Portfolio 2012-2020

MOHAMMAD FARZADNIA

HIVE Masters Final Project

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Water Museum Bachelor Final Project

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Digital Casting II

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OK Arduino II

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OK Arduino I

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Recycling Material

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Technical Studies

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Performative Slabs

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HIVE | MASTERS FINAL PROJECT LONDON, UK 2020

PROJECT FILM DESIGN THESIS FILM PORTFOLIO IALAB WEBSITE PROCESS

Tutor: Ruairi Glynn, Parker Heyl Hive is a modular kinetic architecture inspired by bee colony behavior. There are certain types of honeybees that produce a Mexican wavelike cascade called ‘shimmering’, when they feel threatened. When a wasp or other big insects come too close to the hive, the honeybees work together to disorient the threat. The effect of wave makes it difficult for an insect to single out and attack an individual honeybee. The design project attempts to harness this behavior to create a shimmering facade system.

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HIVE | MASTERS FINAL PROJECT LONDON, UK 2020

Hive has a single-button full automatic core system. It tessellates any type of geometry into hexagons, and then exports fabrication, assembly data and cost estimation to the user by pressing only one button. This program can be used by anyone with or without having knowledge about coding, mechanical systems and electrical wirings, to turn their own concepts into reality. This is inspired by intrinsic attitudes of bees who organize their hive build through bottom up emergent order.

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HIVE | MASTERS FINAL PROJECT LONDON, UK 2020

Part of the interesting things about these panels is that you can change their flexability and behaviour based on the pattern that you laser cut them. There are different parameteres for controlling the pattern including: number of seperator columns, distance between them, offset between cut lines and the original hexagon, thickness of lines. number of lines, ... . On of the important factors was gravity effects on pattern density. Tests were done in different directions as patterns show different behaviour by changing the rotation of petals. Altough, a non-bended pattern is not necesserilly a good pattern since petaling movement needs to also be considered. After several experiments, one finally was chosen. Another set of experiments also were done with bigger hexagons size for understanding the logic between pattern density and petals size. The final code can create a pattern for each size of hexagons.

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HIVE | MASTERS FINAL PROJECT LONDON, UK 2020

Since each hexagon is different in its size, there was a need for a code to produce pattern for each petal. In this code, curves are produced based on petals numbers which are lasered at the time of assembly, so each petal is positioned in its right location.

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HIVE | MASTERS FINAL PROJECT LONDON, UK 2020

Selected hexagons (192 Petals) for fabrication

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HIVE | MASTERS FINAL PROJECT LONDON, UK 2020

This project focused on low cost freeform kinetic sculpture. The SG90 was chosen as it is the cheapest motor amongst servos, and it works with low voltage power which decreases the power supply cost and the energy usage .Plywood was chosen as the main material for the support structure and the petal since it is cheaper than any other material such as: metal and plastic.

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WATER MUSEUM | BACHELOR FINAL PROJECT

PORTFOLIO

ESFAHAN, IR

ANIMATION

2017

Tutor: Amin Ghadirian Regarding the lack of appropriate water and the importance of this precious matter in our life, My dissertation was supposed to focus on designing a museum of water in order to aware people of the Costs, Tools and the Process of producing healthy water. There are 2 elevators in two sides of the ramp for accessing the next floors. Inside the ramp, there are objects and tools which have been used by our ancestors. There are also explanation sheets about water & importance of this matter in our life.

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WATER MUSEUM | BACHELOR FINAL PROJECT ESFAHAN, IR 2017

33-pol Bridge

Game Island

Ferdowsi Bridge

Location : Game Island, Between Ferdowsi & 33 Pol Bridges, Zayandeh Rud River, Esfahan, IRAN Environmental analysis were done as part of the site analysis.

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WATER MUSEUM | BACHELOR FINAL PROJECT ESFAHAN, IR 2017

Based on my researches, water molecule has 6-polygonal structure. It can be seen from every water molecule around the world. Therefore, I used this structure as main shape in my design. The whole idea is about sharing space among components via spin_attractors. Metaball is a complement for implementing this theory. Components (cores) share space via special technique based on tendency. These tendencies are used for drawing curves. Every tendency is a layer which is also used for creating volume. As you see, the purpose is about gathering spaces around together via spin forces whereby volumes fit on their places appropriately. These spin forces divide space around them and cause soft curves which are used for plan and walls.

Although, I selected only few principal curves for my goal.

