ARCHITECTURE DESIGNSTUDIO - AIR

DAVID WANG

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CONTENT:

1. RESEARCH FEILD

2. CASE STUDY 1.0

3. CASE STUDY 2.0

4. TECH: DEVELOPMENT

5. TECH: PROTOTYPES

6. TECH: PROPOSAL

7. OBJECTIVES/OUTCOMES

8. APPENDIX/SKETCHES

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OUT OF ALL THE RESEARCH FEILDS, I HAVE DECIDED TO CHOOSE STRUCTURE. IT IS THE ONE THAT INTERESTS ME MOST. TO ME IT IS THE ONE THAT DOES NOT HAVE AN ORNAMENT INTENT, BUT MAY BE AN ORNAMENT ITSELF. THERE HAVE BEEN MANY DEBATES ON ORNAMENT IN ARCHITECTURE, AND MANY ABOUT JUSTIFYING ORNAMENT. MAYBE THE BEST JUSTIFICATION IS THAT ORNAMENT EMERGES ITSELF LIKE MASONARY. HOWEVER AS MASONARY BECOME LESS EFFICIENT AND WORSE THEN ARTIFICIAL ORNAMENT. I BELIEVE STUCTURAL FORMS WILL BECOME RATIONAL ORNAMENT AT ITS COMPLEXITY. AN EXAMPLE OF THIS WOULD BE THE BIRDS NEST, AND THAT TO ME IS ARCHITECTURE, AND NOT SCULPTURES COVERING BUILDINGS.

RESEARCH FEILD:

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CASE STUDY 1.0

ABOVE ARE IMAGES OF HOW THE INTERATIONS STARTED AND WHAT THE PRESIDENT WAS LIKE. I STARTED TO CHANGE PARAMETERS AND RELOCATE THE INPUT POINTS TO PLAY AROUND WITH DIFFERENT POSSIBILITIES.

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THESE ARE FURTHER EXPLORATIONS BY CHANGING FORM. I HAVE THOUGH ABOUT MAKING A BLOACK HOLE AND ALSO PATTERNED DISKS. THERE IS A LAMP LOOK-A-LIKE WHICH WAS MANAGED BY ACCIDENT.

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EXPLORING FURTHER FROM THE DISK SHAPE, I HAVE OFFSET THE GEODESIC LINES INSIDE, AND THESE ARE WHAT HAPPENED. THE TOP ONE HAS OFFSET EVERYTLINE BE A DISTANCE AND CREATED AL-MOST A SPINNING DISK.

ON THE RIGHT IS REDUCING THE Z OFFSET DISTANCE OF THE TOP PICTURE AND THEN LOFTING IT. I HAVE ALSO GIVEN A SLIGHT HEIGHT DIFFERENCE TO THE CENTRE CIRCLE TO CREATE A UFO LIKE STRUCTURE.

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ON THE LEFT IS THE LOFTED AND RENDERED OUTCOME OF THE PREVIOUS STEPS. ON THE BOTTOM SIDE IS A STURCTURAL SPHERE MADE FROM GRASSHOPPER AND THIS IS THE SORT OF STYLE I ATTEMPED TO EXPLORE AT THE RESEARCH FEILDS.

THE SHPERE IS STURCTURAL WHILE IT ASLO MAY BE CATAGORISED AS ORAMENT FROM ITS COMPLEX FORM AND UNIQUE ARCHITECTURAL LANGUAGE.

THE BOTTOM IMAGES SHOW HOW THIS SPE-CIFIC SPHERE MAY BE EXPLORED FURTHER.

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AS IN THE RESOURCES, LUNCH-BOX WAS A MAJOR SOFTWARE THAT COULD BE EXPLORED TO CREATE INTERESTING FORMS WITH SIMPLE INPUTS. THIS REALLY ENHANCES THE FACT THAT WE CAN CREATE FUNC-TIONS AND PARAMETERS AND REALLY MAKE THEM WORK FOR THEMSELVES IN THE FUTURE.

