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Hello my name is Tisara Samarasuriya. I’m a 3rd year architecture student. Dint always want to be an architect, started my uni career off as an engineer but learned that I love design more than the engineering aspect. Looks like the engineering aspect has come back to haunt me with vectors. At least I can use some of the Experience gained in my first year.

I’ve used basic forms of digital architectural programs such as sketch up 8 thus long for my Environments course. I’ve had a littleexperience with Rhino and thus not completely alienated by it. Have never used grass hopper before and well dreading it and also intrigued by it. Some programs that I’ve heard about it revit and #ds max which I’ve been meaning to learn in the future and have heard many design projects are based though this level and digital programming software.

Although these programs help in the productivity, presentation and overall quality of the project I do believe that using digital architecture kills an individuals creativity to a certain length. I guess I’m antic but I do believe architecture to its purest form should be done using pencil and paper.

The Sri Lankan Architect Geoffrey Bawa is now regarded as having been one of the most important and influential Asian architects of the twentieth century.Bawa’s work is characterised by a sensitivity to site and context. He produced “sustainable architecture” long before the term was coined, and had developed his own “regional modernist” stance well in advance of the theoreticians. His designs broke down the barriers between inside and outside, between interior design and landscape architecture and reduced buildings to a seriesof scenographically conceived spaces separated by courtyards and gardens.

BAWA

Architecture As Discource

At Heritance Kandalama Bawa created an austere building that derives its beauty from the surrounding landscape. The simple geometry and lack of decoration help to highlight the natural environment.

When he first built the hotel, he told the staff that one day it would peer out from under a canopy of lush vegetation. The staff didn’t fully grasp what he was describing. Ten years later, after Bawa was long gone, the staff say he had described the hotel exactly as it is today.

It can be Criticallly analysed that through thinking of bawa’s architecture interms of a discource that he had produced a style that blends buildings with nature without the hassle of drawing too much attension. The structures he creates does not get lost in the fusion of nature but sits well in its context and compliments it. This i think is why he’s considered one of the founding fathers of Tropical Architecture.

Architecture As Discource

ZAHA

Overlooking the pearl River the Guangzhou Opera House is the largest performing arts centre in South China, Designed by Zaha Hadid, a most inspiring and forceful architect this structure evokes her radical approaches and multiple perspectives to designing.Combining art and technology this design is unique as it holds traditional art and music while expressing a modern and ambitious outlook on the exterior. Hence creating this mixture of old and new which is a captivating idea for added analysisn within the Expression of Interest Proposal.Like pebbles in a stream smoothed by erosion, the Guangzhou Opera House sits in perfect harmony with its riverside location (Schumacher).This synthesis between the building and nature is will be a consideration that will be implemented and experimented with in connection with the Gateway Project and the Wyndham City.

Architecture As Discource

Computers, by their nature, are superb analytical engines. If correctly programmed, they can follow a line of reasoning to its logical conclusion (Kalay, 2004). Hence, the majority of computer-aided design research over the past fifty years has been directed toward developing computational systems that provide varying levels for assistance to human designers by taking care of smaller or larger parts of the design process (Kalay, 2004).

Computers In Architecture

Above the Corian Super-Surfaces Showroom by Amanda Levete Architects was awarded the Interiors and Fit-Out Prize at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona. Their idea came from a drop of water creating a series of ripples whcih became the metaphor for transforming space through movement. Corian Super Surfaces is about revealing the moment of change through visual complexity, creating dynamic kinetic effects. This concept of moving through the space, appearing to animate it is a exceptional concept which i will try to explore more

Kinetic

There are a plethora of Advantages in regards to the application of computers in architecture. However singling some of the main points, the parametric modeling scheme has brought about tremendous change about what architecture can will be perceived as. Looking back 50 years, it was not possible to build such abstract shapes such as frank gehrys fallen house. Back then it might have been so alien to even think of such a structure, but now with the aid of computers and parametric modeling geomenty with such complexity can be achived.

Another major innovation is the use of kinetic or responsive architecture. The ability of architecture to respond to invisible forces such as sound, light and movement, with adaptive features have many advantages asccosiated within itself. This can be seen not only as an aesthetic purpose but can also be seen as fuctinalty. For example the movement of shading devises according the can be accosiated with how well the building will perform throughout the year regarding to its heating and cooling needs.

