HAMZAH MANSOORGRAZI PRADA

KRISTIAN TAGLIAVENTODARYL TAN

Architecture Design Studio: AIR ABPL30048 Semester 1 2012

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THE COMPETITION BRIEFARCHITECTURE IN DISCOURSE: WYNDHAM CITY GATEWAY PROJECT BRIEFOBJECTIVES : ‘DEVELOP A PROPOSAL THAT INSPIRES AND ENRICHES THE MUNICIPALITY’

• ICONIC FEATURE

• LONGEVITY IN APPEAL

• DIALOGUE BETWEEN LANDSCAPE AND SCULPTURE

• DAY-TIME AND NIGHTTIME VIEWING

OUTCOME : THE LIVING AND BREATHING SCULPTURE

• RESPOND TO THE INHERENT CULTURE OF WYNDHAM CITY

• RESTORE WYNDHAM CITY AS A SIGNIFICANT CULTURAL HUB

• REGENERATE THE LANDSCAPE

• PROMOTE USER INTERACTION WITH THE SCULPTURE

• DELIVER A STATEMENT, CHALLENGING THE SOCIAL NORM

THEREFORE : REITERATE THE CONSCIOUS CONNECTION BETWEEN THE LANDSCAPE, THE USER AND THE SCULPTURE

• CREATE A VENUE FOR CONTEMPLATION REGARDING SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT

• CRITIQUE THE ECONOMIC FORCES OF CONTEMPORARY URBANIZATION OF THE CITY

• FORMULATE AN APPROACH THAT RESPONDS TO THE IDEALIZATION OF A LIVING, BREATHING SCULPTURE

ZA11 PAVILIONCLJ02 WORKSHOP+DIMITRIE STEFANESCU

‘THE OBJECT, THROUGH ITS TECTONIC

CHARACTERISTICS TRIES TO MAKE

LEGIBLE THE NEW ONTOLOGY WHICH IS

SLOWLY DEFINED BY COMPUTATIONAL

ARCHITECTURE AND THUS BECOMES A

SHOWCASE FOR THE DESIGN PROCESSES

EMPOWERED BY DIGITAL TOOLS’

DIMITRIE STEFANESCU (2011)

PARAMETRIC TECHNIQUES: RHINO + GRASSHOPPER

• GEOMETRY GENERATION

• LABELLING + ASSEMBLY

• FABRICATION METHODS

IMPACT ON THE SOCIAL + URBAN ENVIRONMENT

• SCOPE OF EXPERIMENTATION

• ARCHITECTURE AFFECT

HONEYCOMB MORPHOLOGYANDREW KUDLESS + MATSYS DESIGN STUDIO + ARCHITECTURE ASSOCIATION

‘INTEGRATION IS INHERENT TO NATURAL

MATERIAL SYSTEMS, FOR THEY HAVE BEEN

DEVELOPED THROUGH EVOLUTIONARY

MEANS WHICH INTRICATELY TIE

TOGETHER THE FORM, GROWTH AND

BEHAVIOUR OF THE ORGANISM[...]AN

INTEGRATED AND GENERATIVE DESIGN

STRATEGY USING A BIOMETIC APPROACH

TO ARCHITECTURE AND FABRICATION’

ANDREW KUDLESS (2004)

INTEGRATED BIOMETIC STRATEGIES • RESPONSIVE MATERIAL SYSTEM

• BIODYNAMIC STRUCTURE DERIVED

FROM NATURAL PHENOMENA

• RESEARCH INTO APPLICATIONS OF

SCALE PATTERNING SURFACE SYSTEM

DYNAFORMBERNHARD FRANKEN ARCHITEKTEN

‘GENERATED IN A COMPUTER

SIMULATION BY OVERLAPPING THE

SPATIALLY TRANSLATED DOPPLER EFFECT

AND ENVIRONMENTAL FORCES’

BERNHARD FRANKEN (2001)

MATERIALITY+IMPLICATIONS• DUAL ETFE AND PVC MEMBRANE

SKIN WITH INFLATABLE NEGATIVE

SPACE/VACUUM

• SKIN STRETCHED LONGITUDINALLY

OVER STRUCTURE TO CONFORM

TO ARCHITECTURAL IDEA OF

ACCELERATION

KINETIC ARCHITECTURE• ACCELERATION + MOVEMENT

• INFLATABLE SKIN INFORMS THE

RELATIONSHIP TO AIR + BREATHING

MEDIA-TICCLOUD 9 ARCHITECTURE STUDIO

‘IN THE DIGITAL INFORMATION

ERA, ARCHITECTURE HAS TO BE A

TECHNOLOGICAL PLATFORM, IN WHICH

CONNECTIVITY, NEW MATERIALS, AND

NANOTECHNOLOGY ARE IMPORTANT’

RUIZ GELI (2011)

