Wyndham City GatewayExpression of Interest

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AT A GLANCE

“WAS THAT A CAT OR A LION?”

Whilst driving at speeds of 100km/h city bound on the Princes Freeway, it is easy for visuals to slip the mind.

Focused drivers do not recall the bridge they travelled under, or the many signs they passed, with only a destination in their vision.

The gateway they pass entering Wyndham will create uncertainty. They will see a form at first and then it will transform and before the spectator can realise what they have just looked at, it will be out of their sight.

At a glance 01Contents 02The peripheral vision 03GROWTH 06Scripting possibilities 08Interaction 10Integration 11This is Wyndham 13Digital Fabrication 15Form 17De-flatten surface 19Pico-Motion reaction 22Deployment 23Construction 25

CONTENTS

THE PERIPHERAL VISION

See straight, that this where your vision is most effective, objects on the fringe of our vision is not. Ironically when the driver come across, the project will be out of their horizon.

Through manipulating this dramatic feeling of disappearing approach The final product to be visible only from far, and vanish when you get close, re-appear in your rear mirror.

WEIGHTLESS MEESSAGE DELIVERY.

“Did you miss it?”

BUT HOW? >>>>>>>>>>>>>

ORGANIC FORM the organic form highlighted through biothing presents a free form that resembles what can be seen in the natural environment. the ability to use scripting to create this organic form provides a method of inspiration that can be used to communicate the idea of the natural environment withing the gateway project. it is important to use nature and the surrounding environment as a method of igniting inspiration within this project. there needs to be a relationship between the gateway and the surrounds, and biothing and the form it creates can communicate this.

GROWTH

Biothing explores the shift from technical based approaches to more explicit computational approach. This is done by engaging with scripting in an ‘open source manner’. This scripting culture addresses a growing trend of collective computational knowledge within a discipline (in this case architecture).

“THIS PROCESS AFFORDED US A REPERTOIRE OF SUFFICIENT RICHNESS AND COMPLEXITY TO APPROACH URBAN REGENERATION PROJECTS WITH MULTIPLE SIMULTANEOUS STRATEGIES.”- ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS

SCRIPTING POSSIBILITIESParametric design allows architects to discover our environment from a data-driven viewport. complicated forms are simplified into datas and re compiled into thing that is out of our vision.

Global CititesZaha Hadid/ Peter Schemecher

2007

“A SUSPENDED GEOTEXTILE THAT GRADUALLY ACCUMULATES HYBRID SOIL FROM INGREDIENTS DRAWN FROM ITS SURROUNDINGS.” - HYLOZOIC GROUND

INTERACTIONNature: an ever occurring process of actions and reactions. Leaves fall, seasons change. It is apart of life for humans to interact, grow and change. In Philip Beesleys Hylozoic series, he created a delicate system that reacts to the presence of action. The surface almost breathes while it changes creating an interaction between the viewer and the object in-front of them.

Hylozoic Ground Philip Beesleys

2010

INTEGRATION

The process of integration not 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 simultaneously. This allows further 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 provoke new interpretations of

existing ideas.

‘A SIMULTANEOUS, SYNCRETIC AND MULTI-SENSORY IMAGINATION AND AN EMBODIED EMPATHY THAT ARE CERTAINLY BEYOND THE CAPACITIES OF THE MOST POWERFUL OF COMPUTERS.’- HENRY MOORE

THIS IS WYNDHAMIgniting interest.

Wyndham city is currently home to wetlands, a state of the art equestrian centre, vineyards, and a growing social culture. The gateway will reflect the growing population and will defy the initial expectation people feel when travelling to Wyndham.

Stimulating growth

DEFYING EXPECTATION

BIO-INSPIREDINTERACTIONINTEGRATION

DIGITAL FABRICATION

Attractor Point

Arbitrary Points Boolean Pattern Curve Intersections Explicit Grids Overlapping Pattern Surface Grids Using Surface Norm

Curve Attractor

Image Sampler

Maths Function

Multi Maths Function

Streaming Text

Sets

Input

Associa

tion

Computational enables the form respond more quickly to input, being interactive with data instead of pen strokes. Grasshopper with Rhino allows us to associate data input with any contour and rapidly reflect the

progress on screen.

