Design Approach The design process for the Wyndham City Gateway proposal is one which should associate closely with the site’s context as well as creating an intriguing form which generates a lasting impression through a novel spatial experience.
As a viable project for Wyndham City Council to pursue, the installation is projected to be commissioned by the Caltex petrol station on the site, and will be design as a subtle form of advertisement, while also expressing broader social and cultural events faced by the The implementation of a tensile growing municipality. form as a basic structural principle will help to develop an expansive Through the integration of form, achieving a significant impact digital modelling and fabrication on commuters. The collaboration techniques and experimentation of a tensile structure with a in material prototypes, we minimal and relaxed surface as hope to create an elusive a design basis will lend itself to form, which generates interest an open form finding process, and conversation beyond the driven by parametrically designed physical experience of the digital models. Using Rhino 3D as design and contribute to the the basic modelling program, the broader architectural discourse design will be developed through by utilising modern form-finding the algorithmic modelling plug- techniques and developing a in, Grasshopper and incorporate unique structural system. the physics simulation component Kangaroo to derive form, while the Weaverbird plug-in is used to enhance tessellation techniques.
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