Architecture Design Studio:

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NGAI Sum Ming Sam 395090 Semester 1, 2013 Studio 15

Self Introduction:

Module 4 - Reflect and Report

NGAI Sum Ming

385090

2011 Semester 1

Group 19

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Hi, I’m Sam. I’m in my third year of Architectural studies and I am excited about this! My past experience with digital design was the Virtual Design during my first year, and I also had a chance to work with the Estate Of-fice in Baptist University of Hong Kong, which I did a bit of AutoCad and Google Sketchup there. GrassHopper is totally a new thing to me but I’m very interested in it, I like how you can create randomly generated ‘populate command’ a grid of crosses and use Vanoroi with a Slider to explore different design opportunity outcomes. I hope I can find myself more comfortbale with digital design, and create more new design pos-sibilities throughout this semester.

Architecture As Discourse:

Architecture as discourse reflecting architecture’s aesthetic values. I think the architecture’s aesthetic values has always been changing, evolving. But since digital design was become popular, the aesthic values as been changed quite vigourously and also, revolutionary. In this journal I want to specificly talks about the skin and the structure of modern digital designed architecture. Let’s look at the new Swanston Square between Swanston Street and Queensberry Street. Look at the plaza entrance, big glass canopy with the support of some steel structure. I find this structure a great resemblence as my Voronoi model I did in GrassHopper where structure and skin meets together to create a sense of organic feel to the architecture. And I think this is one of the trend that modern architecture going towards, is skin as a structure.