closed final physical model for Gateway project

Different from the Case Study, we rearranged the sheets to overlay them onto each other with the pattern facing the same direction.More complex pattern was created by changing the space between each two sheets.Changing the angle of sheets to make them “flowing”.

Looking into the hollows, there is sense of extending into a channel. We found interesting if we can apply it into our design.Instead driving along the side of the structure, this idea is to driving towards the structure, maybe travel into the hollows of layers.


Another trail of overlaying idea by using more felible twisting and curving model making material- polypropylene sheet, eventurally a totally different to the previous one physical model is generated. Each piece is hanging down slightly in a different degree of curve by its natural load. The curves’ degree become smaller towards the direction where the cars will travel from. Cars will drive under the structure into the channel that formed by the hollows of layers. Compare to the previous design, the shadow is more regular because of the overlay.

Another new interesting structural form is created after we pour water on this physical model.With this structure, sound of car driving pass will also be deflect towards different direction, may reduce noise pollution for neighbor areas. Wind load is very small because of the numbers of hollows. Rain water fall through the holes, reduce the live load on structure. Curved shape roof make less air pressure on top of it when wind travel pass, which can cancel amount of structure dead load. If we choose acrylic as main structure material, the whole structure will glowing when car-light shines on it. In this case we can have different color of acrylic for each sheet.


08 Project presentation feedback

Site plan, indecation of our proposed project.Project Presentation Feedback From the TUTE 1. How to make the struture stand stably for our proposed gateway project?2. What materiality can be approached and applied to this design intent of lighting and stable strucure?3. Think of the size and scale of the design against to the site.4. How can the design get attention to the three main roads in the highway? Need to reidentify the location of the design.5. Connection(joint) for each piece of the sheets?

Rethinking and some throughts:- In oder to make the whole strucuture more stronger, we may reduce the size of the hollows at the botton and make the top hollows to be relatively bigger. So the botton parts of the structure can stay in stronger and support the whole structure.

FINAL PROJECT DEVELOPMENT

01 RETHINKING From The Previous

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OVERLAPPING, GLOWING AT NIGHT TIME- LIGHT FROM CARS, “TUNNEL”, CURVE SHAPE.....

What can we do more than that?

How can it be more impressive to the ‘audiences”

What materials can be used effectively for the design?

How can we structure this?

How can it become a iconic feature on the site?

Where is the best location for the design?

The image on the left is one of the best physical models trails from EOI project proposal. We are going to focus on develping the conceptual idea from this.

The above images show we attampt to transfer this physical model into a degital models. From that, it’s obvious to see that the design fail to be structured in real life. At this time, we are confrounting a very serious construction probelm even though the design can be done degitally.

We are aiming to achieve ‘Flowing’ structure, so arcylic would be not light weight enough to achieve one side ‘free fall’. Also for this structure, it’s very hard to fix one side of the botton to the ground so we need to consider what kind of footing can be used to achieve stable structure.

02 SITE FANALYSIS & UNDERSTANDING FROM THE

Consideration of the site:Site condition: Flat ( known from contour map)Speed: 100km/s= 27.78m/s, located in Princes FreewayWind condition: HeavyNo eletricity provided on the siteSunpath diagrams: created shadows Height of vehicles: trucks-4.3m, cars-2mRecord significant dimemtions of the roadsSurrounding conditions

Iconic Feature

The gateway project is aiming to upgrade the condition and aesthetics of its streetscapes.

THINGS DRAWN FROM THE BRIEF

Experiential AppoachAbstract

Lighting, Night viewDaytime View

LongevityArt

AestheticsBrave Ideas

Magestructure

InspiringSafty

Eye ContractingEnvironmental Friendly

SustainableThese words are acstrcted from the Wyndham Gateway Project brief. Also they are words that we want to achieve and express from our design for all the travellers through this freeway.

According to the feedbacks given in the lms, we are suggested to analysis a bit deeper into the site and the Wyndham gateway project brief, so we reread the brief and restudy the site again in order to gain better understanding from the brief and site and relate them to our design more closely.

PRINCESS FREEWAY:Major traffic connection between Geelong and the south west coast to the CBD.The City of Wyndham occupies 542 km2.

DIMENSIONS OF THE STRUCTUREThe project is designed in the Princes Freeway which is the major traffic connection between Geelong and the south west coast to the CBD. So in such high speed road- 100km/h (27.78m/s), how can our project make out the best experience and feeling for the travellers? What if it’s a massive structure, where should we locate our design so that most of the travellers are able to see the structure and get the bset out comes from it while pass the site?

