Studio AirJICHUAN YU 657686

My name is Jichuan Yu and Gary is my English name. I am currently in my third year of architecture degree. I was borned in Japan and raised in Beijing, China and now studing in Melbourne. I always enjoy experiencing differnet culture and leaning the history and architecture of a city. The first time I felt the strong power of digital method in design was when I taking the subject Digital Design and Fabrication last semeser. At the begining, I think me and my partner came up with some good idea for design, however we found the highly customised components cannot be got from the market, which would stop us achieving the desiered outcome. However, we finally managed achieve our desired outcome by using digital moddelling and fabricate all the customised product by using 3D printing and laser cutting. This was tiime when I realised how much the digital and computational method could enhance the design process and explore more potentials. I am looking forward to futher developing my digital skill and understanding of computational design in through the study of Studio Air.

Contents

A.1. DESIGN FUTURE Carboard Cathedral

The Island City Central Park

A2 Design Computation

Museo Soumaya

White Noise

A3 COMPOSITION/GENERATION

Urban Agency

A shift to Computational Architecture

A4 CONCLUSION

A5 LEARNING OUTCOMES

A6 APPENDIX

A.1. DESIGN FUTURE

Carboard Cathedral

There is no doubt that our world is going through massive and rapid changes

in almost every aspect. This include technology, social and natural environment and ideologies of people around the world. Therefore, it is important for designer and architect to take a moment to think about what is a better design to fit in the future and make the response to the future context.

The Cardboard Cathedral in New Zealand project done by Shigeru Ban expresses

the idea in the future architecture vividly.shigeru Ban is currently devoting himself to the reconstruction after the Japanese

Tsunami in 2011. Shigeru Ban creates a temporary cathedral that has capacity of 700 people after the previous Christchurch was devastated by the earthquake. Cardboard tubes are used to support the whole structure, which also makes the fast and economic construction become possible. The local Christchurch has no sufficient fund to rebuild a church need this building for the post- earthquake reconstruction period. This building shows great flexibility and sustainability and more importantly give people insight about the future way of design.

The Island City Central Park designed by Toyo Ito is located on an artificial island near the Hakata Bay. The shape of building is mainly composed of the ripple spreading the island and the ripple further form craters and mound. Those components together contribute to an beautiful organic shape of building. The beauty and complex form of this building not only derived from the innovation of the designer but also a result from merging with the topography and undulation of the landform. In order to achieve this unique and complex structure method, a innovative design approach is called “Shape and Analysis by Optimization” is applied. By using this method, computer stimulation can help to obtain the optimal shape by study

The Island City Central Park

bending stress and wrapping energy. Therefore, the free form of this building is finally established by repeating this design process for both architectural and structural aspect.

I admire this building because this building not only display a fascinating form but also create a wonderful user experience. The entire surface of the roof is covered with the green vegetation and there is a stroll route is designed to follow the shape of building and link between interior and exterior space. The user can have good spatial experience both inside or outside the building on the above level.

A2 Design Computation

This pavilion project designed by Soma Architecture is located on Salzburgis.

This project is used as a mobile pavilion for cultural events. The structure mainly consists of simple repetitive aluminum rods. The structure firstly is composed by a numbers of arches, which are constructed with multiple layers of aluminum rods. And those layers are connected to each other with circular studs. The most important concept and program involved in this project is called Karamba plug-in. This Grasshopper plug- in can be used to optimize the structural performance through a series of calculations, which means this computational method can give people the optimized result of the structure in the real world. For example, in this White Noise project, the Karamba is used to predict the behaviors of structure under loads and help to choose the orientation of elements for minimal displacement. With the optimized result, the designer can use the proper structural geometry to achieve the desired outcome.

A3 COMPOSITION/GENERATION

‘The processing of information and interactions between elements which constitute a specific environment; it provides a framework for negotiating and influencing the interrelation of datasets of information, with the capacity to generate complex order, form, and structure.’ --------------------Sean Ahlquist and Achim Menges

This i s a ve r y good example o f generation design process. This

project is shows a very insight concept in the process of generating form. This is not a proposal of architecture, however the study shows the potential of morphological development, which may be applied to the field of architecture under the influence of computational method.

This design agent firstly is scripted to have a series of attribute to control their behavior. Then those responses determine the movement and add the architectural insertion

One of the key thing in this organism is the information it receive to achieve the development and generation of form. There is no doubt that the structure is capable of autonomously drift and develop architectural form, however, what directing those changes are the information it received from the outside environment. The designer can primarily control the rule of algorithm and after that it can develop and extend the ability of designer. In my opinion, that is the charm of generation and computational design. It is a process of exploring opportunity and various outcomes.

Urban Agency

A shift to Computational Architecture

This shift in the working methods involved in the heritage buildings conservation is

also a good example showing the shift for all the design industry. We are in the shift from the ‘model and state’ work to a ‘data and flaw’ regime. The historic heritage buildings are mostly craftwork that purely produced manually. This brings difficulties to the remodeling and reproduction of the building without the help of digital and computational approach. While the traditional analogue methodology is not impossible, it is very costly and time consuming.

A research project carr ied out at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) showing people how they get the digital information of the historical

building via computational technology. The pictures above show the replication and conservation of a granite dragon carving work of Yueh Ching Temple by using 3-D scanning, model ing and 3-D pr int ing techniques.

The large amount of data of points and mesh surface people obtained from the historic craf twork via computational methods enhance the precision of the result. This field of study and methods have been largely applied to the industry of surface reconstruction, visualization of large data sets and global registration.

The first part of the study about designing future gives me a insight of what kind of era we are lining in. Human are facing the a series of problems and most severe one may be the insufficient amount of natural resources. This also triggers me to think what kind of adaption and change human need to achieve. Furthermore, as an designer, it is also important to reflect what are the responsibilities of a designer, what kind of design can be made to help to achieve a better future. The computational design as a new design approach certainly gives designer a opportunity to explore more possibility of the design and achieve more dramatic outcomes. I think it is undoubtedly a revolutionary change happening in the architecture and design industry. And it helps me to understand in what way it change the industry.

In third week, the contents help me learn how the computational is more beneficial than the design approach before by looking at the shift from composition toward generation.

A4 CONCLUSION

I think I have gain much more understanding about the computational design through the first 3 weeks study. Before learning the idea of the computational design, I think the computational program and approaches are only advanced technologies that only make the process of designer more convenient. However, the computational design approach is not only a change in the design method but rather a change in design concept. The computational design program is not a drawing tool like pencil; it is a more like a extension of designer’s thinking and ideas. It help designer to explore more and achieve more. After understanding the potentials and features of those digital design tool, I hope it can enhance my design and thinking in the future.

A5 LEARNING OUTCOMES

A6 APPENDIX

References

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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2392573/New-Zealand-Christchurchs-cardboard-cathedral-opens-demolished-2011-earthquake.html

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www.toyo-ito.co.jp

http://resources.altair.com/altairatc.com/country/Mexico/Soumaya.jpg

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