ADS AIR 2012: ARCHITECTURAL DISCOURSE Ecknaathh Bala

TUTOR: GWYLLIM JAHN

PROGRESS JOURNAL

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ABOVE ALL , ARCHITECTURE NEEDS TO BE ANALYSED AS DISCOURSE

03 FOCUS PERSONAL PROJECTHEADSPACE 1 -FIRST YEAR VIRTUAL DESIGN

05 FUNDAMENTALS STATE OF THE ART PROJECTSCHANGI TERMINAL 3 - SKIDMORE, OWINGS & MERILL, WOODHEAD ARCHITECTS, CPG

08 CASE FOR INNOVATION COMPUTATIONAL DESIGNSUBTERRAIN & MONOCOQUE 1- NERI OXMAN

12 SCRIPTING CULTURE CONTEMPORARY SCRIPTINGMESONIC FABRICS - BIOTHING, EZIO BLASETTICHOIRS & AUTOGENIC SYSTEMS - EVAN DOUGLIS

16 NATURAL SELECTION MATRIX OF COMBINTIONS NATURE AND GENERATIVE SYSTEMS

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HEADSPACE

HeadSpace 1 invited us, 1st year architecture students to generate ideas and literally place them outside our head. This virtual exercise pushed us to our mental capacity in thinking about virtual design and was a basis for computational design. The design was sketched and remodeled and worked over three months. intensive digital recon-struction and rigorous development of the virtual model resulted in a truly unique tessellated paper model. My concept and ideas were focused on geometry and in particular facetal treatment in differ-ent architectural typologies. After carful investigation and sketching and trialing of different designs, a hybrid prototype was conceived.

HeadSpace has received international recognition. It was not the individual designs that were made by 100 students but rather the idea of literal and virtual design that had gained much attention of the global architectural society. HeadSpace was played at the New York Architectural film festival in 2010. , it has since become a top-ic of architectural discourse in terms of the idea generated from it.

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TEA ROOM - EXHIBITION - TAKASHI SUGIMOTO

Takashi Sugimoto, founder and President of SUPERPOTATO, is an enig-matic designer and architect. His designs are world renowned and in par-ticular one of his exhibition installments named the Tea room. this small enclosure with its boundaries limited by precise water droplets that com-bines a timeless tradition in a sacred space, evoking a great sense of re-lation and experience. This broadens our understanding of architecture and what formal relationships and systems that are associated with it. Ar-chitecture is an art, its symbolic and representational and experiential.

“ WORK AT CREATING PLACES THAT ALLOW COMMUNICA-

TION BETWEEN PEOPLE AND INCORPORATE A SENSE OF

NATURE”

EXPERIENTIAL

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In order to be able to imagine the future, de-signers usually have to explore its virtual version

Changi Airport Terminal 3, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Mer-rill in collaboration with Woodhead Architects and CPG has been internationally acclaimed for its state of the art roof and sub-lime interior qualities. It is the “first of its kind”, designed para-metrically, the series of components that make up the roof is mechanically programmed to filter and manage optimal levels of light within the interior concourse. 919 skylights engulf the terminal with light, ambience, mood, emotion and experience.

“ THE MOST FUNDEMENTAL CHALLENGE FOR AN ARCHITECT WHEN DESIGNING AN AIRPORT IS TO EVOKE A SENSE OF PLACE AND TRANSLATE VAST SPACES INTO RELATABLE IDENTITIES”

MADHAVI TUKMUR - INDESIGN

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RELATABLE IDENTITIES

BROADENING ARCHITECTURAL DISCOURSESkidmore, Owings & Merill chose Changi T3, to be published in their annual Journal, called SOM Journal to celebrate the most “innova-tive projects”. The journal would go on to impact the architectural discourse at large. Changi T3 has received several accolades for its innovative design, most recently being shortlisted in the World Ar-chitectural Festival, and receiving numerous awards, namely from the Chicago Anthenaeum and the American Architecture Award.s The firm’s design intent is to relate this type of formal investiga-tion into the articulation of surface, boldness of architecture, and appropriateness of spatial expression. By collaborating the specialized fields of both engineering and architectural investigative research, a more innovative design can be achieved, which is applicable to the Gateway Design Project. Besides its computational design and me-chanical programming of the Canopy roof at Changi Terminal 3 which has broadened the interpretation of architecture, it has also estab-lished that this particular approach, and innovation creates relatable identities, and in relation to the Gateway for Werribe I will use this approach to create an identity for Werribe through the Gateway.