Arbitrary PointsAttractor Point Curve Attractor Maths Function Multi Maths Function Streaming Text Sets

Data Driven Rotation

Data Driven Extrusion

Boolean InputAttractor Point Curve Attractor Maths Function Multi Maths Function Streaming Text Sets

Data Driven Rotation

Curve IntesecAttractor Point Curve Attractor Maths Function Multi Maths Function Streaming Text Sets

Data Driven Rotation

Data DrivenExtrusion

FORM

‘WHILE PHYSICAL FORM CAN BE DEFINED IN TERMS OF STATIC COORDINATES, THE VIRTUAL FORCE OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH IT IS DESIGNED CONTRIBUTES TO ITS SHAPE’, THUS MAKING THE FORCES PRESENT IN THE GIVEN CONTEXT FUNDAMENTAL TO THE FORM MAKING IN ARCHITECTURE.’- GREG LYNN

A Möbius is a surface with only one side and one boundary component. The shape a Möbius forms has ignited an initial concept for the gateway project. Located adjacent to the Princes highway, the structure needs to represent motion, speed and time, these factors are highlighted through the Möbius form. Through experimentation with the Möbius loop, two sets of physical models( interlocked & linked) were created. We were able to get an array of results relating to form, space, light and shadow effects.

‘WHILE PHYSICAL FORM CAN BE DEFINED IN TERMS OF STATIC COORDINATES, THE VIRTUAL FORCE OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH IT IS DESIGNED CONTRIBUTES TO ITS SHAPE’, THUS MAKING THE FORCES PRESENT IN THE GIVEN CONTEXT FUNDAMENTAL TO THE FORM MAKING IN ARCHITECTURE.’- GREG LYNN

DE-FLATTEN SURFACE

The irregular surface is being visualized by a waffle. The contour is visible when viewed from the side but disappears when viewed from the top.

The waffle uses light to it’s advantage casting over-lapping shadows when in direct sun-light.

The waffle uses light to it’s advantage casting over-lapping shadows when in direct sun-light.

The diagram shows how a form is waffled for experience

PICO-MOTION REACTION

An storong thing is only as good as its weakest part. To create the shape of uncertainty we must allow the shape to shift. Pico-mechanism changes the surface of our tower in a controlled manner.

The gently changes are targetted to strengthen the unsettling sensation in passerbys.

Notice the difference or not?

DEPLOYMENT

The gateway project will be located on site a. Site a is

the largest site and provides a greater opportunity

for motorists to view the structure without being

pre-occupied from the road. As we are trying to achieve different views and scales

of the structure at different points, site a lends itself to

achieve this.

CONSTRUCTION

QUANTUM MANCHANGING THE WAY WE VIEW MATERIALS

Artist julian voss-andrea created the sculpture ‘quantum man’ in 2006. The steel sculpture of a walking human was created as a quantum object, a moving object that consists of waves orientated perpendicular to it’s direction of motion. The sculpture appears first to be a solid form made up of dark steel, however when viewed from the side dissolves into almost nothing.

Although the artist intended the sculpture as a metaphor for the world of physics, this is a strong concept which can be related to the idea ‘peripheral vision’, or tunnel vision which is a main theme behind our future design for the gateway project. The idea of peripheral vision pushes the way we view materials and objects at different viewpoints and scales,

STEEL Cut vertically and oriented in such a way to create an optical illusion. The steel cut into thin slices can be connected to one another in a way to create any desired form. The form is then viewed from certain points but when viewed directly side on, disappears. This is therefore using material for a greater intention than initially presented, pushing the boundaries of seeing materials for their initial appearance.

THE PERIPHERALVISION

THE PERIPHERALVISION

THE TASK OF ARCHITECTURE IS TO STRENGTHEN OUR SENSE OF THE REAL, NOT TO CREATE SETTINGS OF MERE FABRICATION AND FANTASY. THE ESSENTIAL MENTAL TASK OF THE ART OF BUILDING IS MEDIATION AND INTEGRATION.- PROF. JUHANI PALLASMAA. HELSINKI UNIVERSITYThis is a picure of model.

It would be nice if you can stop visualizing now. It is simply unlike what you think. Afterall this is not a picture, not a painting, not a drawing. Our installation is about the sensation of unsettleness, and we hope this feeling can be held until the moment you pass by and question

“What was that?”