ADRIAN WANG YIZHE 3035421784 THE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
ARCH7071 ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN I TUTOR: CHRISTIAN J. LANGE SEMESTER 1, 2017-18
Kwong Fuk Ancestral Hall 01 HISTORY c.1851-01-01 (Month, Day are approximate) 40 Tai Ping Shan St, Tai Ping Shan
02 MATERIALS
Steel
Concrete
03 CHARACTERISTIC
SITE ANALYSIS Red painting
Central HK Material & History Contrast of Standard & Non-Standard
Bell
Cultural
Tung Wah Hospital 01 HISTORY Completed in 1870 12 Po Yan Street in Sheung Wan
02 MATERIALS
Brick
Concrete
03 CHARACTERISTIC
New extention
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Old entrance
Colour
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Po Hing Theater
Concrete
01 HISTORY
01 INFO
Completed in 1890 Demolished in 1987
Ancient Rome to Now
Po Hing Fong, Sheung Wan
Concrete is a composite material composed of coarse aggregate bonded together with a fluid cement that hardens over time.
02 MATERIALS
02 WAY OF MAKING
Concrete
Concrete production is the process of mixing together the various ingredients—water, aggregate, cement, and any additives—to produce concrete. Concrete production is time-sensitive. Once the ingredients are mixed, workers must put the concrete in place before it hardens. In modern usage, most concrete production takes place in a large type of industrial facility called a concrete plant, or often a batch plant.
Glass & Steel
03 CHARACTERISTIC
Mordenism
Pulbic building
Cultural
Lower tensile strength
01 HISTORY
01 INFO
Mid-18th to 19th Century
Mid-18th to 19th Century
Neoclassical architecture is an architectural style produced by the neoclassical movement that began in the mid-18th century. In its purest form, it is a style principally derived from the architecture of classical antiquity, the Vitruvian principles, and the work of the Italian architect Andrea Palladio.
Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs. Its major materials are the minerals calcite and aragonite, which are different crystal forms of calcium carbonate (CaCO3).
02 MATERIALS
02 WAY OF MAKING
Durable
Limestone
03 CHARACTERISTIC
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High compressive strength
Limestone
Pillar
Precast
03 CHARACTERISTIC
Neo-Classical
Concrete
Pouring
03 CHARACTERISTIC
Geometry
Ornamentation
Reactive to acid
Long-lasting
Easy to cut
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Western Market
Hop Yat Church Of Christ
Western Market Kom Tong Hall
YMCA Bridges Street Centre
YMCA Bridges Street Centre Hop Yat Church Of Christ
Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences
Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences
Former Central Magistracy
Kom Tong Hall (Dr Sun Yat-sen Museum) Former Central Magistracy Fringe Club
Former French Mission Building Fringe Club
Former French Mission Building
Roberts Block, Old Victoria Barracks Roberts Block, Old Victoria Barracks
British Military Hospital
British Military Hospital, Hong Kong
STANDARD
PHOTO BY MICHEAL WOLF SHOWING HK AS A CITY OF AMAZINGLY DENSE BUILDINGS -6 -
NON-STANDARD
HAND-CRAFTED MATERIAL IN HK AND HUMAN-SCALE LIVELY STREETS -7 -
ADDITIVE
REDUCTIVE
FIBER
CONCRETE BRICK
ROBOT STUDIES
METAL
TIMBER
DIRT GLASS
TIMBER
FOAM
Reference Projects Understanding Robotic Technology
The Programmed Wall, ETH Zurich, 2006 Unlike a mason, the robot has the ability to position each individual brick in a different way without optical reference or measurement, i.e. without extra effort. To exploit this potential, the students developed algorithmic design tools that informed the bricks of their spatial disposition according to procedural logics. Positioning this way it was possible to draft a brick wall in which each of over 400 bricks took up a specific position and rotation in space. The students defined not the geometry of the wall, but the constructive logic according to which the material was organised in a particular temporal order, and which thus produced an architectonic form.
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Gramazio Kohler Research, ETH Zurich We continued our investigation into Remote Material Deposition and demonstrated – in cooperation with the Sitterwerk St.Gallen – this entirely new fabrication technique for the first time at full architectural scale. The architectural installation was a result of a one-month-long workshop and, within this scope, proposes a radically new way of thinking about materializing architecture: Featuring an industrial robot that aggregates material over distance and therefore exceeds its predefined workspace, this installation brings not only forward a novel scale of digital fabrication in architecture – it also takes a first step in characterizing a novel approach in digital fabrication, taking architecture beyond the creation of static forms to the design of dynamic material aggregation processes.