CONCEPTUAL IDEASHow can the design relate to the site closely? How interesting it can be? How impressive it can be?We decided to create a massive structure in the site. Make it unique, make it attractive, and make it iconic to the site.

MATERIALITY & CONSTRUCTION METHODSIn the high speed freeway and large open space, there should be heavy wind surrounded. In this case, what kind of materials and construction methods should be approach to ensure the structure is buildable and stable?

Once we looked back to the site conditions carefully, a series of specific questions marks are came out.

03Conculsion of the main DEVELOMENT DIRECTION

04CONCEPTURAL IDEAS DEVELOPMENT FROM THE SITE: NATURAL

Natural Features: the Werribee River and K Road Cliffs

Wildlife sanctuaries: Point Cook Coastal Park and Heathdale Wetland

Natural Wetlands:The Melbourne Water Western Treatment Plant, located immediately south of the proposed Gateway, is one of the world’s most significant wetlands.

Things are surrounding to the site, which are very close to the the natural environment.

Notable attractions surrounding the proposed Gateway: the Werribee Open Range Zoo, Werribee Park Mansion and the National Equestrian Centre.

BIRD FEATHER, Wings’ shape while flying in the sky.

BIRD BOND STRUCTURE

Wetlands, Wildlife sanctuaries...

Such natural great environment attracts thousands species of birds to migrate and inhabitat in Wyndham City. So we think about “bird” as our conceptual idea.

Construction method and materiality.

Creation of movements, Floating; Fixed at one side and free at the other edge- Create a free-fall structure; use light weight materials for the layers.

BIRD WING ANALYSIS DRIAGAM

BIRD WING’S PHYSICAL STRUCTURE

INSPIRATION FOR OUR DESIGN

Use steel truss for the columns and alumiium sheet as columns’ external cover.

In order to increase the free-fall felling of the layer, we reduce the heaviness of the middle section of each layer by having bigger hollows in the middle, smaller hollows on the each edge.

BIRD BONE DETAIL STRUCTURE: Low dencity bone struture inside of the middle part with relatively less bigger hollows; the ends of the bone with high density hollows. These charateristics of its bone helps with its soft and light physical movement, and helps to reduce its body weight while flying in the air.

LOW DENCITY HOLLOWS

HIGH DENCITY HOLLOWS

Regenerated the new layer from Grasshopper.

04 CONCEPTURAL IDEAS DEVELOPMENT FROM THE SITE: HUMENT SETTLEMENT

Things are surrounding to the site, about hument settlement.

Heritage :Market gardens farming area

Historical sites and museums: The RAAF Museum and Cobbledicks Ford

Substantial industrial:Focused in the Laverton North area.

Historical Attractions (Openspaces): Werribee Park Mansion and the Victoria State Rose Garden

Large Openspace, Recreational areas, Inducstrial development...

The development of the openspace and recreational areas brings in the environmental and cultural development of Wyndham City. Wyndham city is committed to achieving long term environmental sustainability. Therefore, as it’s developing its industrial areas, it’s responsible to take steps to protect and enhance Wyndham’s natural assets and municipality’s broader environmental footprint, which includes reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

This map shows the suburban districts involved in the Wyndham City.The City of Wyndham is a residential and rural municipality on Melbourne’s south-western fringe. The City is centred on the residential areas around Werribee.It occupies 542 km2. It’s a quite large scale city.

This map shows the historical migration flows from 2001 to 2006 in City of the Wyndham. In recent years, there are people from the other suburbs or overseas gradually moving into this city. Apparently Wyndham city has been experiencing residential expansion and urban development these years.Our gateway proposal of ‘Floating’ is aiming to upgrade the condition and aesthetics of its streetscapes. It represents the entire appearance of Wyndham City is ‘flying’ towards to a large development in different aspects in the near future.

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05 INSPIRATIONSBRIDGE CONSTRUCTION METHOD

The Alamillo Bridge, designed by Santiago Calatrava in Spain in 1992

The Alamillo Bridge is one of the four new bridges constructed for the 1992 Expo (World’s Fair) in Seville, Spain. It’s designed by Santiago Calatrava and completed in 1992. Alamillo Bridge crosses the Guadalquivir River, connecting the old quarter of Seville with La Cartuja Island. It’s structured by cantilever spar cable-stayed, in 200m span. The deck is secured by a single, cabled pylon angled at 58 degrees.

This structure inspires us to use cables to support the columns in order to achieve a stable and structural system. On one side, the paralleled cables are fixed on the columns, on the other side; they are pulled tightly into the ground supported by screw piles.

