ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO:

AIR UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE. BACHELOR OF ENVIRONMENTS

XINTI WEI 233865SMESTER 1,2012

ContentsWeek 1 Architecture as Discourse

Week 2 Computing in Architecture

Week 3 Parametric Modelling

Week 4 CUT/DEVELOP

Week 5 Performance-Driven Design

Week 6 Materiality/Performance/Ornament

Group EOI

‘A simultaneous, syncretic and multi-sensory imagination and an embodiedempathy that are certainly beyond thecapacities of the most powerful of computers.’

- Henry MooreModern Sculptor

Walt Disney Concert HallLos Angeles, California

FrankGehry

Walt Disney Concert HallLos Angeles, California

The Walt Disney Concert Hall opens on October 23rd with a concert by the Los Angeles Philharmonicby Frank Gehry. The concept really starts with simple doodles, howerver, it is the computer aided the design brought it to life.

It is more powerful when intergrating the mind and the technolegy together, when it comes to creation of spaces. It is also true that computer techniques has its advandtage compare to human actions by easy amend-ments, no human erro, or never gets tired when the design gets too complex. (Kolarevic,2003).

Zaha Hadid

Antwerp Port Authorit (APA)Antwerp, Belgium.

The concept is a free interpretation of a beam-shaped volume raised above the existing !re brigade building and supported on three sculptured concrete pillars housing the stairs and lifts. Two of the pillars are situ-ated on the covered inner courtyard of the !rehouse, while the third is lo-cated beside an external support point and consists of a panoramic lift shaft.

A sculptural, sloping roof unites an underground lobby with the cov-ered inner court. Access to the underground car park is an important as-pect of the overall concept, with the loading & unloading bays and the re-fuse handling facilities also located here. The car park has space for

Antwerp Port Authorit (APA)Antwerp, Belgium.

300 or so cars and consists of a single underground level. The de-sign of the square can be arranged so that daylight is allowed to enter.

Never the less, computer aided design put the designer inside and outside the project simutanously, so the designer can get a comperhensive point of view of it. It provides with a whole new scope to view the project even before it is built, therefore there can be further amendments to the project. It may also stimulate the designer to push the design futther on to a new level.

Zaha Hadid

Kimball Art CenterARCHITECTS: BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group

‘!e task of architecture is to strengthen our sense of the real, not to create settings of mere fabrication and fantasy. !e essential mental task of the art of building is mediation and integration.’

- Prof. Juhani Pallasmaa. Helsinki University of Technology,

School of Architecture, Helsinki, FINLAND.

Kimball Art CenterARCHITECTS: BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group

Istanbul Disaster Prevention and Education Centre

ARCHITECTS: SHINE ARCHITECTURE

Project: Istanbul Disaster Prevention and Education CentreLocation: Istanbul, TurkeyDeveloped by: SHINE ArchitectureTypology: Competition SubmissionSize: 9,000 m2

Year: 2011Project Credits: Michael Smith, Minche Mena, Ruben Vazquez, Jose Zermeno, “Shine Architecture”

The Istanbul Disaster Prevention and Education Center by Shine Architecture is an example of initial concetual physical model (folding & enclosure) intergrated with computer based techiniques, which then develped into a mature !nished project through planning, intergration, analysing and digital modeling..

It re"ects how important it is to use computerized methods to develope and analyse the initial concepts into a successful design project, which comprises unique characteristics and expirences.

Istanbul Disaster Prevention and Education Centre

ARCHITECTS: SHINE ARCHITECTURE

The process of intergrationnot only demands the designer to imagine the project, but also use the advantages of computerised techniques to put the designer inside and out of the project simutaneously, which allows futher manipulation of the project with a more wholistic horizon of perception to the project.

Contemporary reinterpretations such as these can bring architecture to the present and pro-voke new interpretations of pre-existing ideas.

For the Wyndham Project, we can imitate the similar design process, which starts with a basic form as a single module, through experiments of physical modeling to developing in variations of digital modeling , we can put ourselves in a new perception of thinking, in oder to improve and inspect the project in greater detail.

HONEYCOMB MORPHOLOGIESHONEYCOMB MORPHOLOGIES

Date: 2004Location: London, UKDescription: !is research was pursued as part of a MA dissertation in Emergent Technologies and Design at the Architectural Associa-tion. !e central aim of the research is the development of a mate-rial system with a high degree of integration between its design and performance

Learning Objectives and OutcomesLearning Objectives and Outcomes

Part III:

- Moto: “In!nite Trip” _ Mobius

- Sketches/Physical Models/Digital Model

- Critical Reviewing _ Design Concept “ Peripheral Vision”

- Introducing Tensegrity Structure _ “Encounter”

- Sketches/ Physical Models/Development/Digital Model

Mobius strip symbolises the in!nite trip that people aretaking in thier life, since the project is a highway sculpture. The special characters of mobius loop can be translated into parametric design, which gives the design method a deeper meaning that links the personal driving experience with the project itself.

Simple paper models were constructed to for exxperimentalpurpose, multiple strips were linked differently: ribs, inter-locked amd connected. Howevere, these models only provide with a singular approach - skin, which do not satisfy the design concept “peripheral vision” that disappearin the vision tunnel.

Mobius Strip- “In!nite Trip”

Diagrams were developed to help the designing process,they are very effective when it comes to decision making.It saved a lot of time and energy before making the digitalmodel, combine the result from the diagram making process with computerized method, the design team wasable to develope a digital model in computer.

Then there is the question comes:

“How do we make it DISAPPEAR?”

PHYSICAL MODELS

Critical ReviewAfter the digital model was made, the team was able to analyse the form in greater details. Different techniques were tried out, unfortunatelythat the team discoved that due to the special surface character of the mobius strip, there is not suf!cient evidence that this form will successfully perform the design concept, todisappear or be come invisible completely.

Tesegrity tower- “Encounter”“The word ‘tensegrity’ is an invention: a contrac-

tion of ‘tensional integrity.’ Tensegrity describes a structural-relationship principle in which structural shape is guarenteed by the !nitely closed, comprehensively continuous, tensional behaviors of the system and not by the discon-tinuous and exclusively local compressional member behaviors. Tensegrity provides the ability to yield increasingly without ultimately breaking or coming asunder”

- Richard Buckminster Fuller (exerpt from Synergetics, p. 372.)

The unique characters of tensegrity provides the project with site responses (with the wind), as well as corespondes with the designconcept- “disappear” in the air.

Construction Details

In our own practice we consider mathematics and geometry as a crucial point of departure for the development of a project, whether it be topology or speci!c forms of tessellations, it is always a core issue of the design.

Matiasdel Campo, SPAN

Site A was selected to !t the peripheral vision concept, Mathmatical calculations was determined by push-pull factors, due to thedirect and indirect travel routs to the local signi!cant sites. The selected area was scaled and rotated due to the distance and scale of the relevant sites. The !nal outcomes became the locations and sizes of tensegrity structure.

Physical Model #1

scale: 1:25Sliver matt surface

Physical Model #2

scale: 1:25Highly re!ective surface

Macro Details

Macro Detail

Photo Montage

Digital model