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WATER MUSEUM | BACHELOR FINAL PROJECT ESFAHAN, IR 2017

Gereration 008

Gereration 009

Gereration 010

Gereration 011

Gereration 012

Gereration 013

Gereration 014

Gereration 015

Gereration 000

Gereration 001

Gereration 002

Gereration 003

Gereration 004

Gereration 005

Gereration 006

Gereration 007

This diagram shows how this theory turn to idea for drawing and generating spaces. The idea was about using water`s flow in site plan and gathering 3 principal items including “Museum”,”Amphitheatre” and “Office“ + “Landscape” via using digital architecture and folding methods. These are 18 variations of magnetic fields based on changing 3 factors including : Rotation radius, Rotation degree and Intensity of charge points. Finally, one variation was designated for creating plan.

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WATER MUSEUM | BACHELOR FINAL PROJECT ESFAHAN, IR

Manager Room

Financial Room Amphitheatre Director Room

Museum

Museum

W.C Women

W.C Men

Buttery Room

Museum Director Room

Audio Visual Room

VOID

Conference Room

Secretary

2017

Plan_Top View

3RD Floor Plan

2ND Floor Plan

There are 6 plans that explains the location of every designed component. Office zone and amphitheatre are in second floor. The ramp, which is the principle part of the designed museum, starts in ground floor and ends in third floor. It shows the objects which have been used during years and their roles in our contemporary world.

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WATER MUSEUM | BACHELOR FINAL PROJECT ESFAHAN, IR

Garner

Museum

Museum

Information-Security

Temporary Gallery

Installation

VOID

Gallery

Garner

W.C Women

W.C Men

Praying Room Men

Protection Room

Praying Room Women

2017

1ST Floor Plan

Ground Floor Plan

Basement

The first floor consists of temporary gallery and amphitheatre. Amphitheatre, Permanent gallery and Entrance are in the ground floor. The basement contains installation and garner.

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WATER MUSEUM | BACHELOR FINAL PROJECT ESFAHAN, IR 2017

Ground Floor, Entrance The structure that is shown in renders, has detail which is available on detail`s section of my dissertation portfolio. Every triangle on structure has a panel that can react to the natural sun-light, however there is no panel in renders due to my PC`s restrictions. Stones` patterns are also available on the same section. Renders of gallery, aquarium & ramp are on renders` section.

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WATER MUSEUM | BACHELOR FINAL PROJECT ESFAHAN, IR 2017

Ground Floor, Permanent Gallery The permanent gallery shows different art-works in comparison with museum. This part has radial structure and it can be seen in Plans` sheet & in details` sheet. There is also a temporary gallery above this floor that can be used for designers`, painters` and others` art-works. Every panel has unnatural lighting below & above them which has executive detail.

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DIGITAL CASTING II | CONCRETE CASTING

MORPHOGENESISM.COM FILM

ESFAHAN, IR 2014

Tutor: Zubin Khabazi

My Position: Mould Making

Teammates: Zoha Meisami, Foroogh Dehdashti, Soroush Baharzade, Nasim Marefat, Parham Mazaheri, Pejman Mardani, Marzieh Forghani, Reyhane Sistani, Maryam Mohammadi, Mehrnoosh Kohandel, Farahnaz Soleimani, Saeid Sadeghian, Mohammad Soroush Jooshesh, Adib Iravani, Ali Nosouhiyan, Soroush Asadi, Saba Vaseghi, Niloufar Gharavi, Esa Alishahi, Saeid Kalantari

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DIGITAL CASTING II | CONCRETE CASTING ESFAHAN, IR 2017

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DIGITAL CASTING II | CONCRETE CASTING ESFAHAN, IR 2017

This project focused on a shell made out of the pre-cast concrete pieces. While the concrete pieces were strong enought to bear the load of compressive forces, since it was not a single piece, tension cables added to the system for attaching them togetehr with tensile forces. Two systems worked together in the formation of the shell.

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DIGITAL CASTING II | CONCRETE CASTING ESFAHAN, IR 2017

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OK ARDUINO II | SPIDER PROJECT ESFAHAN, IR 2015

Tutor: Amin Bahrami Teammates: Shahrouz Beheshti, Negar Behzad, Niloufar Rahimi, Masoud Ghasemi

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OK ARDUINO II | SPIDER PROJECT ESFAHAN, IR 2015

Hook

Stepper Box (Portable, hanging on the vertical surface)

Box Stepper Gear

Power Suply

Microcontroler ARDUINO

Grasshopper

Stepper Motor, Servo

Pen holder Pen or Marker (Moving inside the fixed cylinder) Pen holder (The way that pen and servo motor work with each other

Servo motor (Converting the rotational movement to the linear one)

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OK ARDUINO II | SPIDER PROJECT ESFAHAN, IR 2015

C a

b

y

B

a , b > 30 mathematical relations

Sin ___a = Sin ___b = Sin ___c A B C

A c

x

Cos a =

x ___ B

x = B.Cos a

Sin a =

y ___ B

y = B.Sin a

Developing the project through two Ultrosonic

Geometrical justification

for Reset the plotter and recognizing the coordinates of Pen holder

L Stepper 1

Stepper 2

T1

T2 Ultrosonic Sensor

Ultrosonic A

Gravity

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Ultrosonic B

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OK ARDUINO II | SPIDER PROJECT ESFAHAN, IR 2015