Due to different heights of the curling columns, the angles formed by the cables on every curling column and the horizontal line are different. View from the side, the spacing out cables is like diverging from ground to columns. It’s to achieve an ordering view and spectacular expression to the audiences.

05 INSPIRATIONSMOVEMENT OF “CHUNKY MOVE’S CONNECTED”

The Chunky Move’s Connected inspires us about the methods of creation of movement. How can our design to achieve a smooth, interesting movement? We decide to create something similar to the Chunky Move’s Connected, but something different. The curling columns designed in different heights is in order to create ‘moving waves’. This “visual movements” is combined with the movements from the membranes which are hanged up and controlled by the pulley system.Also we consider what material is suitable to use for the layer. Frome the researches, we found out ETFE membrane is soft enough and has high elasticity property to allow smooth movement for the membranes. Captures of the movement created by Chunky’ move connected

in the vedio. It inspires us to use pulley stytem to achieve the movement from the individual hanging membrane.

06 MATERIALITY RESEARCHES

Weight: only 1% the weight of glass, 0.15-0.25 kg/m2, (We tend to use some lightweight struture.)Thickness: 0.02-0.2mmLength: 15-30m, (We are going to have a large scale structure, so we need to consider the span of the membrane.)Color: blue and clearThermal properties: Melting point: 256-280 °C (low flammability), heat of combustion: 13.7MJ/KGChemical properties: Superior durability: ETFE is highly resistant to chemical damage, as well as being resilient to wild weather; it can be last as long as 25-35 years

Properties advantages:- High resilient, strong enough to bear 400 times its own weight.- Can be stretched to 3 times its length without loss of elasticity- Has a non-stick surface that resists dirt. Can be cleaned by rain water.- High light transmittance, max 95%- Costs 24% to 70% less to install. ETFE is a lightweight fabric which requires less structural steel to support it than traditional building materials, reducing C02 emissions in the air.- It’s 100% recyclable, also has good thermal insulation, when ETFE film is used in the two or three layer model- Excellent tearing resistance- Low permeability- Self-cleaning capabilityETFE does have disadvantages, however. - Transmits more sound than glass, and can be too noisy for some places - Usually applied in several layers that must be inflated and require steady air pressure - Working with ETFE is too complex for small residential projects

ETFE (Ethylene tetrafluoroethylene) is a thermoplastic fluorocarbon-based polymer (a fluoro polymer). It has been successfully applied in architectural design as lightweight construction materials. Fluoropolymer membranes such as ETFE (ethyl tetrafluorethylene) foils are being increasingly used for transparent and highly translucent roofs and facades. Such as the Beijing National Aquatics Centre (Water Cube), which is the world’s largest structure made of the ETFE membrane.

Glowing while the lighting through the ETFE membrance at night time.

07 DIMENTIONS DETAILHOW EXCITING IT CAN BE SIT IN THE SITE?

The design of our ‘Flying bird’ is aiming to upgrade the condition and aesthetics of its streetscapes. It represents the entire appearance of Wyndham City is ‘flying’ towards to a large development in different aspects in the near future. Also our design would become an iconic feature to remind people to achieve sustainable Wyndham city.

GENERAL ARRANGEMENTThe design is structured by 72 curling columns and 36 pieces of membrane. It contains two lines of curling columns in different heights from 12 meters to 16 meters. Each line of columns extends 150 meters along freeway at 2 meters spacing, and 15meters long across the roads. So it takes 5 – 6 s for a car to travel through the gateway at 100km/h speed.

08 CONSTRUCITON DETAIL DRAWINGS CONSTRUCTION METHODS

Construction drawing daigrams dshow detailly show the construction materials used for the design.

Construction drawing daigrams detailly show the construction process.

HYDRAULIC SYSTEM IS USED TO GENERATE PULLEY SYSTEM

The pulley system generated by a hydraulic system is applied as the main construction design method, which is to achieve smooth movements for the free-end membrane. The entire design will emerge a sense of floating, flowing and smooth movements to our ‘audiences’ while cars travelling through. In general, the crane-like curling column, pulley system construction method and steel trusses and cables construction materials used in the design, they can be seen as a symbol of Wyndham City’s substantial industry.

09 IDEAS GENERATION V.S. MOVEMENTS DEVELOPMENT PROCESS VIEWED FROM THE DEGITAL MODELS

First GenerationDeveloped from EOI final model, try to make it sucessfully to be structured

Sencond GenerationAchieving creation of motion from the membrances. Throught about “crane-like” columns to hang up the membrance by cables.

