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Contents

Part A 4-22

Part B

Part C

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Introduction

As a 3rd year undergraduate architecture student, I see myself as an independent learner, I do like to try design software which is new to me, so does Rhino

and grasshopper plug-in. However Architecture studio- Air is still quite challenging as we need to

develop a range to computational design skill and try to adapt them in our individual design.

My drawing skill is much better than my software design skill, thus I still need to spend a lot of

time practicitng and I am looking forward to the fabrication part of this subject as it relates to

digital fabrication and it is a very important skill in the industry, I am also very exciting to see what

interesting designs others will produce.

Yuchen Kevin Ye

4 PART-A CONCEPTUALISATION

A1.Design Future

5PART-A CONCEPTUALISATION

PRECEDENT STUDY PROJECT 1Bloom / DO|SU Studio Architecture - Doris Sung

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This "living" project was done by DO|SU Studio in 2012. Doris Sung, The head architect of this project developed a metal skin which brought this project to life. It is amazing that she was able to use her biological background in her architecture study.

This thermal bimetal is part of her material study which changes its form due to the increase and decrease of tempreture without any energy consumption. This project also relied on the use of digital tools. They use then to form-find,

analyze the structures and project the performance so that the angle of change of these components and the amount of air-flow are exactly the same as they wanted, they used digital fabrication and they use them to test for post-occupancy performance.1

The reason I chose this project as my precedent is because it is the first successful self-react project and it has huge potential to be widely used in different areas and backgrounds. It can be made very custom like this project which

provide perfect area of shades and air-flow, or it can be mass produced and be used in facades of skyscrapers. More importantly, it has the unique ability to work without any control, neither energy comsumption.

1 Andrew Galloway. "When Biology Inspires Architecture: An Interview with Doris Kim Sung " 14 May 2014.

01. Project Bloom - Doris Sung


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2 Fry, Tony (2008). Design Futuring: Sustainability, Ethics and New Practice (Oxford: Berg), pp. 1–16

02. View of Project Bloom from street.

03. Close look at these thermal bimetal in action.

04. Digital Fabrication Process.

05. Diagram of the movement of pannels.

This self-shade, self ventilate, and self-operate zero comsumption material truly shows that "smat" materials can really create huge impact on architecture and building facades, and it is more important to find that digital materiality and material fabrication can make positive impact on our society and even a bigger scale. Therefor architects from designer's perspective can improve human living standard2.

"I think “smart” materials and nano-scale materials will be make the biggest changes in building materials. It’ll change our perception of buildings dramatically. No longer will we expect walls to be sealed, floors to be hard and buildings to be static. Buildings will be more like organisms, which we can have relationships with!"-Doris Kim Sung


PRECEDENT STUDY PROJECT 2Nine Bridges Golf Club - Shigeru Ban

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Shigeru Ban is well-known as the 2014 Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize. His amazing designs using recyable timber and paper tube and his understanding of being an architect, which is to build for the society have always encourage me. I was lucky to see one of his project in present in Sichuan which is a small temprory elementary school which was made of recyclable paper tube. These buildings are not only shockproof for earthquake up to magnitude-8, they are also recyclable, reusable, cheap and readily available on site.

Shigeru Ban once said taht "I do not know the meaning of 'Green Architect'. I have no interest in

'Green', 'Eco' and'Environmentally Friendly.' I just hate wasting things."1 His this idea was formed from his Japanese background, thus his project was all about timber and paper.

"Wood is the most ecological thing. Steel, concrete - we are just consuming from a limited amount. Timber is the only renewable material. A concrete building stays only a hundred years, and it's very difficult to replace or repair, where timber is very easy to repair. Also nicer. Such a nice material."2

I chose Nince Bridges Gold Club as my Second precedent study because the way Ban managed to

construct this beautiful timber roof and column structure system in a dramatical way which feels like the timber gridshell melted down and form these columns. It is also amazing that these columns does not impact the patterning of the roof but perfectly match the pattern, this is due to digital design and fabrication. The structure of this system is also a milestone as every component is prefabricated offsite.

It is always nice to see materials been used in ways which different from its traditional ways.

1Shigeru Ban's email to Toyo Ito.2Dana Goodyear, Paper Palaces.


