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Expression of interest

01 Case for Innovation .1.1. Architecture as a discourse .1.2 Computing in architecture .1.3 Parametric Modeling

02 Research Project .2.1 Scope of possibilities .2.1.1 Matrix Combination .2.1.2 Reverse engineered Case-Study .2.1.3 Material effect .2.1.4 Assemble Method .2.2 Research project conclusion03 Competition Advantages04 Interim outcome

Architecture as a discourse

Patrick Schumacher said that the phenomenon of architecture can be analysed as an autonomous network (autopoietic system) of communi-cations. He postulated the unified theory where partial discourses can be identified within the ongoing autopoiesis of architecture.

The following may assist in designing the Wyndhams Western Gateway project brief:

discourse concerned with the advancement of architectures expert functional performancediscourse concerned with architecture ability to innovatively utilize the most advanced construction technologies.discourse reflecting architecture aesthetic valuesdiscourse exploring the ever-evolving digital design tools for the advancement of architectures productive capacity.

Richard Williams in Architecture and Visual Culture suggest three approaches to architecture. Architecture as a form of art, architecture as a symbolic realm, and architecture as a spatial experi-ence. In defining architecture as an art. Nikolaus Pevsner mentioned Lincoln Cathedral as a piece of architecture where the architect requires the painters and sculptors modes of vision in addition to his own spatial imagination. The architect is therefore a special kind of artist that works in three dimensions.

In the Wyndham Councils Gateway Project brief , the foreword invited submissions for the Western Gateway Design project to create a new gateway into Wyndham for city bound traffic on the Princess Freeway.This project follows on from the success of Seeds of Change com-pleted in 2003, located at the Eastern Interchange of the Princess Freeway, and House in the Sky in 2001.Considerations must consider that Wyndham has become known for its support of public art and sculpture . The gateway design concept should consider the scale and impact of the proposed installation within a very flat and wide open landscape.

Vitrahaus

The concept of the VitraHaus connects two themes that appear repeatedly in the oeuvre of Herzog & de Meuron: the theme of the archetypal house and the theme of stacked volumes. The architects use the term domestic scale the showrooms are reminis-cent of familiar residential settings. The individual houses, which have the general characteristics of a display space, are conceived as abstract elements. Stacked into a total of five stories , floor slabs intersect the underlying gables, create a three-dimensional assemblage a pile of houses that, at first glance, has an almost chaotic appearance.

The complexity of the interior space arises not only from the angular inter-section of the individual houses but also from the integration of a second geometrical concept. All of the staircases are integrated into expansive, winding organic volumes that figuratively eat their way through the various levels of the building like a worm.

I believe the solution to defining new architecture in todays society is to create identity to the site. Yet buildings today change as technology changes. It helps create new form and ideas which leads to solving site issues, problems and solution to the place. Architecture as a symbolic realm or as a sign. The consumption of architecture may be thought about in two ways, firstly understanding it as a sign or symbol; secondly in terms of it as spatial experience.

Case for innovation

56 Leonard Street Herzog & de Meuron has aimed not for virtuosity but innovation, looking always to the broader culture and art for inspiration. That is exactly what we are interested in: to use well known forms and materials in a new way so that they become alive again.56 Leonard Street, the architects intention is to preserve the celebra-tory spirit of traditional skyscrapers while introducing new structural possibilities and suggesting fresh ways for people inside such tow-ers to relate to their city.

Herzog & de Meuron has replaced the usual extrusion of standard-ized skyscraper floor plates with a staggered progression of structur-al slabs turning slightly off axis by degrees as they ascend, creating constant variety among the apartment floor plans.Herzog & de Meuron has said, We approached the design process for 56 Leonard Street from the inside out, from the homes them-selves. But we also considered the outside in terms of the Tribeca neighborhood. Here you have the small townhouses, the old manu-facturing buildings, and the high-rise buildings, but also a lot of little corners and surprising things between. The different scales char-acterize the neighbourhood and we wanted to establish a dialogue among them. For us, creating a building is a research process. We call it a journey.

I was involved in this project which required us to develop a commercial building in Rochor, Singapore. Based on site analysis, the direction of the commercial building program was to address the need of the locatls, students and tourists. Identifying issues which were present and issues which would occur in the future had a limitation to design. The design solution introducing different pro-grams in the commercial building require three differ-ent modes to create diversity for the site. This diversity involved materials and also programs which addressed issues like social and recreational needs on site. The building will revitalize the surrounding areas by crating diversity in providing for walk ways, programs, a public and water features.