CHANGI TERMINAL 3 - SOM NEW YORK, WOODHEAD ARCHITECTS, CPG

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Airport architecture has taken off to new heights, they represent one of the most revolutionary forms of architec-ture as an emblem of national pride. Acting as international gateways they represent the first and last impressions of a coun-try. They reflect cultural identity and to residents these iconic structures are unconscious associations of collective identities.

CHANGI STATE OF THE ART PROJECTS FUNDAMENTALS

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Neri Oxman’s investigation and experimentation project named Sub-terrain is focused on examining the physical features of a terrain and express the distribution and magnitude of forces and the way in which it is formed. By studying 2D tissue samples from animals, Oxman then re-constructed them digitally and by applying a computational techniques, Oxman created prototypes by computing hypothetical physical re-sponses. Informed by the analysis resulting in laminated structural com-posites which respond to given ranges of energy and loading conditions.

The emerging scientific insight into simulation of material formation may have potential implications for tissue fabrication and “natural en-gineering” of larger material complexes such as a building’s skeleton.Neri Oxman is internationally recognized for extending the ar-chitectural discourse with her work in the field of “Natu-ral Artifice” exploring the interface of design, computer science, structural engineering and biology with the aim of re-fab-ricating natural forms in a way that reflects their underlying physics.

CASE FOR INNOVATION

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Both Subterrain and Monocoque 1 will be exhibited at New York’s Museum of Modern Art in the MoMA exhibition which showcas-es objects projects and concepts from all around the globe which have successfully translated disruptive innovation. Oxman pro-motes a new innovative approach to design in all her projects, and in particular in which form is determined both by nature and the materials used and the natural forces that shape the materials.

Monocoque 1, is another exemplary project by Oxman, that in-vestigates structural properties in external skin. French for “single shell,” Monocoque stands for a construction technique that sup-ports structural load using an object’s external skin. Contrary to the traditional design of building skins that distinguish between internal structural frameworks and non-bearing skin elements, this approach promotes heterogeneity and differentiation of material properties.

Oxmans’s projects and research based experiments are a case for innovation and are only achievable through computational de-sign and a understanding of parametric methods. This is an radi-cal and unconventional approach that I would like to explore in the Gateway Design project for Weribee. Oxman’s approach in creating structural components which have been reconstruct-ed from natural sources can be applicable to the Gateway de-sign in creating a structural skin with load bearing properties.

FORM TION

DIGITAL FORM

GENERATION

DIGITAL CASE FOR INNOVATION

MONOCOQUE 1 - components

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SCRIPTING CULTURE

EZIO BLASETTI

Scripting, enables computer programming to be an integral part of the design pro-cess. It opens up a world of opportunities for innovation, allowing the designer to customize the software around their own approach. Scripting liberates designing by automating many routine aspects and re-petitive activities of the design process. It has many beneficial attributes to this ap-proach to digital computation. It is being explored collaboratively with emerging digi-tal fabrication technologies. However, many designers are hesitant to use and engage in this type of computational design.

CONTEMPORARY SCRIPTING PROJECTMesonic Fabrics is a project that embodies an overlapping employ-ment of a number of scripting cultures and design philosophies. The design intent was to investigate and experiment ways of scripting toward a solution or answer. However it seems that the algorithmic logic in the scripting has lead to discovery of new emergent patterns within generative systems.

UNDER THE HAMMER ~ DESIGN PHILOSOPHY The project was concerned in the exploration of trans-coding 3 dif-ferent algorithmic expressions. The exploration of electro magnetic fields as a means of cloning and recreating systems in a generative manner, is inventive, but as a computational designer they have not in-vented this particular scripting approach. So what makes them inven-tive or innovative? Within this scripting culture designers are depen-dent on a optimistic outlook on scripting as a new tool. Its potentials and possibilities are still being investigated and explored. The Mesonic Project exploration revealed induced rapid iteration and variation and also exploiting generative processes.

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Ezio Basletti, the co-founder of ‘Biothing’ operating at the intersection of design, material praxis, complex systems and computer science, has been named a contemporary scripting leader. Basletti’s works include the Ser-rousi and the Mesonic Fabrics.

