Hybrid Network: A Study of Model Making

Hybrid Network: A Study of Model Making Ali Gholamabbas & Nico Hsu

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Content: 00 Project Brief

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01 Study Models

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02 Site Model

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03 Sectional Model

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This project’s model materials were sponsored by Jordan Billingsley and Blackline Supply

Blackline Supply Creative Supplies for artists, crafters, painters, sculpters, and model makers.

809 S. 5th St. Champaign, IL 61820 2177179061 3

The Internet Archive: Tectonics of the Immaterial

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he technological shift towards information and connectivity — driven by automation, machine learning and the internet of things — is mostly perceived as an immaterial phenomena, decoupled from physical dimension. In actuality, however, it resides on a vast material footprint existing almost unnoticed within popular perception. This design research studio, The Internet Archive, engages with the notion of the internet as an immaterial entity which revolutionizes knowledge exchange in the 21st century, but at the same time relies upon a physical footprint, comprised of architecture and infrastructure.

Presently, The Internet Archive is a San Francisco–based nonprofit digital library with the stated mission of “universal access to all knowledge.” Since our culture now produces more and more artifacts in digital form, the Archive’s mission is to help preserve those artifacts and create an Internet library for researchers, historians, and scholars. Bringing the library into the 21st century means leading its digital transformation—in ways that do not merely copy or reproduce books, films, music, and more onto storage drives (although even this much hasn’t been completed yet). Digital technology changes social practices in that it provides an opportunity to share knowledge, which is critical for new scholarship, arts, and the overall information needs of a socially equitable society.

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Archive, we are fighting to protect our readers’ right to information in the digital world.

This studio is based on actual RFP: In November 2016, Brewster Kahle announced that the Internet Archive was building a back-up library, a digital doppelganger, the Internet Archive of Canada, a copy to be constructed in Toronto. In the announcement, Kahle was quoted as saying: “Throughout history, libraries have fought against terrible violations of privacy—where people have been rounded up simply for what they read. At the Internet Archive, we are fighting to protect our readers’ right to information in the digital world.”

This design research studio includes a parametric workshop led by SOM Blackbox in Chicago.

Text written by Assoc. Professor Tierney 4

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Hybrid Network

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he project aims to revolutionize the paradigm of working by establishing a co-working community within an internet archive.

There is a global rising trend in start-up and freelancing, which can be a great opportunity for Toronto to activate its waterfront with more economical growth. The abundant resources from the internet archive can be great assets for all the freelancers and entrepreneurs around Toronto. ​ Home is the ideal working environment for freelancers. By introducing the idea of a “home” into a public building and organizing its programs into five “rooms” (living room, bedroom, kitchen, dining room, garage), the space now has a new relationship with its users.​ The form of the building is a physical manifestation of internet, it is fragmented yet cohesive. The five rooms are linked by bridges to blur the program boundaries and also create a continuous and dynamic surface for the facade. The structural and glazing systems follow its massing to have a cohesive design language. The landscape is generated from both the topography of the site and the massing in order to be a continuum of the urban fabrics that sits between downtown Toronto and the rising Port Lands district.

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Project Timeline 8

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STUDY MODELS

Model Materials: Polystyrene (CNC)

Hybrid Network: A Study of Model Making

urform ​ oun (plural urforms) N

1. A basic or original form; protoform.

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Study Models

THE UR-FORM STUDY Model Materials: PLA (Flashforge Creator Pro 3D Printer), Walnut & Cherry wood (CNC)

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Model Materials: PLA (Flashforge Creator Pro 3D Printer), Clear Resin (Form 2 Resin 3D Printer)

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Study Models

Model Materials: PLA (3D printing), Walnut & Cherry wood (CNC)

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Model Materials: HDF with platic veneer (CNC), FINECOLOUR sketch markers 16

Study Models

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1:750 SITE MODEL

Model Materials: Walnut (CNC), Oak, Pine

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PROTOTYPES

CNC routing the test foam model from two sides

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Laminating two pieces of Walnut wood to create the mass for CNC routing the model

MasterCam software verifying the cut before the actual CNC routing.

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1:750 Site Model

Block of walnut fixed on the CNC bed with vacuum clamp and screws.

Cutting the bottom side of the model on the CNC.

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Cutting the top side of the model on the CNC after rotating it.

Cutting the top side of the model on the CNC after rotating it.

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1:750 Site Model

CNC cut of the Model done. Support pieces to be sawed off afterwards.

Verifying the Site CNC routing on MasterCam before the cut.

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Circular piece of wood secured on the CNC bed.

Cutting the site model on the circular pine wood.

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1:750 Site Model

Site model CNC cut done.

Model base routed on the CNC.

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1;75 SECTIONAL MODEL 30

1:75 Sectional Model

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Hybrid Network: A Study of Model Making

3D printing using Flashforge Creator Pro with PLA as filament material

Using linear support instead of branch-like one to increase stability as it progress vertically.

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1:75 Sectional Model

The model was divided into 8 pieces with total of 7 prints.

Some pieces went through multiple prints due to quality control.

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Testing raw prints.

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1:75 Sectional Model

Ceiling design.

Floors.

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Gluing the major three pieces together for the initial sanding process using Elmer’s Super Glue.

Prime the sanded piece with RUST-OLEUM Primer.

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1:75 Sectional Model

Applying primer to smooth out the surface of the piece.

After another round of sanding.

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Third round of sanding.

Use putty filler to seal up the gluing gap.

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(Left) After 4th round of sanding.

(Right) Assembling all the pieces together.

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Applying the last primer layer before the white paint.

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Applying white paint.

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(Left) Choosing Walnut wood to create a base for the sectional model based on the model geometry.

(Right) Routing the edges of the model Base made of walnut wood.

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Special Thanks to: Studio Professor Thérèse Tierney Blackline Supply Jordan Billingsley ISoA Woodshop Lowell Miller SOM Blackbox Reviewers Alan Dang Anne Erskine Benjamin Bross Vincent Lee ARCH 574 Classmates

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