Computation in architecture Innovation will require changing something established by introducing new methods, ideas or products. Computation in architecture have revolutionized the order of the scheme of things. The use of prototypes and precedents is intended to provide the de-signer with a starting point from which to develop a new design. There are three main components of the design process: the analysis of the problem, from which design, goals and constraints can be developed; the synthesis of design solutions; and their evaluation vis--vis the goals and constraints. Computation brings certain advantages.

Computation in architecture nowadays depart from the old norms of architecture design. Digital generated forms are nowadays produced in automatic fashion by certain computer software in which the designer can choose an appropriate design for further development. Models of design capable of consistent continuous dynamic transforma-tion are replacing the static norms of conventional processes.

In metamorphosis, digital modelling software offers a rich repertoire of transformations a designer could use to further explore formal potentialities of an already conceived geometry. A particularly interesting temporal modelling technique is morphing, in which dissimilar forms are blended to produce a range of hybrid forms that combine formal attributes of the base and targets objects. Kolatan and Mac Donald used morphing in a number of their projects eg. in Housings and Ost/Kuttner apartments. Kolatan and Mac Donald intentionally employed digital generative processes and relied on processes characterized by non-linearity, indeterminacy and emergence.

Bogota International Convention Centre New convention centre reaches beyond the mere building, aiming at the creation of a new business and civic node for the city of Bogot that embodies values of functional-ity, interactivity and innovation, and can act as a catalyst for urban, social, economic and environmental regeneration. It presents an opportunity to structure a dynamic concept of building and public space, configuring a new urban order with significant improvements to the sites technical, environmental and public space conditions.

This is attained by drawing visual fields from strategic locations towards the cerros orientales (eastern mountains) and the Sanctuaries of Monserrate and Guadalupe, key landmarks of Bogot, serving not only as an orientation device to the visitors, but fundamentally providing strong references to the city from critical corners of the proposal. The incorporation of a virtual topography provides a zoning plan where the floor area ratio can be increased without limiting the openness of the site.It is the aim of our proposal for the new Convention Centre to create strong links with the surround-ing context, which can then be translated into synergies for the development and the area. The close proximity of new infrastructures such as the Water & Sewage Company, the redeveloped Corferias campus and the car park buildings present the area with a unique opportunity for the creation of an important civic hub consisting of a series of public spaces with the potential to thrive as a new centrality for the city.

Enviromental CenterDowntown Los Angeles based design group Aphidoidea proposes the ecorre complex, The Environmental Cen-ter of Regenerative Research & Education, to the City of Long Beach in California. The project takes the ISO container used by the Port of Long Beach which is one of the busiest ports in the world. Designed and placed as a FINALIST entry for the AIA-LA / USGBC Emerging Talent Design Competition, Aphidoidea re-adapts the shipping container as core building elements and implemented sustainable strate-gies to educate its visitors and users about green building practices such as solar energy, water collections, interior day lighting, rooftop gardens, passive cooling techniques, reuse of grey water, to name a few..

Utilizing approximately 65 shipping containers, the contextual response forces the architecture to provide an open public plaza on the ground level with an exhibition hall and outdoor amphitheater. The facility also houses learning classrooms as well as the offices to support the staff in teaching the community about the valuable strategies of sustainable green living.

I think that the idea of such precedent projects is to introduce a new identity which involve innovation for todays society to moving forward to a new era of modern architecture. This era will address issues, problems in design together with ideas of computer aided programs and innovative construction or materials.

In the Western Gateway Design Project, precedents include Seeds of Change installation at the Eastern Inter-change at the Hoppers Crossing of Princess Freeway. The eight leaf-like installations are aesthetic and could serve as a model to utilise Metamorphosis/morphing to produce something equally impressive and fulfil the key considerations and issues.The parameters are clearly enunciated in the Western gateway Design Project conceptual framework, design brief and site description. An innovative brainstorming approach will involve creative thinking in which we shall be featuring new methods and original ideas in our approach to the Gateway Project brief.