Advanatges

Parametric Modeling

All said and done, the Practicality of using these techniqes and the real world apllication has to be kept in mind. although dinnvoative desing ideas and dream structures are a possibilty thought paratic modeling, asking yourself key questions such as what is the cost involved ? , is it applicable the the spesific site? , can you manucfacture it? should be considered.

It also has to be said that there in a lfine line between bulding your dream structure and its practical use in the real world.

Advanatges

Disadvanatges

This prooposed street furniture design’s concept is based on the idea that a changing surface will accomodate for every person. Using parametric design this seat changes its geometry continuously. Instead of offering only one single static design, this scheme suggests multiple varying solutions that meet specific fitness criteria.The project “Urban Adapter” is based on a digital parametric model. At its core the model utilizes explicit site information and program- matic data to react and interact with its environment. That way the model’s DNA structure is capable of producing a variety of unique furniture results.

Parametric Modeling

EVOLVE

ADAPT

Christoph Hermann is a London based designer who work in the realm of parametric design. This project to the left in particular was called the ‘Mutant Museum’, a design for a building which at first appears to be a very standard, almost classically influenced building,er precision. It also facilitates the creation of much more radical and unconventional designs, as the forms that it can create are not limited by the constraints of a human mind.

According to Hermann, the design philosophy was to create a form which “evolved” from a single cell into system where each element, or “cell” relies on what is in its immediate vicinity to create and entirely cohesive structure.

EVOLVE

It was not long ago that i completrly disagreed with the use of computational methods in the discournce of architecture. but i have to admit that thus far using parametric modeling techniqus such as grashopper , there can be some very intresting ideas which can be generated thought it. although still a young grasshopper user the work we have done so far is very compeling and very addictive in a good way.

Ned Kahn

During this time of discovery, we were introduced to series of architectural disciplines such as kinetic, geometry , penalization etc. And it was during this time that I discovered the variety of architecture in the real world. I have always gone worth the mainstream architects such as ghery and hadid proper to the design studio and now there many wonderful architects that I have come to admire. One of them happen to be Ned khan. There seems to some magic about his work that compelled me and out group to follow in his footsteps to develop responsive and kinetic architecture. All his work from the articulated cloud to the fragmented sea has its own uniqueness about it. Khan can be viewed also as a artist , scientist and philosopher who experiments with different elements to produce work which has endless applications and push the boundaries of science fiction and reality. This is why I think we were completed to follow in his foot steps.

Case Study 1.0

Setting a rotation for base geomentry

Setting a rotation for Individual elemtents

Rotation based on Image for base geometry

Rotation based on Image for individidual elements

Incresed U and V values for clarity

At this point we were not sure of all grasshopper definitions and how to manupilate them to our liking. however we had a general idea of what direction we wanted to head in. And that was trying to imitate ned khan’s architecture. Thus we chose to trend in the kinetic/responsive theame and tried to replicate and chage elements in the firts case study according to this decipline. The panels shown above explain how we tried to manupilate each object and used each elemt to rotate based on the vecor output of an image. We also tried to create a series of attracot points to diffrentiate the image and alter the structure however this was not succsefull

Rotation based on Image for base geometry

Incresed U and V values for clarity

Vertical Canal Ned KhanRijkswaterstaat, Utrecht, Netherlands

Fragmented SeaNed KhanMesa Art Center

Science

Formulating Discource

Probing

Architecture

Ned khan is and inspiration architect/ artist that we as group look forward to. As we looked to formulate an argument based on kinetic and responsive architecture we looked to him as a starting point and was hoping that his projects would lead us to formulate an solid argument in regards to the expression of interest in terms of the whydham city gateway project.

Ned khan has done many fascinating projects mostly relating to kinetic architecture, what is a common theme among all his work is that the fact that his sculptures, facade and buildings all interact with nature, thus creates and intricate relationship between the object and the spectator. He has arranged his work into different groups which are Fog, water, wind, fire/Light and sand. All these themes names relate directly to how a person might perceive the building to be.

Initially there were many attempts to formulate an argument for the EOI. Different ideas were generated in regards to kinetic architecture and its application to the gateway project. We decided that it was also in out interest that the history in whydham city has to be taken into account. The beauty of Ned khans work is that it is never out of place, everything seems to have a story behind it, every moving piece of his work seem to be interacting with the outside space and screaming out its relation and why its there. Thus as a group we decided that the best way to connect the dotted lines was to research on each field , thus more research on Ned khan ‘s projects, kinetic/responsive architecture and how it can correlate between the history of wyndham city was undertaken.