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02.Timber column and roof structure of the Nine Bridges Golf Club House from inside.

03. 04. The Nine Bridges Golf Club House under constrution, prefabricated roof component been installed.

05. Night view of the Nine Bridges Golf Club House from outside.

Computation has always been part of Ben's design process as his designs often contain complex grid structure and require computational analyse for the structure to be buildable. It is not like the Metropol Parasol designed by Jürgen Mayer Architects which require a lot of bracing support or huge base, it is just simple joints and let the structure to support itself. For his other paper tube projects, usually have a budget which requires minimize the use of materials and to be constructed within a limited time.

Most of these projects are challenging and he managed to design temporary houses which are not just functional but also beautiful. He is also the founder of recyclable paper tueb architecture. He was asked to build many temporary paper tube houses around the world. He question what is temporary and what is perminent, a bad designed concrete architecture could also be temporary for money, a well designed paper tube architecture could also be perminent if it is taken good care of and repaired.


A2.Design Computation


Recedent Project 3Munich Olympic Stadium - Frei Paul OttoIt was very sad as that Frei Otto passed away just after he recieve the 40th Pritzker Prize. Munich Olympic Stadium, "The Happy Game" is definitely his masterpiece. It is one of my favourtie design as it was built in 1940s, and it is still appealing to me today.

When I saw Frei Otto’s work, the first thing I think of is organic. It was just after World War II and Germany was experiencing lack of material and an urgent need for temporary housing. Frei Otto decided to take the approach of designing houses with just basic function: providing shelter. He was mastering engeering thus his design contain a lot of engineering

concept using steal web structure to create vast space which is also very strong. Otto's design concpet was inspired by soup membrane in simple shape waire frame, he then specialised in light weight tensile and membrane structure using different materials.

The Stadium was valued as one of most beautiful stadium in the world because of the lightweighstructure brought liveness into the game and it provide shelter while provide great amount of light to the stadium.

The structure of this stadium has two main component. First, the metal frame, whose small spaces were coated with PVC,

created numerous minimal surfaces and as such was also minimal weight, allowing the construction of an architectural cover lightness. Second, the surface tension of these forms is completely balanced, providing very stable construction.These wire meshes are held by straps that start from the heads of the outer masts, straps and cables anchored to the ground edge. The geometric precision cut patterns and prefabrication required in the project forced the development of new computational method, of particular relevance in the "Architecture HighTech" and a revival of cast steel in structural engineering using molds polystyrene.

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It is not only the designs that Frei Otto created are beautiful, it was his concept of seeing structure as part of the design that is important. It was said that “Throughout his life, Frei Otto has produced Imaginative, Fresh, Unprecedented spaces and constructions. He has also created Knowledge. Herein resides his deep influence: not in forms to be copied, but through the paths that have been opened by his research and discoveries.”1 1 Oliver Wainwright, Frei Otto: the titan of

tent architecture

01. Munich Olympic Stadium from the outside on Openning day.

02. 03. Munich Olympic Stadium under the tent.

04. Munich Olympic Stadium

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05. Munich Olympic Statium under constructiuon.06. Drawing of Munich Olympic Statium.

What really Munich Olympic Statium strike me is the image above taken when the project is constructing. This image shows that the tensile structure is so strong that it can support a certain amount of weight which I think has a lot of potential and possibility even for architecture today. This light weight structure has the potential create a new form of architecture based on its strength, transparency and air ventilation. It could possibly become a new form of architecture.

However Otto still has successfully earned his title of "Father of Tent Architecture". His ability to transform ideas in mind, to drawing, and then to practical architecture is amazing. And the effort he has put in his own experiment and computational design means so much in the history of architecture. His influence in future architecture is irreplacable.

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Precedent Project 4Heydar Aliyev Center - Zaha Hadid Frank Gehry once said "Flat piece of something worth one dollar; single curve, two dollar; if it is double curve, it worth ten dollar."1 If that is the budges of curves, this Heydar Aliyev Center designed by Zaha Hadid is priceless.

