Part B Design Approach_Xinrui Yan_390916

Part BEOI II: Design Approach

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After discussing with my group mate, we showed our interests in the approach of strips and folding. We choose this method because we think that by folding methods we can use strips to create differ-ent shapes and spaces. It is full of tension and variability that would bring us unexpected shapes and forms during the designing process that enriches our ideas. Using series of strips, which rotate in different degrees, it gives the performance of movements. The spaces between each strip elements will affect the airflow and create light effect as well. As most of our clients for the gateway project are the ones driv-ing at a high speed on freeways, the floating and dynamic forms with different shapes of shadows created give audiences instant feelings when they pass by. Also, we talked about the scale, in order to make eye-catching project, I think we should try to make the design at a little bit larger scale both horizontally and vertically, so that we can impress our clients and make them remem-ber it and the city they are going to, saying, the Wyndham City.

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Connection

The lines present the connection between each other. For our project, we use strips as a connection to the Wyndham City, e.g. the people, the culture, the environments. We want our design fit into the whole environment not just pin on the site.

Speed lines

In comic books, normally when the authors want to show things moving in a high speed, they draw lines around the project. This makes us to think about us-ing straight-line elements to give people the sense of speed.

Direction

And what’s more, we want to use strips to give our client the feeling of direction to show where they are going.

LOOP_3‘Loop_3 is a project conceived and realized by Loop_3 design team, a group of stu-dents Architectural Design 3 course at the Faculty of Engineering, Università di Bolo-gna.’ 1

Loop_3 is a good example of the strips and folding approach. Designers use mathemat-ical trigonometric functions to create this amazing complex structure through para-metric design soft ware. ‘It explores the rationality of complex shapes joining spatial interaction, curvature as structural and expressive strategy and shape as sorting system for the deployment of functions.’2

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• Th e voluptuous ripples give help the overall stability3

• Flat parts are intended for 3D prototypes while pictures occupy the most vertical surface parts to facilitate reading4

• Set the central point as the origin, strips spread towards three directions at horizontal scale, using strips and folding methods it helps to create design works at a large range of scale according to the surrounding environments, which give a sense of eye-catching and as well as show the characteristic of being dynamic

• Instead of traditional fl at shape, architects use mathematics as a privileged tool for tracing systematic paths as well as enhancing their expressive language5. It makes complex design feasible in the real world and create thousands of variations

• Th e shape gives people diff erent feeling when people walking around. Diff erent view at diff erent angle. Th is is also a good inspiration for Gateway Project. As on the highway, most of our audience are drivers and passengers, who are in the fast moving, by using strips and folding approach we are able to bring them diff erent instant reaction when they pass by.

ICD/ITKE Research Pavilion

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This research Pavilion was designed by the Institute for Computational Design (ICD) and the Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE).

The whole shape is like spreading curves from the central point and creates a ‘round ring’, which also looks like a blooming flower in my opinion. It bends each piece of strips in order to form the space and pattern in between. As a re-sult, amazing lighting effect and shadows are created as shown in Fig 8. What’s more, if we combine the structure and the shadows together as a whole, it looks like a large luxuriant tree, which makes me think that they may try to put natu-ral elements into their designs.

Especially when we look at the material they used, plywood was employed. This material is able to be bent and looks soft and smooth when it’s applied on the project. This is a good reference when we choose our material for the gateway project as we are trying to find material that is full of tension (easy to bend) and stable( holding the overall structure) and fit into the surrounding environments as well.

Case Study 1. 0Biothing_Seroussi Pavillon

Original Form down-loaded from LMS

Make curvature on every single line

Extrude lines into strips

Change cueves to straight lines

For Case Study 1.0, we first download the GrassHopper file provided on LMS and tried to make changes on it. We want to experience what variations that lines can create and see if it can match our design focus. Can it give the sense of showing the direction?Use curves or straight lines or both of them? How to show the movements in the design? Will it be possible to give the feeling of speed that mentioned before?What shape is more suitable for the Gateway project? Enclose or open shapes?

Case Study 1. 0Biothing_Seroussi Pavillon

Change cueves to straight lines

Change the direction where lines spead towards

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Then we tried to find precedents that can give us more to show the pos-sibilities which strips and folding can create. Liverpool is the largest luxury retail shop located in Mexico. We find that the dynamic and modern façade is a good produced in the strips and folding method. It is made of series of strips, which looks like propeller. Each of them rotates 180 de-grees on its axis. These simple and controlled variations create numerous results for each piece, which as a whole, give a sense of movement6. Even though it stays still actually, it makes people feel that they are floating towards a direction. This effect is better appreciate at a distance and when passing through by car at high speed7. It matches our aim on the gateway project, as most of our clients are the ones driving cars at a high speed on freeway. And what’s more, the degrees they rotate change the light shining on them and create different shadows and reflections. This also needs to be taken into considerations during our designs because lightness is also a significant factor that influence audiences’ feeling.

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Precedent:LiverpoolVillahermosa

Then we try to make the build-ing surface via Grasshopper. We separate up and bottom curves in the same length and connect them, which forms strips and then we rotate them at 180 degrees.