RESPONSIVE ARCHITECTURE• RESPONSIVE TO SOCIO-ECONOMIC +

ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

• SELF-AWARENESS OF SPACE

DIAPHRAGM• SIMULATES THE KINETICS OF

BREATHING

• ETFE CELLS INFLATE IMITATING THE

PROCESS OF FIGHT/FLIGHT RESPONSE

TURBULENCECUT + FABRICATE RESEARCH PROJECT

TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS • ALUMINIUM SPACE FRAME INFORM

A SENSE OF LIGHTNESS+FLEXIBILITY,

BUT ALSO STRENGTH+INNOVATION

RESPONSIVE ARCHITECTURE• INTIMATE INTERACTION BETWEEN

ARCHITECTURE, THE ENVIRONMENT+

THE VIEWERS/USERS

• NON-STATIC/DYNAMIC RELATIONSHIP

BETWEEN THE SCULPTURE+USERS

• STIMULATED BY AIR MOVEMENT

NATURAL COMPLEXITIES• OPTICAL QUALITIES WHERE SKIN

AUGMENTS DUE TO WEATHER/

SEASONAL EVENTS

DIAPHRAGMTHE KINETICS OF LIVING+BREATHING

PROTOTYPE ONE PROTOTYPE TWO PROTOTYPE THREE

PROTOTYPE FOUR PROTOTYPE FIVE PROTOTYPE SIX

SERPENTINE DREAMTHE CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT: RESPONSIVE MORPHOGENESIS

CONTINUING WITH DIGITAL EXPERIMENTATION: DRAWING

INSPIRATION FROM THE MEANDERING RIVER + SERPENT FORM

• USING GRASSHOPPER TO DICTATE AND DETERMINE

THE RESPONSIVENESS OF SURFACE DEFORMATIONS

• OPTIMIZING THE SKIN STRUCTURE TO ESTABLISH SCALE AND

ANGLES FOR GREATER LIGHT PENETRATION + AIR EXPERIENCE

• SCULPTURED FORM TO EMERGE FROM THE LANDSCAPE

HIGHLIGHTING CONNECTION TO CONTEXT + USER EXPERIENCE

• APPEARANCE OF ENCLOSURE OR CONSTRICTING IT’S

PREY, PROVIDES A SENSE OF CONTEMPLATION FOR THE DAILY

COMMUTERS REGARDING ENVIRONMENTAL + ECONOMIC HARM

EXPLORATION INTO THE APPLICATIONS OF THE PRIMARY NOTIONS DERIVED FROM THE CASE OF INNOVATION. DISCOVERING THE INTERACTIVE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE SCULPTURE, THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE USERS THROUGH THE ANALYSIS OF HOW THE CONCEPT OF AIR+TURBULENCE CAN COMMUNICATE WITH THE ARCHITECTURAL SKIN+STRUCTURE. THEREFORE RESEARCH WAS CONDUCTED TO DETERMINE AN APPROPRIATE SKIN GEOMETRY.

SURFACE SUBDIVIDE VB SCRIPT

ECDYSIS: SCALEKINETICS OF SCALE: REGENERATIVE STRUCTURE

ECDYSIS LITERALLY MEANS ‘TO TAKE OFF’ OR ‘STRIP DOWN’ : APPLICATION TO

THE OVERALL CONCEPT OF REGENERATION.

• DELIVER AN ICONIC FEATURE THAT INFORMS THE DIALOGUE BETWEEN THE

LANDSCAPE AND THE SCULPTURE.

• ITERATIVE MODELLING TECHNIQUES USED TO SCALE THE ORIGINAL VOLUME

• RESPONDING TO PREVIOUS EXPLORATIONS DEFINING USER EXPERIENCE

• RATIONALIZING CONCEPT INTO A WORKING OUTCOME FOR FABRICATION

I.E. MATERIALITY AND JOINERY SYSTEM

Competition Brief/Case For Innovation/Expression of Interest

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BIBLIOGRAPHYBOOKS

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

pp. 5 - 25

Killory. C (2008) ‘Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh’, in Detail in Process. 1st edn (New York: Princeton Architectural Press) pp. 112 - 117

Koch. K (2004) Membrane Structures (London: Pretsel) pp. 236-239

Kolarevic. B (2003) Architecture in the Digital Age: Design and Manufacturing (New York; London: Press), pp. 3 - 62

Kruger. S (2009) Textile Architecture (Berlin: Jovis Verlag GmbH) pp. 196-197

Moussavi. F (2006) The Function of Ornament (Barcelona: Actar), pp. 5-14

Pawlyn. M, (2011) Biomimicry in Architecture (UK:Riba Publishing) pp. 1-128

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ONLINE SOURCES

http://a-ngine.com/

http://e-cloud9.com/

http://franken-architekten.de/

http://matsysdesign.com/

http://nedkahn.com/wind.html

Competition Brief/Case For Innovation/Expression of Interest

‘Parametric design is in itself not so interesting. It needs meaning. We need to

combine the possibilities of the virtual with how we discipline the real in a new way’

- Ben van Berkel. UN Studio

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