Ilhyeon Yeo (Michael)

Student Number : 583928 Semester 1/2012 Group 8

2D paneling

Divided in to three parts

3D paneling + offsset face border

Module 2 - Recap

Trace

3D panieling

2D paneling2D paneling

3D custom

In Module 2, degitalisation, for more complex paneling i’ve experimented and develop simple paneling. Than i achieved one main panelings for each parts.

Remodeling for fabrication - identifying issues (body)

The Second problem occur when i actually tried to unroll face. Even with small parts been unrolled, there is just too much surfaces that overlap to-gether. This means i had to print out every small faces to create the body, this will lag my building time. Therefore, this paneling wasn’t possible.

2D paneling pattern for body Unrolled face

The immidiate problem was too much faces within one paneling face. Since there is limited and short time for make this model, and there was too much faces to make, so it isn’t possible.

Final 2D paneling2D paneling step 1

Final digitalisation Tail

The problem for body was paneling, thus to solve the issue, i need to change the paneling of body.

To hold on to the concept of tornado, i rear-range the pattern i had. To remove overlap-ping faces, i removed the rectangle centre and 4 faces around it.

However, in step 2, there were too small amount of faces were created. Therefore i replaced the largest triangle with two triangles and rearrange them to from the final.

Solving issue - body

2D paneling step 2

Than I tried to combine the left over triangles together. The white line represents the con-nection.

Result of new paneling - body

2D-paneling - unroll2D-paneling

The new paneling, solved the overlapping faces that when i tried to unroll the faces, it did not overlap any-more. Therefore when i fabricate this, i didn’t need to print each faces, but instead whole strip. This mas-sively reduced making time.

The second outcome was it’s looking. Even though i only use 2D paneling, it created 3D like paneling on side of the model. This significantly influences my model because at initial, i planned to use 6 waves on the top of this body, but i reduced to 4 as 6 didn’t fit. And now this pyramid at side provide missing 2 waves and holds my initial idea.

Prototype - body

Patial prototype of body - top view

Patial prototype of body - rear view

Used A4 copy paper to see if there is any collision or holes with the model, prototype is made.

Setting up files for fablap - body

Unrolled faces for fablab

Limitations - card cutter

Score line

Ripped off end

not properly cut triangle

Maybe the most critical limitation for card cutter is that it only can score on one side. Therefore when the model is folded in the other way, it didn’t make a clear sharp line.

There were tears and distorsion with one of my strip. This error normally happens when there is several keen angles in one spot, but for my design it is due to rapid working pro-cess that cause card cutter to jam in.

There was one triangle which wasn’t cut properly. WIth the file i sent to fablab didn’t have problem, so probably there was some obstacles that blocked card cutter to cut ac-curately. It wouldn’t signicantly influence my final design, but I would have to work on to fix this to make sure it doesn’t tear off.

Construction guide - body

Unrolled faces

Body in different colour

Fabrication - body

Fabricated body

Huge space left over after the cutting

Around 50% is used for actual model, 3% fablab mistake, 5% for test-ing out the material property. With the left over bits specially for the picture on left, this could been used to block the massive hole at each end of model. Also maybe saved and use for other crafting.

Different unrolling may be used, so each shape of strip can fit each other to reduce the distand between them.

Black 200 GSM 90x60, is used to improve material property, so it can actually holds when other parts are placed.

For fabrication, what i did was just to follow the contruction guide.

Found out there was problem with the idea of “differ-ent number of pyramid on each strip” when i actually tried to make. It seems nothing wrong with above pic-ture, but there was small holes created between two strips. This holes weaken the model and it became flappy.

prototype of wave

Remodeling for fabrication - identifying issues (wave)

prototype of wave

Due to steep curve on my wave, it produced squashed circle shape on end of model. When it came to connecting with other strips it didn’t fit in and could not be stuck together. Therefore curve needed to be smoothened.

Remodeling for fabrication - Result (wave)

To change the desing of “different number of pyramid on each strip” with keeping my concept of tornado, I draw and recap how tornado works. I changed the length of each strips rather than number of pyramid. Therefore holes are blocked, and thus creating rigid and stiff model.

Remodelled wave

Brainstorming idea to show the speed of tornado

Setting up file for fablab - wave

Construction Guide - Wave

Unrolled faces

Wave

Fabrication - Wave

Ivory card 90x60 is used. If there were thinner card than Ivory, that card would been used since it need to be light because if it’s too heavy it may lead to collapse of body.

By following the construction guide final model is made. The left over bits is used for connection between body and wave.

