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Table Of Contents

1. AADRL, Transcend, Thesis Project

Ergonomics

Minimal Space Shape Shifting Unit

Mobility Collective

2. AADRL Workshops

Digital Fabrication

C# Agent-Based Behaviours

3. Work Experience

YGAA - Balady, Mixed-use Tower

YGAA - Hareches, Hotel, Commercial and Residential

YGAA- SI ASUN

4. Bezalel AcademyThesis Project

5. Research

D-MARS

6. Prototyping and Fabrication

Collection of 3d modeling along the years

TRANSCEND

Thesis Project- AADRL

The proposal revolves around the exploration of a hybrid design space at the intersection of mobility and liveability, favouring a multidisciplinary approach across the fields of architecture, automotive, and aerospace.

It is contextualized on a projection of a near-future of emergent concerns around humanity’s ecological footprint, where population is rapidly expanding and cities are becoming oversaturated, raising the need for new strategies towards provision of space and resources. We tackle those concerns by looking at mobile liveability as a means of detachment from the traditional rigid urban infrastructure. With that, the goal is to achieve an adaptive architecture as a self-sufficient system of a soft-infrastructure.

Our explorations start from the notion of minimal spatiality with a particular attention to proxemics and ergonomics, and the dialogue between the human body and its immediate surroundings. Those ideas translate spatially by looking at programmatic overlays, reactive surfaces, and transformable functionalities within the minimal space.

This minimal space is encompassed at the scale of a “macro-suit” or a “micro-architecture” as an apparatus that extends from the human body, able to shape-shift in response to different environmental and functional conditions, enabled by the actuation of deployable structural systems and flexible materiality.

The goal of this transformational capability is the adaptation to hybrid environments within which the system is contextualized. The units engage in on-ground and in-air mobility as an emphasis on the notion of a resilient, off-grid, and migratory form of living. With that said, we look at gliding as an energy-efficient medium of a passive mobility, through which energy harvesting is enabled as the system is directed by the dynamic rhythms and flows of nature.

The aim of mobility, in this context, is not limited only to achieving resilient living, but also, to open new horizons of opportunities in transportation that allows temporary settlements in desirable inhabited locations, augmenting the relationship between humanity and nature. Architecture, in that sense, becomes ephemeral, engaging in an interplay between human presence and the intact natural environment.

Team Members-

Transcend

Noa Guy, Karim Hallak India Baz, Behice Ozer, Yujie Wang

Proxemics and Ergonomics- The Minimal Space- Abstract Studies

Cloth simulations controlled by constrains of a sphere, an experiment of achieving volumetric conditions defining adaptive minimal space

The interpersonal distances of humans of intimate space defined by a radius of 15-45 cm and a volume of 0.37m

E x t e n d e d L v i n g

0 1 T h e M i n m a S p a c e

E x t e n d e d L i v n g

n m a S p a c e

a c e

E x t e n d e d L i v i n g

Transformation Sequence

0 1 T h e M i n i m a l S p a cfe b l

0 1 T h e M i n i m a l S p a c e T r a n s f o r m a b l e F u n c t i o n a l E l e m e n t s

Living Mode

Linear to compact space usage

Linear to compact space usage

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S o f t A r e a s C h a i r t o B e d

Soft Areas: Chair to Bed

i v n g S p a c e

n g S p a c e

0 1 T h e M i n i m a l S p a c e T r a n s f o r m a b l e F u n c t o n a E l e m e n t s

L v n g S p a c e

F u n c o n a E e m e n t s

M u l t i p o t e n t

S o f t A r e a s C h a i r t o B e d M a n R o t a t n g T a b l e S t o r a g e

Main Rotating Element

M u l t i p o t e n t E l e m e n t 1

M u l t i p o t e n t E l e m e n t 1

Table Storage

M u t p o t e n

0 1 T h e M i n m a S p a c e

0 1 T h e M i n m a S p a c e

0 1 T h e M n m a S p a c e

L i v i n g S p a c e

L v i n g S p a c e

L i v i n g S p a c e

L i v i n g S p a c e

The subdivided areas provide interplays of soft and hard surfaces according to their function. To change between different functions the pieces are sliding through the slits from the floor and the adjacent surfaces. Enabling multi-use scenarios in different modes.

