CONTEXT, CODIFICATION & COMPUTATION - OSTEOPOROSIS [DECAY]

DECAY

BIOTYPE RESEARCH

SERIES A SERIES B SERIES C

OSTEOPOROSIS IS A DECAYING CONDITION IN THE BONES WHICH IS AN EVERINCREASING PROBLEM AS THE POPULATION AGES. THE BONES ARE IN A CONSTANT STATE OF RENEWAL, WHICH ALLOWS THE BODY TO MAINTAIN BONE DENSITY AND STRUCTURE INTEGRITY.

AGING AND SUSCEPTIBILITY TO DECAY

SERIES A IS OBSERVED THROUGH A SIMILAR DECAY (RIPENING) PROCESS IN BANANAS CALLED, "ENZYMATIC BROWNING" CAUSED BY AGING. THIS OBSERVATION CONSIDERED THE BROWN SPOTS AS AN ABSENCE OF MATTER REPRESENTING THE DETERIORATION OF THE BONE MATRIX.

DECAY AND POROSITY

SERIES B EXPLORED THE CHARACTERISTIC FORM OF OSTEOPOROSIS WHICH ARE THE LARGE SPACES IN THE BONE MATRIX SEEN IN A CROSS-SECTION OF AN OSTEOPOROTIC BONE. PATTERNS OF SPOTS ARE EXTRACTED FROM SERIES A TO INFORM THE DECAYING SPOTS WHERE THE ACETONE (DECAYING SUBSTANCE) WILL DROP TO THE STYROFOAM (BONE MEDIUM), CREATING A POROUS FORM.

DECAY AND ABSENCE OF MATTER

SERIES C WILL OBSERVE THE ABSENCE OF BONE MATTER IN AN OSTEOPOROTIC BONE. DECAY IS ALWAYS OBSERVED THROUGH ITS DETERIORATED FORM THUS THIS SERIES WILL ATTEMPT TO EXTRACT THE NEGATIVE FORM OF THE DECAYED BONE. THIS WILL BE OBSERVED THROUGH USING THE DECAYED FORM OF THE STYROFOAM BLOCKS AS A MOLD FOR PLASTER TO EXTRACT THE NEGATIVE FORM.

PROJECT ONE OVERVIEW

PROJECT 1 CHAPTER 1

DIGITALISATION

INITIALLY, THIS PROJECT WILL RECREATE THE EXPLORATIVE PROCESSES AND FORMS IN PROJECT ONE THROUGH DIGITALISATION THAT MAY OVERCOME THE LIMITATIONS WHEN EXPLORING FURTHER INTO OSTEOPOROSIS' MAIN ATTRIBUTE WHICH IS POROSITY.

REPLICATION OF PROCESS

EXTRACTING NEGATIVE DECAYED FORM (SERIES C)

METHODOLOGY:

GRASSHOPPER:

VORONOI, SOLID DIFFERENCE, CATMULL-CLARK SUBDIVISION

VARIABLE:

QUANTITY OF SCATTERED POINTS CREATE A RECTANGULAR FORM SIMILAR TO THE STYROFOAM MOLD FROM PROJECT 1

PROCESS:

POINTS ARE SCATTERED INTO THE VOLUME AT SPECIFIED QUANTITIES REPRESENTING ACETONE DROPS

VORONOI FORMS ARE FORMED FROM SCATTER POINTS INTO THE VOLUME REPRESENTING THE PLASTER

VORONOI FORMS ARE JOINED THEN SUBTRACTED FROM THE VOLUME TO EXTRACT THE NEGATIVE FORM

TRANSFORMED INTO A MESH TO CREATE A MORE ORGANIC SHAPE TO REPLICATE THE BONE MATRIX

THE LIMITATION OF HAVING STYROFOAM PIECES STUCK IN THE CURED PLASTER FORM IS OVERCOMED. BRINGING THE PROCESS IN THE DIGITAL REALM ALLOWED FOR THE EXTRACTION OF AN ORGANIC FORM WHICH SUCCESSFULLY REPLICATES THE BONE MATRIX INSTEAD OF HAVING A SOLID FORM. DECREASING POINTS CREATED LARGER VORONOI FORMS THEREFORE RESULTING IN LARGER HOLLOW SPACES IN THE EXTRACTED FORM, WHICH REPRESENTS SEVERITY OF OSTEOPOROSIS.

HOWEVER, THE DECAYED TEXTURE OF THE NEGATIVE FORM IS NOT REPLICATED.

