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HATTIE ONG SI MIN 778153DESIGN STUDIO : AIR TUTOR : ALEX HOLLANDMELBOURNE UNIVERSITY

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CONCEPTUALISATION[A]4 INTRODUCTION

[A.1] DESGIN FURTURING 6

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DESIGN COMPUTATION 11[A.2]DESIGN COMPOSITION/GENERATION 18[A.3]CONCLUSION 25[A.4]LEARNING OUTCOMES 26[A.5]APPENDIX 27[A.6]

INTRODUCTION

Hattie was born in Singapore and had been studying in Singapore all the way till she got her Diploma in Interior Design. In the three years of studying for the Diploma, she has participate in some Singapore Design completion. In addition in one of her studio her model and design was chosen to be modeled during Archifest in Singapore.

Hattie has also pick up skills along the way. Including, AutoCAD, 3Dsmax, Adobe Indesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After effect, Sketch up and Lumion.

Hattie has also secure a internship as a drafter for GrandWork for 3 months. She stop her internship as she got a place for an exchange program in Hong Kong for a semester studying BA of Landscape Design. After completing her studies and getting a Diploma, she decided to take her studies further by going over-seas.

Currently Hattie is studying in Year 3 at Melbourne University getting BA of En-vironments majoring in Architecture. She is interested to learn more and explore different context and ideas. Something that has been more interesting to her would be designing via site understanding, interaction and towards sustaining the design without having to harm the nature..

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Diploma of Interior Design [Sin] [ 2013 - 2015 ]Bachelor of Env majoring in Architecture [Aus] [ 2015 - current ]

HATTIE ONG SI MIN

Few works I have done in my studies in Diploma of Interior Design. One was to create an structure originated from an nature insect in which in my case was an ant. Using their movement as a start point to create something impossible in the world,Other was to design and built an 3d interior space for a classmates. Participating in competitions to create a space in building that enhances interac-tion between one another.

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CONCEPTUALISATION [A]

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[A.1]Design Futuring

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One Central Park was being offered to the architect Jean Nouvel to be built at a whole new scale of design. This building is located at Australia, Sydney. Here they built an integrated experience for living in har-mony with the natural world. A number of distinct features has allowed One Central Park to be recognized as a unique structure at an International level.

ONE CENTRAL PARK


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What makes the building unique are its vertical hanging gardens, cantile-vered heliostat, low carbon tri - gener-ation power plant and internal water recycling plant.

The public park at the heart of the precinct climbs the side of the floor-to-ceiling glass towers to form a lush 21st century canopy. Using 250 species of Australian flowers and plants, the buds and blooms of the vegetation form a musical composition on the façade. [A.1] DESGIN FURTURING

What does it inspire ? One central park is a design that will change the mindset of other designers in the world. The theory and idea of having this design built out would give others the sense of motivation turning the impossible to possible. one of the features in the building would be the cantile-vered heliostat. Suspended from the 28th floor of One Central Park’s east tower.

The idea of having a cantilevered in a de-sign is commonly restricted as the ability to be able to build it seems impossible. In the past many “special” design would have been rejected on the reasons of being not pos-sible to be done. However as the world starts changing and evolving new ways and thinking has been discovered.

Effecting the futureThe start of a first building will continue with a sec-ond one and a third one. Architect might have their design being more abstract and organic as they start understanding that their design could have a high chance of being build.

This allow future designers to understand the idea of nothing is impossible in the world that is every changing and evolving. However in the same state of ever evolving, many start expecting more abstract design and more impossible design. As the years pass, this building might just be an ordi-nary building that was once build. Or it could be the ever first successful cantilevered building.

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OUT WITH THE BIRDS

Out With The Birds uses natural and local materials as a struc-tural element. The focus was to create a connection which leaves no impact on the site, nor any harm on the bam-boo itself, so after the temporary hotel is deconstructed, the materials can be reused as scaffolding on a construc-tion site or reused as another tempo-rary hotel on a different location.


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Penda took inspiration from Native American tipis for the structure, which would be built with X-shaped bamboo joints that hold horizontal bamboo rods in place. The horizontal rods sup-port the flooring, and the joints could be multiplied horizontally and verti-cally to increase the width and height of the structure.

