Matthew Law

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Semester 1, 2013

Extruded Light

Ideation Review

I have chosen a leaf as my natural pattern in Module 1.

The aim for my lantern design is to utilise the characteristics of the diffusing leaf pattern, to create emerging light effects out of it.

Sphere is the shope that I am going with in my design process. In order to add the element of symmetry into the leaf pattern, Creating a contrast as leaf pattern doesn’t have a clear Symmetry system.

Light can pass through a sphere shape, making it like the light source, shin-ing in every direction, creating strong, but multi-directional light effects.

Digitised

From the clay model, I digitise the clay model into rhino 5.0, and started to play with different faces and tex-tures of it.

Then I started to add on panels on the sphere shape. Attempting to apply different faces, compare and contrast the effects that each options provides.

Design Alternatives: Precedent Study

Thomas Weatherwick and company’s seed pavil-ion has been my inspiration for my lantern design.

Ignoring the fuzzy, alive-like facade of the pavil-ion, the most superb element about this structure is the lighting effects that it brings along from England.

Lights are directly projected from inside out, utilis-ing sunlight at its best, projecting all natural lights, however at night, this structure will be installing little tiny boxes everywhere

Design Alternatives: Precedent Study

Chinese paper cutting is another inspira-tion for my lantern design.

Thomas Heatherwick building oh the pre-vious page also shares the same types of light effects.

Chinese paper cutting is all about sym-metry and disciplines, matching up with my initial aim.

Design Alternatives: Different Design Options

I have considered three different pattern that is generated by the diffusing leaf nat-ural shape.

By rotating and joining edges, i come across with three different types of design alternatives.

Design Alternatives: Prototypes

In the creation of my prototypes, I tested out different design alternatives’ light effect and the brief facade of each lantern design.

Design Alternatives: Light Effects Testing

Other lighting effects

Final Design: The Crossed Cut

OrthoGraphic Views Shadows in Rhino

In Thomas Heatherwick’s presentation, he mentioned about large, bulky buildings being souless and cold.

Thomas and company has won a competition in ShangHai. There are 250 exhibition pavilions, 250 countries competiting along with Thomas,who is representating Britian.

He has the idea of spreading out, combining nature with the exhibition centre. Seeds are chosen as the only element for this exhibition centre.

Like our project, Thomas has able to foresee the final form of the building through a basic element in which is a glass tube, with seeds stored within.

The idea of spreading out has helped me a lot in terms of developing my lantern form.

In the Scheurer and Stehling Reading, it talked about Architecture being a process of communication. Recently the trend of design has changed from being solid and regular into more of an abstract form of shape. Architectural Design does not stop even though you can define the shape of the overall shape. Other desinging components can have big impacts towards the ultimate form of design.

For what you have consider as the final form of shape for the design, the outcome can be absolutely different.

Scheurer and Stehling Reading Reflection + TED Video