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VINCENZO REALE.08 AUTHOR

PORTFOLIO 2012 TITLE

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2011-2012

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Architectural Association London

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Design network

OCCUPATION:

Freelance designer / engineer

EDUCATION:

NAME D.O.B NAT. GND.

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VINCENZO REALE 1984/08/19 ITALIAN MALE

Master of Science, Emergent Technologies and Design

Consulence and collaboration with architecture and

programme

CURRICULUM VITAE DETAIL

WORK EXPERIENCE:

engineering offices DATES:

2010

ORGANIZATION:

Ordine degli ingegneri di Bologna

DATES:

08/2011 Span – del Campo Manninger Architecture & Design,

QUALIFICATION:

Professional Engineer Qualification (Part II equivalent)

EMPLOYER: SECTOR: OCCUPATION:

Freelance collaborator

DATES:

2003-2010

ORGANIZATION: INTERNATIONAL

Università degli Studi di Bologna (University)

QUALIFICATION:

5A Master Degree in Building and Architectural Engineering 110/110 cum laude Thesis title “Tensional Integrities and intensive connections in Pontelungo Park, Bologna Thesis supervisors: Eng. Alessio Erioli (University of Bologna) Eng. Gabriele Giacobazzi (University of Bologna) Arch. Ludovico Lombardi (University College London / Zaha Hadid Architects)

INTERNATIONAL

Architecture Involvement in planning and development of Beijing Oval Housing project and Busan Opera house competition

DATES: EMPLOYER: SECTOR: OCCUPATION:

03/2011-07/2011 Emergent Tom Wiscombe LLC Architecture Assistant Architect Involvement in planning and development large scale projects such as the Beijing National Hotel and Shenyang University Sports Arena.

DATES: EMPLOYER: SECTOR: OCCUPATION:

03/2010-05/2010 Bologna Municipality, Bologna (Italy) Local government Designer, Tutor Redesign of Pontelungo’s park spaces (Bologna Italy) and leading tutor of partecipatory workshop with inhabitants

DATES: EMPLOYER: SECTOR: OCCUPATION:

10/2008 - 01/2009 Undergroundstudio Architecture office Assistant Architect Project design and masterplan definition of new Modena’s transport system hub.

OTHER ACHIEVEMENTS: DATES: COMPETITION NAME: ORGANIZATION: TOPIC: ACHIEVEMENT:

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07/2012 D3 Natural System Competition Bustler.net Investigation of natural systems from microscopic to universal toward determining new architectonic strategies.

Special mention for the research methodology

DATES: COMPETITION NAME: ORGANIZATION: TOPIC: ACHIEVEMENT:

10/2010

DATES: COMPETITION NAME: ORGANIZATION: TOPIC: ACHIEVEMENT:

10/2009

DATES: COMPETITION NAME: ORGANIZATION: TOPIC: ACHIEVEMENT:

05/2008

72hours Urban Action Bat Yam Biennale of Landscape Urbanism, Israel The first real-time architecture competition Granted admission and partecipation as one of the team leaders

Upto35 International Competition for Architects OLIAROS, Greece Student housing in Athens, Masterplan and Design Publication of the project

Co4 University of Bologna Design of Modena railway station Special mention for “the genuine and innovative approach to the morphogenesis of the project”

DATES: EMPLOYER: SECTOR: OCCUPATION:

2008 - 2009 Fontana Mix Ensemble in collaboration with Teatro Comunale Bologna and University’s Department of Music Contemporary music PRODUCTION Video-designer Design and set of video installation for contemporary music event

DATES: EMPLOYER: SECTOR: OCCUPATION:

2003 - 2009 Stoa- Societàs Raffaello Sanzio, Theatre Company Performer / Collaborator / Director Long term collaboration with the company, set for experimental theatrical works (direction, set, lighting, costumes, space and sound project) (“0bjects in the mirror are closer than they appear” 2006)

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: DATES: EMPLOYER: SECTOR: OCCUPATION:

07/2012 Architectural Association Visiting School Architectural School Tutor Organization and tutoring of workshop on computational techniques applied to the analysis and development of project at an urban scale.

DATES: EMPLOYER: SECTOR: OCCUPATION:

03/2012 – 04/2012 Architectural Association, London (UK) Architectural School Tutor and coordinator Organization and tutoring of workshop on computational techniques for architecture and fabrication at Emergent Technologies and Design (Emtech) master degree 20112012

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THIS IS A COLLECTION OF SURFACE MANIPULATIONS THROUGH MULTIPLE INTERACTIONS FIRSTLY DEVELOPED FOR THE WORKSHOP “DIG.T.A.” AT BOLOGNA UNIVERSITY (RHINOSCRIPT CODES).

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FIRSTLY AN EDITOR WAS CREATED: INSERTED AN EQUATION AND DEFINED A DOMINIUM A SURFACE WAS GENERATED.

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SURFACES

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SECONDLY, AN APPROXIMATION OF THE SURFACE THROUGH CUBES WAS DEFINED. THE DIFFICULTY LIED IN THE DEFINITION OF A NON-MANIFOLD [A] GEOMETRY WHERE THE HEIGHT OF EACH CUBE WAS RANDOMLY ASSIGNED. THIS WAS ACHIEVED BY DEFINING ALL THE UPPER AND LOWER FACES IN THE FIRST PLACE AND, IN TURN, BY CREATING THE LATERAL ONES THROUGH THE CONNECTION OF TOP LAYER’S EDGES.

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SOFTWARE .RHINOSCRIPT ANGLE : 450° MAX DIAM : 2.5 END LEN: 1/3

ANGLE : 810° MAX DIAM : 2 END LEN : 1/4

ANGLE : 360° MAX DIAM : 2.5 END LEN : 1/4

ANGLE : 180° MAX DIAM : 1.8 END LEN : 1/4

ANGLE : 200° MAX DIAM : 2 END LEN : 1/5

ANGLE : 450° MAX DIAM : 2 END LEN : 1/3

ANGLE : 720° MAX DIAM : 1.8 END LEN : 1/4

ANGLE : 720° MAX DIAM : 1.8 END LEN : 1/3.5

ANGLE : 140 MAX DIAM : 2 END LEN : 1/4

ANGLE : 180° MAX DIAM : 2 END LEN : 1/5

THIRDLY SOME VARIATIONS WERE INTRODUCED: HOLES WERE CUT WITHIN THE CUBES, WITHOUT LOOSING THE NON-MANIFOLD PROPERTIES. EVENTUALLY THE SIZE OF THE HOLES WAS LINKED THE THE PROXIMITY TO ONE OR MORE ATTRACTORS.

TESSELLATION 03 ATTRACTOR_HOLES PRINTABLE

THIS INTERACTION HAD BEEN DEVISED BOTH AS AN “ACCUMULATION” OF INFLUENCES (WHERE THE OVERALL SIZE OF THE HOLES WAS THE SUM OF THE MUTUAL INTERACTIONS OF DIFFERENT ATTRACTORS) AND “SELECTION” OF THE INFLUENCES (BEING EACH PANEL INFLUENCED ONLY BE THE CLOSEST POINT OF INTERACTION) LASTLY A SURFACE WITH HEXAGONAL TESSELLATION AND HONEYCOMB ONE WERE DEFINED.