REPLICATION OF MODEL

FURTHER EXPLORATION OF POROSITY

METHODOLOGY:

HOUDINI: /VDBFROMPOLYGONS/SCATTERPTS/ CONNECTADJACENTPTS/WIREFRAME/ VDBSMOOTH(OPERATION/

USING THE EXTRACTED NEGATIVE FORM (DECAY 1.6), THE BIOTYPE'S MAIN ATTRIBUTE, POROSITY, IS FURTHER EXPLORED.

VARIABLE:

CONNECTING ADJACENT POINTS: MAX SEARCH POINTS /VDBFROMPOLYGONS/ TRANSFORM DECAY1.6 MODEL INTO VDBFOG

PROCESS:

/SCATTER/ 150 POINTS ARE SCATTERED INTO THE VDBFOG /CONNECTADJACENTPIECES/ SCATTERED POINTS ARE CONNECTED AT A CERTAIN SEARCH RADIUS TO CREATE A MATRIX

/WIREFRAME/ LINES ARE TRANSFORMED INTO WIREFRAMES WITH A RADIUS OF 0.15 TO CREATE FORM

/VDBFROMPOLYGONS/ WIREFRAMES ARE TURNED INTO A VDB TO CREATE ORGANIC FORMS FURTHER REPLICATING THE BONE MATRIX

DECREASING THE SEARCH POINTS AT EVERY STAGE RESULTS IN THE THINNING OF THE MATRIX. POROSITY EXPLORED IN PROJECT ONE IS FURTHER EXPLORED IN THIS SERIES BY HAVING A CLEAR REPRESENTATION OF THE REDUCTION OF DENSITY IN THE BONE MATRIX.

DECAY 2.4 WILL BE USED ONWARDS TO REPRESENT A BONE CATEGORISED AS AT RISK OF OSTEOPOROSIS AND TEST VARIABLES THAT WILL FURTHER THE REDUCTION OF MASS.

CHAPTER 2

EXPERIMENTATION SITE ANALYSIS

MOA POINT

41° 20' 28.3272'' S 174° 48' 39.618'' E

MOA POINT IS AN AREA ON THE SOUTHERN COAST OF WELLINGTON SURROUNDED BY NATURAL FEATURES SUCH AS THE BUSHCLAD HILLS, COOK STRAIT, WELLINGTON HARBOUR, AND LYALL BAY. THE SITE IS SERVICED BY TE ARANUI O PONEKE (GREAT HARBOUR WAY), A TWO-WAY COASTAL ROAD WHICH ACTS AS A PHYSICAL AND VISUAL CONNECTION BETWEEN THE COASTAL EDGE AND THE STEEP NATURAL LANDSCAPE. DUE TO ITS LOCATION, THE SITE SHOWCASES PANORAMIC VIEWS OF THE RUGGED COASTLINE, COOK STRAIT, AND SOUTH ISLAND IN THE DISTANCE.

THE COASTLINE IS CHARACTERISED BY ITS VARYING TOPOLOGICAL FORMS SUCH AS THE STEEP CLIFFS, ROCKY OUTCROPS, AND SMALL SANDY BEACHES. DUE TO ITS PROXIMITY TO THE SEA, THE SITE IS EXPOSED TO EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS THUS MAKING IT VULNERABLE TO COASTAL EROSION CAUSED BY STRONG WINDS AND STORM SURGES, AS WELL AS PRECIPITATION AND SEA LEVEL RISE. OVER THE YEARS, THE SITE WILL RESULT IN THE DECAY OF ITS LAND MASS.

TREATMENT PLAN PALMER HEAD FORTRESS

COASTAL SEA LEVEL

PRECIPITATION, WIND, & STORM SURGES

THE HEIGHTFIELD ERODE MAP GENERATED IN HOUDINI SHOWS THE DEGRADATION OF THE FORM OF THE HILLS OVER THE YEARS WHERE SEVERITY OF DECAY DEPENDS ON SLOPE INSTABILITY AND HIGH QUANTITIES OF SOFT SOIL.

EROSION RISE

IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE

AS A COASTAL AREA, MOA POINT IS AT EXTREME RISK AS SEA LEVEL RISES WHICH IS EXPECTED TO ACCELERATE IN THE FUTURE.

THE DIAGRAM SHOWS THE PROGRESSION OF RISING WATER LEVELS ALSO CONTRIBUTES TO COASTAL EROSION DUE TO STRONGER WAVES AND STORMS WHICH LEADS TO THE REDUCTION OF LAND MASS.