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Effecting the future

With a flexible structural system and connected it with comfortable spaces, we have the op-portunity to create a variety of buildings of different sizes. depending on the needs, the size and amount can grow: from single rooms to a family structure, to a size of a clubhouse or even up to larger scales, which combine more functions of a typical hotel like a lobby or restaurant within one structure.

This starts allowing other designers to have the concept that not only building with the usage of the most newest technical or construction methods will be able to create something dif-ferent.

This would definitely inspire future architect by allowing their mindset only fixed in having materials that are more manmade. This allows them to explore the materials that nature has provided them.

What does it inspire ?

This structure allows others to manipulate ac-cording to ones needs and the site. In this case the site do not have to be altered to allow this structure to be built.

The nature of this could just effect the other designers to produce something of a greater scale where buildings can be made and altered based on locations and the client needs. I felt that this could be something that is different from other normal structures making it more perceiv-able to changes.

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[A.2]Design Computation

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GUANGZHOU OPERA HOUSE

Guangzhou Opera House was designed by Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid. The theathe has becomes the biggest performing centre in southern China and it one of the three biggest theasthes in the nation. The guangzhou opera house was de-signed in the way thats its contoured profile, unique twin boulder design and approach promenade enchances urban function, opens access to riverside and dockareas.

The main building comprises a free-standing concrete auditorium set within an audacious granite and glass-clad steel frame. The exposed frame is a stun-ning thing, a kind of giant spider ’s web protruding in several unlikely directions. It seems to challenge the laws not just of conventional geometry, but of gravity itself.

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The idea of computational design seems to be considered a “cheating” software for many design-ers. In some cases it might be right to presumed that designs can be generated using just a few clicks on the system. However by using the a design software it able lots of architect to produce the shape they desire.

In a way, Yes computational software changes the architectural industry by being able to achieve what that was impossible before. In the past, de-sign was produce by interaction with the site and inspired by the site. However with computational software, the design origin would have change.

Does computing re-design architecture?

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Impacting the futureStarting from this structure, We would have seen more and more buildings being built with more and more complex design that most likely its ini-tial design was design by sketches however as it reaches the computation stage, it evolves into something similar yet different design.

We would have to accept the fact that using software to create design is already an inte-grated part of architect industry. And instead of rejecting the idea, we might need to step up and evolve yourself to learn new skills to keep up with the chances.


DIGITAL GROTESQUE

Digital Grotesque was design and created by Michael hansmeyer and Benja-min Dillenburger. The idea of the project was to algorithms to create a form that appears at once synthetic and organic. The design process thus strikes a delicate balance be-tween the expected and the unexpected, between control and relinquishment.

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The algorithms are deterministic as they do not incorporate randomness, but the results are not necessarily entirely foreseeable. In-stead, they have the power to surprise

The combination of computational design and additive manufacturing can lead to a non-standardized, highly differentiated and spatially complex architecture that is defined at the scale of millimeters.

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Impacting the futureIn the future where more architect comes out to create buildings that are more progressively impressive than the other. It is undeniable that the fact of using compu-tation in the design has already been most use and is going to be highly practice by most architect in the world.

As the world is always evolving, we hu-mans also adapt to the changes making it something to foresee in the future architect industry.

The ways that the structure was built starts being different from the past. More details of the struc-ture is able to be produce based on computer-ization. Does it redesign architecture in a good way or bad way? I would say yes to both. In a good way, it helps built the architecture world differently progressing at a fast pace where more captivating works are created.

In a bad way, it might just lower the creativity and imagination. As such that design at the start comes from the architect itself but after imputing it digitally, one might just change their design based o the systems in the computer.

Does computing re-design architecture?

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[A.3]Design Composition and Generation

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DESIGN PLAYGROUND

ThinkParametric and Rojkind Ar-quitectos collaborated on an instal-

lation for LENOM-PB, a renowned branding firm, for one of their special events. The design brief consisted of designing an architectural space that would serve as a lounge area to receive over 400 visitors. The area should serve as a space allowing guests to share drinks and relax under and interesting atmosphere.

The result was the creation of a simple con-structive system when put in place correctly generates geometrically interesting spaces. If two elements are connected with wires and those two elements are alternatingly rotated, they create a seemingly vaulted space.

All the construction drawing sets were au-tomatically generated from the parametric model that was set up for this project.

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Process TakenUsing special computational tools, they create several scripts to automate the generation of the structural nodes. All the construction drawings were automati-cally generated from the parametric model that was set up for this project. Without using computational tools, the construction drawings would not be able to be produced at such a fast rate.