It was completed in 2013, and it is the most extreme of Zaha's designs, it is organic, it is sensul, it is also very strong. It is a new culture center in Baku which was proposed as the vision of future Baku. Romaticism is involved in the design, Zaha was able to stretch her wings, it was the ultimate Zaha experience.

The building is so organic that it feels like the earth been folded like mountains, the curveds of this building are growing themselves.

Zaha as a geniuses was able to imagine the form of this building and construct it in a digital environment. The curves of this building are almost impossible to build without the help of digital design and computational fabrication. It has successfully becomes a landmark of Baku as it was planned, and it has become a milestone in architecture history.

Fluidity has always been part of Islamic architecture and Zaha was able to develop a firmlycontemporary interpretation,

reflecting a more nuanced understanding.Responding to the topographic sheer drop that formerly split the site in two, the project introduces a precisely terraced landscape that establishes alternative connections and routes between public plaza, building, and underground parking. This solution avoids additional excavation and landfill, and successfully converts an initial disadvantage of the site into a key design feature.

1 Gehry, Frank. Frank Gehry Talks Architecture and Process

01. Heydar Aliyev Center designed by Zaha Hadid

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One of the most critical yet challenging elements of the project was the architectural development of the building’s skin. Our ambition to achieve a surface so continuous that it appears homogenous, required a broad range of different functions, construction logics and technical systems had to be brought together and integrated into the building’s envelope. Advanced computing allowed for the continuous control and communication of these complexities among the numerous project participants.

To emphasize the continuous relationship between the building’s exterior and interior, the lighting of the Heydar Aliyev Center has been very carefully considered. The lighting design strategy differentiates the day and night reading of the building. During the day, the building’s volume reflects light, constantly altering the Center’s appearance according to the time of day and viewing perspective. The use of semi-reflective glass gives tantalizing glimpses within, arousing curiosity without revealing the fluid trajectory of spaces inside. At night, this character is gradually transformed

by means of lighting that washes from the interior onto the exterior surfaces, unfolding the formal composition to reveal its content and maintaining the fluidity between interior and exterior.

The Heydar Aliyev Center’s design evolved from our investigations and research of the site’s topography and the Center’s role within its broader cultural landscape. By employing these articulate relationships, the design is embedded within this context; unfolding the future cultural possibilities for the nation.

The meaning of this building for me, as an undergraduated student is simply that computational design can create elegance which can not be achieve without it. Because for some people, it is the most important thing, architecture as part of our society does not just reflect our society, more importanly it shape our society. If computational design has the ability to solve problems while creating beauty in our cities, it is definitely worth exploring.

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02. Night view of Exterior of Heydar Aliyev Center

03. Theater of Heydar Aliyev Center

04 & 06. Interior of Heydar Aliyev Center

05. Exterior of Heydar Aliyev Center


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Precedent Project 5Absolute Towers - MAD/Ma Yansong Modernism has a famous motto: A house is a machine for living in. But what if cities are emerging away from machine age, how should buildings today convey?

The MAD architects thrive to challenge the sustenance of commonplace boxy skyscrapers. Their ambition was to provide each resident a unique experience of the city, a heterarchitical distribution.

Absolute Towers as their final proposal is underpinned with a surprisingly simply and inexpensive structural solution. The two residential towers are supported by a grid of concrete load bearing

walls. The bearing walls extend and contract in response to the sectional fluctuation created by the rotation of the floors while the balconies consist of cantilevered concrete slabs. The dynamically fluid shaping of the towers, naturally aerodynamic, adeptly handles wind loading and ensures comfort throughout all the balconies. Besides providing every resident with a nice exterior place to enjoy views of Mississauga, the balconies naturally shade the interior from the summer sun while soaking in the winter sun, reducing air conditioning costs.

All of these are generated in digital

tools which was picked from thousands of possible solutions. This final solution is not just randomply picked, it is chosen due to several conditions. The reason I love this project is because it appears as a simple design but infact there is so much process behind it: the process of writing algorithm, the process of generating solutions, the process of selecting one perticular result and refine the it under certain conditions. It is the ideal example of computational designed project.

