Part A: Ideation by 104007089

Folio Wendy Chang 104007089

Architectural Communication

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Unless specifically referenced in the bibliography, the mark and all other material in this book is the original creation of the author.

I agree for Swinburne University to use my project in this book for noncommercial purposes including: promoting the activities of the university or students: internal educational or administrative purposes: entry into appropriate awards, competitions papers; use in research papers or conference presentations as student examples of co-design projects and other related non-commercial activities: as an example for future students on line and face to face and in lectures. In some situations, this may involve repurposing the work to meet the requirement of Swinburne’s use.

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Signed Wendy Chang Date 26 / 03 / 2023

iii Contents Part

Ideation Introduction 2 Scenario 3 References 4 Experimentation 5 Part B: Design Design concept 8 Design precedents 9 Developing the design 10 Situating the Design 11 Attaching the Design 12 Part C: Communication Designing the posters 14 Reflective practice 15 Part D: Conclusions Conclusion 18 List of figures 19 Bibliography 20 Appendices 21

Part A: Ideation

Introduction

Project 1 explores a mythological character; it converts an essential moment of their life, which has been told as a myth, into a system using two of the three mechanical systems, Skin, bone and muscle.

For my exploration, I picked the Olympian goddess Athena, considered one of the most powerful Greek gods, almost as equal to Zeus, her father and the king of all Greek gods.

Greek gods had “Epithets”, meaning roles, but no other god had as many as the goddess Athena.

For my research, I concentrated on the myth of the founding of Athens, a competition between Athena and Poseidon, who was Zeus’ brother, Athena’s uncle. Through this myth, it shows one of the attributes Athena was well known for wisdom; her gift of an Olive tree was of great value to the people of Athens, resulting in declaring her the winner.

Athena was Known as a mighty, strong warrior and a protector; therefore, I concentrated on designing a system that would depict this characteristic by using the skin and muscle system.

Chang, Wendy. (2023).Athena the wise one, Midjourney generated image, [keywords: Powerful Athena planting olive tree].

Scenario Allegory

ATHENA – The Founding Myth of Athens…..

Before Athen became a city, two powerful Greek gods, Athena and Poseidon, battled its destiny. A fierce competition judged by the twelve Olympian gods took place to determine who would have complete control over Athen. The two contestants met at the hill of the Acropolis to show their powers witnessed by all the people of Athen, the Greek gods and Zeus.

Poseidon struck his mighty trident on the hard rock of the Acropolis, causing the birth of an underground sea and releasing a saltwater spring.

Athena planted a tree that immediately grew its full size and was adorned with plentiful fruits with high nutritional values and several uses. The tree’s high-quality timber made Athena’s gift superior, declaring Athena the winner.

Athena founded Athen naming the city after herself and becoming its protector.

The founding Myth of Athens sends a message not to be deceived by appearance; it reflects the power of womanhood and wisdom as Athena defeated the strong, mighty Poseidon with a gift that appeared insignificant compared to his. It depicts her as a powerful warrior.

The origami-shaped flower re-tells this Myth. The centre of the flower represents Athena. When the flower-shaped origami is close, it means the beginning of its blooming and depicting Athena as a robust and powerful god. As it expands, it shows Athena embracing the whole of Athen, protecting it. The velocity of its rotation symbolises Athena as a warrior, strong and courageous.

Reflection

ChatGPT is a handy tool. However, it is only sometimes accurate; the founding myth of Athens narrative was not precisely, compared to other sources such as Greek city times or Study.com; therefore, when creating the Scenario, I only used the information from ChatGPT that matched other sources. The most challenging aspect of poster one was creating the allegory, as it was difficult to summarise and obtain the story’s moral.

“Myth of Athena founding city of Athen” (paraphrase from OpenAI’s ChatGPT AI language model, personal communication, March 01,2023)

References

Reflection

Producing content in Midjourney was a new experience that opened the door to a foreign concept for me. To see that each word I wrote created an image that using traditional methods could take days to finalised made me aware of how technology has advanced. Using AI technology in Architecture can reduce the time it takes to produce a design or concept and have significant input in parametric methods. The amount of information you can obtain with a click of a button will take weeks to collect using traditional methods. By combining parametric design and AI, architects can develop that unthinkable geometry. However, AI can assist an architect with engineering by providing information stored as data but is incapable of understanding or assisting with the emotional aspect of a design. A crucial factor in the design process is the feeling/emotion the architect wishes to convey through its design which will reflect the needs of their clients as individuals

Poster Experimentation

Experiment 1 Experiment 2

Final Poster

Chang, Wendy. (2023).Athena Diagram, Midjourney generated image, [keywords: Olive tree Athena diagram]. Chang, Wendy. (2023). Athena and Athen, Midjourney generated image, [keywords: Athena Greek goddess, Athen Olive tree]. Chang, Wendy. (2023).Poweful Athena, Midjourney generated image, [keywords: Powerful Athena planting Olive tree]. Chang, Wendy. (2023).Poweful Athena, Midjourney generated image, [keywords: Powerful Athena white background].

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Experimentation

Digital - Skin - Flasher Origami

Digital - Muscle Experimentation

Experiment one - Difficult to fold due to paper weight of 200GSM, broke easily.

Experiment two - was easy to fold, however the flower was too tall and narrow.

size experimentation.

Pulley System oneThis system fails as the Skin component only open when it was next to the wheels component.

Experiment three, easy to fold and the right height and width to represent Athena’s allegory.

Steps to draw flower flasher Origami.

Pulley System twoThis system was a success as the Skin component open in the middle of the pulley system. The vertical component gave the skin system stability.