INTERIM PRESENTATIONKAREN DIONISIO-SEE 613168ABPL30048 SEMESTER 1 2015

“To design an installation/ pavilion to run adjacent to the energy station using biomimetic algorithmic approaches in contrast to the linear truss geometry of the transmission

lines and station plant equipment”

BIOMIMICRY

RESEARCH PAVILION IN UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART

THE MORNING LINE IN ISTANBUL

Biomimicry refers to the implementation of designs and system from nature to solve problems in the fields of engineering, science, medicine, arts and others. In architecture, biomimicry is applied in digital designs to imitate or reflect the biological framework and/or rules found in an organism. Architects are also able to incor-porate their experiences in nature to express biomimicry in their designs. Today, the building industry have increasingly become in-terested in nature’s processes and patterns such as the Fibonac-ci sequence in seashells, and the hexagon geometry in beehives.

Influential Projects:THE MORNING LINE//ARANDA LASCH• Fractal patterns• Clustering definitions• Play of different spline curves

RESEARCH PAVILION 2011// ICD/ ITKE• Hexagon pattern - graph mappers• Form finding - KANGAROO• Holes - solid difference

DEVELOPING TECHNIQUES

DEVELOPING TECHNIQUES

PROTOTYPE:• Used tabs for connection• Flexibility of the material• Changing scale/ dimension of cut components - offset circles so it won’t in-

tersect with the lines of the triangles• Interested in using the waffle algorithm for connection detailing

• forms surfaces and gemotries by controlling curves• generates complex forms and patterns easily• extrudes lines and surfaces all at once• allows more interplay and options between linetypes• produces holes between breps• interconnection between lists of points, curves or surfaces• generates more complex forms through the use of other

plugins such as kangaroo

LEARNING PARAMETRIC MODELLING:

POSITIVES

NEGATIVES

Near Merri CreekNear cycling pathSurrounded by natureNext to several reserves and parksNear residences, schools and clubsOpen to and used by many residents, students, cyclists and animals.

Brunswick Terminal Station --- unhealthy, dangerous and unpleasant environment

AFFECTING

THE SITE

The Brunswick Terminal Station is an industrial facility that converts lower voltages from the high voltage power plants, and brings them back to the local powerlines, generating many households and com-mercial areas around the city.

It is located beside Merri Creek, and several reserves and parks, near residential areas, East Brunswick Kin-dergarten, a soccer club, Northcote High School and Merri Creek Primary School.

During its planning to construction period, until to-day, may residents and users of the site were un-happy due to its purpose as a large scale industrial chemical facility and its unhealthy, dangerous and obstructing characteristics in the site.

BRUNSWICK TERMINAL STATION

THE SITE

My site will be located on the southern most part of the site in the brief. It lies just next to the boundary line or the fences of the Brunswick Terminal Station where it separates itself from the natural environ-ment of the site. It also stretches into the cycling path and near the vegetation areas of the creek.

ADJACENT TO THE INFRASTRUCTURES OF THE BTS

NEXT TO THE BRIDGE, LINKING TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CREEK

NEAR THE CREEK

ALLOWS INTERACTION WITH PEOPLE PASSING BY

DESIGN DEVELOPMENTTECHNIQUES:

HEXAGON/ TRIANGLES• common pattern in biomimicry -- representating nature

HOLES• lets natural light in• creates shadow play• able to see the inside and outside areas

CAVE FORM• creates enclosure -- separates you from the outside

CURVES• creates fractal patterns• gives a second-skin look or texture• can help support the structure• in comparison with the power lines in the site

CREATE A HEXAGONAL

PATTERN

CREATE THE CURVES TO BE

FOLLOWED

TURN POLYLINES OF PATTERN INTO

MESH

SET PARAMETERS FOR FORM FINDING

ALGORITHMS IN KANGAROO

USE KANGAROO TO SIMULATE

PATTERN INTO THE CURVES

EXTRACT CURVES

FROM THE GEOMETRY

LOFT ORIGINAL CURVES TO NEW ONES TO CREATE

EXTRUDED SURFACES

SET CURVES IN GRASSHOPPER

PLAY WITH THE LINE EDGES OF THE SURFACES

CAP EXTRUDED SURFACES AND CREATE SOLID DIFFERENCES

Pavilion’s initial pattern

Pavilion’s initial form, flowing over the cycling path and towards the creek

PRECEDENTS

LIVING PAVILION IN GOVERNORS ISLAND

The Living Pavilion is a concaved structure, designed by the architects of Behin + Ha, who surrounded the whole structure with used milk crates containing live plants that faces the interior of the pavilion.

This project uses simple line curves to support and hang the milk crates. The milk crates become the pattern of the pavilion. With the installation of the plants, these two features create shadows as well as let light inside the structure.

The way they used the pattern (milk crates) as storage for the plants, and the use of the plants itself is interesting for me, which can later be used for the final design of the project. This contrasts and blocks the sight of the industrial facility adjacent to the site.

AIRSPACE TOKYO ARCHITECTURE

The facade of the building was designed by Faulders Studio, using interconnect-ed linework, which layers and acts as the second skin of the whole building. The facade in some way becomes the ‘artificial vegetation’ providing light and shading throughout the whole building.

This is a good example because it makes the industrial-made item into a natural organism through the overlapping effect of the pattern. By interconnecting lines and points, I can create such effect in the final project.