PRECIPITATION

Steep valleys and ridges suggests high levels of decay due to soft soil instability

Highest risk of land loss

COASTAL WINDS

Receives high velocity winds

SEA LEVEL RISE

CHAPTER 3

EXPERIMENTATION IMPLEMENTING SITE DATA

DIGITALISED FORMS ARE FURTHER EXPLORED THROUGH A SERIES OF EXPLORATIONS BY IMPLEMENTING MOA POINT'S SITE DATA. THE OUTCOME OF THIS SERIES WILL REFLECT THE NATURE OF THE SITE AS WELL AS ENCAPSULATE THE CHANGES THROUGH TIME.

SERIES A

ERODED TERRAIN

PRECIPITATION

METHODOLOGY:

HOUDINI: DISINTEGRATION /SOPSOLVER/

USING THE FORM DECAY 2.4, THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE FORM IS SIMULATED THROUGH INFLUENCING IT WITH MICRO-SCALED VOLUMES EATING AWAY AT THE DENSITY OF THE FORM. THESE REPRESENTS PRECIPITATION CAUSING DEFORMATION OF THE SITE TERRAIN AS WELL AS THE 'OSTEOCLASTS' THAT BREAKS DOWN BONE DENSITY

VARIABLE:

DURATION OF DECAY

PROCESS:

/SOLVER/SCATTER/SPHERE/COPYTOPTS/ TINY ROUGH SPHERES ARE LINKED TO TEN SCATTERED POINTS TO SLOWLY EAT AWAY AT DECAY2.4 FORM.

/FOREACHLOOP/BLOCKBEGIN/ ALLOWS FEEDBACK ITERATIONS OF EACH SPHERES EATING AWAY AT THE FORM ONE AT A TIME

/VDBFROMPOLYGONS/VDBCOMBINE/ POLYGONS ARE CONVERTED INTO VDBs TO ACCESS VDBCOMBINE WHICH WOULD ALLOW THE SUBRACTION OF SPHERES FROM THE FORM WITH THE FOREACH LOOP REPETITIVELY.

/CONVERTVDB/SMOOTH/DISINTEGRATION FORM IS CONVERTED BACK TO POLYGON FOR A SMOOTHER SIMULATION.

THE PROCESS OF THE GROWTH OF DECAY THROUGH TIME IS SUCCESSFULLY SIMULATED. THIS HAVE SHOWN SIMILARITIES OF THE BIOTYPE AND SITE DATA WITH THE SLOW AND REPETITIVE PROCESS OF BREAKING DOWN THE OUTER/TOP LAYER OF THE FORM UNTIL IT IS DEFORMED AND LOSE ITS DENSITY.

THIS SERIES HAS RESULTED IN A FLUID-LIKE SIMULATION OF REDUCTION OF MASS AND THE LOSS OF STRUCTURAL QUALITY OF THE MATRIX.

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POTENTIAL PROGRAMME OF USE

ERODED TERRAIN

LIGHT HOUSE/VIEWING DECK/SEA LEVEL RISE MONITOR FACILITY

SERIES A EXPLORATION RESULTED IN VARIOUS POROUS FORMS THAT VARIES IN DEGREE OF DISINTEGRATION. DECAY3.1 AND 3.3 IS MERGED

TOGETHER TO LINK BACK THE FORM TO THE BIOTYPE WHERE THE DECAY FORMS INSIDE A HEALTHY FACADE OF A BONE. THIS FORM CREATES A TOWER-LIKE STRUCTURE SUGGESTING A POTENTIAL USE OF A LIGHTHOUSE OR VIEWING DECK OVERSEEING COOK STRAIT.

SERIES

B COASTAL WINDS

WIND FLOW & TURBULENCE

HOUDINI:

CURL NOISE FUNCTION

TURBULENCE PARAMETER - UNSTABLE AIR MOVEMENT RANGING in severity, CAUSING MINOR TO DRAMATIC CHANGES IN ALTITUDE AND AIR SPEED.

DECAY FORM 3.1 IS SUBJECTED WITH VARYING WIND FORCES ON SITE THROUGH SIMULATION TO FURTHER ABSTRACTION AS WELL AS EXPLORING THE STRUCTURAL COMPOSITION OF THE POROUS FORM.

/CURLNOISE/ IS USED BECAUSE OF ITS SIMILAR CHARACTERISTICS WITH WIND FLOW ON SITE.

