Project Research - Aoba Tei

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Research ProjectStudio Air

LindaRuxiJulianKit

wyndham city gateway

aspiration intent

arrival experience

feeling

abstarct

visual art

new identity

prince highwaymotorist

<120km/h

exciting

eye catching

werribee river

inspires

k road cliff

wildlife sancturies

heritage

metropolitan melbourne

sculptures

nature environment

entry

“challenging contents”

parametric modellingdesign solution

search process

“parametrics can provide for a powerful conception of archi-tectural form by describing a range of posibilities, replacing in the process stable with variable, singularity with multiplicity“

- Branko Kolarevic

grasshopper definitionsscripting technique

input

association

output

naturetheme

The Wyndham City council aims for a gateway design to achieve abstract forms that inspires posi-tive arrival experience and emphasis the natural environment, histories and heritage of municipality. In relation to the topic of nature, the concept was inspired by the very basic form of nature: plants. From the invisible cells, formulating a physical stem which grows leafs and petals in repetition, generating a flower; it is the concept of parts to whole in architecture: the interrelation between components which formulates the structure from the very foundation. From this origin, the design process experiments the extent in which seamless dots formulates a line, and lines formulates an image, shadow, light and motion from very simple adjustments in various combination of Input, Association and Outputs; embracing design aim.

In accordance to Kalay’s Architecture’s New Media: Principles, Theories, and Methods of Computer Aided Design, the design process develops through rationalization for easy fabrication in later stage.

matrix combinations

surface normal + image sampler + rotation

Rotation inspires motion in design, in addition to image sampler and sur-face normal forms soft delicate flows of lines and points which dem-onstrates abstract moving effect of driving on the Princes Freeway.

explicit grid + image sampler + circle

A combination of explicit grid, image sampler and circles produces digital design of visual organic formation. Simple multiplication of circles and arbitrary voids produces blurred abstract image, allowing different interpretation of whether the image is a part of a larger image or itself a complete picture of an abstract form.

CASE STUDY

hitoshi abe

AOBATEI restaurant

intention

soft surface boundary

- to recreate the characteristic natural environment of Sendai into the restaurant- The curvature form of perfo-rated steel imitates the road side Zelkovas tree, and through in-novative digital designs of perfo-ration in the material, the back-lit lighting projects the image of trees and produces a seamless ‘soft boundary surface’ which show the continuity from roadside landscape into interior space of Aoba Tei.

how he achieve?

- by using wrapping method of the choosen repre-sentative image through the entire curvature form

- using CNC router- a standardized peforated hole size of 4mm, 6mm,

9mm with 15mm spacing

“compressed shadow space transition”

Hitoshi innovatively incorporated the traditional japanese architecture into the modern setting of Aoba Tei restaurant, using the features of progressive shad-ows and light from the transparency of rice paper in the traditional Japanese

home.

“They limit light, reduce contrast, and have an earthy aroma”

The transitional experience from dark to light in correspondance with funtional-ity of rooms. He cleverly uses modern materials and methods to manipulate light

and shadow in an enclosed environment.His project suceeds in which he uses perforated steel and artificial lighting,

materials and methods very much opposite to nature and used to frabricate the atmosphere of the Sendai landscape.

“our anchestors, forced to live in dark rooms, presently came to discover beauty in shadows, ultimately to guide shadows,

heavy shadows against light shadows“ - Junichiro Tanizaki(Novelist) , in “In Praise of Shadow“

how innovative?

aoba teirestaurant

aspiration intent

heritage

abstarct

zelkova tree

feeling

Sendai Emblematic Landscade

eye catching

inspires

nature environment

definition proccess

a reverse-engineered study

TECHNIQUESSQUARE GRID LINE+IMAGE SAMPLER+CIRCLE

INPUT :

ASSOCIATION :

OUTPUT :

SCALE : 0.09 SCALE : 0.11

SCALE : 0.20

SCALE : 0.23

SCALE : 0.13



test 1

TECHNIQUESSQUARE GRID LINE+IMAGE SAMPLER+CIRCLE

INPUT :

ASSOCIATION :

OUTPUT :

test 2

SCALE : 0.04 SCALE : 0.06 SCALE : 0.08

SCALE : 0.10 SCALE : 0.15 SCALE : 0.20

SCALE : 0.25

Manipulation ofScale

ConstrastDensity

Light and Shadow

TECHNIQUESSQUARE GRIDLINE+IMAGE SAMPLER + RATIONALISATION+CIRCLE

INPUT :

ASSOCIATION :

OUTPUT :

test 3

4mm,6mm,9mm spacing 15mm

4.5mm,6mm,10mm spacing 20mm

2.5mm,1.5mm,3mm spacing 15mm

3.5mm,7mm,8mm spacing 20mm

material effectsRestaurant Aoba Tei by Hitoshi Abe ‘establishes a visual dialogue’ between the characteristic landscapes of Sendai into the internal environment of the restaurant. This case study provides further architectural philosophy, exploring the boundary of relationship between nature and the materiality. What is materiality? What is nature? All material is a formed of nature in one way or another, then where does the line lie to separate the two? Thus leads to the experimentation of physical abilities of cardboard. It is stiff and rigid similar to perforated steel (materiality) used in Aoba Tei, and under submergence it softens, bends like wood (nature) over long period of environmental exposure. Our aim to produce an imitation of Aoba Tei restaurant but also to further explore the transition of space, which cardboard is used as a physical transition medium (distortion of materiality and nature) between the external and internal space. The perforation of material imitates and projects nature and the sensation of natural environment.

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http://vimeo.com/41079058

assembly methods

The Aoba Tei restaurant was welded onsite with specialised professional craftmanship. Craftman were able to deform the steel panels at key points by heating and chilling.

The assembly methods of the model is similar to Aoba Tei restaurant. A thin fram-ing element is used to permenantly prop the steel/card-board into the desired curvature form; setting the wall in

place.

The steel walls were assembled from smaller segments; the model presented is at the scale of 1:5 to the steel panels.

Perforated steel was precasted and assembled on site. Our model was laser cutted and assembled accordingly to the framming.

conclusion

The two major attributes that were adopted into the fabrication are:

- the concept: using nature and traditional context

The idea is unique, as it incorporates the very nature of the environment into the material itself. Not only projecting impression of nature but physically altering material form corresponding to Zelkovas trees.

- the method: digital fabrication, industrial production

Aoba Tei restaurant is innovative in many aspects. Material choice is cheap and easily assembled; prefabrication allows time efficiency in construction of the building. The design will be cheap, time efficient, easily assembled, an inspirational visual public art, and abstract form of nature.

Effectively borrow the major advantageous methods that restaurant Aoba Tei con-sists and cultivated according to the aim of Wyndham City Gateway design.

Project Research - Aoba Tei

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