The idea was to model a wireframe model consisting of points and lines, next they were input into grasshop-per. Within grasshopper, they will be able to play with the size, spacing, thickness and many more variation.

After deciding on the form that they are happy with, they then decide to start making a sample model be-fore moving on to the space.

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What does it hold for futureIn the past, to be able to create structure like this for this space needs time and effort from both architect and engineer to work out the design together. Which would have taken a longer time frame for this structure to be able to built out. However we can see from this that complicated forms can be created by using software that would shorten the time taken to create this structure. Measurements could be made directly in the software changing the whole design.

Using this as a thought, for something that can be created much more quickly and efficiently it would help with construction and architecture industry. In some cases I do agree that it helps speeds up archi-tecture process.


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BEIJING NATIONAL AQUATIC CENTRE

BEIJING NATIONAL AQUATIC CENTRE buildings’ design was engineering, and construction depended heavily on genera-tive design. By seizing the world stage so dramati-cally, the buildings raised the profile of generative design (also called computational design or parametric design) and, to some extent, architec-ture may never go back.

The building’s form is inspired by the natural forma-tion of soap bubbles. Arup’s designers and struc-tural engineers realised that a structure based on this unique geometry would be highly repetitive and buildable, while appearing organic and ran-dom. To manipulate this complex geometric system dynamically, Arup wrote parametric software that automated the drawing and analysis process.

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The original issue of what form should the struc-ture take was the problem that they were fac-ing. By using an software, they created a con-cept design and explore various possibilities. There came out with the idea of using soap bubbles. The idea of soap bubbles that was connecting all the different areas together. After a series of drawing and test, they were in agreeable to this concept and idea. The next problem than appear to them, would this concept be workable out?

The design team than developed new soft-ware to automatically select the member sizes through an optimization process. The whole programmed generated the entire geometry from scratch checking the distribution of forces through the entire structure based on the spe-cific number of member sizes and allowing the team to test out different design configuration and would be able to receive feedback with-in 25mins of their testing.

The result was a building with a sophisticated structure that is optimized in terms of mate-rial weight-to-strength ratio. In addition to the structural advantages, Arup estimated that it saved $10 million on design costs alone com-pared with traditional design methods.

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This building was built in the year 2008. It shows that dur-ing that period of time, using software to integrate their design ideas was already part of designing in some archi-tect firms. Not only does it help in aiding the design work, it also helps to work out and save much more materials and structural use at that stage.

As the years goes on more architect starts using software to help with their design. In many cases it helps the design to strive and create more complicated patterns in a mat-ter of few time. This we can see computational design has already been integrated in firms maybe even before 2008 and now has become a worldwide usage to generate architecture works.

What does it hold for future

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[A.4]CONCLUSION

In part A, I have been able to compare different architectural projects on some of their more individual characteristics. From being able to see design projects ideas based on designing for the future in terms of architecturally more sustain-able or the design idea was inspired to make major changes in architectural world.

Following by the design computation and generation, Ideas of others creating easier ways to generate more organic design has slowly been integrated as part of the design ideas.

It is a fact in this times now that compu-tational has becomes part of many ar-chitecture. In some we see that it really helps not in terms of designing but more of saving on time and materials by us-ing software. In this way of designing, not only does architect benefit from this, even construction, engineers would be benefitted in this terms as they would have been able to share the idealation of this design can be able to built.

Impossible building that might have been impossible before have just started on the route of being possible to be built in the future.

CONCLUSION[A.4]

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[A.5]LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the start of the this studio, my ideal of using software to create design was that it was “cheating” tools used by design-ers to create something just for the sake of being different than the others and therefore the chances of being able to be built would be much more higher. However in this 3 weeks, I have been test-ing out the different software and also researching in the different projects that have used computation design in them.

At the beginning, after understanding the basics of grasshopper, I thought that most of the generation idea comes from the software. However when I am more controlled of what I am doing, I realise that I might have a small change of heart for computational design.

Computational design when used in the right way, has the ability to help design. In some ways yes, the design might be dif-ferent from the original idea, but most of the control still lies in the architect hands even when using the software.

LEARNING OUTCOMES [A.5]

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[A.6]APPENDIX

APPENDIX[A.6]

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ALGORITHMIC SKETCHES

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