Lounge Bed

Sitting

Compressed Mobile

Expanded - Stationary

Vertical Expansion

Lateral Rotation

Visualization- Unreal Engine 5, Modeling- Rhino & Maya

Visualization- Unreal Engine 5, Modeling- Rhino & Maya

Visualization- Unreal Engine 5, Modeling- Rhino & Maya

AADRL Workshops

WS01 , WS02

Workshop 01- in this workshop, tools of digital modeling and fabrication techniques were tested, elaborating complex geometries using methods of form finding and structural optimization. We used 3d tessellation systems and unrolling procedures to rationalize complex geometries into flat shapes using laser-cutting machinery.

Workshop 02- In this section, the boids’ algorithm will be investigated further, seeking localized and customized behaviors. The key to this customization is controlling agents' grouping, which is achieved by setting rules regarding the neighbourhood radius/neighbours count ratio. After this step, the said ratio is parametrized according to the neighbourhoods’ distances from specific focal points. The last addition to the algorithm is associating the separation behaviour to the neighbourhood, according to that, they either intersect, collide, or separate from one another.

Workshop 02 Team Members- Noa Guy, Karim Hallak India Baz, Behice

Workshop 01 Team Members- Suman Sharma, Pawin Wattanachaiyingcharoen, Siyu Shen, Noa Guy, Yujie Xie

Ozer, Pawin Wattanachaiyingcharoen

Main saftware practice- GH FOR WS01 and Unity C# for WS02.

2.5c"m

Typology

JAFFA

Thesis Project- Bezalel Academy Of Arts and Design

The city of Jaffa has been a point on the Mediterranean perimeter for about 3,500 years. Old Jaffa was built on a limestone cliff that penetrates the Mediterranean Sea and at its feet the port, considered one of the oldest ports in the world.

The various points of view on Old Jaffa are carried out using digital tools in varying scales. The ways in which the same tools read the space and translate it into lines, planes and points serve as an engine for a planning process that emerges from the existing and constitutes the basis for future intervention that has a local memory and character.

The proposal enables the designer o translate the digital output into an architectural object, “breaks” the first line to the sea and offers a wide public space connecting the port to the city one end at the top of the hill of Jaffa and the other end in the Mediterranean Sea.

"The

3D Scans of the Jaffa coastline buildings

Mediterranean is not a single sea, it is a complex of seas..." Fernand Braudel, "La Méditerranée", 1949

General dimensions of the network in relation to non-orthogonal axis system

Lists of points that define the variable density of the glass grid

A decomposed glass grid is divided into groups of variable density.

This grid is blocked by a non-orthogonal axis system

36,817 curves

73,634 points

38 attractors points

Glass grid as a result of the code points that define the density and complexity of glass in a specific area

36,817 curves

73,634 points

38 attractors points

Render, a glass grid as an outline for a proposal in the port context

Epoxy Casting Jaffa Coastline

3d print, Jaffa Coastline typical block

3d print, Jaffa Coastline typical block

WORK EXPERIENCE

YGAA- Gutman Assif Architects

YGAA is an architecture practice based in Tel Aviv, Israel. An energetic architecture and urban design firm, practicing a wide range of domains and scales. Combining creative impulse, with public sensibility, we think of space and urban solutions, by collection and processing environmental, economic and social data. In each project we challenge and redefine building typologies, urban infrastructure and programs to suit the client, user and city needs. By constant change and innovation we create living, working, learning and leisure environments – fresh and great to use.

Projects I lead in the practice-

Balady- Mixed Use Tower ( 42 stories) Plot 127Residential, Commercial & Offices Tower- Gutman Assif Architects

Location: Bat-Yam, 22,000 sqm

Under construstion

Residential, office, Hotel and commercial tower.