Complex Timber Structures 2, ETH Zurich, 2013 The students began with an analysis of contemporary and traditional timber systems and defined node typologies suitable for the digital fabrication process. They followed by designing, programming and building a funnel-shaped wooden structure with a span of 4.5m consisting out of 93 individually cut wooden beams. The cutting of the beams, drilling the holes for the screws and the precise placement of the components within the structure was carried out in a continuous robot-based process.
Spatial Wire Cutting, ETH Zurich, 2015
The Dissolved Wall, ETH Zurich, 2006-2007
We explore the architectural potentials of spatial robotic wire cutting, a technique which facilitates the cutting of double curved objects with a significantly reduced number of iterations. Through computational simulation and robotic fabrication we will investigate different typologies of non-standard geometries and their potential in the aggregation of larger structures. As such, the students will learn how to generate and articulate geometrically complex designs through programming robotic fabrication rules. Physical prototypes will be produced using a robotic setup of two cooperating six-axis lightweight robotic arms that control the curvature of a hot wire.
In this investigation of screen structures, we extended the vocabulary of aperture forms. These could now take on any desired form, including irregular ones, and have plastically deformed reveals. Using algorithmic tools, the students placed points on the wall’s surface. From this field of points, the mathematical method of the Voronoi diagram was then used to derive a polygonal division of the surfaces which, mapped on both sides and connected to each other, produced a two-and-a-half-dimensional grid structure. By shifting the points on the front and back of the wall, one could plastically deform the reveals of the apertures and thus shape the screen structure.
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Tool Path Input
Robotic Clay Molding, Barcelona, Spain, 2012
Robot Simulation
Tool Input
Code to Robot
Code Generation
State of the art technology in the field of nonstandard concrete formwork is largely based on subtractive and waste intensive fabrication methods. These methods prove very efficient for a large scale production of identical parts. An efficient and sustainable fabrication of individual parts demands for the development of new formwork strategies. This workshop researched the use of clay as a reusable molding material to fabricate unique building elements in concrete with a minimum of waste resulting from the formwork.
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CLAY TEST Understanding Materiality Different Working Process
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Robot Arm Joint
Z
Y
X
Sharp Straight Top
90°
Robot Arm Joint
Robot Arm Joint
PROTOTYPE 1.0
Z
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Tool Design For Robot Robot Working Path Design & Script 16 Tiles (15cm * 15cm each) Carving As A Main Process
Y
X
Y
X
Right Angle Top
Sharp Straight Top
45°
45°
Robot Arm Joint
Robot Arm Joint
Z Z
X X
Y
Arrowhead Top Sharp Curvy Top
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Y
90°
90°
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A. ORIGINAL
B. +SLICING
C. +STAMPING
D. +DIGGING
ZONING 2ND LAYER TESTS 4 ZONES (EACH 4 TILES)
TOOL PATH ILLUSTRATION
C. +STAMPING
D. +DIGGING
TOOL PATH ILLUSTRATION
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B. +SLICING
TOOL PATH ILLUSTRATION
WALL
FOR ACOUSTICS EFFECTS
SHADING
PROVIDING SHADES & SHELTERS
OPENING
VARIOUS SIZE/SHAPE OPENINGS
GREEN WALL
FOR PLANTS GROWING UPWARDS
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Robot Arm Joint Robot Arm Joint
Z
Y
X
ITERATIONS
Z
X
5mm Carving Tip
Acrylic Carving Tip
45°
90°
Tool Re-Design New Robot Working Paths Design & Scripts Ripid & Massive Prototyping Carving at diffrent scales Carving with differnt tools
Robot Arm Joint
X
2cm Carving Tip
90°
Robot Arm Joint
Z
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Y
Z
Y
X
45°
90°
3cm Carving Tip
Y
45°
90°
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Carving Tool Path
Solid to Carve out
Solid to Carve out
Target Solid Result
Target Solid Result
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Foam Base
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Carving Tool Path
Carving Tool Path
Solid to Carve out
Solid to Carve out
Target Solid Result
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Target Solid Result
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FINAL PROTOTYPE 400*400*1800mm Prototype Mould Design & Make Secondary Structure Design Caving at Micro & Macro Scale Strcutural & Facade System Applications
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Micro Scale
Macro Scale
Different types of carving method adds various extra effect.
Gradient change of the opening size maximizes light and view.
