While maintaining their individual diversity and freedom, the elements cooperate together to achieve common goals such as overall stability, curvy form, views and permeability.
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Parametric Facade
This is my first exercise for Digital Design Application subject, creating a parametric opening on the facade by using attractor point
Parametric Facade
This is my first exercise for Digital Design Application subject, creating a parametric opening on the facade by using attractor point
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
DDA Group Assignment - Looping Bubble Version 02
While maintaining their individual diversity and freedom, the elements cooperate together to achieve common goals such as overall stability, curvy form, views and permeability.
Monday, October 15, 2012
DDA Group Assignment - Looping Bubble Version 01
Inspired by freeform designs in architecture which involve circles and spheres, we explore a new kind of triangle mesh whose faces’ incircles form a packing. As it turns out, such meshes have a rich geometry and allow us to cover surfaces with circle patterns, which carry a torsion-free support structure. Circle packing System is an arrangement of circles inside a given boundary such that no two overlap and some (or all) of them are mutually tangent.
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Test01-DDA_Iteration 01
This is my first iteration of temporary structure for DDA assignment. It's not the final one..just my first iteration. Our group decided to use Polypropelene for this assignmnet...It's really fun to play with flexible materials like polypropelene that gives you lot of freedom to do any form. More to come in the coming weeks...ciao
POLYPROPELENE 1mm TEST
Reason for choosing Polypropelene:
• High chemical and corrosion resistance • Easily machined and cut
• Light weight and rigid • Easy to maintain and clean
• High tensile strength • Excellent thermal insulating properties
• Excellent abrasion resistance • Excellent dielectric properties
• Low moisture absorption • Long life span
Benefits
Polypropylene provides superior qualities and is the most versatile and cost effective plastic in comparison to
other thermo-forming and polyolefin materials. It has good impact strength, surface hardness, dimensional
stability and excellent abrasion resistance
Chelsea Workspace
Many of us know what it's like to work from home.
Distraction upon distraction tends to stunt our productiveness. If only more of
us could convince our employers that we can, in fact, stay motivated and
actually get work accomplished in the confines of our own home offices.
The design team at Synthesis recently installed Chelsea
Workspace - a custom home office for a private personal investment advisor.
Constrained by both budget and space, the design team at Synthesis enwrapped a
series of prefabricated CNC milled birch plywood ribs atop all the necessary
features any home workspace should include: a desk, sliding and hinged storage
units, a printer and paper shredder, concealed paths for wires and cables and
recesses for lighting - thereby eliminating all unnecessary clutter.
One small window emits natural light onto the surfaces where
horizontal spacers are arranged in the pattern of a world map, which will allow
the owner to map out his travels. The design of the work space presents a
viable solution to ensure working from home can be free from distraction, and
where focus in an innovative space ensures the highest level of productivity.
More Info: http://synthesis-dna.com/chelsea-workspace/
More Info: http://synthesis-dna.com/chelsea-workspace/
DDA EXERCISE - Parametric Skin
Brief
Assignment One utilises past student projects as a platform from which to develop students’ understanding of parametric modelling tools and digital fabrication processes. Each student needs to select one project from previous iterations of DDA and identify a key theme or concern using existing student diagrams, grasshopper definitions and scripts. Grasshopper definitions and hobbyist code are notoriously difficult to extend and share, and a key objective of this assignment will be to utilise the Diagramming Tool as a means of interpreting and documenting previous and future work. Furthermore, as many students undertaking the subject begin with little background knowledge or technical skills, all past projects exhibit potential to be refined and improved:
1) As a technical exercise in optimising, documenting and packaging code
2) As a building block to be combined with other parametric techniques or geometry
3) By considering different material applications or fabrication techniques
Task
Design a lightweight structure for the South-Eastern corner of the Old Arts Building (the temporary home for the architecture faculty). The design should respond to changing light conditions across the facade and perform as an expressive gateway to the University, and for Swanston and Grattan st pedestrian access.
Design Intent
Similar idea developed by IwamotoScott (2005), the idea is to design operable screen that combines ideas from origami and digital production, focusing in particular on creating a flexible and environmental resposive system.
Conceived as curtain of the building, The Sizes/Apertures of the opening of this screen are determined by using attractors point.
- The modules that make up the screen are designed so that they hold two distinct shapes: In and out. All the modules are bolted together similar to the method done for Huyghe + Le Corbusier Puppet Theatre, MOS, 2004.
- All the modules are easily assembled and disassembled .
Pattern
Form Making Process
1) Set a surface in Rhino. Then divide the surface along U & V coordinate
2) Get all the corner points out of the surface. Use ‘List Item’ to extract corner points from each subsurface
3) Use curve analysis tool, Evaluate Curve to find the mid-point. Set parameter 't' to 0.5
4) Create two sets of Lines
5) Create an attractor point in rhino and assigned it in grasshopper to control component variables. I placed the attrator point at the lower level of the building as shown in the blue circle.
6) Evaluate Variable Points Between Corner & Center
7) Create surfaces by connecting all points
8) Make a copy of definition to create outer skin/layer. For this layer, find the nearest point of the surface to move the points towards normal direction. And copy it to other side of triangle
Fabrication
For this simple exercise it took me 3 hours to assemble all the parts. For material I used Ivory Card because of its lightweight and strength.
First Set Module
Second Set Module
Saturday, April 7, 2012
More than normal objects
“More than normal objects” collection was designed by Müller Johannes + Moritz Willborn from Germany.
The first of this collection is called "more than chopsticks" which claims to allow the user to eat sushi efficiently and without much effort.
Next is "more than a straw" which aims to bring people together because you can’t drink alone and you have to find a partner.
So, the more straws, the more partners, though I think some people might find sharing straws with strangers a little too close for comfort?
Lastly is “more than a toothpick” which allows users to double or triple-pick their food in one time.
The designers intend to produce the above objects by injection moulding to maintain a low production cost.
Text and images from:
(http://www.designboom.com/contest/view.php?contest_pk=15&item_pk=9516&p=1)
The first of this collection is called "more than chopsticks" which claims to allow the user to eat sushi efficiently and without much effort.
Next is "more than a straw" which aims to bring people together because you can’t drink alone and you have to find a partner.
So, the more straws, the more partners, though I think some people might find sharing straws with strangers a little too close for comfort?
Lastly is “more than a toothpick” which allows users to double or triple-pick their food in one time.
The designers intend to produce the above objects by injection moulding to maintain a low production cost.
Text and images from:
(http://www.designboom.com/contest/view.php?contest_pk=15&item_pk=9516&p=1)