Cut off faces

fabricated wave

The design itself was a problem since it had similar design with wave. Therefore, changed the paneling of tail.

Remodeling for fabrication - identifying issues + Result (Tail)

3D paneling + offsset face border

Again, i wanted to keep the concept, so I model based on pyramid. The changed pan-eling seems to have problem with collision of faces, therefore a prototype had to be made

3D paneling + offsset face border

There were no collision with prototype, so I decided to use this paneling.

prototype

Setting up files for fablab - Tail

The Gullwing Twin Wind Towers

Construction guide - Tail

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Fabrication - Tail

Ivory card 90x60 is used for tail, for mass deduction this card is used.

cut off faces

fabricated tail

Prototype - Body pattern

All of my card has lots of free spaces because when i look through Rhino, the space seem to be fairly small, and because i thought if there is too small gap, the card cutter might not be able to cut well and accurately.

cut off faces

Final fabrication - Combining and comparison with digital design

In the end, there is only three waves on the top of body because not only there was not enough space for it, but also it blocked out too much light. Therefore, the number of wave had to be reduce.

For connecting the parts, I used extra pa-pers and use those to connect them in.

Bottom view

Perspective view

Bottom view

Bottom view

Lighting

Two LED in body, and one LED in tail. Since most of light to top is blocked by waves I decided to leave the holes, at each end, open.

This is Cybertecture Egg in india that was designed by James Law Cybertecture International. This architecture uses not only concrete, steel and glass, but also some of decent intangible materials of technology, multimedia, intelligence and interactiv-ity. Comparing with other conventional buildigs the egg shape of this architecture has approximately 10~20% less surface area. This means this uses less materials than other building, thus more sustainable. Also the form of the architecture is one that sym-bolises with optimism about the future and of the 21st Century. The symbolic planet form is further stretched to cater for 13 lev-els of office accommodation. This is further orientated and skewed at an angle which creates both a strong visual language as well as alleviating the solar gain of the building. The architecture a good example of using computer design, that digital assist creates a building of extremely high quality and geometric sophistication. This building will act like a worthy neighbour to the esteemed neighbouring buildings of the district.

Precedent

Cybertecture Egg Cybertecture Egg

Precedent

Thie architecture is Lewis library located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States, at Princeton University and is designed by Gehry Partners LLP. The angular steel, glass brick and stucco library is conceived by a creative mind and crafted by the most advanced digital design tools available to today’s practicing architects. Gehry utilized Catia software to model the shapes of the building and to inform the shape of such signature touches as the wavy- lined canary yellow welcome desk. The building is accented with bold colors inside and out. Standing in the li-brary’s highest level, visitors are treated to alternating glimpses of color outside every window- shades of green, purple and orange. A colorful assortment of deep blue, green, yellow and black desk chairs complete the group study and seminar rooms while angular grey tables and chairs finish out the reading areas and common spaces.

This is also a good example of advantage of digital assist architecture that it carried out the imagination and ideas in vir-tual world anddemonstrate what will be the outcome of the model.

Lewis library

Lewis library

Lewis library

Reflection

Nowadays there are more architecture that is digitally assisted. The most advantage would be rapid overview of accurate design of final model without wasting any re-sources. Also it has nearly no limitation with design itself. As result, digitally fabricated architectures are more sustainable and creative comparing with non-digital fabricat-ed architecture (For period of start of design to building). However, for my module, the advantage may become as disadvantage since this module has time limitation and one type of material can be used (paper).

One most influential factor for fabricating the model was material property, flexibil-ity, mass, transparency, endurance in tension and compression and so on. In digital model, these factor is not considered and as long as it does not collapse or opened, the shape holds. However, for fabrication, these factors need to be considered and by considering these factors into design, it deleted huge possibility of inventive designs. Therefore, to reduce mistakes or failure on final model, prototype need to be made. The prototype not only lay out what will happen with model, but all sorts of little mistakes that did not appeared in Rhino.

Another influence was time limitation. As i had to make 3 different parts, i had to put more effort and time to fabricate than people have one whole parts. This meant, I shouldn’t have too complex or too much strips for each parts that it again eliminate different possibility of creative design. When i had to change my panelling, It was challenging to design a panel that wasn’t too simple, but not too complex. Fur-thermore, since the designing in Rhino, takes about 1 minutes, it was quite hard to compare with real fabricating time. This also lead me to consider more in choosing designs of panels. Fablab was one of effective way to reduce time consumption in fabricating model. Finish cutting off strips from fablap still took fair amount of time, if I couldn’t use fablab to cut my model, I would have gave up on three parts or differ-ent panelling, but just design simply.