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The project will be an investigation into how digital media can be used as a way of exploring animation and gravity, in the conception and realisation of architectural forms. I find these areas interesting, as for a large part of our history, architecture has been a symbol of permanence, bound by the gravitational pull of the Earth. Developments in technological fields have been increasing rapidly in the last few decades, with advanced methods of modeling, prototyping and construction providing new possibilities for architecture. There seems to be a lag however between what is possible architecturally and what is actually produced. In this sense, architecture is not realizing its full potential. Instead of architecture being dictated to by technology, can architectural ideas dictate what direction developments in technology take…? BEYOND STATICS Animation and Gravity in Architecture Architectural Digital Studio – Semester 2 – 2008 – DISCREPANCY: The Station – Beyond Statics – Martin Hall 0420508 PDF Created with deskPDF PDF Writer - Trial :: http://www.docudesk.com

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The project will be an investigation into how digital media can be used as a way of exploring animation and gravity, in the conception and realisation of architectural forms. I find these areas interesting, as for a large part of our

history, architecture has been a symbol of permanence, bound by the gravitational pull of the Earth.

Developments in technological fields have been increasing rapidly in the last few decades, with advanced methods of modeling, prototyping and

construction providing new possibilities for architecture. There seems to be a lag however between what is possible architecturally and what is actually

produced. In this sense, architecture is not realizing its full potential. Instead of architecture being dictated to by technology, can architectural ideas

dictate what direction developments in technology take…?

BEYOND STATICSAnimation and Gravity in Architecture

Architectural Digital Studio – Semester 2 – 2008 – DIS CREPANCY: The Station – Beyond Statics – Martin Hall 0420508

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• The pursuit of a pure form

•Objects based on exact co-ordinates ( Cartesian co-ordinates) are infinatelyrepeatable

• Objects which can be reduced to ideal froms are simplictic

• Roundness implies an infinatenumber of possibilities of form, rather than a fixed type

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• Statics is a perceived truth in architecture

• Permanence of architecture gives the impression of strength and stability, leading to its static nature

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• Landscapes and surfaces store virtual motion as they dictate the movement of forces acting upon them

• Objects have actual motion

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Architectural Digital Studio – Semester 2 – 2008 – DIS CREPANCY: The Station – Beyond Statics – Martin Hall 0420508

• Our perception of gravity as a single force with the ground plane as the point of contact

• The ideas of lightness and floating are a relationship to the ground plane

• Lightness can be represented below the earths surface in the form of the ‘burrow’. A burrow floats within the mass of the earth

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Architectural Digital Studio – Semester 2 – 2008 – DIS CREPANCY: The Station – Beyond Statics – Martin Hall 0420508

• Due to the idea of a single gravity, buildings respond vertically to the Earth’s surface• This dictates the way we structure our cities and move through them

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• A station is part of a network and not a beginning or an end

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• Discrepancies exist when slight variations occur

• Discrepancy occurs due to the compounding effect of multiple discrepancies

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• Architecture is often considered a set of parts in which individual elements can be isolated

• If a form is conceived as varying surfaces, then it is not reducible to its individual parts

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• 3D technologies make it possible to evolve a design across time

• Discrepancy is seen over a small period of time, whereas disparity is the result as time increases

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Architectural Digital Studio – Semester 2 – 2008 – DIS CREPANCY: The Station – Beyond Statics – Martin Hall 0420508

2_Analysis of Function

Specific Functions

• Point of departure or arrival for commuters to transfer between an origin and a destination

• Secondary functions which feed off the large quantity of people commuting ie. ATM’s, coffee shops, dry cleaners, news agents supermarkets etc.

• These functions combine to give Wynyard its sense of ritual in commuter’s daily lives and in this way, its limited sense of place

Resultant Functions

• An additional layer to the specific function, which adds to Wynyard’s identity and sense of place

• Wynyard need to be become a point of habitation, adding to the cultural fabric of Sydney

• Point of connection between people and places, why not a point of connection between people and people……???

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3_Analysis of Site (Wynyard Station)

• Major transport hub to the west of the CBD

• Connects wider Sydney with the CBD via an underground train network

• Connects the areas to the north of the harbour with the CBD

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3_Analysis of Site (Wynyard Station)

History

1800’s – 1850’s

Wynyard park used as a military barracks

1850’s – 1920’s

Wynyard park became public open space for recreation

1920’s – present

Wynyard used as a bus and train station with the creation of the underground network

Wynyard Park is listed as a heritage item due to it s significants as a public open space within the city of Sydney

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3_Analysis of Site (Wynyard Station)• The station has no presence at street level, only a large dome to allow light into the otherwise artificially lit space below other building only allows for the level change between the eastern and western edges of the park

• Surrounding buildings define a hard edge to the park. They appear as blocks, only broken up by vertical and horizontal articulations on their facades. Buildings are objects sitting on the ground plane with little integration of street and building on ground level

• The underground station has no integration with the surroundingenvironment. Points of entry are merely holes in the wall and there is no distinct character to the space

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4_Proposed Methodologies

I have adopted a theoretical position which involves the concepts of animation and multiple gravities to explore a multiplicity of possible solutions across time.

As a way of introducing time in an active design space, I will use 3D modelling software (MAYA). This will allow me to not only present in the form of an animation, but evolve my design and document how changes lead to discrepancy and disparity.

Physical 3D modelling will allow me to explore the discrepancy between computer based images and how they are translated into actual forms.

This method is to be used in preference to 2D software such as autoCAD, as I will be focussed more on the spatial qualities of design, rather than organisational requirements which are typically expressed through plan, section and elevation drawings.

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