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STRUCTURE COMPONENT
TIMBER RING-BEAMS FOR HOLDING TERRACOTTA ELEMENTS
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STRUCTURE DETAIL
STRUCTURAL METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING
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FINAL PRESENTATION Final Boards Model Photos Final Review Photos
Video at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZzqSPDdS3E - 36 -
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Robot Arm Joint
Western Market
Hop Yat Church Of Christ
Robot Arm Joint
Robot Arm Joint
Robot Arm Joint
Robot Arm Joint
Z Z
Z
Z
Z
Western Market Kom Tong Hall
YMCA Bridges Street Centre
Y
X
X
Y
X
X
Y
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YMCA Bridges Street Centre Hop Yat Church Of Christ
Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences
Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences
Former Central Magistracy
Kom Tong Hall (Dr Sun Yat-sen Museum)
Sharp Straight Top
90°
Right Angle Top
45°
Sharp Straight Top
45°
Arrowhead Top
90°
Sharp Curvy Top
90°
Former Central Magistracy Fringe Club
Former French Mission Building Fringe Club
Former French Mission Building
Roberts Block, Old Victoria Barracks
CLAY CARVING VARIED TERRACOTTA SHADING MEMBRANE
Roberts Block, Old Victoria Barracks
STANDARD & NONSTANDARD
British Military Hospital
British Military Hospital, Hong Kong
PLATFORM: MTR FALL SEMESTER, 2016-2017 STUDIO TUTOR: CHRISTIAN J. LANGE ROBOTICALLY CONTROLLED MATERIAL INTERVENTIONS FOR CENTRAL HONG KONG
STANDARD
NON-STANDARD
PHOTO BY MICHEAL WOLF SHOWING HK AS A CITY OF AMAZINGLY DENSE BUILDINGS
HAND-CRAFTED MATERIAL IN HK AND HUMAN-SCALE LIVELY STREETS
CLAY TESTS
A. ORIGINAL
B. +SLICING
C. +STAMPING
D. +DIGGING
EXPLORING DIFFERENT PROCESS FOR CRAFTING CLAY.
DIRT BRICK
TIMBER GLASS
CONCRETE
FIBER
METAL
MATERIAL
TIMBER CLAY
SUBTRACTIVE ADDITIVE
PROCESS
TOOLS WALL
FOR ACOUSTICS EFFECTS
PROJECT CONCEPT & MATERIAL TESTS & UNDERSTANDING ROBOT TECHNOLOGY
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Alvin Chenxing SUN & Adrian Yizhe WANG
SHADING
PROVIDING SHADES & SHELTERS
MID-TERM PROTOTYPE_ EXPLORATION OF ROBOTIC CONTROLLED CARVING PROCESS
OPENING
VARIOUS SIZE/SHAPE OPENINGS
GREEN WALL
FOR PLANTS GROWING UPWARDS
Alvin Chenxing SUN & Adrian Yizhe WANG
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Robot Arm Joint Robot Arm Joint
Robot Arm Joint
45°
Robot Arm Joint
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Acrylic Carving Tip
5mm Carving Tip 90°
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90°
2cm Carving Tip
45°
90°
3cm Carving Tip
45°
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PROTOTYPE 1
PROTOTYPE 2
VERTICAL CARVED SPACE
PROTOTYPE 3
IRREGULAR CARVED FACADE
GENERIC TOWER FACADE & STRUCTURE
2m Dis m tan ce
PROTOTYPE 4
GENERIC TOWER FACADE & STRUCTURE
Carving Tool Path
4m Dis m tan ce
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Macro Scale
Micro Scale
Gradient change of the opening size maximizes light and view. Solid to Carve out
Carving Tool Path
Carving Tool Path
Different types of carving method adds various extra effect.
1st Day
Carving process
Solid to Carve out
Target Solid Result
Solid to Carve out
2nd Day Fully Dry-out
3rd Day Fired from Kiln
Solid to Carve out
Corner Piece Front Piece
Target Solid Result
Foam Base
ITERATIONS_ EXPLORING THE PROCESS OF CARVING AS A METHOD FOR PROTOTYPE
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Target Solid Result
10 %
Shrinkage
2cm
Gap due to Shrinkage
Target Solid Result
Alvin Chenxing SUN & Adrian Yizhe WANG
FINAL PROTOTYPE DESIGN & ILLUSTRATION
Alvin Chenxing SUN & Adrian Yizhe WANG
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STRUCTURE COMPONENT
TIMBER RING-BEAMS FOR HOLDING TERRACOTTA ELEMENTS
STRUCTURAL STRATEGY & BUILDING PROCESS & POTENTIAL APPLICATION
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STRUCTURE DETAIL
STRUCTURAL METHOD FOR ASSEMBLING
Alvin Chenxing SUN & Adrian Yizhe WANG
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