EXPRESSION OF INTERESTWyndham Gateway Project

Aisyah Rozi

Cindy Li Ann

Eliza Tieman

“Scripting, as an approach to computational design, offers access to whole new ways of exploring design, but design remains always at the core.”Mark Burry (2011)

Frank Gehry (2002)Walt Disney Concert HallLos Angeles, California

Zaha Hadid (2006)Nuragic and Contemporary Art Museum Cagliari, Italy

SPEED

They will do all that quickly and repeatedly, by following a set of instructions called a program, which tells themin minute detail how to manipulate the electrical impulses in their circuit.

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1. Concept Establishment

5. Construction

6. Lifespan

4. Fabrication

3. Prototype

2. Design Development

ICD/ITKE (2010)Temporary Research PavilionStuttgart, GERMANY

The innovative structure demonstrates the latest developments in material-oriented computational design, simulation, and production processes in architecture. The result is a bending-active structure made entirely of extremely thin, elastically-bent plywood strips. Digital processes enabled the design team to calculate the effect of forces on the structure before it was materialised.

The research pavilion demonstrates an alternative approach to computational design: here, the computational generation of form is directly driven and informed by physical behavior and material characteristics. The structure is entirely based on the elastic bending behavior of birch plywood strips. The strips are robotically manufactured as planar elements, and subsequently connected so that elastically bent and tensioned regions alternate along their length.

CreativityDesicision-making

Error-free arithmeticMemory storage

“Computers will contribute their superb rational and search abilities, and we humans will contribute all the creativity and intuition needed to solve design process.”

Communication

Accurate executionPerformance driven result

“Computers will contribute their superb rational and search abilities, and we humans will contribute all the creativity and intuition needed to solve design process.”

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SOFTlab(n)arcissusFrankfurt, Germany

(n)arcissus is a site specific installation designed and produced by SOFTlab for NODE10. The piece hangs in the center of the stairwell at the Frankfurter Kunstverein in Frankfurt, Germany. The form of the piece is controlled by over 1000 custom panels and the 2 rings. Depending on the positions of the panel, the shape of the panels changes from a square to an x shape. This is idea of mutability in ornamentation effects could be adapted for Wyndham project.

(n)arcissus is a series of custom made laser cut panels that have been deveopled using computational methods.

“Innovative play of materials and panels that create ornamented effect and interactivity.”

Extent of body is revealed gradually as viewers enter the lobby and extend to the stairs.

Radical change from points to points due to the double skin. Combined, is an unexpected effect.

Viewers confronted with distorted images of themselves by the narrow reflective create a more interactive medium between the piece and the viewer.

Extent of body is revealed gradually as viewers enter the lobby and extend to the stairs.

Radical change from points to points due to the double skin. Combined, is an unexpected effect.

Viewers confronted with distorted images of themselves by the narrow reflective create a more interactive medium between the piece and the viewer.

The Verymany/ Marc Fornes (2010)The Precise Indetermination - Centre PompidouParis, France

Parametric modelling with the aid of computational programmes motivated the design of this installation and has resulted in “significantly deeper engagement” ( pp.8, Burry, 2011) between the computer and the user throughout the design process.

“The Precise Indetermination” is a study of lighting in terms of its light filtration and material perforation. Its manipulation of lighting affected by the filtration and perforation of material creates an experience for people. This is which, an approach which we adopt and propose for our gateway design. The experimentation of how the relationship between lighting, material and design creates a sense of movement is inspired from this precedent when conducting our research to further develop our concept. The idea of how light could be manipulated with parametric design to create and give life to space as an experience for people is a concept which has great potential and this precedent has fully supported our argument.

“Scripting becomes more widely taken up and more confidently embedded into the design process.”