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THESE TESSELLATIONS WERE ALSO TESTED ON FREE FORM MODELLED SURFACES. DIFFERENT SMOOTHING ALGORITHMS WERE ALSO TESTED. ANGLE : 360° MAX DIAM : 1.5 END LENGTH : 1/4

ANGLE : 720° MAX DIAM : 2 END LENGTH : 1/3 SMOOTHED

ANGLE : 540° MAX DIAM : 2 END LENGTH : 1/3 SMOOTHED

ANGLE : 810° MAX DIAM : 2 END LENGTH : 1/4

ANGLE : 140° MAX DIAM : 3 END LENGTH : 1/4

ANGLE : 180 MAX DIAM : 2.5 END LENGTH : 1/3

ANGLE : 200 MAX DIAM : 3 END LENGTH : 1/5

ANGLE : 360 MAX DIAM : 2 END LENGTH : 1/3

LOOKING AT THE WORK OF THE PHOTOGRAPHER KARL BLOSSFELD, MADE IN THE EARLY YEARS OF 1900, NEW ELEMENTS WERE DEVISED TO BE INTRODUCED. NAMELY A STEM-LIKE SHAPE, WHICH COULD HAVE BEEN SENSIBLE TO THE AFOREMENTIONED ATTRACTORS. THIS ELEMENT’S DESIGN WAS SPLIT INTO THREE PARTS: A STEM IN THE LOWER PART, A SERIES OF ENTWINED BRANCHES AND A PRISM IN THE UPPER PART.

TESSELLATION 03 RANDOM PRINTABLE

TESSELLATION 04 HEXAGONAL HOLES PRINTABLE

DIFFERENT PARAMETERS WERE TESTED FOR THE SECTIONS GENERATING THE GEOMETRY: NUMBER OF BRANCHES, PROPORTIONS, ANGLE OF ROTATION, DISTANCE FROM THE AXIS. THESE SHAPES WERE EVENTUALLY TESTED AS ARRAYS OF STRUCTURES WHICH DISPLACEMENT AND SCALE WERE INFLUENCED BOTH BY ATTRACTORS AND GENERATIVE RULES (SUCH AS CELLULAR AUTOMATA)

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[A) TO BE “PRINTABLE” WITH A 3D PRINTER MACHINE A 3-DIMENSIONAL MODEL MUST BE “NON MANIFOLDS”. IT MEANS THAT EVERY CORNER OF EACH SOLID MUST BE SHARED BY TWO AND TWO ONLY MESHES.

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NOTES

GLIMPSES

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INTERACTIONS

BLOOMING SURFACE

THE ALGORITHM TO DEFINE A SURFACE “BLOOMING” WITH THE STEM-LIKE ELEMENTS WAS SUBDIVIDED INTO DIFFERENT STEPS.

ATTRACTORS

FIRSTLY THE TESSELLATION OF THE SURFACE WAS ENRICHED BY THE INTRODUCTION OF DIFFERENT CREASES AND EDGES, USING REFERENCED VECTOR FOR THE CONSTRUCTION. SECONDLY THE STEM PART ARISING FROM EACH PANEL WAS IMPLEMENTED. THIS WAS ACHIEVED BY DEFINING BASE CURVES, PERPENDICULAR AT THEIR START TO THE PANELS AND IN TURN INFLUENCED IN THEIR DIRECTION

BY EXTERNAL POINTS OF ATTRACTION. EVENTUALLY A SET OF SECTIONS ROTATING AROUND THOSE CURVES WERE PLACED. THE RELATIVE POSITION OF THE POINTS COMPOSING THE SECTIONS WAS DEFINED AT THE BASE OF THE CURVES, AND MAINTAINED USING AS REFERENCE PERPENDICULAR PLANES TO THE CURVES AT EACH SUBDIVISION STEP. A VARIABLE PARAMETER FOR SCALING THE SECTIONS WHILE ROTATING WAS ALSO INTRODUCED. LASTLY THE DIFFERENT SECTIONS WERE JOINED TOGETHER AT THE TOP OF THE “FLOWERS”, AGAIN AVOIDING MANIFOLDS.

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ATTRACTORS

OBVIOUSLY THE APPROACH OF TAKING AN IMAGE OF A NATURAL ELEMENT (THE SEED IN THIS EXAMPLE) WITHOUT STUDYING THE RULES THAT DRIVE HIS FORMATION BUT JUST FOCUSING ON THE ITS EXTERNAL SHAPE IS CRITICIZABLE. BUT, ON THE OTHER HAND, THE OBJECTIVE OF THIS STUDY WAS TO DEFINE A RULE AND, BY ITS APPLICATION ON A BROADER CONTEST (PROLIFERATION ONTO A SURFACE) AND THROUGH MULTIPLE INTERACTIONS (THE INFLUENCE OF DIFFERENT ATTRACTORS) VERIFY WHETHER OR NOT THIS COULD HAVE BEEN A POSSIBLE WAY TO DESCRIBE AND MODEL THE OBSERVED PHENOMENON (SEED GENERATION).

WHILE HARD MODELLING WOULD HAVE RESULTED JUST IN A SCULPTURE OF THE OBSERVED OBJECT, WHAT WAS REMARKABLE IN THIS EXAMPLE WAS THAT IN THE END ALL THE GENERATION OF THE GEOMETRY WAS LINKED TO A SINGLE ALGORITHM: A SET OF ACTIONS IMPOSED AS A RULE. SIMILAR, CONSIDERING IT AS A PROCESS, TO WHAT HAPPENS IN NATURE.

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IN THE FIRST ONE (TOP LEFT), THROUGH THE USE OF A SET OF POINTS AS AN INPUT, A PATCH OF SPACE WAS SUBDIVIDED WITH A 3-DIMENSIONAL VORONOI ALGORITHM. THE SPACES DEFINED WERE EVENTUALLY GRADUALLY FILLED WITH SOLID ELEMENTS. THE GRADIENT OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF THESE ELEMENTS WAS INFLUENCED BY THE VALUE OF THEIR DISTANCE FROM AN ATTRACTOR POINT.

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THEN A NEW SERIES OF TESSELLATIONS WAS DEVISED. THIS TIME THE GOAL WAS TO DESIGN SIMPLE COMPONENTS, WHICH VARIATIONS COULD BE LINKED TO THE INFLUENCE OF EXTERNAL PARAMETERS SUCH AS THE SOLAR RADIATION. THIS WAS ACHIEVED BY SIMULATING THE SOLAR ARC WITH A POINT MOVING ON A CURVE IN SPACE. THE ANGLE OF INCIDENCE OF THE LINE CONNECTING THE CENTRE OF THE PANELS AND THE POINT WAS USED TO INFORM THE POROSITY OF THE DIFFERENT PATCHES.

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THE FIRST PANEL WAS DEFINED BY A SET OF “BLADES”. THE HIGHER THE INCIDENTAL RADIATION THE MORE THE BLADES OVERLAPPED. THE SECOND WAS DEFINED AS A SORT OF CAMERA SHUTTER, CLOSING AND PROTRUDING AS THE SOLAR RADIATION INCREASED. LASTLY THESE PANELS WERE DEVISED TO SPREAD OVER A SURFACE. THIS TIME, INSTEAD OF AN APPROXIMATION THROUGH U,V COORDINATES, LEADING TO RECTANGULAR PATCHES, THE SURFACE WAS SUBDIVIDED USING ISO-CURVES AND UTILIZING THESE AS BORDER OF DIFFERENT SUBDIVISIONS WITH DIFFERENT DEGREES OF POROSITY.