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EVAN DOUGLIS

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SCRIPTING ZIETGIEST

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HOW DOES SCRIPTING CON-CERN THE GATEWAY Looking at generative systems and emer-gent patterns, as seen in Ezio Basletti’s work not only explores structural trajec-tories for roof conditions, but also enables more possibilities in design beyond our imagination. By establishing means in digi-tal computation and embracing paramet-ric capabilities and in particular scripting cultures, the Gateway for Wyndham City can be explored in a manner that will create more innovative design outcomes which respond to the requirements and expectations of the Wyndham city coun-cil. The employment of generative systems in the Gateway Project can be explored in search for structural systems that are formed on natural occurrences such as electro magnetic fields as seen in the Me-sonic Fabric exploration by ‘Biothing’.

LEADER IN CONTEMPORARY SCRIPTING Evan Douglis can be seen as a pioneer of this new era of extreme computational control. The image above captures one of his ac-claimed work ‘ Chorus’ a restaurant in Brooklyn, New York. The de-sign is ornamental yet experimenting and exploring the relationship between structure and ornament. This is one of many cases of his reseach based contemporary scripting as a means of direction to-ward optimal design.

AUTOGENIC STRUCTURES ~ DIRECTION FOR EOIAutogenig Structures is the title of his latest publication. It engages with those curious about the visionary apporach to architecture. The book mainly looks at the future relationship between structure and ornament; the value of mass customization for the next generation of modular building components; and, the role of smart materials in creating a sustainable universe. These issues are of interest to our Group. Douglis’ work epitomises our visions and design apporach for the Gateway Design Project for Weribee. His design philosophy is centred upon an alternative vision for the future of architecure. And a city like Wyndham, should be interested in the future and especially showcasing it self through its Gateway as an emerging municpality in Victoria.

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“Autogenic Structures” offers an alter-native vision for the future of archi-tecture, a timely and invaluable con-tribution to the debate concerning emergent surfaces and the next gen-eration of building membranes in this era of extreme computational control

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MATRIX OF COMBINATIONSMATRIX OF COMBINATIONS

The initial exploration resulted in a surface made up of indi-vidual cell like components which govern the surface.

When adjusting the parameters within the curved intersec-tions associative resulted in the expansion of these individu-al circles and created a uniform surface /skin

The final outcome for this particular exploration, depicts a more organic form and shape which has been formed by this itterative nature of the curve interestions.

SEARCH PROCESS Similarly to Kalay’s principles and methods of computer aided design and in particular the 2 steps of search process selection occurred un-consciously. It was necessary to produce candidate solutions for con-sideration so as to widen the pool of design outcomes, but also in or-der to search toward optimal design possibilities. Choosing the right design solution for consideration and further development can only be done when a certain degree of exploration has been undertaken..

DEPTHThe above variational exploration is an example of a search pro-cess known as a depth first method which is relative to the ex-ploration of a candidate solution to its logical conclusion. Despite not opening up more avenues for design outcomes as such in the breadth method, this method allows for a logical focused investiga-tion of one candidate solution before moving to the next solution.

DESIGN INTEREST Our groups design intent is focused on natural occurrences and we are interested in emergent forms and generative sys-tems. Hence the chosen candidate solution was an investiga-tion of independent cell like organisms or components that forms more than just a skin but a structural like component.

IN RELATION TO THE EOIIn regards to the EOI, it is important to understand that the search process for the Gateway project for Wyndham city can produce more optimal outcomes and design solutions. De-pending on the search method as specified by Kalay’s read-ing it is apparent that computational design has much more in-novative and possible candidate solutions for consideration.

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The candidate solution is based on Boolean patterning, acctactor points associative, extrusion output and an addi-tion of rotate 3D to shift of into a different plane. The result is conglommeration of prismic coloumns that fluctuate in hieght and density according to the slider input.

When adding a 3D rotate to the CUT definiiton the angle of the rotatation governs the origin points of the these co-loumns, shifting then down.

The final outcome resulted in individial components sup-porting each other like an organsim. The cut definition has been recreated to incorporate structural conditions.

MATRIX OF COMBINATIONS MATRIX OF COMBINATIONS

SEARCH PROCESS This search process revolves around the breadth methodology. After several possible ways of exploring the cadidate solution before taking to its logical solution.

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