Ned Kahn, BAC & UAP (2011)BDTX Kinetic Carpark Facade

Brisbane, Australia

Urban Art Projects (UAP) is collaborating with established American artist Ned Kahn, Hassell Architecture (Sydney) and the Brisbane Airport Corporation to create an eight-storey, 5000 sqm kinetic façade for the car park of Brisbane’s Domestic Terminal.

Viewed from the exterior, the car park’s entire eastern side will appear to ripple fluidly as the wind activates 250,000 suspended aluminium panels. As it responds to the ever-changing patterns of the wind, the façade will create a direct interface between the built and natural environments. It is further embellished with rippling lines from the surface of the Brisbane River: a site-specific reference to the city’s most iconic natural feature.

Inside the car park, intricate patterns of light and shadow will be projected onto the walls and floor as sunlight passes through the kinetic façade. The design also provides practical environmental benefits such as shade and natural ventilation for the interior.

This large-scale work will create a mesmerising impression for passengers emerging from the terminal, arriving by car, or on the elevated Airtrain platform. It is expected to become a memorable icon for the city of Brisbane.

Ned Kahn, Koning / Elizabeth (2004)Articulated Cloud - Pittsburgh Children’s Museum

Pittsburgh, USA

“The artwork is intended to suggest that the building has been enveloped by a digitized cloud.

The optical qualities of the skin change dramatically with the weather and the time of day.”

Headlights

Sunlight

Reflections

Streetlights

ARTIFICIAL LIGHT

NATURAL LIGHT

Creation of Light

Billboard Lights

Service Station

Mirror Effect

Reverse-Engineered Case StudyVoronoi

Reverse-Engineered Case StudyVoronoi

Conceived as a thin interstitial environment, the articulated densities of the porous and open-celled meshwork are layered in response to the inner workings of the building’s program.

Faulders Studio (2007)AirSpace

Tokyo, JAPAN

AirSpace is a zone where the artificial blends with nature: sunlight is refracted along its metallic surfaces; rainwater is channeled away from

exterior walkways via capillary action; and interior views are shielded behind its variegated and foliage-like cover.

EXPLORATION OF VORONOI

Voronoi components made up from referenced points. Curves are offset within the boundary to create perforated effects.

Photography of Prototypes

Photography of Prototypes

REFERENCESICD/ITKE Research Pavilion (2010)Text + Images 1-5: http://icd.uni-stuttgart.de/?p=4458Image 6: http://www.digitalcrafting.dk/?cat=23

Mark Burry QuoteBurry, Mark, Scripting Cultures: Architectural Design and Programming (Chichester: Wiley, 2011), pp. 11

Yehuda E. Kalay QuoteYehuda E. Kalay, Architecture’s New Media: Principles, Theories, and Methods of Computer-Aided Design (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2004), pp. 2

Walt Disney Concert HallImage: http://0.tqn.com/d/architecture/1/0/b/m/WaltDis-neyConcertHall52268353.jpg

BDTX Kinetic Carpark FacadeImages 1-2: http://danielcliffordarts.blogspot.com.au/2010/07/brisbane-airport-project.htmlText: http://nedkahn.com/wind.html

Arcticulated CloudImage + Text: http://nedkahn.com/wind.html

Airspace TokyoText: http://faulders-studio.com/proj_airspace.htmlImages: http://www.edilportale.com/progetti/hajime-mas-ubuchi/tokyo/airspace-tokyo_5397_2.html

“Light” BrainstormImage: http://www.turbophoto.com/Free-Stock-Images/Images/Light%20Glare.jpg

(N)arcissusImages: DesignBoom, softlab: (n)arcissus, http://www.

designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/12406/softlab-narcissus.html Viewed 8 Mar 2012

Quote: Moussavi, Farshid and Michael Kubo, The Function of Ornament (Barcelona: Actar, 2006), pp. 10

Prototype PhotographsAuthor’s own 25/04/2012

Cover ImageAuthor’s own 25/04/2012

All DiagramsAuthor’s own 26/04/2012

Prototype Fabrication ImageAuthor’s own 25/04/2012