This is an important technique we learn that we can apply this on our project model to reach the effect of rotation. Not only 180 degrees, but any degrees we would like to rotate to achieve the results of movement and lightness.

Matrix

Top View

Perspective

We started to make Matrix to explore designing techniques to create different forms and shapes. first we started from straighnt lines and

We started to make Matrix to explore designing techniques to create different forms and shapes. first we started from straighnt lines and

Glasgow museum of transportation

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Case Study 2.0

We came across with a precedent that has an ideal shape and similar concept as our de-sign, so we used this example as our foundation and lead us to create our own models. The precedent we found is the Glasgow museum of transportation. This structure is a tunnel-like configuration that connects the city and the river. It uses parallel curves and sharp chine lines inside to give people the sense of direction. The long length curves together bring the feeling of movements towards one way. Using combination of line elements it give the power of Kinetic.

Glasgow museum of transportation

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By combining straight lines and curves it makes the structure dynamic and shows the movements.

Th en we try to use grasshopper to make this shape. Starting from straight strips, we randomly change the length and spaces to give the sense of speed and direction

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Fabrication research

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This example we pull out from the Internet that helps us figure out how to connect each piece of strips while pre-senting the leaning effect. This project we found showed us the technique we didn’t come across with, it proves that by playing with the angle on the strips, you can present a vision of leaning.

‘AA’ Pavilion Project

These pictures on the left side show the tech-nique they have been using to provide the leaning effect on the final model by adjusting the angles of both strips then combine together to provide that effect.

And the pictures on the right hand side just sim-ply shows the process of the project and how the technique has been adapted in this model.

At last we try to make out design into physi-cal models.We fi rst use paper to make models accord-ing to the diagram we previously made. Paper is full of ten-sion and smooth while modeling. But it is hard to make the curvature if there are no support points like the end of each strip. Th ey have to stay on the baseboard can we cannot make them towards up or at any degrees.

Th en we tried to make model in wire meshes. Th is time it is easy to bend them at dif-ferent degrees and they could hold part of the weight themselves. But compared to pa-per, wire meshes are not so smooth and give a rigid feeling.

At last we tried fablab to do the modeling. We use box-board for the material. We cut strips in diff erent curve shapes. It gives the feeling of fl oating and movement and points out the direction where it is going. And especially when we looking at the shadows they make. It creates straight lines under the structure, which give a sense of speed. Th e whole design combined curve and straight lines, which present the dynamic and visual perception.

However, aft er we received the feedback from tutors, we noticed that if we use boxboard it would ruin the origi-nal concept of our design: the fl oating movements and the soft feeling. It cannot give the sense of tension and somehow changes our design aim. Th erefore my group mate and I tried to redo our model and see if it can improve our design model if we choose paper for our main material.

We first want to experience how paper could twist and what effect it would bring us. We used a cylinder as the core and make paper strips wind up on it. It did give us the feeling of bend-ing and rotating and so that we started to make the shape like what we made through fablab.

As I mentioned be-fore, one weak bond of paper is that it cannot hold part of their weight so that it cannot ‘stand’ or lift upwards one direc-tion. Therefore, we made a supporting board in the middle. In this way, paper strips are able to be lift up and give the sense of direction.

Next we try to make model by using paper according to the shape we chosen in GrassHopper. This time we use one extra strip connecting each strip in the middle in order to make the curvature. Making both of the ends gathering at one spot, it looks like it is pointing one direction and the shadows it makes people feel different when looking at it at different angles. The paper makes the whole structure full of tension and brings the feeling of soft and smooth at the same time.

Random + Twisting + Combining Straight & Curve Lines + Orientation

In a conclusion, we use the methods of twisting and rotating to change the curvature of each strip in order to give the sense of movements as a whole. Secondly, we use not only curves but also straight-line elements together to form the structure. Curves can create floating shapes while the straight lines give a feeling of speed. And also, we make all strips towards one way to give our client the sense of orientation, which showing the direction where they are going, here, it can be seen as a sign that people are now driving into the Wyndham City and makes a connection between Wyndham and the City. What’s more, we also use the definition of randomly producing to change the length of each strip so that the final form is freer and not that rigid visually. The length and the curvature will have a significant impact on the lightness effect of the whole design. In this way, we are able to bring audiences different feelings when they pass by during the day.

Random + Twisting + Combining Straight & Curve Lines + Orientation

In a conclusion, we use the methods of twisting and rotating to change the curvature of each strip in order to give the sense of movements as a whole. Secondly, we use not only curves but also straight-line elements together to form the structure. Curves can create floating shapes while the straight lines give a feeling of speed. And also, we make all strips towards one way to give our client the sense of orientation, which showing the direction where they are going, here, it can be seen as a sign that people are now driving into the Wyndham City and makes a connection between Wyndham and the City. What’s more, we also use the definition of randomly producing to change the length of each strip so that the final form is freer and not that rigid visually. The length and the curvature will have a significant impact on the lightness effect of the whole design. In this way, we are able to bring audiences different feelings when they pass by during the day.