THESE OBJECTS CREATED ALSO DO NOT HAVE A ORNAMENT ADDED ON, BUT THEY CREATE BEAUTIFUL FORMS NATU-RALLY, AS IN UNINTENDED. THIS SHOULD BE THE ANSWER TO ORNAMENT IN ARCHITECTURE.

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ALGORITHMS AND PARAMETERS ADDED FOR PRACTICAL NEEDS DO NOT CREATE ORNA-MENT, BUT EMERGE FROM FUNCTIONS. I BELIEVE A MATURE AL-GORTIHM WILL PERFORM WELL IN ALL ASPECTS, INCLUDIN ORNAMENT.

THESE ARE SOME EXPLORATIONS OF LUNCHBOX USING A LOFT LOOKING LIKE THE BIRDS NEST, WHICH LINKS TO MY NEXT SECTION.

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CASE STUDY 2.0

I HAVE CHOSEN THE BIRDS NEST FOR MY REVERSE ENGINEER. THIS CHOICE WAS MADE BECAUSE IT FULFILLS THE CRITERIA OF HAVING A STURCTURE BASED BUILDING WHILE ALSO HAVING IT AS THE ORNAMENT OR EXTERIOR.

THIS BUILDING TO ME ALSO HAS THE CAPABILITY TO BE MASS PRODUCED IF ITS ARCHITECTURAL STYLE WAS PUT INTO A ALGORITHM.

I PERSONALLY HAVE ALSO BEEN TO THIS BUILDING AND I UNDERSTAND HOW LARGE THE STRUCTURES ARE EVEN THOUGH THEY MAY SEEM THIN IN THIS PICTURE.

REVERSING THIS BUILDING WILL ALLOW ME TO UNDERSTAND HOW ARCHITECTS HAVE APPROACHED COMPLEX FORMS LIKE THIS, AND UNDERSTAND HOW ALGORITHMIC ARCHITECTURE LIES IN THE FUTURE.

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I STARTED OFF WITH A FEW CURVES OF THE BIRDS NEST BY LOOK AT IT FROM DIFFERENT ANGLES AND TRYING TO FIND HOW IT IS ARRANGED.

TO ME THERE ARE SOME CURVES THAT ARE STRIGHT, SOME ARE DIAGNAL AND SOME ARE REALLY RANDOM LINES THAT GIVE THE STURCTURE COMPLEXITY AND NOT LOOK LIKE A PATTERNED NEST.

I STARTED OFF BY DIVIDING THE CURVES AND TRYING TO MAKE ARCS THROUGH THEM. HOWEVER I SOON FOUND OUT THAT THIS DIDN’T WORK BECAUSE THE ARCS WERE TOO OPTIMISED AND ROUND.

SOON AFTER I TRIED THE GEODE-SIC FUNCTION AND TRIED TO CRE-ATE THE LINES FROM THE LOFTED SURFACE. I HAVE ALSO DIVIDED THE CURVES AND FIRST ADDED STRAIGHT LINES AND FORMED A BASIC NEST OUTLINE.

AFTER THAT I HAVE CREATED LINES BY SHIFTING THEIR LIST AND RESULTING IN DIAGONAL LINES.

LASTLY I CREATED RANDOM LINES BY JITTERINGTHEM. HOWEVER I HAVE CULLED MANY TO MATCH.

SO AFTER ALL THIS AND A LOT OF TRAIL AND ERROR, I HAVE ADDED PERPENDICULAR PLANES AT THE BOTTOM OF EACH LINE AND DRAW A SQUARE ON IT.

THEN BY GRAFTING AND SWEEPING THE SQUARES I HAVE CREATE THE INITIAL BIRDS NEST STURCTURE WHICH IS SHOWN IN DETAIL ON THE NEXT PAGE.

I WAS QUITE HAPPY WITH THE OUTCOME AND CLUSTERED THE SET SO IT IS REPRODUCABLE.