01. Absolute Towers by MAD

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Absolute Towers as computational generated result, computer does not only do the drafting and rendering job as they were decades ago, however the most important thing they do is analysing the system and generating possible outcomes. These outcomes could be unexpected, which leads to possibilities that may redirect the final result entirely, at this point, architects were led by computation and the meaning of architecture design is lost, which becomes testing process.1 Obviously this is not pleasent for the existence architects, thus the importance of Computational design is essential, architects need to control and have the ability to generate computer but not be driven by it.

Like what the MAD architects did, they write their own algorithm and generate results which under their control, and then selecet specific result and refine the algorithm to regenerate exact result they want. And this is the beauty of Absolute Towers as how I understand it.

1 Kalay, Yehuda E. (2004). Architecture’s New Media: Principles, Theories, and Methods of Computer-Aided Design (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press), pp. 5-25.

02 & 03. Looking down from Absolute Towers.

04. Plan of Absolute Tower.

05. Image of Absolute Tower.

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Precedent Project 6National Aquatics Centre - ArupThe National Auatics Centre is one of the most appealing project done during the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, and it is a perfect example to show the development in computational archtiecture design during the last decade.

As well as providing a multifunctional aquatics centre, the brief required extensive use of digital technology, energy-reduction and water-saving methods, as well as the incorporation of new construction materials. Arup designed this huge blue box proposal, from which it takes its nickname: the Water Cube. It is blue in order to reflect sunlight. It shines in the sunlight like a pearl in water. From the inside, you may discover that the pneumatic cushions of all sizes are just like sea bubbles.

But winning the competition was just the first step, as they proposed, they need to work with a relatively new material called the ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) which is really challenging. There are two parts to the Water Cube's structural framework – internal and external. The external structure forms the actual roof, ceiling and walls and comprises a flat web of rectangular boxed sections. These sections are then clad with the inflatable material transparent "teflon" ETFE.

The use of ETFE will help the building last for about 100 years. The transmission of light and strength of the ETFE membrane deteriorates far less than other materials. The membrane is resistant to fire and severe heat, and possesses ductility and crushing

resistance. It is self-cleaning in nature as the friction coefficient of the material prevents the dust from forming a layer on the material and rain can easily clear away the dust. However this material still has a lot of myths, regarding the material growing mould and being ineffective in muting external noise, which had to be dispelled.

Eventually they still managed to finish the building before deadline with the help of professions from all areas, testing, experimenting during the design process.

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Precedent Project 6National Aquatics Centre - Arup

According to the book Space Craft: Developments in Architectural Computing (RIBA Publishing, 2008), "Irish physicists Denis Weare and Robert Phelan were able to calculate that the most efficient way to divide a space into cells of equal volume while minimizing the surface area between them was to use a stacked arrangement composed of 75% 14-sided shapes and 25% 12-sided shapes." So far so good, but since the resulting structure would have 22,000 steel members connected at 12,000 nodes, generating an actual model based on the idea exceeded the reach of conventional design.

Instead, according to the book, to manipulate this complex geometric system dynamically, Arup wrote parametric software that automated the drawing and analysis process. Based on specified design constraints and less than 190 loading scenarios, the algorithm iteratively checked the distribution of forces through the entire structure based on specific member sizes, allowing the team to test different design configurations and receive feedback within 25 minutes. The result was a spectacular building with a sophisticated structure that is optimized in terms of material weight-to-strength ratio,

and it was achieved with relative ease. In addition to the structural advantages, Arup estimated that it saved $10 million on design costs alone compared with traditional design methods.

The optimal design for the Water Cube was determined by analyzing multiple configurations of the thousands of steel members and connecting nodes. Different from the Absolute Towers, water cube is a more material focused computational design, which I find it very interesting, and I think it is how we should associate with computers.

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02. Final digital solution to Water C.ube

03. Water Cube under construction.

04. Water Cube Illustration proposal.

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Part A has provided a background knowledge of what computation is in architecture design. In the A1 part we questioned about what is design and what is the ideal relationship between computer and architects. I believe the way we think about design is also changing, we no longer be limited in complexity, we are no longer limited in possibilities of materials as we generate new materials and explore more about the materials we used to know. What is more important is that our whole architecture design vision and focus has changed. As we have stonger connection to the society due to development of technology and social media, we should no longer be just architects, but also associated with the society, with digital design we no longer repeat the process of solving problems and present the solution to the society, but think from the society's aspect, and design algorithm that match specific needs thus that we are truly designing for the society.