ROTATION OF A VECTOR FIELD WILL FOLLOW A GIVEN CELL SIMILAR TO WINDS FOLLOWING THE FORM OF THE TERRAIN ON SITE.

WIRE RADIUS: 0.5

SCATTERED POINTS: 10

SEARCH RADIUS: 5

MAX SEARCH POINTS: 10

/VDBFROMPOLYGONS/SCATTER/ TRANSFORM DECAY1.6 MODEL INTO VDBFOG FOR SCATTER POINTS

/CONNECTADJACENTPIECES/ SCATTERED POINTS ARE CONNECTED AT A CERTAIN SEARCH RADIUS TO CREATE A MATRIX.

/POINTVOP/SOLVER/RAY/ TO APPLY A VELOCITY FOR THE CURLNOISE USING THE ABOVE PARAMETERS AND VARYING TURBULENCE FACTOR TO CREATE DIFFERENT FORMS. /RAYFUNC/ IS PLUGGED IN TO AVOID LINES ESCAPING THE GEOMERTY WHICH SHOWS GROWTH INSTEAD OF DECAY.

/WIREFRAME/VDBFROMPOLYGONS/VDBSMOOTH/ TO CREATE AN ORGANIC FORM SIMILAR TO PREVIOUS SERIES MODELS.

POTENTIAL PROGRAMME OF USE

COASTAL WINDS

WINDBREAK/VIEWING DECK

USING VARYING TURBULENT FACTORS HAS RESULTED IN THE ABSTRACTION OF THE FORM OF DECAY3.1 WHICH ALSO SHOWS HOW WIND INFLUENCES THE CHANGES IN THE FORM OF A STRUCTURE OVER TIME. THE POROUS STRUCTURE REMAINED INTACT DEPENDING ON THE TURBULENCE FACTOR OVER THE GIVEN TIMEFRAME. THIS SERIES REVEALED A STRUCTURAL QUALITY OF HAVING A STRONGER BASE WITH A LIGHTER AND POROUS FORM ABOVE.

POROUS STRUCTURES ARE COMMONLY USED IN REDUCING WIND SPEEDS THEREFORE DECAY6.5 HAS A POTENTIAL USE OF A WINDBREAK TO PREVENT FURTHER EROSION OF THE TERRAIN.

C COASTAL EROSION

SERIES

HOUDINI:

CURL NOISE FUNCTION

AMPLITUDE PARAMETER - CAUSED BY A DISTURBANCE (COASTALWINDS) WHERE A GREATER FORCE/ENERGY RESULTS IN A GREATER AMPLITUDE.

SIMILAR TO SERIES B, DECAY FORM 3.1 IS SUBJECTED WITH VARYING WAVE AMPLITUDES ON SITE THROUGH SIMULATION.

/CURLNOISE/ IS USED BECAUSE OF ITS SIMILAR CHARACTERISTICS WITH THE FLOW OF WAVES AT THE COAST. ROTATION OF A VECTOR FIELD WILL FOLLOW A GIVEN CELL SIMILAR TO WAVES FOLLOWING THE FORM OF WHICH IT CRASHES AGAINST.

METHODOLOGY: PARAMETERS:

WIRE RADIUS: 0.1

SCATTERED POINTS: 10

SEARCH RADIUS: 5

MAX SEARCH POINTS: 10

PROCESS:

/VDBFROMPOLYGONS/SCATTER/ TRANSFORM DECAY1.6 MODEL INTO VDBFOG FOR SCATTER POINTS

/CONNECTADJACENTPIECES/ SCATTERED POINTS ARE CONNECTED AT A CERTAIN SEARCH RADIUS TO CREATE A MATRIX.

/POINTVOP/SOLVER/RAY/ TO APPLY A VELOCITY FOR THE CURLNOISE USING THE ABOVE PARAMETERS AND VARYING TURBULENCE FACTOR TO CREATE DIFFERENT FORMS. /RAYFUNC/ IS PLUGGED IN TO AVOID LINES ESCAPING THE GEOMERTY WHICH SHOWS GROWTH INSTEAD OF DECAY.

/WIREFRAME/VDBFROMPOLYGONS/VDBSMOOTH/ TO CREATE AN ORGANIC FORM SIMILAR TO PREVIOUS SERIES MODELS.

DECAY 3.1

2

1

POTENTIAL PROGRAMME OF USE

COASTAL EROSION

BREAKWATER SIMILAR TO SERIES B, USING VARYING AMPLITUDE FACTORS HAS RESULTED IN THE ABSTRACTION OF THE FORM OF DECAY3.1. THE FORM SIGNIFICANTLY CHANGED OVER THE GIVEN TIMEFRAME RESULTING IN A MORE COMPACT BASE AND A DISCONNECTED TOP.

