Algo sketchbook (april)

ALGORITHMIC SKETCHBOOK

BILAL HALLAK 641720

AIR STUDIO

ABPL30048 TUTOR - GEOFF KIMM UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

Table of Contents

Part A: Case for Innovation

4 

Week 1 exercises

6

Week 2 exercises

10

Week 3 exercises

Part B: Criteria Design

17

Week 4 exercises

WEEK 1

Lofting/Voronoi

I created the curves on Rhino and linked them to Grasshopper. These curves were then inputted into the loft function creating this basic image.

After baking the image once, I played around with the nodes to create an even more abstract form.

Baking the shape once more allowed me to blow the shape out of proportion and create an abnormal sort of canopy.

Here I am exploring the Voronoi algorithm by using grasshopper to develop a form

WEEK 2

AA Driftwood exercise

Above: Exploring curves and planar surfaces.

Attempt at driftwood exercise.

The idea of creating islands along the merri trail was inspired by the act of walking along the track. As I walked in the midst of a sunny day, i realized the only experience I endured on was the greenery. The path itself to me was too linear and straight forward. It then triggered me, perhaps something can be added to the site to provide more of an experiential journey. This something was miniature islands. These clusters of islands will also have the capability of providing shelter for both pedestrians and wildlife, being placed every 200m or so, which will change the course of how people walk along the path. To me, adding these islands will disrupt the circulation that currently exists, however in a good way, as I believe this new form of circulation will change the course of how one journeys through the site.

WEEK 3

Lofting continued

Here is a further exploration of lofting with multiple curves which are scaled at different points.

Piping

The pipe function is an interesting tool to play with. It can generally be applied to any line or curve in any form. Complex curves such as the ones shown creating intrinsic piping, especially when the radius changes, creating thicker or thinner tubes,

Gridshell

Creating a grid shell looked easier than it was.

I found some difficulty trying create a fully closed shell, similar to the one in the tutorial videos, but was only able to form this.

Playing with this idea was fun and informing. In this task, I was exposed to the Geodesic function, which enabled multiple lines to be woven into place.

Patterning List

Shown to the left is the exploration in patterning lists. This involved subdivind points on a surface which were inputted into a voronoi function. The voronoi spaces were able to be manipulated by changing the amount of segments in each direction.

WEEK 4

Recursion - Aranda Lasch

Truncating polygons This weeks task involved exploring truncated forms of different polygons, similar to how Aranda Lasch developed her project “The Morning Line�.

WEEK 5

Graphing section profiles

This exercise involved manipulating the curves with a graph mapper, which enabled different forms to be created. I was able to create a structure that could possible be a canopy of some sort, to creating an inversed version, which is a conical form. The fun part to this task was adding in extra functions to the start and end points of the curves. As shown, I explored the idea of using spheres, piping and addition planes, which to me seemed interesting to play around with.

One of the main finishing functions I like to use on tasks is the pipe command. It allows for elaborate design and endless ideas.