PART A

ALGOrITHmIC

sKETCHBOOK

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WEEK 1

Recreation of the Guggenheim Museum in New York, USA, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and completed in 1959.

Below are three generative design ideas of the same building, created using the OcTree command in Grasshopper.

Count = 15Group = 2

Thhe building here looks extremely “pixelated” and is almost unrecognisable to its original form.

Count = 100Group = 1

This was the most abstracted version of my rendering, and as mentioned the building looks in some ways more recognisable than the others, as the number of boxes allows for less “pixelation” in a way.

Count = 55Group = 4

Here the building looks quite similar to the next rendition, though with less detail.

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WEEK 2

Manipulation of a fabric-like material in Rhino using Grasshopper alongside both the Kangaroo Physics and Weaverbird plug-ins.

In this case, the first of my trials has been rotated to show what the material would look like as a rigid, pavilion-like structure (as opposed to a flacid stretchy material structure with a downward load.

Force strength = 0.618Gravity = 20

Top view

Force strength = 0.618Gravity = 20

Front view

Force strength = 0.618Gravity = 20

Side view

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Force strength = 0.211Gravity = 20

Removal of points from intital render resulted in an almost paper origami bird shape in the fabric simulation.

Force strength = 0.618Gravity = 20

Increase in the force of the downward load (bigger arrow size) as well as different point placement resulted in an almost dome shaped render.

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PART B

ALGOrITHmIC

sKETCHBOOK

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WEEK 4

Explorations in the field of fractal geometry.

Here the created tetrahedron has been booleaned from a triangular pyramid as the initial shape, and subsequently transformed according to the algorythm to create the three distinct patterns seen below, all of which come together to form the shape seen here on the right.

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WEEK 5

As my initial reverse engineering try, I chose to recreate a gridshell through the 7 steps as seen from the diagrams below.

While this was not used as the final case study 2.0, it nevertheless provided a good practice ground for the subsequent work.

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WEEK 6

Pattern lists as explored here can be useful later in my excersises in creating the pattern geometry that will create the subsequent mesh for my design.

Here I have played with a number of wire-like patterns, and next I would like to explore patterning on a 3D level.

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WEEK 7

Using the evaluation filed excersise and algorithm, I have created a more or less draping structure in various densities.

This could be a good opportunity to further explore the inverse of my proposed design, in that such a form could be hanged or anchored from its vertex as opposed to from the ends of the fiorm.

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