DECAY9.5'S POROUS STRUCTURE IS SIMILAR TO THE ROOTS OF A MANGROVE TREE WHICH SUGGESTS A POTENTIAL USE OF A BREAKWATER TO REDUCE COASTAL EROSION.

CHAPTER 4

REINTERPRET GENERATED MODELS

THROUGH IMPLEMENTING SITE DATA INTO THE PREVIOUS FORM EXPLORATIONS, MOST OF THE DESIGN OUTCOMES ADDRESSES THE ISSUES ON SITE SUCH AS COASTAL AND TERRAIN EROSION, AS WELL AS STRONG WIND FLOW AT MOA POINT.

RECONNECTION WITH SITE

MERGING FORMS

WALKWAY/LIGHTHOUSE/EVACUATION FACILITY FOR SEA LEVEL RISE

MERGING OF FORMS EXPLODED VIEW

SERIES A HAS GENERATED FORMS INFLUENCED BY THE ERODED TERRAIN CAUSED BY PRECIPITATION THROUGH THE YEARS WHICH HAS CAUSED DEFORMATION WITH THE VALLEYS AND RIDGES. THIS HAS CREATED A TOWER-LIKE RIGID STRUCTURE DESPITE IT'S DISINTEGRATED FORM.

SERIES B AND C GENERATED FORMS INFLUENCED BY THE COASTAL WINDS & WAVES. THE FORMS HAVE A CURLING NATURE DUE TO THE NATURE OF WINDS AND WAVE AS WELL AS USING THE /CURLNOISE/ FUNCTION. THIS ALLOWED THE FORMS TO PROPERLY MORPH AT MOST AREAS AS STEEP ERODED SLOPES ARE PREVALENT ON SITE.

GENERATED FORMS RESEMBLE EXISTING STRUCTURES THAT CAN BE RELATED ON SITE SUCH AS THE LIGHTHOUSE, SHELTERS, WALKWAYS, AS WELL AS STRUCTURES ADDRESSING EROSION AND SEA LEVEL RISE, SUCH AS WIND BREAKERS, BREAKWATER, AND AN ELEVATED FACILITY FOR MONITORING SEA LEVEL RISE. FORMS ARE THEREFORE MERGED IN RHINOCEROS3D TO CREATE A MULTI-FUNCTIONAL FACILITY THAT WILL FORM AN INTERACTION WITH SITE AS SEA LEVEL RISES OVER TIME.

SERIES C DECAY 9.5

SUBMERGED COASTLINE

YEAR 2100

SERIES A DECAY 3.1

WINDBREAK

LIGHT HOUSE

LIGHT HOUSE SERIES A DECAY 3.3

THIS PROJECT HAS ALLOWED FOR FURTHER UNDERSTANDING AND EXPLORATION OF THE BONE CONDITION 'OSTEOPOROSIS' THROUGH INTRODUCING ITS PROCESS/ SYSTEM IN THE DIGITAL REALM USING A SERIES OF SIMULATIONS WHICH HAD OVERCOMED THE LIMITATIONS PRESENT IN PROJECT ONE. THIS WORK HAS RESULTED IN A FORM THAT ENCAPSULATES THE SITE'S QUALITIES BY IMPLEMENTING MOA POINT'S SITE DATA WHICH TESTED THE STRUCTURAL QUALITIES OF A POROUS STRUCTURE THROUGH DYNAMIC SIMULATIONS. MOVING FORWARD, I AM INTERESTED IN CONTINUING THE MERGING OF FORMS THAT ARE INFORMED BY THE SITE DATA AS WELL AS ITS USE IN THE FUTURE WHEN MOA POINT'S COASTLINE HAS BECOME SUBMERGED DUE TO SEA LEVEL RISE. I AM ALSO INTERESTED IN USING MAYA TO CREATE A MORE DETAILED AND HIGH QUALITY RENDERS. THIS PROJECT HAS ALSO ALLOWED ME TO FURTHER MY KNOWLEDGE IN USING COMPUTATIONAL SOFTWARES TO CREATE ORGANIC FORMS EASILY AS WELL AS INTRODUCING MYSELF IN USING SIMULATIONS TO FURTHER UNDERSTAND DESIGNING WITH DYNAMIC QUALITIES AND HOW IT INFORMS THE STRUCTURAL DESIGN.