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TOD’S OMOTESANDO | Toyo Ito | Tokyo, Japan | 2004 | Shop+Office |

This is a building for TOD’S, a Italian shoes and leather goods retailer. It is located in Omotesando, Tokyo Japan. Omotesando is known as a showcase of Architecture. The roadside Keyaki trees on Omotesando is another fea-ture of Omotesando. The strucure is corresponding to the thicker members towards the bottom as the trunk and the slimmer members towards the top as the branches of a tree.

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WEEK 1

A building looks like a tree and with the dama-scening of gleass is the demand of Toyo Ito. To be able to achieve such design, To make the di-agonal pillar concrete srtucture with the glass curtain wall required high level of technology.

There are many amazing buildings on Omotesan-do, Toyo Ito came up with the idea of using concrete in this way and coloum free interior is not only to generate large open space but also to distin-guish the TOD’S Omote-santo with other large glass curtain wall build-ings around. The TOD’s Omotesando has a very sharp apperance and strong impact but with a very soft and column-free space inside.

The building is not trans-parent, but it is not just a concrete box, this was Toyo Ito’s concept. And we can clearly see his success.

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METROPOL PARASOL | Jurgen Mayer-Hermann | Spain | 2011 |

The Metropol Parasol is the largest wooden structure aound the world, Within a old city with traditions, this unique huge wooden structure is built. The architect won the competition of the renew-al of the plaza. When looking from above, the beauty of the organ-ic shape is expressed. When walking under the structure, even though it is huge, but would not fell pressure, as it is harmonise with the nature. I think it is a architecture which shows the merits and beauty f wooden strucutres.

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Guggenheim Museum | Frank Gehry | Spain| 1997 | This is a revolutionary design. The composition of free form with no physical restricion, this museum by Fean Gehry has brought architecture to a whole new stage and brought archi-tects a new way of thinking. The digital designing is giv-ing chances to architects to design in freedom,

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By using computer numerical control technology, Not only the concrete structures are able to achieve am amazing look struc-ture, it also has optimized the conctrte strucutrs and are able to be more efficiency. The strongest structure with the minimal amount of material needed, the concrete are only place there it is structually needed. Therefore, the use of materials is reduce, no material would be wasted. Also, it is able to construct or-ganic strucrture. As the result, the cost of making the structure can be reduce, and less ecological foorprint can be achieved.

Unikabeton Prototype Structure

WEEK 2

Digital deign as a commu-nication tool

Digital Design and parametric design is not only making the architects work more efficently as it helps to find succeful and useable solution to a design agenda.

Digital design has asso made the communications between architects, clients and other stakeholders more efficient. Digital design makes the de-sign idea of an architect can be easily communicate with others and with better understanding of the spaces. And the interdis-ciplinary communication and collaboration between such as engineeris and the architect

Computer is now allowing architect to produce forms that were consider as im-possible or extreamly dif-fcult. The use of program-ming can maximize the performace of the material and structure.

Architects are now able to work in a more efficent way to achive a serious of de-sign solutions as they are able to experiment digitaly with reliable data,

Zaha Hadid, Kartal-Pendik Masterplam, Turkey, 2006

In this case, the architect is able to study the site and by using parametric design, to generate the most potential outcome within the con-strains and desires of the site ans clients.

WEEK 3

As the development of digital architectural design, architects are able to achieve various complex forms with complicated calcula-tion and optimizing the mechanical systems.

Architects are now able to improve the energy efficiency and low-er the energy consumption of their designs.

A program- LEED. Withing this program, it could calculate and measure the performance of the design. (eg, material selection, energy efficiency, environmental isses etc)

By combining the use of different programs, such as LEED with Rhino+grasshopper, One to improve the performace, one to visu-alize to optimize the design. And therefore to achieve both sus-tainability and aesthetics.

LEED (Leader-ship in Energy & En-vironmental Design)

The Hearst Tower

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