After Part A I think my intentions for design process will incorporate with material and structure becuase I think they are most likely to be assembled with the purpose of computational design and problem solving.

CONCLUSION LEARNING OUTCOMESAs a student who has no experience of Grasshopper plug-in, I found that this subject is full of fun as we play with grasshopper. However it is really hard to get the outcome you want. The design process has becomea experimental process. Like what we have discussed in Part A2, digital design is a new way of design, however it takes time to transform from hand draw designs to conceptual design. We know where we areheading to , but I do not really know what I am going to get. Maybe it is just me having too less experience, above all I still love this subject because it introduced me this useful tool which can not be replaced. Because I’m new to Grasshopper plug-in. I found that thefirst week task is most fun because it is the introduction. I found that design can be programming and algorithm.

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Fry, Tony (2008). Design Futuring: Sustainability, Ethicsand New Practice (Oxford: Berg), pp. 1–16Dunne, Anthony & Raby, Fiona (2013) Speculative Everything: DesignFiction, and Social Dreaming (MIT Press) pp. 1-9, 33-45Schumacher, Patrik (2011). The Autopoiesis of Architecture: A NewFramework for Architecture (Chichester: Wiley), pp. 1-28MATHEWS, FREYA (2005). REINHABITING REALITY: TOWARDS ARECOVERY OF CULTURE (UNSW PRESS), CH.7 - MERRI CREEKOXMAN, RIVKA AND ROBERT OXMAN, EDS (2014). THEORIES OF THE DIGITALIN ARCHITECTURE (LONDON; NEW YORK: ROUTLEDGE), PP. 1–10KALAY, YEHUDA E. (2004). ARCHITECTURE’S NEW MEDIA: PRINCIPLES, THEORIES, ANDMETHODS OF COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN (CAMBRIDGE, MA: MIT PRESS), PP. 5-25ISSA, RAJAA ‘ESSENTIAL MATHEMATICS FOR COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN’,SECOND EDITION, ROBERT MCNEEL AND ASSOCIATES, PP 1 - 42KOLAREVIC, BRANKO, ARCHITECTURE IN THE DIGITAL AGE:DESIGN AND MANUFACTURING (NEW YORK; LONDON: SPONPRESS, 2003) SUGGESTED START WITH PP. 3-62PETERS, BRADY. (2013) ‘COMPUTATION WORKS: THE BUILDING OFALGORITHMIC THOUGHT’, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, 83, 2, PP. 08-15DEFINITION OF ‘ALGORITHM’ IN WILSON, ROBERT A. AND FRANK C. KEIL, EDS (1999).THE MIT ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE COGNITIVE SCIENCES (LONDON: MIT PRESS), PP. 11, 12CHERMAYEFF, IVAN. ‘IVAN CHERMAYEFF COLLAGES’, HARRY N ABRAMS(1991), P10.FRY, TONY. ‘DESIGN FUTURING: SUSTAINABILITY, ETHICS ANDNEW PRACTICE’,OXFORD: BERG(2008), PP. 1–16.

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B.1 RESEARCH FIELD

Self-organizationMaterial Performance

25PART-B . CRITERIA DESIGN

Parametric approaches aim at representing change. Rather than the designer creating the design solution (by direct manipulation) as in conventional design tool, the idea is that the designer first establishes the relationships by which parts connect, builds up a design using these relationships and modifies the relationships by observing and selecting from the results produced. The system takes care of the job of keeping the design consistent with the relationships and thus increases designer ability to explore ideas by reducing the tedium of rework.

Self-organization may be defubed as a spontaneous process of organization. The spontaneous creation of an "organized whole" out of a "disordered" collection of interacting parts, as witnessed in self-organizing systems in physics is a basic part of dynamical emergence. It us directly related to the performance of material and the relationship between each components.

Enchancing the performance of the material or utilizing the material properties to inform the design; the idea of material performance is mostly explained with the former definition, however a secound approach is emerging with the aid of parametric design tools. The properties of the material are being researched not necesarily to improve them, but to take advantage of them in the form finding process itself. Achim Menges Describes this method as: "Computation provides a powerful agency for both informing the design process through specific material behaviour and characteristics, and in turn informing the organisation of matter and material across multiple scale based on feedback from the environment."