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1. THE INITIAL LINES FOR THE NEST.

2. THE LOFTED SUFACE FOR GEODESIC.

3. THE DIVISION OF THE END POINTS.

5. THE GEODESIC DIAGONAL LINES. 6.DIAGONAL LINES ON THE OTHER DIRECTION.

8 CREATING PERPENDICULAR PLANES AND THE BOTTOM.

9. DRAWING SQUARES AT THE BOTTOM AND SWEEPING THEM.

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3. THE DIVISION OF THE END POINTS.

4. THE GEODESIC VERTICAL LINES.

6.DIAGONAL LINES ON THE OTHER DIRECTION.

7. JITTERED LINES BUT CULLED 9/10 SO ONLY 10 PERCENT IS KEPT.

THIS IS THE END RESULT OF THE REFORMATION OF THE BIRDS NEST, I AM QUITE HAPPY WITH THE RESULT AND MADE THE FUNCTION SO THAT IT COULD RECIEVE ANY LOFT AND CREATE BIRDS NEST LIEK STRUCTURE FROM THE FIRST AND LAST CURVE.

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THESE ARE RENDERS OF THE REVERSE ENGINEERING WITH GRASS AND LIGHTS AS THE ENVIRONMENT. WE CAN SEE HOW THIS SITS IN A DIGITAL MODEL AND HOW THE ACTUAL BIRDS NEST MAY BE DONE.

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I HAVE THEN FOUND OUT THAT THE BIRDS NEST STURCTURE HAS ANGLES AT THE SECOND CURVE, SO I CHANGED MY FUNCTION TO FIT FOR THAT.

THE RIGHT SHOWS HOW MY FINAL ATTEMPT FOR THE BIRDS NEST LOOKS LIKE AND I AM QUITE SATASFINED WITH THE ALGORITHM I HAVE WROTE. TO ME IT REALLY LOOKS LIKE THE REAL THING.

THE LEFT IS A VEW ON ONE OF THE SIDES AND WE CAN REALLY COMPARE THIS TO THE ORIGINAL PHOTO AND WE CAN SEE HOW IT MATCHES.

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TECH: DEVELOPMENT

THESE ARE EXPLORATION OF THE BIRDS NEST FUNTION I HAVE CREATED. I HAVE BEEN TRYING IT OUT WITH MANY DIFFERENT FORMS AND I AM SUPRISED WITH HOW MANY FORMS IT IS ABLE TO ADAPT TO. ALTHOUGH IT WAS MADE FOR THE BIRDS NEST, NO DOUBT THAT THERE IS A LARGE NUMBER OF POSSIBILITIES THAT THIS FORM AND PROVIDE.

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MOVING ON, I WANTED TO DEVELOP MY FUNCTION EVEN MORE, AND I HAVE ADDED RANDOM LINES IN BETWEEN THEINTERSECTIONS OF THE STRUCTURE. THIS CREATES MANY LINES THAT CONNECT IN BETWEEN. THIS RELATES TO THE SENSE OF SPACE AND ENCLOSED OCCUPATION. I THEN JITTERED THE POINTS AND CULLED 90% OF THEM TO BE LEFT WITH A STURCTURE IN BETWEEN THE FACADE STRUCTURE AND THEY WORK NICELY TOGETHER. THIS MAY BE SUPPORTING STRUCTURES IN THE FUTURE.

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MORE EXPLORATIONS HAVE BEEN SHOWN HERE, THEY SEEM VASTLY DIFFERENT, BUT ARE FROM THE SAME FUNCTION WITH CHANGES IN ONE OR TWO COMPO-NENTS.

IT IS INTERESTING TO SEE HOW THESE SLIGHT CHANGES GENARATE EXTREMEMLY DIFFERENT FORMS, AND WE CAN IMDIATLY THINK ABOUT THE SMALL CHANGES IN ALGORITHM BEING MAGNIFIED IN DIFFERENT SCALES.

