MODULAR NETWORK LIQUID TOPOGRAPHIES Michael Soto Kyle Tasik
Topo-Architectures ARCH 423/523 School of Architecture and Environment Mary Polites + Ignacio Lopez Buson
1 CONTEXT - location - topographic data - site - analysis
2 TOPO-SYSTEM - introduction - inspiration - geometrization - transformation studies - components - physical model
3 ARCH-SYSTEM - introduction - inspiration - geometrization - process - components - physical model
4 CONCLUSIONS - comparison plan/contours - comparison sections - comparison models - render views
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CONTEXT Location
Diablo, WA
Located in Washington state along the Skagit river. Diablo is an unicorporated company town built buy Seattle City Light. Our landscape, located southwest of the town along the side of the mountain road, is a unique location. Where most of the road runs between the face of the mountain or the sheer drop down into the skagit river below, our site juts out transitioning from the road, to to steep slopes to a small platteu.
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CONTEXT Site Highest point
Steep Slope
500’ Medium Slope
Low Slope Medium Slope
Low Slope
Steep Slope Existing Access Road
Site Our site is the required 500’ X 500’. When choosing a site our primary goal was to pick a location that had interesting topography in terms of various slope gradients, an already present man made form or gradient, and located in an area that can typically be assumed as not suitable for building on.
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CONTEXT Slope analysis Highest point
Steep Slope
Low Slope
Medium Slope Medium Slope
Low Slope
Steep Slope Existing Access Road
Slope %
Slope Analysis
0-14%
Performing a slope analysis on our selected site area was vital in understanding the our site. Through this analysis we were able to identify areas of low slope (green), medium slope (yellow), and steep slope (red). This analysis served as the foundation in which our topo-system was based on.
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CONTEXT Section analysis
Sectional Sequence Broken into 10’ intervals, this sectional sequence helps show us spacially where slopes are steeper. This sequence pairs with our color coded slope analysis. 14 |
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TOPO-SYSTEM
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2.1
Topo-system Introduction
TOPOGRAPHY
HARD SYSTEM
Objective A before and after shot of our site.
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Topo-system Slope analysis comparison
Highlights Highlited photos taken of the render help illustrate the final results of our topography alteration.
FINAL SURFACE
ORIGINAL SURFACE
Slope % 0-14%
15-30%
>31% Steep
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Topo-sytem Sun analysis
6:30am (sunrise)
12:00pm
5:00pm (sunset)
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10:00am
10:00am
12:00pm
4:00pm
4:00pm
5:00pm (sunset)
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Topo-system Geometrization process
ORIGINAL SURFACE
GRADE SURFACE
EXCAVATION SURFACES
FINAL SURFACE
Process Each study acts a s process, Intial site analysis, plug in the grid and grasshopper script to analyze the system’s foundations, view the gorund the script avoided, and combine everything together to see how much the site is altered based off the the grid.
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Topo-system Transformation Studies
Highest point Low Area
Sloping area Sloping area Low Area
Steep Area
Steep Area Flat Surfaces Within Steep Areas
Study 1 Within our first study we wanted to analyze the natural topography as a mesh system plugged into rhino. This study allows us to better understand how sheer or gradual the slope would look realistically before any changes to the sites topography or through the addition of soft structures.
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Topo-system Transformation studies Highest point Low Area
Sloping area Sloping area Low Area
Steep Area
Steep Area Flat Surfaces Within Steep Areas
Study 2 Study 3’s purpose was to simply show the land around the foundations and as well as to show how we used grasshopper to organize the site into a gridded system where as mentioned before in study 2 how the the site’s foundation sizes re based off of the intensity of the slopes.
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Topo-system Geometrization process
ORIGINAL SURFACE
OFFSET GRID TO SHOW HOLES OR EXTRUSION BASES
CONVERSION TO A GRID
FINAL SURFACE
Process Step one for developing the ground mesh around the lofted excavation bases into a surface. Step two was to overlay a grid system on the surface then remove the surface entirely, leaving the grid remaining. Step three was to offset all squares within the grid that fall beneath 14% slope inclines. Step four was to then fill in all surfaces up to the offset points within all swaurs that fall within the set parameters 32 |
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Topo-system Transformation Studies
Highest point
Low Area
Sloping area Sloping area Low Area
Steep Area
Steep Area Flat Surfaces Within Steep Areas
Study 3 Study 2 was all about creating foundation squares that buildings or raised support pylons would rest on. The study also informs us that the steeper the slope becomes the larfge the foundation would need to be to accomodate a buildings footprint on the site.
