STUDIO AIR PART B

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RESEARCH FIELDREASERCH FIELD

Pattern stand not only as a method but also a kind of design thinking, which usually based on the sense of bio mimicry. These type of design projects always start with a little simple element, however, designers devel-op this element by following a particular recipe, and the result usually would turned out much more inter-esting and complex. The use of pattern have been used in architectural design for a very long time, the time was much more longer before designers start use computers. The sense of using pattern can always been found in the ancient buildings, such as the traditional Chinese building with the form and decorations in pattern. However, the computational design does helpful for designers to follow the recipe of patterns.As Frank Lloyd Wright said, natural elements pro-vide great inspirations for designers to develop, use of pattern is one of the most obvious examples of using natural elements into design ideas. Such as the Dragon Skin Pavilion I talked about in Part A, and also in this session’s case study ------- the Spanish Pavilion located in Japan. Spanish Pavilion is one of the example of using the

shape of honeycomb, which stand as one of the most perfect shape in the natural process. Because honey-comb shape is a hexagon with six edges and six angles, which have 60 degrees on each angle, and six of them can be put together as 360 degrees. The arrange of hexagons are much more interesting and stable than squares, this is also the benefit from the 60 degree angles. The use of honeycomb shape not only can be found in architectural design projects, but also in many other areas. Some scientists even designed a maze based on the honeycomb shape, which make people lose the sense of directions very easily. Because there is no right south and north, people inside need to turn around in 60 degrees, not in 90 degrees.

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CASE STUDY 1.0

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