VORONOI PATTERN

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CONNECTIONS.01 [ NEW SUBWAY TRANSPORT SYSTEM, BOLOGNA ]

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GENERATING FORM

0.0 PROJECT FOR SUBWAY AND TRAMWAY TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM. CITY OF BOLOGNA LINE 1.

TOTAL LENGTH OF 11.8 KM, 6.5 UNDERGROUND, 24 STATIONS (12 UNDERGROUND AND 12 OVERGROUND). HOURLY CAPACITY OF APPROXIMATELY 6600 / 7200 PPHPD. HIGHLIGHTED: UNDERGROUND LINE (FROM “FIERA” DEPOT UP TO “OSPEDALE MAGGIORE”)

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0.1 USERS. THREE TYPES OF USERS WERE IDENTIFIED: THE STUDENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY, TOURISTS AND THE CITY USERS (WORKING AND LIVING INSIDE THE CITY).

DIFFERENT NEEDS AND PREFERENCES OF DIFFERENT USERS REGARDING THE SERVICES OFFERED BY THE CITY WERE ANALYSED TO INFORM THE DESIGN. THE NEED FOR CULTURAL INITIATIVES AND FOR ENTERTAINMENT WAS WIDESPREAD AND IT SEEMED THEREFORE POSSIBLE TO INTEGRATE THE RENEWAL OF THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM WITH THE CREATION OF ART AND CULTURAL SPACES.

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0.2 IMPLICIT CORRELATIONS. THE DEFINITION OF CHARACTERISTICS OF A NET OF GALLERIES AND ART SPACES WAS THEN ADDRESSED. KEY FEATURES OF TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS AND ART GALLERIES WERE THEN ANALYSED. SHAPE, SPACE, MOTION, TRADE WERE SOME OF THE THEMES ON FOCUS. 0.3 INFLOWS. THE AMOUNT OF ACCESSES TO THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM DURING THE DAY EXPRESSED AS THE SUM OF PASSENGERS GETTING ON AND OFF AT EACH STATION WAS EVALUATED. THE FIGURE SHOW THAT THE STATIONS CLOSER TO THE CENTRE OF THE CITY WOULD SUSTAIN A GREATER AMOUNT OF USERS. IN PARTICULAR THE CENTRAL STATION AND VIII AGOSTO SQUARE WOULD BE THE MOST OVERLOADED, DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF OTHER MEANS OF TRANSPORT (TRAINS, CAR PARKING BUILDINGS, BUS CENTRAL STATION).

(DATA FROM THE TOWN COUNCIL HALL’S OFFICE, JANUARY 2006 ) 0.4 GENERATING FORMS. CONSIDERING THE STATIONS AS ELEMENTS WITH THE DUAL FUNCTION OF TRANSPORT HUB, PERMEABLE TO THE PASSAGE OF USERS, AND EXHIBITION SPACES, FROM SIMPLE BOXES THEY WERE EVENTUALLY MODELLED TO SATISFY THE DESIRED REQUIREMENTS. THIS PROCESS OCCURRED IN SUBSEQUENT STEPS BY ‘COUPLING’ TWO OR MORE BASE TYPES TO GENERATE NEW SHAPES. THESE WOULD PRESERVE SOME ATTRIBUTES BUT AT THE SAME TIME SHOW ORIGINAL TRAITS. 0.5 PROLIFERATION. THE MAIN SHAPES DEVELOPED WOULD IN TURN GIVE RISE TO FAMILIES OF MUTATIONS, WITH VARIATION BUT MAINTAINING SIMILAR FEATURES, AND CONSIDERED AS HIERARCHICALLY SECONDARY SPACES.

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PROLIFERATIONS

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PIECES

.PIAZZA VIII AGOSTO THE STATION WOULD REGISTER THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF ACCESSES ACCORDING TO THE ESTIMATES OF THE MUNICIPALITY. THIS DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF AN UNDERGROUND PARKING NEAR BY. BOTH THE MAIN ENTRANCE SPACES IN THE SOUTH-WEST CORNER AND TWO ADDITIONAL ENTRANCES IN THE NORTH PART OF THE SQUARE WERE DESIGNED. THOSE WOULD PROVIDE ALSO VENTILATION TO THE UNDERGROUND SPACES. WITHIN THE MAIN BUILDING TWO ELEVATOR AND TWO STAIRWAYS WERE PROVIDED TO CONVEY THE FLOW OF USERS DIRECTLY EITHER TO THE PARKING AREA OR TO THE SUBWAY PLATFORM. THE CENTRAL SPACE WAS DESIGNED AS HIGH AND WIDE ALLOWING THE ORGANIZATION OF EVENTS AND THE EXHIBITIONS OF ART PIECES.

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THE OUTER SKIN WAS DESIGNED TO BE CONSTRUCTED BY FOLDING FOUR FLAT METAL PANELS.

CRITICAL A. NON OVERLAPPING B. CLOSE C. DEVELOPABLE

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HUMAN POPULATION THIS YEAR IS REACHING THE 7 BILLION LIMIT: IT IS NECESSARY FOR ARCHITECTURE TO FIND NEW ANSWERS TO THE EMERGING NEEDS OF SUCH NUMBERS. HIGH-DENSITY, VERTICAL SOLUTIONS SEEM TO BE THE RIGHT DIRECTION, PROVIDING BOTH A HIGH SUPPLY OF LIVING STANDARDS AND A LOW SOIL CONSUMPTION. THE PROJECT WAS DEVELOP THROUGH A HOLISTIC APPROACH TO THE DESIGN THEMES: FUNCTIONAL, STRUCTURAL, SPATIAL AND URBAN NEEDS WHERE CONSIDERED TOGETHER AND CONSTITUTED THE MAIN DIRECTION THAT INFORMED THE WORK, WITHIN AN INNOVATIVE AND EXPERIMENTAL SENSITIVENESS. WE DEVELOPED THIS APPROACH THROUGH 4 MAIN STRATEGIES: . . . .

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A STRONGLY INNOVATIVE APPROACH WAS TAKEN TO DESIGN THE BASIC LIVING UNITS. UNITS’ OVERALL GEOMETRY AND DIMENSION ARE PARAMETRICALLY GENERATED IN ORDER TO CREATE CONTROLLED DIFFERENTIATION: THE STRUGGLE WAS TO MOVE BEYOND THE TRADITIONAL, REGULAR, OUTDATED UNITS SUBDIVISION, WHILE AT THE SAME TIME CONSERVING STRUCTURAL FEASIBILITY AND INTEGRITY. HOUSING-WORKING SPACES ARE INTEGRATED WITH GREEN ONES ORGANIZED AS GREENHOUSES. THE GEOMETRY OF THE UNITS’ COMPONENTS MAXIMIZES THE SUN AND WIND EXPOSURE ALLOWING FOR A DIGITAL-CONTROLLED HIGHLY EFFICIENT PHYSIC BEHAVIOUR: HEATING AND COOLING, VENTILATION ARE MANAGED THROUGH THE BUILDING SKIN, WHOSE ADAPTIVE MATERIAL IS CONTROLLED THROUGH AN INTELLIGENT SYSTEM OF SENSORS AND IMPULSES.

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CONTEXT CONNECTION HIGHLY EFFICIENT LIVING UNITS HIGHLY EFFICIENT MATERIALS STRONG INTERDEPENDENCE BETWEEN STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

CONTEXT INTERACTION IS ONE THE MAIN CHALLENGES FOR CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE. URBAN CONTINUITY, PERCEPTIVE AND GEOMETRICAL, MEANS IDENTITY, RESEMBLING SOCIAL CONNECTIVITY AND INTEGRITY. WE PURSUED THIS AIM

BY CONNECTING THE SKYSCRAPER TO THE SURROUNDINGS THROUGH A SET OF CONTINUOUS MULTIPURPOSE SURFACES, WORKING TOGETHER AS BUILDING ENVELOPE, GROUND PUBLIC SPACE, PERCEPTIVE CONNECTION. THE SKYSCRAPER BECOMES PART OF THE HIGHLY URBANIZED ENVIRONMENT, WORKING TOGETHER WITH IT AT MULTIPLES LEVELS, EXCHANGING FLOWS OF HUMAN AND MECHANIC TRANSIT.