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FROM MAKING THESE I HAVE FOUND OUT THAT WE CAN GENERATE THIGNS BY ACCIDENT. ON RIGHT SIDE STUCTRUE LOOKS LIKE A BIRD AND THIS WAS NOT CREATE INTENTIONALLY. THIS BRINGS US BACK TO THE DEBATE IN ORNAMENT. MANY THINGS IN ALGORITHMIC DESIGN ESPECIALLY THE DETAILS ARE UNINTENTED, BUT THEY EMERGE AND SOME OF THEM BECOME THE ORNAMENT WE SEE. SO I SHOULD BE CLEAR HOW ORNAMENT EMERGES NATURALLY HERE.

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THE EXPLORATIONS HERE STARTED OF WITH A INTENDED SHAPE. THIS HERE IS TO DEMONSTARTE HOW MY FUNCTION ADOPTS WITH DIFFERENT INTENTIONS AND PARAMETERS AND REACT DIFFERENTLY. SO THESE FUNCTIONS AND REALLY THINK FOR THEMSELVES IN A WAY AND POSSIBLY EASE ARCHITECTURES’ JOBS IN THE FUTURE. BELOW ARE LINES INDICATING EDGES, AND WE CAN SEE THE COMPLEXITY IN THEM.

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TECH: PROTOTYPES

THE NEXT STAGE WAS TO CREATE PROTOTYPES OF THE TECHNIQUE. THIS IS WHEN DRONES CAME IN AND WE STARTED TO INVESTIAGTE HOW DRONES CAN BE ALGORITHMIC BUILDING MACHINES. THIS REALLY LINKS IN TO THE DESIGN CONCEPT OF COMPUTATIONAL ARCHITEC-TURE. I HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT ORNAMENT AND STRUCTURE, AND ALSO THOUGHT ABOUT HOW MY TECHNIQUE ENCLOSES SPACE AND SORT OF PARTICIANS IT WITH MERELY STUCTURE.

AFTER A BIT MORE CONSIDERING I HAVE USED THE CACOON AS A PRESIDENT TO EXPLORE HOW DRONES AND CARRY LINES AND MOVE AROUND TO CREATE STRUCTURE.

THIS RESULTED IN A INVESTIGATIONIN SPIDERS AND THEIR TENSILE WEBS.

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TRYING TO FINDED PATTERNS IN ORB WEBS ISN’T REALLY EASY. WE HAVE TESTED IN THE ABOVE WEBS AND MAPPED OUT THE WEB PATTERN IN ALGORITHMIC TERMS AND INPLEMENTED THEM TO A SPIDER WEB STRUCTURE CREATED IN GRASSHOPPER. WE FIGURED THAT

THE WEBS WERE SORT OF IN BETWEEN SOME-THING, SO WE CREATED A PERSPEX BOX WITH MANY HOLES IN IT AND TRYED TO MAP OUT THE SPIDER WEBS AND THINK ABOUT HOW DRONES MAY USE THIS SPACE ACCORDINGTO THE ALGORITHM.

ABOVE IS A ORB WEB THAT I MAPPED OUT TO MATCH HOW SPIDERS MAKE WEBS. THE LINES GENERAT-ED IN GRASSHOPPER MATCH THE ACTUAL ORDER SPIDERS MAKE THEM IN.

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TECH: PROPOSAL

THEN WE MADE SOME PROPOSALS TO HOW THE DESIGN SHOULD BE LIKE AND ALSO THE CORE CONCEPT WE BASE HOW DESIGN ON. WE HAD MANY IDEAS AND THOUGHT ABOUT OUR DESIGN WAS RATIONAL. SPI-DERS ARE VERY DYNAMIC AND CAN ADDAPT TO ITS ENVIRONMRNT. AND THIS IS EXACLY WHAT ALGORITHMIC DESIGN SHOULD HAVE THE CAPA-BILITY OF. AS THE SITE IS ON MERRY CREEK, WE THOUGHT THE DESIGN SHOULD ALSO RELATE TO NATURE AND HOW HUMAN INTERFERE WITH NATURE. CONSIDERING THESE ASPECTS WE DECIDED THAT SPIDER WEBS WERE THE BEST FIT TO THE CRITEREA. THEY WERE ALSO A NATURALLY EMERGING ORNAMENT WHICH LINKS INTO MY REASEARCH FROM THE START. WE ALSO DECIDED TO MAKE A BRIDGE STRUCTURE SINCE THIS DESIGN WILL CONECT HUMAN AND NATURE LIKE HOW A BRIDGE CON-NECTS AREAS.