He calls this approach 'morphogenetic design'. that is material forming its shape in time What this kind of approach brings to the design is that the structure/form is shaped by its envrionment thus

bringing together a better-informed biomimetic design. Achim Menges and Steffen Reichert crticizes the method in climate-responsive architecture that it depends totally on the usage of technocal euipment to perform according to te designer's goal when the systems in the environment achieve this only through the strucutrre of the material.

Another main aspects of vernacular architecuture is the attention given to and exploration of materials. An important part of that was the usage of different woods for different purposes: different parts of a house, different furniture and tools. If it was not for the myriad chemicals and processing methods today timber structures and object would be changing all the time. This would be seen as a design flaw, but maybe by manipulating them with parametric design tools such natural properties of materials can be utilized for the design rather than being an impediment to it.


Problem StatementCollingwood Children's FarmUnorganized fields in the children's farm has resulted difficulties in management and operation of the farm (sunlight, rainwater, shading), creating unpleasing view over the passage overlood, it is not visually attractive thus reduce visitors to the area and also reduce customers to the farm market, degraded quality of living for the Merri Creek Trail and the CERES community.


CriteriaTo initiate the process of form finding, I need to establish some design criteria that relates to the site and the problem that I intend to resolve. These design criteria will nerrow my scope of exploration during the computation work.

During the process of exploration, variation of the parameters that controls the form will have direct and indirect consequence to the design criteria which I have set up. Having the design criteria will help to reduce the design potentials from the pool of permutations generated from computation work. This reduced set of design potentials can be the basis of discussion/ consultations with stakeholders for analysis. The whole process can be repeated for refinement until an optimised form is reached.

In view of the problem I wanted to resolve in Merri Creek, Sunshade device combine with water collaction device, I have developed the following set of design criteria to discover the design potentialities of Case Study 1.0 - Voussair Cloud by Iwamoto Scott. This will help me to develop my design using digital morphogenesis technique later in the design phase.

c1. Sun Shading ................. 6 / 30 c2. Water Collection ................. 2 / 30c3. Constructability ................. 5 / 30c4. Self-organization ................. 7 / 30c5. Aesthetics ................. 5 / 30c6. Clarity ................. 5 / 30


C1. SUN SHADING

Becaus my proposal is design a shading device for the children's farm, thus sunlight shading is one of the main criteria. There are different level of needs for sunlights which varies from plants to plants, thus the maximum and minimum sun shade area should be justified and my definition should have the ability to change the shading area as the sun moves.

C4. SELF-ORGANIZATION

As I am personally interested in Self-organization in material performance, I aim this criteria as one of my core criteria. In order to achieve this, it could be very chanllenging as it is still a new topic in arhcitecture design but there is also an emerge in this direction, so I think it could make my project more attractive and presentable.

C2. WATER COLLECTION

The reason I put water collection here is because the Merri Creek Community really care about water protection and rainwater is also very vital for the vegetations to grow. Having a shelding device that can create shade and also be able to collect rain water would be super efficient.

C3. CONSTRUCTABILITY

Constructability can be defined as the ease and efficiency with which structures can be built. The more constructible a structure is, the more economical it will be. To achieve the sustainable objective of the project, I am also looking for material effciency and constructibilty.

C5. AESTHETICS

The Aesthetics of the built form will conform to the local aspiration of the community. THis can be acquired through regular consultation with the local community at the design phase.

C6. CLARITY

Similar to aesthetics but It is more focused on the clarity delivered from the structure of my project. Consider Merri Creek as a beautiful environment and aesthetics aspect itself, I hope my project can looks be simple as possible, this means the core structure of the project is clearly shown, and the structrual idea is very easy to understand.

Criteria table


B 2.0 Case Study 1.0 IwamotoScott Voussoir Cloud


The goal was to explore a structure under pure compression and ultra-light material system. The design was inspired by the works of Frei Otto and Antonio Gaudi, who used hanging models for form-finding. Similar methods were also used in this project.

