ALGORITHMIC SKETCHBOOK

BILAL HALLAK

641720

AIR STUDIOABPL30048

TUTOR - GEOFF KIMMUNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

Table of Contents

Part A: Case for Innovation

4 Week 1 exercises

6 Week 2 exercises

10 Week 3 exercises

Part B: Criteria Design

17 Week 4 exercises

26 Week 5 exercises

32 Week 6 exercises

38 Week 7 exercises

Part C: Detailed Design

WEEK 1

I created the curves on Rhino and linked them to Grasshopper. These curves were then inputted into the loft function creating this basic image.

After baking the image once, I played around with the nodes to create an even more abstract form.

Baking the shape once more allowed me to blow the shape out of proportion and create an abnormal sort of canopy.

Lofting/Voronoi

Here I am exploring the Voronoi algo-rithm by using grasshopper to develop a form

WEEK 2

Above: Exploring curves and planar surfaces.

Attempt at driftwood exercise.

AA Driftwood exercise

The idea of creating islands along the merri trail was inspired by the act of walking along the track. As I walked in the midst of a sunny day, i realized the only ex-perience I endured on was the greenery. The path itself to me was too linear and straight forward. It then triggered me, perhaps something can be added to the site to provide more of an experiential journey. This something was miniature islands. These clusters of islands will also have the capability of providing shelter for both pedestrians and wildlife, being placed every 200m or so, which will change the course of how people walk along the path. To me, adding these islands will disrupt the circulation that currently exists, however in a good way, as I believe this new form of circulation will change the course of how one journeys through the site.

WEEK 3

Here is a further exploration of lofting with multiple curves which are scaled at differ-ent points.

Lofting continued

The pipe function is an interesting tool to play with. It can generally be applied to any line or curve in any form. Complex curves such as the ones shown creating intrinsic piping, especially when the radius changes, creating thicker or thinner tubes,

Piping

Creating a grid shell looked easier than it was. I found some difficulty trying create a ful-ly closed shell, similar to the one in the tu-torial videos, but was only able to form this. Playing with this idea was fun and informing. In this task, I was exposed to the Geodesic function, which enabled multiple lines to be woven into place.

Gridshell

Patterning List

Shown to the left is the exploration in patterning lists. This involved subdi-vind points on a surface which were inputted into a voronoi function. The voronoi spaces were able to be manipu-lated by changing the amount of seg-ments in each direction.

WEEK 4

Recursion - Aranda Lasch

This weeks task involved exploring truncated forms of dif-ferent polygons, similar to how Aranda Lasch developed her project “The Morning Line”.

Truncating polygons

WEEK 5

Graphing section profiles

This exercise involved manipulating the curves with a graph mapper, which en-abled different forms to be created. I was able to create a structure that could pos-sible be a canopy of some sort, to creating an inversed version, which is a coni-cal form. The fun part to this task was adding in extra functions to the start and end points of the curves. As shown, I explored the idea of using spheres, pip-ing and addition planes, which to me seemed interesting to play around with.

One of the main finishing functions I like to use on tasks is the pipe command. It allows for elaborate design and endless ideas.

WEEK 6

Recursion

This exercise was part of the case study 1.0, in which I looked at the Aranda Lasch Morning line project. The project involved a series of recursion processes.

Reverse Engineer

WEEK 7

Geodesic dome development

At this point in time, i wasn’t entirely pleased with the final geodesic dome I developed, so i continued to further develop the interior and exterior panels through the recursion process, which is evident in the next set of images.

This was my final design for Part B: Criteria design. From here, I will further look into how it can be improved and how it can show a better relation to biomimicry.