ON THE RIGHT WAS A POSSIBILITY OF OURDESIGN WHERE THE BRIDGE AREA IS MADE OF DENSER STRUCTURES WHEREPEOPLE COULD WALK ON.

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OBJECTIVES/OUTCOMES

WE HAD OTHER POSSIBILITIES LIKE A MEMBRANE WEB STRUCTURE LIKE THE ORB WEBS, AND I WAS HOLDING UP A STRUCTURE FOR THE BRIDGE, AND WAS POSSIBLY MY BIRDS NEST STRUCTURE THAT I INVESTIGATED.

I ALSO HAD AN IDEA WHERE MY STUC-TURE WAS TO ATTACH ON TO THE WEB AND THAT WILL FORM THE BRIDGE.

AFTER MANY DISCUSSIONS WE DECIDED TO MAKE THE WEB DYN-AMNIC AND ABLE TO CHANGE AROUND IN DIFFERENT CONDITIONS. SO MAYBE IF THERE WAS A FLOOD IN MERRY CREEK WHICH IT IS KNOWN FOR, THE STRUCTURE COULD BE QUIKLY REBUILT AND ELEVATED JUST LIKE HOW SPIDER WEBS ADAPT TO THE SURROUNDINGS.

LEARNING A LOT OF GRASSHOPPER ORVER THIS TIME HAVE RE-ALLY BENIFITED ME IN UNDERSTANDING HOW MANY OF THE FAMOUS BUILDINGS OBTAINED THEIR FORMS FROM. AFTER UNDERSTANDING ALL OF THIS, IT REALLY NARROWS DOWN TO WHAT IS MY ARCHITEC-TURE AND HOW DOES IT DEAL WITH ALL THE CONCEPTUAL PROB-LEMS. THESE INCLUDED HOW IT TAKES ORNAMENT IN, OR HOW IT IS FUTURE BENIFICIAL AND MAYBE HOW IT CAN BE REPRODUCED.

I HAVE HAD HUGE INPROMENTS IN GRASSHOPPER AND I DO SEE HOW IMPORTANT IT IS FOR ME TO SUCCEED IN THE FUTURE.. NOT ONLY BE-CAUSE THE FUTURE IS FULL OF COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN, BUT ALSO BECAUSE IT IS A SKILL THAT OPENS A NEW MIND SET. A PROGRAM-MING SORT OF MIND SET WHICH I PROVIOUSLY HAVE ENCOUNTERED.

TO CONCLUDE I HOPE TO USE THIS SKILL AND SUCCESSFULLY IMPLE-MENT THIS INTO DRONES IN PART C, AND BY DOING THAT I WILL HAVE EXPERIENCE TO HOW PRACTICAL MACHINES CAN BE USED IN MODERN ARCHITECTURE. WHICH PROPABLY IS THE FUTURE ERA.

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APPENDIX/SKETCHES

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THESE ALGORITHMIC SKETCH ALL HAVE DIFFERNT QUALITIES THAT I LIKE. SOME SHOW COMPLEXITY IN VERY CIMPLE ALGORTHIMS. SOME ARE MADE MASTAKENLY BUT LOOKS AMAZING. TO ME THEY ALL SEEM TO BE NATURAL ORNAMENT.

THIS IS A WATER SHPERE AFTER RENDER. THE DETAIL INSIDE IS ORNAMENT ITSELF.

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