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3_ HIGHLY PERFORMATIVE MATERIALS TESTING BIOMECHANICS AND NATURE’S BIOLOGY COULD MEAN OBTAINING NEW KIND OF MATERIALS. SUITABLE FOR UNIQUE PURPOSES, THESE MATERIALS ARE DESIGNED THROUGH A SOFTWARE THAT CONTROLS AND DRIVES THEM TO A DEFINED FORM. NAVIL IS A MINERALIZED TISSUE STRUCTURE THAT CAN BE MOULDED (SHAPED) BY COMPUTER-DRIVEN INSTRUMENTS IN ACCORDANCE WITH GEOMETRIES ALGORITHM-GENERATED. THIS MINERALIZED TISSUE IS A COMPOSITE MATERIAL, CONSISTING OF A MINERAL PHASE AND AN INORGANIC MATRIX, WHICH INCLUDES “STRUCTURAL MACROMOLECULES”, COLLAGEN AND ACIDIC MACROMOLECULES, INTERACTING WITH ELECTRIC CHARGED CRYSTALS AND INFLUENCING THEIR PROCESSES OF CRYSTALLIZATION AND GROWTH. WHEN ADSORBED ON A SUBSTRATE (BIONAVIL), THESE MACROMOLECULES CONTROL THE NUCLEATION, ORIENTATION, POLYMORPHISM AND MORPHOLOGY OF THE MINERAL PHASE BIONAVIL IS A BIOMIMETIC MATERIAL FORMED OF A 5-LAYER STRUCTURE CHARACTERIZED BY HIGH SUSTAINABILITY CHARACTERISTICS, BIOACTIVITY AND OPTIMAL MECHANICAL PROPERTIES. IT IS A TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED MATERIAL, UV RESISTANCE, ODOURLESS, HIGH RESISTANT TO CHEMICAL AGENTS. IT IS SHAPED THROUGH INJECTION INTO A MOULD AFTER THE UNDERLAYERS OF ORGANIC MATERIALS HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED TO BIO-MINERALIZATION PROCESSES. 4_ NETWORK INTERDEPENDENCE

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FABRIC

THE LAYERING OF THE DESIGN PROCESS WAS MADE BOTH AT STRUCTURAL LEVEL AND AT NETWORK ONE. AS THE FABRIC THAT DEFINES THE SURFACE OF THE STRUCTURE OPENS ITSELF AND INCREASES ITS POROSITY, IN RELATION TO HEIGHT AND EXPOSURE, THE FUNCTIONS’ DISTRIBUTION CHANGES, ACCORDING TO THE NEW SPACES THAT ARE MATERIALIZED. FROM LEVEL 0, AN INTERMODAL TRANSPORT HUB (SUITABLE FOR MULTIPLE CONNECTIONS SUCH AS UNDERGROUND, ROAD, RAIL, PORT LINKS), WE MOVE TO HIGHER LEVELS OF DEDICATED PUBLIC SPACES AND SERVICES WHILE, RISING AGAIN, WE CAN DEFINE MORE PRIVATE AREAS, MAINLY RESIDENTIAL, WITH SPACES FOR CONTEMPLATION AND RELAX. THE BUILDING WORKS BOTH AS SWITCH OF FLOWS (NETWORK HUB) AND AS A FUNCTIONAL (FROM PUBLIC TO PRIVATE SPACES) AND STRUCTURAL FILTER (FROM MATERIAL TO ETHEREAL).

THE FINAL DEMATERIALIZATION TURNS THE EXTREME PART OF THE BUILDING IN AN ENERGY GENERATOR AND A COLLECTOR OF RESOURCES, OPENING ITSELF TO THE WIND, THE RAIN AND SUN. ADDITIONAL

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ISO: A COMBINING FORM MEANING “EQUAL,” USED IN THE FORMATION OF COMPOUND WORDS: ISOCHROMATIC; [..]

COMMUNICATION: A PROCESS BY WHICH INFORMATION IS EXCHANGED THROUGH A COMMON SYSTEM OF SYMBOLS, SIGNS, OR BEHAVIOUR [..] THE VARIOUS METHODS OF SENDING INFORMATION BETWEEN PEOPLE AND PLACES. IT IS RECOGNIZABLE HOW THE LACK OR FAILURE OF “COMMUNICATION”, INTENDED AS AN EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION AND DATA IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS, IS A POTENTIAL CAUSE OF THE PARALYSIS, STAGNATION OR NECROSIS FOR THE SYSTEMS THEMSELVES.

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THE DESIGN OF HYPER CONNECTED SYSTEMS, WHERE, EACH TIME A CHANNEL IS PREVENTED, OTHERS BECOME AUTOMATICALLY ACTIVATED AND COMPETITIVE, OR WHERE DIFFERENT CHANNELS OPERATE SIMULTANEOUSLY EVEN IN NON-CRITICAL SITUATIONS, ALLOWS TO PROVIDE NOT ONLY OPTIMAL PERFORMANCES (ALBEIT POTENTIALLY LESS EFFECTIVE THAN A SINGLE “AD HOC” SOLUTION) BUT ALSO ADAPTABLE AND DYNAMIC RESPONSES TO OTHER EXTERNAL STIMULI, AND LEADS TO MORE GLOBALLY EFFICIENT SOLUTIONS. DETAIL

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THE DESIGN OF A LINEAR, DISTRIBUTED PAVILION WAS THUS APPROACHED. THIS WOULD MEND AND CONNECT THE TISSUE OF THE PARK, GIVING A DEFINITE CHARACTER TO THE SITE, IMPROVING ACCESSIBILITY, OFFERING SPACES FOR DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES AND SHELTER FOR THE USERS.

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THE MAIN IDEA WAS TO OPERATE TAKING IN ACCOUNT THE EXISTING CONDITIONS OF THE SITE WITH A MINIMUM IMPACT ON WHAT ALREADY BUILT AND ON THE EXISTING VEGETATION. SIMPLE LINES CONNECTED TO THE ENTRANCES WERE TRACED. THESE LINES WERE THEN DEFORMED THROUGH AN ALGORITHM WHICH TOOK IN ACCOUNT THE PRESENCE OF POINTS OF INTEREST WITHIN THE PARK. ALONG THESE SECTION PROFILES WERE SWEPT. THE SECTIONS WOULD BE IN TURN INFLUENCED BY THE PRESENCE OF TREES, LIGHT CONDITIONS AND REMARKABLE VIEWS OR ELEMENTS. IN TURN A SCRIPT MODIFIED THE PATHS AND THE SCALE OF THE SECTIONS: COVERING THE MOST IRRADIATED AREAS, GROWING IN PROXIMITY OF ZONES CONSIDERED CROWDED FOR THEIR USE (E.G. PROXIMITY TO THE THEATRE), RAISING THE PAVILION’S EDGES TO ALLOW PARTICULAR VIEWS THROUGH THE PARK AND MOVING OR DISAPPEARING TO AVOID RUNNING ACROSS TREES.