The Grasshopper script of the design only takes in a couple of points to from the starting points for a cell diagram and applies spring forces on lofts created with these cell curves to form the shape of a 'relazed' spring.

However the project relies on the boundary walls to support and push the panels to form the pattern. What I am interested in is how each panels self-organize them selves and generate the final outcome.


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I found this process of trailing is very important as I am still new to Kangaroo and this exercise allow me to get more familiar with it. By changing the parameter, I am able to change the final form of the design. This practice helps me understand how the scrip works and which parameter effects what outcome, thus I have a better control of the final outcome.

However, the process is not just simple as playing it, I still used my criteria as a guide to help me develop the definition. Now I have a very good understanding of the definition, and it is time to use these parameters as tools to generate forms that I really want. This is where I use the computer as a tool, so from now I should be able to forsee the pattern I will get and change the parameters with a certain level of understanding.

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c1. Sun Shading .................. 6/6 c2. Water Collection ................. 2/2c3. Constructability ................. 3/5c4. Self-organization ................. 3/7c5. Aesthetics ................. 4/5c6. Clarity ................. 2/5 Total 20/30


B 3.0 Case Study 2.0La Tour De I'Architecte

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Apply force on each end thus Kangaroo physically simluate the animation of how the rod is being beneded. The Rod will rest after a few seconds and create two "bended rods"

Use these two rods to generate the third rod which refers to a point on two original rods( refer to the connection point).

Use these 3 rods to generate the other rods which interlock which each other to a self-organized system which push each other themselves and stop at a stable form.


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As shown in the image, the Hybrid project require two reinforce steel bar to grip the rods from deforming, thus it is still not a fully self-organized structure. In order to achieve that, I have decieded to add extra tensile membrance between rods to generate force which pull the rods together. By doing so, the system does not require a lot of external forces or support to stay in a stable state. This will fullfil the self-organization criteria which I listed out previously.


Technique prototype

Becaus I used parametric design concept thus the prototype process will be very simple as I just need to cut out the exact same size of the membrance and also the exact length of the rods so that the final form of my model will be the exact same as the digital model. If the change the parameter of the model, then the final form will change as well, thus the size of material will be different as.


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Prototyping Process


Technique proposalThe proposal for my project will be focusing on garden shading device which follows the sun movement pattern to create shading area varies from the different types of vegetations. As aesthetics is one fo the considered factor of the design, it will also help the Children's Farm attract more visitors and more financial benifets. It also becomes part of the Merri Creek point of interest.

Stakeholders and Clients:The stakeholders will be the children's Farm owner and also the caffee next to it. It helps them to attract more visitors as it becomes more organized, more morden, more attractive. The stake holders could also be the Merri Creek Communities, they take the benifit of a better, more beautiful site to visit.

On site view


Diagram showing the sun movement effects on the shaded area


Learning Objects and outcomeThis section of study provide more interesting moments on the digital design process and paramatric design concept development. The most fascinating thing of this subject is that there is no boundary of what we are allowed to do. As long as we follow the conceptual idea of parametric design, we find the field of study that we are interested in, we are free do explore and "play" design. I really enjoyed this section as I have plenty of time to try new things and explore new outcomes that were not expected. This really build up my skill of digital design and parametric design perspective which can directly effect the way I think and design in my future career.

Once I have decided to do what I am interested in, I found that there are different approaches to get the same results. However, these results may leads to different outcomes as I develop along it. I did found myself in situations where I was unable to solve a problem that seems so simple, but due to the limitation of the software, it becomes so hard to achieve. Luckily we do have the opportunities

to get help from teachers and different supports. Another very important idea I have learned through this section is that designers should not be bounded by the limitation of the softwares, but to have the ability to write our own specific program to solve the problem, that is how designers and architects are emerging to become.

Through the digital prototyping process, I found that I need to put more parameters in my design so that they the core of the design in all about the relationship between different factors and elements. Another feedback is that a simple essential idea can create beautiful, complex outcome, the most important thing is be able to find the starting point. This is really what I should focus more as my design is lack of identity, it does not have its own personality in it. In the next section, I will try to explore more about tensile structure and self-organized system and I am looking forward for some more interesting explorations.


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