Science

Probing

Art

Architecture

Following in the steps of ned khan we tried to explore many options of how to persue the invible effect. after some reserch and with the combination of scince we stumbled upon a physics thoery wicch ticked all boxes in our selection criteria. The doppler effect, the theory behind the increase (or decrease) in the frequency of sound, light, or other waves as the source and observer move toward (or away from) each other. It was the best wat to move forward with our project, it was invible, can be kinetic, application to light and sound thus we set out to explore this term further.

Effect

Kinetic RainART + COMChangi Airport Terminal

Invisible

After reaserching on a variety of kinetic projects we narrowed it down to a scope of small but effective projects that can directly represent and formulate a good relationship to the whydham city gateway project. we wanted the to explore kinetics though some sort of invisible force. this was the base of our parti. Explaoring this idea of invible forces we stubled apon two very intresting projects. one being the kinetic rain sculpture shown to the left and the BMW kinetic museum shown below. both of these projects resemble what we hope to achive with the whydham city gateway project.

If this idea of an invible force can somehow interwine with projects such as the articulated cloud by ned khan, results produced for the gateway project could be very intresting. and also if the resultant product can somehow relate to the history of the site , the project would succeed in filling all brackets of the whudham city council desing breif. this was however the thought process of the group.

Formulating Discource

Effect

BMW MuseumART + COMMunich

The Doppler Effect

The Doppler effect can be described as the effect produced by a moving source of waves in which there is an apparent upward shift in frequency for observers towards whom the source is approaching and an apparent downward shift in frequency for observers from whom the source is receding. this can be observed for any type of wave - water wave, sound wave, light wave, etc. And although we are most familiar with the Doppler effect because of our experiences with sound waves this anolgy can be streched to fit all aspects kinetics

Taking this a step further, the electromagnetic radiation emitted by a moving object also shows the Doppler effect. The radiation emitted by an object moving toward an observer is squeezed and its frequency appears to increase and is therefore said to be blueshifted. In contrast, the radiation emitted by an object moving away is stretched thus redshifted

Case Study 2.0

Surface pattern based on image sampler

Surface pattern based on attractor points

Articulated Cloud, it was intended to suggest that the building has been enveloped by a digitized cloud.

Surface pattern based on image sampler

Surface divided evenly without any inputs

Controled Surface Without Rotation

Uncontroled Rotation based on a surface

In order to rerplicate and re engineer the articulated cloud by ned khan, we used a combination using the provided grasshopper definitions and the Ex lab association vedios. At the start the idea was to try mimic khan’s work by rebulding one the facade panels and get a series of smaller geomentry to fill the space. By filling the space up equaly in rows and coulmns we then wnted to rotate these sections in one paticualr axis. After establishing the intial facade panel and taking the idea further we set out to try and alter the structure according to movement , just as the articulated cloud interacts with the wind, we set our definition to inreact with multiple inputs with the firts input being an image sampler and the other a series of attractor points.

After reaserching on a variety of kinetic projects we narrowed it down to a scope of small but effective projects that can directly represent and formulate a good relationship to the whydham city gateway project. we wanted the to explore kinetics though some sort of invisible force. this was the base of our parti. Explaoring this idea of invible forces we stubled apon two very intresting projects. one being the kinetic rain sculpture shown to the left and the BMW kinetic museum shown below. both of these projects resemble what we hope to achive with the whydham city gateway project.

If this idea of an invible force can somehow interwine with projects such as the articulated cloud by ned khan, results produced for the gateway project could be very intresting. and also if the resultant product can somehow relate to the history of the site , the project would succeed in filling all brackets of the whudham city council desing breif. this was however the thought process of the group.

Case Study 2.0

High

Medium

Low

Country

Coast

City

Site Analysis

In midst of diffrent explorations we thought it would be good practice to do a priliminary site analysis. Reasearch went into where to scuplture can be placed what were the diciding factors , the speed to vehicles traveling in each direction, the amount of traffic passing through with correlation which side traafic is more intence.

However we dicided that we will look into those facotors in the site synopsis where all factors will come together, the site analysis to the left discribes the location of where to place the sculpture and which direction in will be facing.

The light blue section represents low purosity in relation to the country, medium porosity with the coast and high dence porosity with the city.