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THE RANGE OF POSSIBLE MODIFICATIONS WAS TESTED. DIFFERENT PARAMETERS AND GRADIENT RULES FOR THE INTERACTIONS WERE SET, GIVING RISE TO SEVERAL SHAPES WITH DIFFERENT CHARACTERISTICS.

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HUMAN VERTEBRAE MORPHOLOGY VARIATIONS STRUCTURE

OBJECT ANALYSIS

THERE ARE MANY DEFINITIONS ADOPTED FOR THE TERM “TENSEGRITY” (OR TENSIONAL INTEGRITY).

ONE OF THE FIRST STATEMENT DEFINED TENSEGRITY AS A STRUCTURAL PRINCIPLE RELYING ON THE USE OF ISOLATED COMPRESSED ELEMENTS CONNECTED BY A CONTINUOUS NETWORK OF STRETCHED COMPONENTS. WE CAN SAY THAT IT IS ACTUALLY A PHYSICAL MECHANISM RATHER THAN A TYPE OF STRUCTURE. THE TERM, WITH THIS MEANING, WAS COINED BY RICHARD BUCKMINSTER FULLER IN 1955, EVEN THOUGH IN THE SAME YEARS DAVID GEORGES EMMERICH AND KENNETH D. SNELSON SPECULATED ABOUT THE SAME CONCEPT. WHILE THE FIRST TWO TRIED TO SYSTEMATIZE THE SUBJECT AND DEFINE THE STRICT MATHEMATICAL PROPERTIES OF SUCH SYSTEMS, THE LATTER WAS INTERESTED IN A MORE EMPIRICAL APPROACH, WITH WHICH HE CREATED A SERIES OF “FLOATING “ SCULPTURES. THE TERM ITSELF DERIVES FROM THE UNION OF THE TWO WORDS “TENSION” AND “INTEGRITY”. IT MEANS THAT THE INTEGRITY OF THIS CLASS OF STRUCTURES DEPENDS ON THE BALANCE BETWEEN THE TENSION, WHICH IS CONTINUOUSLY ACTING THROUGHOUT THEM, AND THE COMPRESSION WHICH SOME OF ITS ISOLATED ELEMENT SUSTAIN.

MORPH. PARAMETERIZATION 000

WE CAN FIND PLENTY OF TENSEGRITY EXAMPLES IN BIOLOGICAL WORLD: IN THE MAST OF A PLANT (REMARKABLE ARE FREI OTTO EXPERIMENTS) WHERE WE FIND COMPRESSED SEGMENTS AND TENSE TRACHEIDS; IN THE NECK OF AN APATOSAURUS (BRONTOSAURUS) , WHERE A SPAN OF TEN METERS WAS COVERED THANKS TO COMPRESSED VERTEBRAE AND TENSE MUSCLES; IN THE NECK OF A MAMMAL LIKE A HORSE OR THE IN HUMAN VERTEBRAL COLUMN. THE DEFINITION OF MY COMPONENTS STARTED FROM THE OBSERVATION OF THE HUMAN VERTEBRAE’S MORPHOLOGY: HOW THEIR SHAPE CHANGES FROM THE SACRUM TO THE FIRST CERVICAL AND WHICH CHARACTERISTICS REMAIN CONSTANT. MODIFICATIONS ARISE DUE TO THEIR DIFFERENT RELATIVE POSITIONS AND DUE TO THE DIFFERENT ROLES THAT EVERY DIFFERENT VERTEBRA HAS. FOR EXAMPLE, THE CHANGE OF THEIR SECTIONAL INERTIA, OR OF THEIR DIMENSION DEPENDS ON THE POSITION ALONG THE SPINE (HIGHER VERTEBRAE ARE SMALLER, WEIGHT LESS, AND ARE LESS COMPACT).

THERE ARE ALSO SIMILARITY LIKE THE CONSTANT PRESENCE OF “PROCESSES”, WHICH ARE ATTACHMENTS FOR MUSCLES AND TENDONS. WE CAN FIND SIMILARITY NOT ONLY IN THE MORPHOLOGY OF THE SINGULAR VERTEBRA BUT ALSO IN THE SPATIAL RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEM. FOR INSTANCE, THE RELATIVE POSITION OF THE UPPER SPINOUS PROCESS AND THE ONE OF THE PROCESSES BELOW.

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TETRAHEDRAL STRUCTURE

THE CONSTANT FEATURE IN THIS KIND OF SYSTEM WAS THAT EVERY UNIT WAS ABLE TO “WEIGHT” ON ITS PREVIOUS ONE IN THEIR LINEAR ARRANGEMENT. THIS DUE TO A SLIGHT OVERLAP OF THE TETRAHEDRA THE ELEMENTS WERE FIT INTO.

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THEIR MORPHOLOGY AND THE RULES BEHIND THEIR VARIATION WERE SIMPLIFIED AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. TO BEGIN THE COMPONENT WAS DESIGNED AS A TUBULAR ELEMENT WITH FOUR PIECES, FITTING INSIDE A TETRAHEDRON. THE VARIANCE OCCURRED IN THE INERTIA OF THE ELEMENT ITSELF (NAMELY HOW MUCH THE TWO “WINGS” MOVED AWAY FROM THE STARTING POSITION) AND IN THE RELATIVE POSITION BETWEEN ONE COMPONENT AND ANOTHER (DISTANCE, ANGLE).

WITH A SIMPLE REPETITION AND LINEAR LINKS BETWEEN THE ELEMENTS, A FIRST KIND OF STRUCTURE WAS DEFINED.

VERTEBRAL COLUMN LATERAL VIEW

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TO TEST THE COHERENCE OF THIS KIND OF BEHAVIOUR A PHYSICAL MODEL WAS DESIGNED. ITS MORPHOLOGY RESEMBLED THE ONE JUST DESCRIBED: TETRAHEDRAL UNITS WITH AN INTERNAL CORE ALMOST COMPRESSED (EVEN IN THIS KIND OF COMPONENTS THERE ARE BENDING AND TWISTING EFFECTS BETWEEN DIFFERENT PARTS).

A CONTINUOUS WIRE CONNECTED THE DIFFERENT UNITS, ACTING AS THE TENDONS ACT ON THE VERTEBRAE’S PROCESSES. THE MODEL WAS DESIGNED WITH RHINOCEROS DEFINING BIDIMENSIONAL PIECES AS SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE AND WAS CUT FROM 5 MM WOOD SHEETS.

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THE TWO DIMENSIONAL LAYERS OF CROSSED ELEMENTS CREATED A SORT OF THREE DIMENSIONAL TETRAHEDRON. DEPENDING ON THE TENSION OF THE WIRE CONNECTING THEM (FISHING LINE), THE COLUMN LIFTED, BENT, CHANGED ITS CURVATURE AND COULD EVEN BECOME ALMOST HORIZONTAL. THUS THE WOODEN PIECES DID NOT TOUCH EACH OTHERS, THEY WERE “FLOATING”, TENSIONING THE WIRE WHICH SUSTAINED THEM, ATTACHED TO THE ARMS OF THE PREVIOUS ELEMENT IN THEIR PROGRESSION.

CRITICAL A. COMPRESSED BODIES B. TENSE CONTINUOUS WIRE

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COMPONENT 003

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AFTER THE PHYSICAL TEST A MORE COMPLEX COMPONENT, STILL TETRAHEDRAL, WAS DIGITALLY DEVELOPED. ITS DISTRIBUTION IN SPACE WAS CONCEIVED NOT ONLY LINEARLY BUT 3-DIMENSIONALLY IN ORDER TO CREATE AN ENCLOSED SURFACE. DIFFERENT VALUES FOR RELATIVE POSITIONS, ANGLES, DISTANCES AND ALSO SCALE CREATED DIFFERENT EFFECTS.

