Air studio Conceptual Design

Wei Liu 373643

Toyo Ito - Taichung Metropolitan Opera House

In terms of fabrication of this design, engineers would use a reasonable and effective way to achieve the free surface geom-etry.The most suitable surface is steel work so far. Free concrete surface shotcrete support the shotcrete. It is usually for tunnel construction and suitable surfaces. It can be shot horizontal or vertical direction with temporary structure created in the void.

The main structure is several continous curved walls which is open to outside. Each hall is connected in vertically and hon-rizontally which neans in three three dimensions . The whole structure is divided into 58 por-tions . It is the first construction technology in the world.However, this project is only a conceptual desgn. Engineering had been considered that it is impossible to construct “Three-dimensional curved walls”

This building to solve a lot of resources and environmental issues

1. Recycled rainwater and sewageRainproof roof surface to collect rainwater filter and then use these rain.The filtered water will be used for irrigation of landscaping plants, thenReuse water, such as flushing water supply.

2. The use of environmentally friendly materialsMost of the materials used are recyclable eco-materials. This helps to limitEnvironmental load, conserve resources, thus helping to re-duceCarbon dioxide emissions to prevent global warming.

3. Adjustment of the surrounding environment, energy con-servation

The arrangement of the environment outside the buildings is very important, it will reduce the load within the building.Latent heat of vaporization the increased greening plan, cre-ate shade, and use water.

These sliders make it possible to change the steps of point, the numbers of points on curve and the radians of these curves. Once I change the data in Grasshopper, the modle in Rhino will update. That’s the most interest-ing part of parametric design.

I had some problems when I using Grasshoppe. It seems like the opperation was wrong, sothat I can not get the

Sliders which alow the model flexible and po-tential

Algorithmic Explorations