Final GenerationTo achieve interesting movements. 1. Create waves by setting the curling columns in different heights.2. Two curve shape columns supporting one membrane. Apply pulley system generated by Hydaulic system to control the mambrane.

Third GenerationDevelopment of the design’s external view:1. Using curve shape columns instead of very crane-like structural columns2. Throught about how to achieve “movements”.

09 IDEAS GENERATION V.S. MOVEMENTS INTERESTING VIEWS FROM COLORED MATERIAL RENDERING

09 IDEAS GENERATION V.S. MOVEMENTS DEVELOPMENT PROCESS VIEWED AFTER RENDERING FROM RHINO

Summer Sunlight

Winter Sunlight

09 IDEAS GENERATION V.S. MOVEMENTS LIGHTING: PHYSICAL MODEL SHOW DAY&NIGHT TIME VIEWS

Summer: 76°sunlight Clear shadow of membrane’s pattern is created on road.Winter: 29°sunlight Clearer shadow of cables and columns than shadow of membrane.>50% transparent ETFE allow part of light through.

SUNLIGHT PATHWAY ANALYSIS IN VICTORIA

Night view 1: Car driving through, not directly facing car lights

Night view 2: Car driving through, directly facing car lights

Perspective daytime view: 1:50 Partly Section Physical model

Perspective daytime view: 1:50 artly Section Physical model

Perspective daytime view: 1:50 artly Section Physical model

Perspective daytime view : Drive through under gateway

Perspective daytime view: 1:500 Site Plan

I think ADS Air is the toughest studio I have ever had. To be honest, I’m not a quick learner about computational program. This is my first time of using Rhino and Grasshopper. We also need to use INDESIGN to record our design process and what we learn and understand from the course into the journal and frequently use Photoshop for editing pictures of physical models or sketch models. This time I believe it’s much higher standard expected from us, so thing’s getting much more difficult and more intensive study are required compared to the other studio. Even though I have been putting lots of efforts and time, I’m happy and excited with this course that I bring out the best of it.

Another good way of learning is the study of precedents and case study. They are the origins of inspiration to our design. Improvement and development are gained by learning from the good and bad from precedents. Also I found that it’s very interesting of using laser cutting for model making. It’s more efficient and prettier cut out by using laser cutting. Computational design has its powerful aspects, but also has its limitation in architectural design process. In fact, the parametric design can be done in very creative and complex ways by using Rhino and Grasshopper. However, most of them may encounter the difficulties of materials’ selection and construction. They may be unbuildable in the real life. During the development process of our group’s gateway project, we have been struggling of choosing the suitable materials for the membrane. For such large scale structure, we need to consider its possible span, its thickness, its height and its elasticity. Also the maintenance and longevity of the construction materials are significantly relative to the design outcomes. Unlike the other studio, it’s not building a house. It’s parametric design, it’s sculptural structure design. We need to do lots of researches to find out which materials, which construction method would work for our design. However, the gateway project is not limiting on its size unlike designing a house. We can open our mind and maximize our imagination. Eventually, we decide to design a large, eye-catching structure sit in the site. In the developing our design ideas, we found out that it’s very interesting to gain this outcome: waves create movements in the motions which create visualize “movement”. Though controlling the membrane by pulley system, there is another physical movement is created. Specially in EOI presentation project’s feedback, it states that our project was lack of sufficient background reasearches. From this experience, I realised that computaional techonology acturally can be a great design tool to help us explore our design in a more clear and detail communication way, but sometimes may bind us by only focusing on the aesthetics of the out come. Therefore, we started to do lots of researches of the site and look back to the proeject brief carefully. I found out the final project design it becoms meaningful to build on Wyndham not somewhere else, our design can be a very stronge iconic feature to the site. I think we have successful to approach a parametric design- a large scale structure, a buildable structure, and creation of interesting movements from the design. To achieve successful parametric design, it’s not only about applying the knowledge from the computational technology, but also need to combine the design brief and understanding what client is looking, materiality and feasible construction methods throughout the entire design process. So our design would become a iconic feature to Wyndham city.

For this semester, we are very lucky to have our tutors Loren and Chris. They are being very helpful for us throughout the semester. When we get stuck, they try to help us to explore our ideas in bigger picture by sharing some very inspiring and helpful videos and projects with us. Once ideas are not being limited or restricted, the power of imagination would be exploded easily. Not only learn a lot from the Rhino and Grasshopper tutorials, but also gain improvements through learning from the tutors and classmates. Again, this is my first time to finish a major project in teams. I feel very happy and lucky to have my group mates to go through this tough works. And I think teamwork gives me a very good opportunities learn new things from them.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES AND OUTCOMES

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