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FURTHERMORE, INSTEAD OF A CONTINUOUS WIRE, A CONNECTION THROUGH MEMBRANES WAS DEVISED. THE DIFFERENCES IN SCALE, RELATIVE ANGLES, RULES OF DISTRIBUTIONS GAVE RISE TO HIGHLY DIFFERENTIATED ASSEMBLIES, WITH DIFFERENT ABILITY TO ENCLOSE THE SPACE. EVEN THOUGH, THE SAME COMPONENT-TOCOMPONENT RELATIVE POSITION AND INTERACTION RULE WAS MAINTAINED. ADDITIONAL

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ROT. + : 2 ROT. - : 0.4 LAT. ROT.: 1.2 / 0.4 SCALE: 1.3 / 0.8

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THE LAST STEP WAS TO MODIFY THE COMPONENT IN ORDER TO EMBED MORE FEATURES ONTO IT. THUS A PANEL MODULATION AND A GRADIENT OF POROSITY WERE INCORPORATED WEAVING THE STRUCTURAL PART AND THE EXTERIOR SURFACE TOGETHER IN A COHERENT SYSTEM. THIS KIND OF UNIT WAS FIRSTLY PROLIFERATED ON A PLANAR SURFACE AND THEN ON A CURVED ONE. THE EFFECT RESEMBLED IN SOME WAY BIOLOGICAL WORLD’S SHAPES. REMARKABLY ITS RESEMBLANCE WAS NOT MIMETIC BUT DERIVED FROM THE RULES OF ITS CONSTRUCTION, BEING IT A MIMESIS OF THE ONES DEFINING THE ARRANGEMENT OF VERTEBRAE IN BIOLOGICAL ORGANISMS.

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THIS PROCESS SUITED THE DEFINITION OF THE TERM “ELEGANCE” PREVIOUSLY DISCUSSED (A COHERENT AND ATTRACTIVE SYSTEM, FILLED WITH A SUBTLE LOGIC NOT CLEARLY UNDERSTANDABLE AT THE FIRST GLANCE BUT PERCEIVED UNDERNEATH ITS APPEARANCES),

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LASTLY THE COMPONENTS WERE APPLIED TO THE LOWER PART OF THE PONTELUNGO’S PAVILION, AND LINKED TO THE DATA COLLECTED.

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THE MOST IRRADIATED AREAS OF THE PAVILION’S SURFACE WERE DEFINED TO BE CLOSED AND UNIFORM. THE OTHERS, NOT DIRECTLY HEATED BY THE SUN, WERE TORN AND OPENED LETTING THE AIR AND LIGHT PASS THROUGH.

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THE PAVILION BECAME AT THE SAME TIME AN OPEN PASSAGE AND A CLOSE SHELTER, ALTERNATING SOLID SURFACES TO POROUS ONES, WITH DIFFERENT DEGREES OF DEMATERIALIZATION. ANOTHER INTERESTING ELEMENT WAS THAT THIS DIFFERENTIATION WAS LINKED TO A PROLIFERATION OF PATHS: PEOPLE COULD EXPERIENCE THE PAVILION FROM INSIDE, OUTSIDE, WALK ACROSS, OVER AND UNDER THE SURFACES.

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THE DIGITAL MODEL WAS IN TURN CONVERTED INTO A PRINTING FORMAT AND MANUFACTURED WITH STEREOLITHOGRAPHY.

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THE 3D DIGITAL MODEL HAD TO BE NON-MANIFOLDS IN ORDER TO BE PRINTABLE. STARTING FROM NURBS SURFACES THE GEOMETRY WAS CONVERTED INTO MESHES WITH THE MINIMUM AMOUNT OF FACES BUT REDUCING THE LOSS OF DETAILS. THEN ITERATIVELY A SERIES OF COMMANDS TO OPTIMISE THE MESHES WERE PERFORMED THROUGH MACROS.

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TAIL VALUE 1 = K VALUE 2 = U

ALL THE PREVIOUS APPLICATIONS OF THE UNITS DEVELOPED WERE BASED ON NURBS SURFACES. EVENTUALLY A DIFFERENT ALGORITHM WAS DEVISED TO APPLY THE SAME LOGIC TO MESH SURFACES. A NEW PIECE OF PAVILION WAS THUS SCULPTED IN ZBRUSH AND IMPORTED IN MAYA WHERE OPTIMISED REDUCING AT THE NUMBER OF FACES NEEDED TO DESCRIBE ITS SHAPE.

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THE RESOLUTION OF THE SURFACE, CONTROLLED BY SMOOTHING ALGORITHMS, WAS IN TURN THE TESSELLATION ONTO WHICH THE COMPONENTS WERE EVENTUALLY APPLIED. ADDITIONAL

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TEST STRIPS WHERE MODELLED TO APPLY AND DEFINE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE COMPONENT APPLIED OVER THE MESH SURFACES.

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VALUE 1 = 0 . 1 5 VALUE 1 = 0 . 1 5 VALUE 2 = 0 . 2 VALUE 2 = 0 . 2

VALUE 1 = 0 . 1 VALUE 1 = 0 . 1 VALUE 2 = 0 . 4 VALUE 2 = 0 . 4

VALUE 1 = 0 .3 5 VALUE 1 = 0 .3 5 VALUE 2 = 0 .2 VALUE 2 = 0 .2

VA L U E 1 = 0 .4 VA L U E 1 = 0 .4 VA L U E 2 = 0 .4 VA L U E 2 = 0 .4

VA L U E 1 = 0 .8 VA L U E 1 = 0 .8 VA L U E 2 = 0 .5 VA L U E 2 = 0 .5

VA L U E 1 = 0 .6 VA L U E 1 = 0 .6 VA L U E 2 = 0 .6 VA L U E 2 = 0 .6

THE MAIN PARAMETERS EVALUATED WERE: THE POROSITY, THE INTENSITY OF FOLDING AND THE OVERALL DEPTH OF EACH ELEMENT. PRELIMINARY LIGHT ANALYSIS WERE PERFORMED TO EVALUATE THE INTERNAL LIGHT CONDITIONS.

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THE MOST EFFICIENT SOLUTIONS WERE FINALLY SELECTED AND APPLIED.