The shape of the proposed museum comes from the analysis of connota-tions between two phenomenons that are crucial in this location.The first is the migration of Latin American Immigrants .The external form of the object will symbolize the stages and emotions associated with this process and emphasize its dramatic fate. The divisions on the elevation and the twisting of the entire form will resemble the enormous effort and the difficulties that various groups of people had to overcome. Irregular ag-gressive shapes, visible from a distance will remind of their tragic history.The second factor that played an important role in the formation of the building was the unique relationship with its coastal environment.The hurricanes that appear in cycles in this region were also an important inspiration for the external expression of the form.The elevation resembles a large sea wave, generating a dynamic character associated with the shape of the building that emphasizes its importance in the area.

Aerodynamics & ModularityThe external form was designed in an aerodynamically way to absorb the major forces of the wind throughout the turbulent climatic conditions of the year. This diversified form was constructed on the basis of a module that allows the unification of design components.The used of cad program to design building forms and spaces allows de-signers to explore the innovative design in their projects. However prob-lems like structure and materiality will become issues as it will require fabrication of specific building materials and also permission from the council for such design. This two precedent projects have shown an idea for interest in developing ideas of improving social issues and creating new architecture which also create a form of visual experience for the Wyn-dham Councils Gateway Project.

MIAMI PIER MUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN IMMIGRANTS

The building aspires to become a horizontal monument to all the im-migrants who arrived on these shores in the past and a symbol emphasizing the dynamic multicultural image of this city nowadays.Built to symbolize the turbulent trials of immigration and the furies of the sea that brought the immigrants to Florida, the building is symbolic and artful in its reflection of the struggles of Miamis immigrants.Parameters set a limit or boundary which defines the scope of a particular process or activity. Patrick Schumachar asserts

that We pursue the parametric design paradigm all the way, penetrating into all corners of the discipline. Systematic, adaptive variation, continuous differentiation (rather than variety), and dynamic, parametric figuration concerns all design task from urbanism to the level of tectonic detail, interior furnishings and the world of all products.Nowadays a long list of sculpting tools is available and designers can collaborate with an interested colleague or an expert programmer. Talent always shine through and there is a typical need to encoding a design at the outset compared with new ideas emerging through intuition from the undirected sketch. The value of essential sculpting include the ability to work with large data set, can be used to look for simplification, enjoy the opportunity to capture specific know-how and knowledge. There is also a distinct link between sculpting and fabrica-tion.

New Metro Station 20,BulgariaActing as a primary metro connection between Sofias city Centre and the airport, and the hub of a major commercial re-development plan, the design of Station 20 site seeks to establish clear pathways, form active connections and harmonies architecture and landscape.SiteThe sites linear structure is inspired by the pattern and scale of the neighboring high-density housing blocks of the Dru-zhba residential quarter. The angular direction of the landscape reflects the natural structure of the site boundary, generat-ing a visual language that informs the division of public spaces and creates pathways, guiding pedestrian flow to and from the stationMain entry to Station 20s underground concourse level is accessed via a vast corner plaza, providing a public space for circulation between the station services and the existing bus service infrastructure. The sweeping canopy of the entrance hall emerges out of the landscape as a wave, simultaneously pulling the structure up as it pushes the plaza down into the ground to meet with the level of the concourse. Finely cast steel elements with a non-flammable canvas lining stretched underneath, create an elegant structure and a glowing interior, achieved through concealed and integrated lighting.In response to the 120,000 daily flow of passengers, the stations concourse level has been extended to accommodate the maximum passenger loads expected, thus reducing congestion through passenger control systems. Visual connection from all entrances into the halls have been optimised to promote passenger safety, assist station security and maximise natural light. The concourse is further extended to include a shopping court, capitalising on high passenger flows, whilst providing future potential for an underpass connection from the station to the planned adjacent shopping centre develop-ment.

Case study

ConclusionCase of Innovation Architecture is an evolving art. As technology advances in todays society so does architectural design. We are constantly introduced to new computer innovations and programs to help solve issues and problems in modern design. As time pass new programs and method of design with computer programs will change the look of architecture which is innovative, conceptual or even iconic.However with such computerized generated conceptual design ideals, architect are faced with problems such as structural. Can it be build? What are the appropriate materials? I believe that owing to the advancing of technology that we have today, architecture will slowly move to a new era of organic buildings and increased usage of parametric design. As we can now see many precedent projects moving to computer aided design as it helps architecture involve into a new language and form. For Western Gateway Projects, where seemingly discourse have to be achieved in an innovative way. We need to produce a piece of work that will symbolize the innovation of current times. In addition, it should help improve social lifestyle and to life within. Finally, through the precedents study of how architecture discourse and the computing techniques, I found out it a great tool in designing process.

