Fod landscape m3 journal

Foundations of Design : Representation, SEM1, 2017 M3 JOURNAL - PATTERN vs SURFACE Cheung Ka Shun (908567) Ray Ali Studio 3

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WEEK 6 READING: SURFACES THAT CAN BE BUILT FROM PAPER IN ARCHITECTURAL GEOMETRY Question 1: What are the three elementary types of developable surfaces? Provide a brief description.

(Maximum 100 words) The three elementary types of developable surfaces are cylinders, cones and tangent surfaces. They all share a common property is that they can be all flatten out without distortion. Tangent surface are formed with connected polygons. Cylinders are formed with parallel lines and thus create curves.

Cones utilises connections and extrusion to form surfaces.

Question 2: Why is the understanding of developable surface critical in the understanding of architectural geometry? Choose one precedent from Research/Precedents tab on LMS as an example for your discussion. (Maximum 100 words) Greenhouse, by Plasma Studio showcase a multi-polygon glass structure built on top of a mountain range. It is a really good example to see how developable surface can affect and construct a building to suit and fit the surrounding landscape. The Greenhouse cleverly used simple triagle to panelise the structure. Since triangle is a easy developable surface, it flows with the shape of the mountain and froms a beautiful structure. By understanding developable surface, we can develop and construct surface onto builings, it is a fundamental aspect of architectural geometry.

Greenhouse by Plasma Studio

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PANELLING 2D PATTERN

2d Panelling, Pattern: Triangular

2d Panelling, Pattern: Hexagonal

2d Panelling, Pattern: 12-sided polygonal

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VARIABLE 2D PATTERN

This is a simple custom panelling with circles. I used scale panel method and curve attractors

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This is a 2D panel featuring a tri-circle pattern. It shifted its shape from right to left.

I used panel method translate and point attractors.

This panel is created with two shape morphing into each other, from a tri-circle to a pentagon. I used panel method mean and curve attractors.

3D PANEL TEST PROTOTYPE & TEMPLATE

Was given two unrolled surface of 6 3D panels, 3 panels on each strip. I used bulls clip to put them together.

Constructed 3D panels with the two unroll surface. All 6 have little variations on sizes.

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WEEK 7 READING: DIGITAL FABRICATION Complete your reading before attempting these questions:

Question 1: What is digital fabrication and how does it change the understanding of two dimensional representation? (Maximum 100 words) Digital fabrication is basicly recreating an object or a design from the model or drawing from a digital device. To transfrom digital ideas into real life objects. It brideges the gap between the design sketch and the actual design of an object. It revolutionise the traditional way of isomatric or plan-views drawings into something way easier to visualize and easy to accomplised. Under the 3D enviornment of a digital device, we can easily make changes and get differnt perspectives fast, unlike old fashion drawings which take way more time to do so.

Question 2: Suggest two reasons why folding is used extensively in the formal expression of building design? (Maximum 100 words) Folding instantly turn a 2D surafce into something 3D. It is a instinctive way to model a 3D object in a fast and light fashion. Unlike moulding, folding does not required a mould and the complicated process of casting. Folding is way lighter and easy to modify. Paper is a very flexible material and its possibilty is endless and its cost is very low. Thats why folding s used extensively in the formal expression of building design.

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EXPLORING 3D PANELLING

4 styles of 3D panel patterns are used to recreate the terrian. Starting from the highest point of the terrian we have the highest panel pattern which is a simple pyramid. After that is a hexagonal triangle surrounded by 4 pyramids, follow by a panel pattern created with 10 individual pyramids and the lowest pattern with only two rectangle base

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UNROLL TEMPLATE OF YOUR FINAL MODEL

Here is all the unroll surface required to make all the 3D models. The red one is the simple pyramid. Orange is the lowest pattern with two rectangle base pyramids. The purple one is the hexagonal triangle surrounded by 4 pyramids. The black one is the panel pattern created with 10 individual pyramids.

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PANELISED LANDSCAPE

Front View

Top View

Side View

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APPENDIX

Prototype of 3 of the panel pattern. Constructed with 120gsm standard printing paper and put together with tape.

My table when building the 3D panels.

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Me cutting the unrolled suface out of the paper using scissors.

Joining and glueing the 2D panles. The paper model actully twist and from the shape and height of the actual terrian.

Me constructing one of the panels. In this case it is the 10 triangles pattern panel.

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