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VALUE 1 = 0 . 1 5 VALUE 1 = 0 . 1 5 VALUE 2 = 0 . 2 VALUE 2 = 0 . 2

VALUE 1 = 0 . 1 VALUE 1 = 0 . 1 VALUE 2 = 0 . 4 VALUE 2 = 0 . 4

VA L U E 1 = 0 .3 5 VA L U E 1 = 0 .3 5 VA L U E 2 = 0 .2 VA L U E 2 = 0 .2

VA L U E 1 = 0 .4 VA L U E 1 = 0 .4 VA L U E 2 = 0 .4 VA L U E 2 = 0 .4

VA L U E 1 = 0 .8 VA L U E 1 = 0 .8 VA L U E 2 = 0 .5 VA L U E 2 = 0 .5

VA L U E 1 = 0 .6 VA L U E 1 = 0 .6 VA L U E 2 = 0 .6 VA L U E 2 = 0 .6

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ACCESS 01 VALUE 1 = K VALUE 2 = U

HEAD VAL U E 1 = K VAL U E 2 = U

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2011 - 2012 MIKE WEINSTOCK GEORGE JERONIMIDIS

EMTECH 2011-2012 [EMERGENT TECHNOLOGIES AND DESIGN]

THE CONCEPTUAL STRUCTURES AND PHILOSOPHIES OF EMERGENCE FORM THE LOGIC OF AND THE PROCESSES OF EVOLUTIONARY COMPUTATION; AND THE APPLICATION TO ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN IS FOCUSED ON GENETIC ALGORITHMS FOR STRUCTURAL FORM FINDING AND GENERATIVE DESIGN. EMERGENCE IS ALSO A CENTRAL CONCEPT OF BIOMIMETICS, IN WHICH BIOLOGICAL STRUCTURES ARE ANALYSED AND UNDERSTOOD AS MATERIAL HIERARCHIES SELFORGANISED INTO STRUCTURES THAT ARE ACHIEVED BY A BOTTOM UP PROCESS OF SELF-ASSEMBLY FROM WHICH THEIR PROPERTIES AND PERFORMANCES EMERGE. EMERGENT BEHAVIOURS ARE ALSO DEMONSTRATED BY THE CULTURE OF PRODUCTION AT LARGE, A DYNAMIC INTERACTION OF DIVERSE FORCES THAT FOLLOW LOCAL RULES RATHER THAN IMPOSED HIGHER LEVEL INSTRUCTIONS. LARGER COHERENT PATTERNS OR ‘MACRO-BEHAVIOURS’ ARE DISCERNIBLE, ARISING FROM MATERIAL PRODUCTIONS THAT ARE LOCALISED BY AUTHOR, TIME AND GEOGRAPHY.

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THE PROGRAMME IS FOCUSED ON THE CONCEPTS AND CONVERGENT INTERDISCIPLINARY EFFECTS OF EMERGENCE ON DESIGN AND PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGIES, AND ON DEVELOPING THESE AS CREATIVE INPUTS TO NEW ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN PROCESSES. DESCRIPTION

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TITLE / OBJECT ON THE CONCEPT OF SYMMETRY FEATURED BY AAEMTECH

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ON THE CONCEPT OF SYMMETRY [EXCERPTS]

THE TERM SYMMETRY IS GENERALLY USED AS A SYNONYM FOR BILATERAL REFLECTION. ON THE CONTRARY, HOWEVER, IT CARRIES A DEEPER MATHEMATICAL MEANING AND IT IS CONNECTED WITH THE WAY SOME BIOLOGICAL ORGANISMS, ABLE TO PROCESS EXTERNAL SIGNALS, PERCEIVE THE WORLD. I WILL TRY TO EXPLAIN HOW MATHEMATICIANS HAVE BROADENED THE TERM TO INCLUDE ALL THE MAPPINGS OF THE SPACE WHICH FORM THE GROUP OF AUTOMORPHISMS, FOCUSING ON THOSE WHICH HAVE PLAYED A FUNDAMENTAL ROLE IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARTISTIC PRODUCTION. AT THE SAME TIME I WILL ANALYSE HOW RESEARCHERS HAVE TRIED TO EXPLAIN THE HUMAN BRAIN’S ATTITUDE TOWARDS RECOGNIZING CONGRUENCES AND THE APPEAL OF SYMMETRICAL SHAPES, REFERRING TO EVIDENCE FROM TWO STUDIES INVOLVING NEURAL NETWORKS AND GRADIENTS OF GENERALIZATION.

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THROUGH THE ANALYSIS OF SOME EXAMPLES FROM THE BAROQUE AGE ART PRODUCTION, I WILL FINALLY POINT OUT HOW NOT ONLY BILATERAL SYMMETRY BUT ALSO THE ENTIRE GROUP OF AUTOMORPHISMS MAY HAVE A ROLE IN APPEALING TO RECEIVERS, AND THAT THE PROCESS OF SYMMETRY RECOGNITION, IN PARTICULAR WHEN IT IS NOT IMMEDIATE, MAY PLAY A FUNDAMENTAL ROLE IN THE AESTHETIC EXPERIENCE AND THAT THE KNOWLEDGE OF THIS MECHANISM IS OFTEN PART OF THE ARTISTS’ CONSCIOUSNESS. ABSTRACT

BORROMINI’S SYMMETRIES

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A QUESTION COULD THEN BE HOW MUCH THIS KNOWLEDGE OF THE PERCEPTION OF SYMMETRY MECHANISMS MATTERS FOR AN ARTIST. HIS SYMMETRIES ARE UNINTENTIONAL AND AUTOMATIC OR IS SOME KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED TO MATERIALIZE WHAT HAVE BEEN CALLED OUR “HIDDEN PREFERENCES” (ARAK AND ENQUIST, 1993)?

WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY TO TEST THESE HYPOTHESES WITH THE SAME METHODS ANALYSED BEFORE (ON ONE HAND, DUE TO THE NECESSITY TO ELABORATE A MORE STRINGENT MODUS OPERANDI TO DETECT REACTIONS TO DIFFERENT KIND OF SYMMETRIES, AND ON THE OTHER FOR THE EVIDENT DIFFICULTY IN TESTING THE PROCESS OF ARTISTIC CREATION) I WOULD DRAW SOME CONSIDERATIONS BY ANALYSING SOME PIECES OF SCULPTURE AND ARCHITECTURE.

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I CHOSE TO EMPATHIZE THE BAROQUE AGE PRODUCTION FOR SEVERAL REASONS. FIRSTLY BECAUSE THE BAROQUE ARTISTIC PRODUCTION (PARAPHRASING DELEUZE’S WORDS, 1992) POSSESSED AN “INTENSITY” TOWARDS THE INFINITE, TOWARDS MECHANISMS OF FOLDING AND UNFOLDING THE REALITY THROUGH THE USE NONLINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS, AND THUS THROUGH SIMILARITIES. SECONDLY FOR THE EXCEPTIONAL DEVELOPMENT IN THIS PERIOD OF THEORETICAL STUDIES THAT DEEPENED THE CONCEPT OF SYMMETRY WE HAVE ANALYSED, CREATING A CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE PROBLEM AND PROVIDING A THEORETICAL BASIS TO ARTISTS (HERSEY, 2000).

LASTLY BECAUSE THE BAROQUE ARTIST’S TOOLKIT AND RESEARCH IS SOMEHOW SIMILAR TO OURS, OPENING INTERESTING CORRELATIONS TO THE CONTEMPORARY SCENARIO. ADDITIONAL