Research project

MATRIX

Rhino & Grasshopper DefinationInput + Association + Output

naturetheme

In the Wyndham Councils Gateway Project brief , the foreword invited submissions for the Western Gateway Design project to create a new gateway into Wyndham for city bound traffic on the Princess Freeway. Consider-ations must consider that Wyndham has become known for its support of public art and sculpture . The gateway design concept should consider the scale and impact of the proposed installation within a very flat and wide open landscape. The parameters are clearly enunciated in the Western gateway Design Project conceptual framework, design brief and site description. An innovative brainstorming approach will involve creative thinking in which we shall be featuring new methods and original ideas in our approach to the Gateway Project brief. We are planning to design following the theme nature to create positive arrival experience and blend in to the natural environments. By relating to the topic nature, our interest to develop various combination of Input, Association and outputs to achieve design aim. The design process experiments with the extent in which seamless dots formulates a line with an im-age which shows shadow and motion. By adjusting various combination we develop various patterns.

parametrics can provide for a powerful conception of archi-tectural form by describing a range of posibilities, replacing in the process stable with variable, singularity with multiplicity

- Branko Kolarevic

compressed shadow space transition

Case Study

hitoshi abe

AOBA TEIRESTAURANT

our anchestors, forced to live in dark rooms, presently came to discover beauty in shadows, ultimately to guide

shadows, heavy shadows against light shadows - Junichiro Tanizaki(Novelist) , in In Praise of Shadow

Base on this case study, the recreation of representative of nature sendai was design into the restaurant. The usage of curve curvature steel imi-tates and with digital design using the Zelkovas tree. Puncture hole and lighting exposing the perforated holes of the Zelkovas tree. By achieving this effect the restaurant is able to create a new arrival experience.

SCALE : 0.09 SCALE : 0.11

SCALE : 0.15 SCALE : 0.18

TECHNIQUES

SQUARE GRID LINE+IMAGE SAMPLER+CIRCLE

INPUT :

ASSOCIATION :

OUTPUT :

SCALE : 0.20 SCALE : 0.23

SCALE : 0.13

SCALE : 0.25

SCALE : 0.28

test 1

SQUARE GRID LINE+IMAGE SAMPLER+CIRCLE

INPUT :

ASSOCIATION :

OUTPUT :

test 2

SCALE : 0.04 SCALE : 0.06 SCALE : 0.08

SCALE : 0.10 SCALE : 0.15 SCALE : 0.20

SCALE : 0.25

By using explicit grid input + image smapler association + circle output generate pattern which tried to achieve the aoba tei Zelkovas tree patterns. we tried imitating the hole size, scale and density. The use of the image sampler can create different pattern just by using different images. By doing this we have a better control of the pattern form by changing the density of the hole.

test 3

INPUT :

ASSOCIATION :

OUTPUT :

SQUARE GRIDLINE

IMAGE SAMPLER + RATIONALISATION

CIRCLE

4mm,6mm,9mm spacing 15mm

12mm,16mm,18mm spacing 20mm 2mm,4mm,5mm spacing 15mm

4.5mm,6mm,10mm spacing 20mm 2.5mm,1.5mm,3mm spacing 15mm

material effects

Restaurant Aoba Tei by Hitoshi Abe establishes a visual dialogue between the characteristic landscapes of Sendai into the internal environment of the restaurant. This case study provides further architectural philosophy, exploring the boundary of relationship between nature and the materiality. What is materiality? What is nature? All material is a formed of nature in one way or another, then where does the line lie to separate the two? Thus leads to the experimentation of physical abilities of cardboard. It is stiff and rigid similar to perforated steel (materiality) used in Aoba Tei, and under sub-mergence it softens, bends like wood (nature) over long period of environmental exposure. Our aim to produce an imitation of Aoba Tei restaurant but also to further explore the transition of space, which cardboard is used as a physical transition medium (distortion of materiality and nature) between the external and internal space. The perforation of material imitates and projects nature and the sensation of natural environment.

The tunnel effect creates a new arrival experiences and a new

identity to Wyndlam City.

shadow effect which is created by the density of the light. as light passes

throught the layers the density of light and shadow changes.

overlapping pattern

assembly methods

The Aoba Tei restaurant was welded onsite with specialised professional craftmanship. Craftman were able to deform the steel panels at key points by heating and chilling.