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OK ARDUINO I | SNAKE PROJECT

TEHRANPLATFORM.COM

ESFAHAN, IR 2015

Tutor: Amin Bahrami Teammates: Saeed Iranpoor, Parinaz Kabiri, Hosein Yazdani

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OK ARDUINO I | SNAKE PROJECT ESFAHAN, IR 2015

Frequency

Input

140 - Threshold of Pain 130 - Jet Taking Off (200 ft.away) 120 - Operating Heavy Equipment 110 - Night Club (w/music) 100 - Construction Site 90 - Boiler Room 80 - Freight Train ( 100 ft.away) 70 - Classroom Chatter 60 - Conversation ( 3ft.away) 50 - Urban Residence 40 - Soft Whisper (5 ft.away) 30 - North Rim of Grand Canyon 20 - Silent Study Room 10 0 - Threshold of Hearing (1000 Hz)

Running Motors

Drawing

Period Noise Wave

Wavelength

120

1 second Time

1

2

3

Frequency = 3 Hertz

Sound Source

90 dB

84 dB

1

2

110 100 90 80 70 60 50

Sound pressure level (dB)

Typical Sound Levels (dBA)

Sound Analyzing

Frequency

Speaker completely forward

Speaker at rest

40 30 20 10

Speaker completely rearward 0

78 dB 3

4

Distance in meters

Slow

20

50

100

300

1K Frequency (Hz)

3K

10K 20K

90

180 Degrees

270

360

Fast

One thing that has always been considered for human is an ability to visualizing sound and drawing Pictures. So we studied about audio input and output parameters and tried to analyze the frequency and intensity of sound, because the frequency and intensity of sound is important for us to analyzing sounds.We used two gearboxes motors because of limitation of using servo and stepper motors.also, to create different patterns, some holes designed that can access to goal by changing arm position. One of two motors run by maximum of frequency and other motor run by intensity of sounds. Also, the motors move Opposite direction of each other.

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OK ARDUINO I | SNAKE PROJECT ESFAHAN, IR 2015

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RECYCLING MATERIAL ESFAHAN, IR 2013

Tutor: Raha Ashrafi Teammates: Amir raeisi, Maryam Amini, Shamim Sheshbolooki, Arezoo Mozaffari

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RECYCLING MATERIAL ESFAHAN, IR 2013

This exercise was a study in reprocessing waste materials. Understanding the aptitude of a material which would otherwise be discarded, and subsequently re-inventing a pertinent use for it was the fundamental objective of this study. The constraints consisted of the amount of material available to each group as well as the type of material available. Each group determined a plausible use for the material and elected a particular method of joining, construction and assembly; again, based on the material potential.

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RECYCLING MATERIAL ESFAHAN, IR 2013

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TECHNICAL STUDIES ESFAHAN, IR 2013

Tutor: Raha Ashrafi

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TECHNICAL STUDIES ESFAHAN, IR 2013

Paper as an accessible , inexpensive material, is simple enough to be operated by the inexperienced, and yet is flexible enough to create complex geometries and 3 dimensional shapes through specific techniques. This created the opportunity to better understand how to interact with a material, understand its capabilities and experiment with techniques through identifying the control points and control values it depends on. The ultimat goal was to design a wall with a unique bottom-up approach.

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TECHNICAL STUDIES ESFAHAN, IR 2013

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PERFORMATIVE SLABS | FLOATING SLABS PROJECT

FILM

ESFAHAN, IR 2013

Tutor: Farshad Mehdizade Teammates: NegarAmiri, Hamed Abbasi, Safura Kazemi, Mohsen Moeini, Behzad Moayedi, Mohammad Meyzari

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PERFORMATIVE SLABS | FLOATING SLABS PROJECT ESFAHAN, IR 2013

Inappropriate shapes

Appropriate shapes

Plan_Curves for laser cutting

This project focused on the slabs which can react based on enviroment and requirement.These slabs are able to move via air pumps whereby we will have more spaces. In order to create these spaces, we were required to use appropriate geometries based on their responsiveness which brings us more reactions. Alterability item has been considered in this project whereby you can alter spaces by your own desire.

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PERFORMATIVE SLABS | FLOATING SLABS PROJECT ESFAHAN, IR 2013

AIR PUMP

AIR PUMP

AIR PUMP

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PERFORMATIVE SLABS | FLOATING SLABS PROJECT ESFAHAN, IR 2013

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MOHAMMAD FARZADNIA PORTFOLIO

2012-2020