‘Hareches Hotel’, Jerusalem- Hotel & Residential Complex - Gutman Assif Architects

Location: Jerusalem, 12,000 sqm

Under construstion

Residential, Hotel and commercial Floor.

SISUAN | Industry Distribution and Functional Division,Guangdong - Gutman Assif Architects, 2017

Location: Guangdong, 90,000 sqm

Research, Parametric design for industrial and laboratory compound.

The main idea is a “Sponge Town” that will provide a solution for flooding and rising Water levels in the area.

Balady 2019

Plot 127 - Residential, Commercial & Offices Tower- Gutman Assif Architects

Location: Bat-Yam

Under construstion

Residential, office, Hotel and commercial tower.

The design of the tower poses challenges of integrating a complex program designed for different uses using a continuous vertical scheme. For the past two years I have been leading a team of architects for detailed design.

The tower is now under construction and the works are expected to be completed in 2025

Hareches Hotel 2021

‘Hareches Hotel’, Jerusalem- Hotel & Residential Complex - Gutman Assif Architects

The complex has two buildings - one is a Hotel contains 180 units and the other is a residential building contains 20 housing units, both share a commercial ground floor.

SISUAN Industry Distribution and Functional Division,Guangdong - Gutman Assif Architects, 2017

Parametric design for industrial and laboratory compound. The main idea is a “Sponge Town” that will provide a solution for flooding and rising Water levels in the area.

Principle sectional diagram and programmatic schematic for floor plans

D-MARS is a space analog research center in Israel, in which analog astronauts go on a scientific journey of exploration that simulates an actual mission on the surface of the planet Mars. Today, space analogs are becoming well-developed sectors of space science disciplines, used to train future human explorers, test related hardware and make space more accessible to the general public.

As mankind stretches its frontiers into outer space, Mars may become the focus of our endeavors. Human missions to Mars will gradually be replaced by larger exploratory groups, which will pave the way to settlement on the Red Planet. The Mars New Kibbutz (MarsKibu) concept design to settle 1000 people on Mars can lead to a self-sustained environment in terms of energy, water, food, and waste management. The MarsKibu will generate value from Earth space tourism and use the resources generated to acquire necessary earth goods for the operation of the Mars habitat.

Mars Colony Design Contest Submission-Presented to The Mars Society

Authors: Maayan Aharoni, Nitzan Anav, Neal Fischer, Eldar Gantz, Noa Guy, Yuval Porat, Liran Renert, Hilel Rubinstein, Eran Schenker, Hila Sharabi, Alon Shikar, Mikhail Raizanski, Doron Landau, Reut SorekAbramovich, Moti Cohen, David Warmflash, Helen Wexler, Moshe Zagai March 2019

Exterior

Lab Habitat

Presented to The Mars Society

Authors: Maayan Aharoni, Nitzan Anav, Neal Fischer, Eldar Gantz, Noa Guy Yuval Porat, Liran Renert, Hilel Rubinstein, Eran Schenker, Hila Sharabi, Alon Shikar, Mikhail Raizanski, Doron Landau, Reut Sorek-

Exterior casing and mechanics

Mars Design Contest, Mars kibutz logo, Noa Guy Design of our new Martian base station, Programmatic scheme, Noa Guy

3D FABRICATION

AADRL, BEZALEL

Various 3D modeling techniques are presented in this chapter. Most of them are 3D printing using different materials, PLA, PVA, TPU. Another method is using laser machines to produce cuts in two-dimensional surfaces and create three-dimensional shapes using parametric tools. Casting techniques are also presented in the shape of mold work and castings in various materials such as silicone, epoxy, plaster, and glass.

Epoxy Casting on a Traditional Jaffa Stone

Silicon casting on a 3d printed mold

Acrylic cage, piano wires, silicon joints and laser cuted skin

Acrylic cage, Piano wires, laser cuted acrilyc joints

Silicon casting on a 3d printed mold

Laser Cut Polypropylene sheet & Rivets- Kerf Patterning

Laser Cut Polypropylene sheet & Rivets- Kerf Patterning

Models, selection of projects, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design