The assembly methods of the model is similar to Aoba Tei restaurant. A thin framing ele-ment is used to permenantly prop the steel/cardboard into the de-

sired curvature form; setting the wall in place.

The steel walls were assembled from smaller segments; the model presented is at the scale of 1:5 to the steel panels.

Perforated steel was precasted and assembled on site. Our model was laser cutted and assembled accordingly to the framming.

conclusion

The two major attributes that were adopted into the fabrication are:

- the concept: using nature and traditional context

The idea is unique, as it incorporates the very nature of the environment into the material itself. Not only projecting impression of nature but physically altering material form corresponding to Zelkovas trees.

- the method: digital fabrication, industrial production

Aoba Tei restaurant is innovative in many aspects. Material choice is cheap and easily assem-bled; prefabrication allows time efficiency in construction of the building. The design will be cheap, time efficient, easily assembled, an inspirational visual public art, and abstract form of nature.

Effectively borrow the major advantageous methods that restaurant Aoba Tei con-sists and cultivated according to the aim of Wyndham City Gateway design. Exposure with the Matrix combination has enable us to create new ideas. The use of different input +association + output can create different effect, shape and form. the aoba tei reverse case study explore with image pattern and also understanding of lighting effects. As a result of the exploration the lighting effect became an inspira-tion for this project as it create various mood setting which would have different visual and arrival experiences.The assembly method for the Aoba tei is unique in the sense that the the panel were weld-ed similar to ship craftsmanship. With the help of this fine craftsmanship and digital design tech-nique, this could help us develop and further explore digital methods for the next project.

aspiration intentnatural environmentarrival experienceabstractfeelingnew identity

WESTERN GATEWAY

WYNDHAM CITY GATEWAY

The proposed site was located on the road reserves adjacent to the princes freeway, at the intercharge with the princess highway also known as western interhcange.The Wyndham city brief was to design an eye catching project which had a visual art compo-nent to it.In our design process, we learn that the wyndham city also appreciate the aesthetics landscape which we design and tried to preserve the landscape.

MaterialityPatternsLightingStructurejoinery

structurethe form of the structure had this curve form which blend together with the contour and was able to create a 360 view around the surrounding site which had a sculpture and an new identity.

Structure

Pattern

I believe we were given a opportunity to create a an iconic identity which for the site by introducing com-puter aid design. we introduce a new identity with the use of structure and patterns to create visual art at first glance by creating perforated holes in steel sheets.

PatternsThe imitation of the landscape was by using the image of tree with the use of different size of hole perforated in to the steel sheet which create different patterns of trees.

LightingBy introducing natural lighting and artifi-cial lighting during the night this creates a change in behaviour for the tunnel which creates this spectacular view of the arrival experiences as shadow pass through the perforated holes.

Materiality

Prefabricated peforated steel sheetsI beamwelding

Project conclusion Learning objectives and outcomesPersonal background and learning

design studio air: parametric designrhino and grasshopper is a new program introduce me as i start my studio air. the task to complete the definitions were hard to understand. i believe that i will spend more time and learn more on grasshopper as this new in-novative tools will one day be change from traditional method of designing.

Learning process

I believe by learning parametric design as an alternative to the traditional manner to design helps informs the underlying notions of the contemporary discourse. Thought out the whole semester I did find it difficult learning to use rhino and grasshopper. As this is new program requires time to learn it, it created exposure to new methods of design which are for example facade, structure and patterns. this is still on on going learning process of learning grasshopper and I do hope advance myself in this innovative design tool.

Learning outcomes+future works

grasshopper which enable us to explore different form,patterns, structure with the use of new innovative computer aid program which can help aid my future design and solve or introduce new social trends. besides that learning from case study for bench marking for proposal projects for the counsil.v

The tunnel of sihouette by introducing the tunnel to the landscape it create this natrual form which blend with the natrual enviroments being express through the strutural and patterns. the use of digital design and fabrication create this innovative art sculture in the project as we manage to achieved the effect yet i believe if given more time we would develop the structure and pattern. by creating more organic tree branch structure, introduce modern material which can be easily be fabricated .

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Richard williams, architecture and visual culture, in exploring visual culture: definitions, concepts, contexts. ed by matthew rampley(edinburgh:university press,2005), pg102-116

Yehuda E kalay, architecture new media principle, theories and methods of computer aided design(cambridge, mass,mit press,2004) pg 5-25