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EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

Architecture as Discourse

“Above all, architecture needs to be analysed as discourse. It then becomes possible to think about architecture as something in which all can participate.

Crucially, one can begin to think about it from he point of view of itsconsump-tion as much as its production. “- Matthew Rampley

1. COMMUNICATIONI. Theme and ideas

“(design) will enhance the physical environment through the introduction of visual arts component....on-going interest in the Western Interchange by encouraging further reflection about the installation beyond a first glance.”

- Wyndham Gateway Design Project

“should create a focal point of iconic scale and presence and encourage a sense of pride within the local community....should propose new,...generate a new discourse”

- Wyndham Gateway Design Project

II. Methodology and design paths adoption

III. Advanced techniques

IV. Responsive to contextual change

V. The community of Wyndham will be influenced by the potent of the advanced de-sign solutions.

2. DESIGN APPROACHDESIGN APPROACH

I. Precedent-Based Design

“Aprocess that applies prototype to the particular circumstances of the present problem by copying its general features while modifying its less important ones.” - Yehuda E. Kalay

II. Search

“This approach is used to produce candidate solutions for consideration, in addition to that, the few desired out-comes are chosen for further development and modification until the goals of design are reached.”

- Yehuda E. Kalay

WHY COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN TECHNOLOGY?“The recent addition addition of computers to the repertoire of means communication has expanded access to information and opened up the design process for more people to become involved.”

“digitally driven processes, characterized by dynamic, open-ended and unpredictable but consisten transfor-mation of 3d structures,…giving rise to architectonic possibilities”

- Kolarevic

“Scripting can also be the antidote to standardization forced by an ambition to lower production costs, rather than any more sophisticated motivation: the previously elusive opportunities for multiple versioning and be-spoke production can now be considered more seriously through the use of scripting.”

Benefits of scripting:

a significantly deeper engagement between the computer and user by automating routine aspects and repeti-tive activities, thus facilitating a far greater range of potential outcomes for the same investment in time.

Scripting can also be the antidote to standardization forced by an ambition to lower production costs, rather than any more sophisticated motivation: the previously elusive opportunities for multiple versioning and be-spoke production can now be considered more seriously through the use of scripting.

- Mark Burry

3. PRECEDENTS AND ARGUMENTPRECEDENT BASED APPROACH

“(design) the specific shape of the building but a set of principles encoded as a sequence of paramet-ric equations by which specific instances of the design can be generated and varied in time as need-ed.”

- Kolarevic

“denunciation of fixed solutions and lists potential variables”

McCormick Tribune Campus Center_Chicago, Illinois,USA_OMA/MichaelRock_2003

Dior Ginza Building FacadeGinza,Tokyo,Japan_Kumiko Inui_2004

“Both the perforated and the printed panels express Dior’s famous canage pattern, and at night they create a moiré effect that gives the building a ghostlike appearance.”

Architectural Record Magazine

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion

London,U

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lvaro Siza_2005

“Traditional timber construction methods evolved through their connection logic.”

“The structural languag-es of the Japanese tem-ple and English half-tim-bered house derive from their details: relation-ships between element and joint, continuity and splice defined their char-acters....mechanical ar-ray of elements between nodes."

Cecil Balmond (Arup)

IKMZ University Library. Cottbus LibraryCottbus,Brandenburg,Germany_Herzog&DeMeuron_2005

Elbe Philharmonic Theatre Hall Hamburg,Germany_2013

“The building is part of one of Europe’s largest urban development projects, HafenCity Hamburg, and can be considered an icon of this booming port city...(and also) portrays the public spirit of the Ham-burg citizens”Rose Etherington (Dezeen)

“Throughout the course of the after-noon, the changing conditions of the sky were reflected upon the skin, as at times the treatment was a bright clear blue and slowly turned to a white-ish grey as more clouds appeared.”

Karen Cilento (Archdaily)

ICD/ITKE Research PavilionUniversity of Stuttgart Campus,Stuttgart,Germany_2010

“Design computation provides the possibilities of integrating physical properties and material be-haviour as generative drivers in the architectural design process.Thus architectural form, material formation and structural performance can be considered synchronously.”- Special issue: Programming Cultures, Architectural Design

The innovative structure demonstrates the latest developments in material-oriented computational design, simulation, and production processes in architecture. The result is a bending-active struc-ture made entirely of extremely thin, elastically-bent plywood strips.

SURFACE NORMAL

SURFACE NORMAL

BOOLEAN PATTERN

SCALE FACTOR 2ROWS 46COLUMNS 40




COMBINATION OF CIRCLE POLY-GON

COMBINATION OF TRIGRID & RADGRIDSCALE FACTOR 0.1ROWS 24COLUMNS 29



4. DESIGN METHODOLOGY

MATH FUNCTION

SURFACE NORMAL

PATEERN OVERLAPPINGH

MULT ATH FUNCTION

MULTI MATH FUNCTIONS

OVERLAPPING PATTERN

SCALE FACTOR 0.31, 0.38ROWS 33COLUMNS 33



SCALE FACTOR 1.6ROWS 32, 13COLUMNS 47, 39





REVERSE ENGINEER

Dior Ginza Building FacadeGinza,Tokyo,Japan_Kumiko Inui_2004

McCormick Tribune Campus Center, Chicago, Illinois,USAOMA

COMPONENTS USED:

IMAGE SAMPLER,MULTIPLICATION, SUBTRACTION, ITEM, ROUND, MOVE, WIRES

4. DESIGN METHODOLOGYEXPERIMENTATION OF MATERIALS

“New material s are offering unparalleled thinness, dynamically changing properties, and functionally gradient compositions. Coupled with the means of digital technology, advances in material science have led to renewed interest among architects intectonic expression, material properties, and the ability to produce the desired surface and spatial effects.”

Kolarevic - Material Effects (2008) Pg 6

As such, interrogating materiality is fundamental to new attitudes towards achieving design intent. (After all, architecture is fundamentally a material practice.

Kolarevic - Material Effects (2008)(Pg 7)

FRAME SUPPORT

Because plastic sheet is such a malleable material when heated, it needs to sit on a frame, so that when it cools down. its shape will follow the form of the frame. Thus, a wooden frame with contour of the gateway site was adopted and further experimented.

Double layer, optical illusion, overlapping patterns

To further enchance the features in Dior facade, the idea of optical illusion were being ex-plored. With the optical illusion of scanimator, the underlayer object will have certain mo-tion when the upperlayer of strips pattern ran accrossed it.

However, with limited abilities in grasshoppper and rhino, this effect could not be well pre-sented. Besides that, the effect might not be outstanding if it is done in large scale and can-not be seen by moving motorists.

CONCLUSION

Our team looking forward to continuing exploration in transparent malleable ma-terials and overlapping patterns. in addition to that, we will look into how materials transform and change over time, i.e. deteriorate through ageing, weathering, and use,

These ideas will be further investigated and modified to create the most satisfying result that suits the goals of our teams as well as Wyndham city council criteria.

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Documents

design process

goals of design

design paths adoption

use of scripting

lower production costs

community of wyndham

benefits of scripting

elusive opportunities