STUDIO AIR2014, SEMESTER 2, FINN WARNOCKJULIA ANN WALKER 640529

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Table of Contents

P 2-5 A1

P 6-11 A2

P 11-14 A3

P 15 A4-5

P 15 - 16 A6

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Architecure and spacial notaiton has beocme a great intrest of mine. The guidlines for which we mentaly devide space, which has been tought to children in many ways and later become a ruling factor.

Since starting the Bachlor I have been greatly challanged in more ways than I ever expected, never knowing what is expected or how the task could be done in the set amount of time, yet always getting there in the end.

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Diller + Scofidio are interested in the different relationships between architecture, art, theatre and special notation created in urban space. Changing the preconceived behaviour of the user through a remove of one sense and a creation or over amplification of another, creating a new sensation and experience for the user since a young age. People become set in their habbits, if they are not challange by forms and sencors they inconter. It is this architure challanges peoples ideas in sence but also materiality, as water being in liquid form which is known as transparent is now creating a solid mass.

The Blur Building, built for the Swiss national expo 2002, Yverdon-les-bains, Switzerland. By Diller + Scofidio.

The Blur Building contributes a new idea in spatial codification in how space is created, by offering a new experience to the user of being in once an unobtainable object as a cloud.

Along with the Blur building users also wore rain coats or ‘brain coats’ which reacted with the users and the space around them once they entered the building, the coats would give off either colour or sound as a action for the user to compensate for the lack of vision. (1)

A.1Design Futuring

FIG.1: (THE BLUR PRAVILION [1])

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Alison and Peter Smithson exhibited in the house of the future in the 1956 held in Hall Kensington, West London, England.

It contributed a compact style of living not before seen, along with the plans photographs taken showing a husband and wife in the home using technology not dissimilar to an iPad. The house designed for no children with no garden and set for a high urban density, it was unique in the fact of a court yard garden all around the house to removed the density from the views exiting the building.

The Smithson’s are well known for there theoretical formulation of the new Brutalism and influenced the work of Archigram. (2)

The Smithson’s were interested in the flow of people in high urban density and the role of new technology in the new urban family.

Along with the house of the future the Smithson’s produced a theatrical work called the golden lane city. Which worked with the ideas of communal living and urban planning in and topographic flow and understanding of a space, which is a natural human method, the exproation of space through preconcived ideas on how space is organised.

FIG.1: (HOUSE OF THE FUTURE [2])

FIG.1: (THE ARC TABLE [3])

FIG.1: (THE ARC TABLE [3])

A.1 THE ARC TABLE

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Computing affects the design process by offering a new methodology of thinking about design (Algorimic Thought). It offers a highly innovative mode of thought about design, making pervious problems on non-linear or non 90 degree anlges no longer a challenge, in form finding.

The challenge it now presents its self in the designer to then have the knowledge of these tools to use them to there optimum capacity, as architects commonly work with non-typical geometry though computational design symmetry group operations are now done with a click of the button leading to a new area of topological considerations when designing. The geometry optimization though integration of structural performance, fabrication strategy and manufacturing tolerances, has now been being explored also in the interest of ergonomics Jethro Hon working on the Arc Table. Working with Computer aided structural simulation to investigate the behaviour of geometry with reference to different material tolerances before production rather, leading to a new process in design. (2)

Computation is a new set of tools for the designer, having these new skills the discussion of abstraction, reimaging making decisions about the data that is used to drive algorisms process, the algorithms chosen, and its physical implications on the built environment.

Fredierico Diaz Project titled 141 Death Frequency is looks at the abstraction of the information encased in pixels with interpretation though fluid dynamics algorithm. The choice of Fredierico to use the black ball as the repeating unit to highlight the algorithm rather than the data input made and therefore put emphasis on this project as an investigation into algorithmic thought and generative design.(5)

The decision in performance based generative design with a human interest can be seen in Stefan Ritter- Extension to Riga International airport in Latvia. (5)Encounter between architecture and the public with a feedback loop generated from users this is done by Geometry condenses at the slowest point of circulation (security) demonstrating utilizing a Geometric system with strong tectonic expression showing the relationships between the two elements of performance and design.

“It is clear now that computation is ubiquitous, and form-making and form-controlling are no longer its most expedient uses. Whether it is through proprietary and customised software or a single piece of code, computaions’s primary potential lies in its flexibility to communicate design across multiple disciplines via associative data”(10)

A.2 Design Computation

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FIG.3: (DEATH FREQUENCY 141 (5))

141d eath frequency project due to its purpose it was suitable to allow the alorithm to dictate the formof the pavilion while in the case of the international airport it is important that due to the overall function of the building algorithms were more dominate in some parts of the building and absent in others, leading to the thought that while computation is still being developed it cannot be used to form an entire building with different sections and regions such as an airport.