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2.9
Topo-system Geometrization process
PROJECT POINTS
EXTRUDE SURFACE Process
PROJECT CURVES
CAP EXTRUSION SURFACE
The first step of the excavation process was to go back to the gridded layout in step two of the ground process. From there we extracted the points from the offseted squares within, these points outline where the site will be lofted upwards or downwards. Step three proceeds to coppy and raise the outlines up or down depending on their location within the site. Step four developes a loft from the base model to the raised sqaure. Lastly in step six we capped the all the wholes within the lofted areas 36 |
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Topo-system Physical model
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Topo-system Physical model
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Topo-system Physical model
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ARCH-SYSTEM
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3.1
Arch-system Introduction
TOPOGRAPHY
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Arch-system Inspiration
Inspiration For our soft systems we are placing on top of our topography we decided to created cubes that stack on top of one another to simulate raised buildings above the site. This system will be represented through a series of wireframe cubes.
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Arch-system Network Diagrams
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ZONES
GRID
CONNECTION
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Arch-system Components
Soft System Components Our soft system is comrised of three different wirefram cubes that vary based off of thickness. Yellow represnts the thinnest cubes which are located on the highest parts of the system. The green wireframe cubes represent the medium thickness. they are what hold up the yellow cubes and rest on the thickest wireframe cubes which act as our base that supports the entire structure. Overall the base cubes are the shortest in terms of how high they raise up ward and as the frames become thinner they can move up to higher elevations. 2
39% coverage
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53% coverage
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222 units 4
1. Render / Yellow cube 2. Render / Yellow structure 3. Render / Yellow structure within site 4. Render / Green cube 5. Render / Green structure 6. Render / Green structure within site 7. Render / Purple cube 8. Render / Purple structure 9. Render/ Purple structure within site 52 |
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Arch-system Sections
Soft System Sections
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Arch-system Complete Assembly
Sales Center
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Arch-system Physical model
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Arch-system Physical model
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Arch-system Physical model
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4.1
Conclusions Grading comparison
125’
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STEEP SLOPE
STEEP SLOPE
LOW SLOPE
LOW SLOPE LOW SLOPE
LOW SLOPE
MEDIUM SLOPE
MEDIUM SLOPE
STEEP SLOPE MEDIUM SLOPE
MEDIUM SLOPE
MEDIUM SLOPE
LOW SLOPE
STEEP SLOPE
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LOW SLOPE
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Conclusions Digital - Physical comparison
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Conclusions Digital - Physical comparison
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4.4
Conclusions 3D Printing Process
PREPAIRING DIGITAL MODEL FOR PRINT
3D PRINT MODEL ASSEMBLE PHYSICAL MODEL
THINGS TO CONSIDER • • • •
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LIMIT / ELIMINATE MOMENTS THAT ARE UNSUPPORTED TO REDUCE PRINT TIME AND WASTE. UNSUPPORTED MOMENTS WILL REQUIRE TEMPORARY SUPPORT STRUCTURE. VERIFY MODEL WILL FIT WITHN THE BED SPACE OF THE 3D PRINTER PRINT MODEL WITH THE FLATTEST SIDE DOWN SEND MODEL TO PRINTER ASAP
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Conclusions Render views
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CREDITS
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Michael Soto
Kyle Tasik
Michael is undergraduate in the University of Oretgon’s Landdscape Architecture program. Currently in his third year in the program, Michael is primarily interested in designing for social spaces and gatherings, using rhino as his primary rendering software to gain a better understanding of how people would interact within a site. Michael is confident that he will continue using Rhino throughout his educational and future proffessional career and adding Grasshopper to his skill set will be an invaluable skill to add to his toolbox.
Kyle is currently a master´s degree student in Architecture (Track II) at the University of Oregon. Although his interests in architecture do not lie in the broader urbanism scale, he is very much interested in the performance side of architecture. He is very interested in how parametric design can influence the energy consumption of a buildings as well as play an integral part in the design process. Kyle is excited to continue progressing the skill that he aquired through this course and hopes he can take some aspects to his professional career.
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