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FIG.1: (THE BLUR PRAVILION REF: #4)

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While computer aided design has been fully integrated in firms like Fosters and partners, Ghery Designs and UNstudio into form finding and performance based design on large scale projects. Computational design is also slowly being integrated into domestic design, here it offers difficult approach, Firm Facit homes uses Software use integrated into design process which now offers mobile production facility produces digital modules on site and has led to more sustainable fabrication process less waste.(4)

UNstudio uses computational methods to develop a knowledge platforms, which act as dynamic, hinge between research and design. Known as Smart Parameter Platform (SPP) , the studio is able to integrate all parameters that define the project.(8) The utilization of this technique is in its infancy and is only seen at such studios which put a high emphasis of integration of digital design and are at the for fount of the technique. Performance based design however cannot be done with out the use of a computer as even a calculator is a computer. The acceptance of this technology into the architectural discourse and the construction industry is not so forth coming as it can be seen as a large leap in terms of terminology and methodology of thinking about design computational technology. (

FIG.3: (CARLO RATTI ASSOCIATI,DIGITAL WATER PAVILION,WORLD EXPO, ZARAGOZA (9)

A.2 Composition/Generation

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“While no one nowadays could imagine looking for a document without the help of a search engine, many people still think that problems which are vastly more complex, for example in politics, architecture and urban planning , can be resolved “traditionally, in other words by humans” (8)

The exploration of what is a detail, the rise of the invisible detail and macro to mega morphology. Investigation of real time human influence on design can be seen in Carlo Ratti Digital water pavilion at the World Expo, Zaragoza in Spain in 2008. The pavilion explores the digital and the physical in real performance architecture. Material performance with the aid of computational design will reveal space and a discussion of what space is another example is the Blur pavilion(1) which reveals the performative dimension in real time of the visible and the invisible and exploration of digital detail.(9)

FIG.3: (UNSTUDIO SMART PARAMATER PLATFORM (SSP) (10).

FIG.3: (FACIT HOMES (11)).

1. BLUR BUILDING: CARCIA, MARK “OTHERWISE ENGAGED: NEW PROJECTS IN

INTERACTIVE DESIGN”’, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, 77 (2013), 44-53.

2. NEIL SPILLER VISIONARY ARCHITECTURE BLUEPRINTS OR THE MODERN IMAGINATION

(THAMES & HUDSON)

3. HON, JETHRO “MATHEMATICAL ENSEMBLE: MOLTENI ARC TABLE”’, ARCHITECTURAL

DESIGN, 83 (2013), 32-33.

4. DE KESTELIER, XAVIER “RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AT FOSTER + PARTNERS’ SPECIALIST

MODELLING GROUP’’’, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, 83 (2013), 22-27.

5. DEATH FREQUENCY 141 < HTTP://WWW.DESIGNBOOM.COM/ART/FEDERICO-DIAZ-

GEOMETRIC-DEATH-FREQUENCY-141/

6. STEFAN RITTER- EXTENSION TO RIGA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT IN LATVIA; < HTTP://

WWW.EVOLO.US/ARCHITECTURE/EXTENSION-TO-RIGA-INTERNATIONAL-AIRPORT-IN-

LATVIA/>

7. JOSEFSSON, KRISTOFFER “SYMMETRY AS GEOMETRY: KUWAIT INTERNATIONAL

AIRPORT”’, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, 83 (2013) 28-31.

8. MOREL, PHILIPPE “COMPUTATION OR REVOLUTION” ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, 84

(2014) 76-87.

9. RATTI, CARLO & CLAUDEL MATTHEW “ THE RISE OF THE ‘INVISIBLE DETAIL’:

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING AND THE ‘MINIMUM MEANINGFUL”’ 84 (2013) 86-91.

10. UVAN BERKEL, BEN “NAVIGATING THE COMPUTIONAL TURN”’, ARCHITECTURAL

DESIGN, 83 (2013) 82-87.

11. BELL, BRUCE & SIMPKIN, SARAH “DOMESTICATING PARAMETRIC DESIGN”’,

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, 83 (2013) 88-91.

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Until computation is integrated fully into the architectural discourse it will be a constant topic of discussion. Computation is now seeing varying methods which it is Until computation is integrated fully into the architectural discourse it will be a constant topic of discussion. Computation is now seeing varying methods which it is being used within design to help the designer achieve new outcome for architecture. The intended design approach for this studio will be that of generative design, though exploring a natural energy cycles to produce a form which will reflect sustainability generative design reflection on natural processes.

A.4 Conclusion

Over the course of the past four weeks my knowledge of what is ment by the terms computational design has increased, though lectures reading and tutorials videos, I have become aware of the possibilities of computational design. Navigating though Grasshopper have become familiar with the interface. The use of grasshopper in past designs for mapping to topology of a surface and the ability to track all the changes in my work would have improved past designs to a large extent.