PARAMETERIZATION OF BORROMINI’S DOME TESSELLATION

(A)SYMMETRIES

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BY NOW WE HAVE DISCUSSED THE POSSIBLE TRANSFORMATIONS WHICH FELL UNDER THE DEFINITION OF SYMMETRY, FROM CYCLIC GROUPS TO NON-PRESERVING SCALE AUTOMORPHISMS. AT THE SAME TIME WE HAVE OBSERVED AND TRIED TO EXPLAIN THE PECULIAR APPEAL THAT BIOLOGICAL ORGANISMS, ABLE TO PROCESS EXTERNAL SIGNALS, HAVE FOR SYMMETRICAL DISPLAYS. BUT, IN DISCUSSING THE GENERALIZATION GRADIENT, WE SHOWED STUDIES FOCUSED MAINLY ON SYMMETRY AND DEVIATION FROM SYMMETRY INTENDED AS BILATERAL OR ROTATIONAL REFLECTION, NAMELY ONLY ON CONGRUENCES. WHAT WOULD BE INTERESTING IS TO EVALUATE THE SENSIBILITY AND THE APPEAL FOR BIOLOGICAL RECEIVERS, OR AT LEAST HUMANS, TO ALL THE SIMILARITIES, ENCOMPASSING TRANSFORMATIONS THAT DOES NOT PRESERVE THE SCALE OF A BODY AND EXTEND TO INFINITY. FURTHERMORE, WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS IS THE EFFECT OF THE “SYMMETRY PREFERENCE” ON THE RECEIVER’S MIND. IT IS THE WORD “PREFERENCE” THAT NEEDS SOME FURTHER EXPLANATIONS. FOR EXAMPLE, IN BIRDS IT WOULD MEAN AN HIGHER CHANCE FOR MALE INDIVIDUALS TO ATTRACT THE ATTENTION OF FEMALE ONES (MOLLER, 1990), BUT WHAT DOES IT ENTAIL FOR THE HUMAN MIND? JAGER (1920, P.2; P.7.) SPEAKS ABOUT “POWERFUL AESTHETIC FACTORS” OR MECHANISMS BY WHICH THE MENTAL ACTION IS “FACILITATED AND AN ECONOMIC OF ENERGY IS OBTAINED”. SO I WOULD ARGUE THAT, ONCE TRAINED, THE RECEIVER’S MIND FEELS SOMEHOW AN INTERNAL SATISFACTION, WE CAN SAY A FEELING OF “REASSURANCE” OR EVEN “PLEASURE”, JUST THROUGH THE ACT OF SYMMETRICAL RECOGNITION. AND THIS NOT ONLY WHEN THE EXTERNAL PATTERNS OVERLAP WITH THE ONES WHICH EXCITE HIM THE MOST, BUT ACTUALLY THROUGH MENTAL DEVELOPMENT, UNROLLING AND UNFOLDING THEM, OPERATING TRANSFORMATIONS IN HIS OWN MIND.

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LASTLY, I WOULD POINT OUT THAT THE STUDY OF A RECEIVER, MORE OR LESS INVOLVED IN THE ELABORATION OF THE EXTERNAL STIMULI, IS QUITE DIFFERENT TO THE ANALYSIS OF THE “CREATOR” OF SYMMETRIES, SUCH AS AN ARTIST. THIS BECAUSE UNDER THE LIGHT OF ARTISTIC CREATION, COMPLEXITY ARISES. THE SUBJECT OF THE CREATION IS BY HIS NATURE A RECEIVER, TRAINED TO OBSERVE THE OBJECTS IN SPACE, BUT AT THE SAME TIME HE IS ALSO CREATING OBJECTS WHICH WILL STIMULATE MANY RECEIVERS’ MINDS, INCLUDED HIS OWN. ADDITIONAL

(A)SYMMETRICAL ASSEMBLIES

7 POSSIBLE FRIEZE SYMMETRIES

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TITLE / OBJECT MATERIAL AGGREGATIONS

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MATERIAL AGGREGATES

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THE BRIEF FOR THIS PROJECT REQUIRED TRANSFORMING SHEET MATERIAL INTO THREE-DIMENSIONAL BASE COMPONENTS, AGGREGATED AT PROGRESSIVELY LARGER SCALES. THE GEOMETRY AND MATERIAL PROPERTIES OF THE BASE COMPONENT INFORMED ITS CONNECTION TO OTHER COMPONENTS, AS WELL AS THE SHAPE AND ASSEMBLY LOGIC OF THE WHOLE AGGREGATION. MOVING BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN MATERIAL AND DIGITAL EXPLORATIONS, A FINAL SYSTEM SCALED FOR THE EMTECH STUDIO SPACE WAS CONSTRUCTED, DEFINED BY THREE “ANCHOR POINTS” AND A GLOBAL CURVATURE TENDING TOWARD A SPECIFIC ORIENTATION, DERIVED FROM A CLEAR FABRICATION TECHNIQUE. BRIEF

ADDITIONAL EMTECH

FAMILY 001

COMPONENT 001

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TITLE / OBJECT MATERIAL AGGREGATIONS FEATURED BY AAEMTECH

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THE BRIEF FOR THIS PROJECT REQUIRED TRANSFORMING SHEET MATERIAL INTO THREE-DIMENSIONAL BASE COMPONENTS, AGGREGATED AT PROGRESSIVELY LARGER SCALES. THE GEOMETRY AND MATERIAL PROPERTIES OF THE BASE COMPONENT INFORMED ITS CONNECTION TO OTHER COMPONENTS, AS WELL AS THE SHAPE AND ASSEMBLY LOGIC OF THE WHOLE AGGREGATION, MOVING BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN MATERIAL AND DIGITAL EXPLORATIONS.

OWING TO THE CHOICE TO COMBINE BASE COMPONENTS TO CREATE BASE ELEMENTS, DIFFERENT COMBINATIONS LED TO DIFFERENT AGGREGATIONS AT THE LOCAL SCALE; THESE ARE REFERRED TO HERE AS “FAMILIES”. AT THE REGIONAL AND GLOBAL SCALES, UNITS FROM DIFFERENT FAMILIES WERE COMBINED IN ORDER TO BENEFIT FROM DIFFERENTIATION, ONE OF THE FUNDAMENTAL REQUIREMENTS FOR EMERGENCE. IN COMPONENTS 001, DIGITALLY VARIATIONS BASED UPON THE WIDTH AND LENGTH OF ITS “ARMS” WERE STUDIED. ALSO THE BENEFITS OF SLITTING THE ARMS INTO TWO OR THREE PIECES TO ALLOW FOR MORE COMPLEX TENSIONING (FOLDING ONE PIECE INSIDE TO CREATE A “CORE”) WERE TESTED. THEN, IN THE MATERIAL REALM, DIFFERENT FAMILIES BASED UPON THE NUMBER OF ARMS THEY HAD WERE CREATED.

BY CHANGING THE ANGLE OF THE SLITTAB CONNECTOR PLACEMENT, FROM THE ORIGINAL 3-ARMED GEOMETRY 4-, 5-, AND 6-ARMED FORMS WERE DESIGNED. AS THE AMOUNT OF TENSION AND COMPRESSION APPLIED ON EACH BY THE CABLE SYSTEM WAS CHANGED THE DIFFERENT RESPONSES WERE EVALUATED. THE EFFECTS OF FORCES ON THE BEHAVIOUR OF THE PRIMARY MATERIAL COMPONENTS WERE THEN ANALYSED. EARLY STUDIES RELIED UPON PHYSICAL WEIGHTS APPLIED ONTO INDIVIDUAL UNITS TO TEST THEIR STIFFNESS UNDER COMPRESSION, IN PART BY ANALYSING THE INCREASE IN THEIR RADIUS. THE WAYS IN WHICH THIS FORCE WAS DISTRIBUTED AND BALANCED ACROSS CONNECTED UNITS BY THE CABLE SYSTEMS WERE DIAGRAMMED. FEA ANALYSIS THROUGH STRAND7 WERE ALSO PERFORMED. PROLIFERATIONS OF THESE COMPONENTS WERE EVENTUALLY DIGITALLY TESTED IN ORDER TO DEFINE THE GLOBAL SHAPE OF A SURFACE. ATTRACTOR POINTS AND GEOMETRIC CONSTRAINTS WERE UTILIZED AS INFLUENCES FOR THE THICKNESS AND THE DENSITY OF THE PROLIFERATIONS. IN TURN, DIFFERENT SIZES OF COMPONENTS WERE PRODUCED, LISTED AND ORGANIZED FOR THE PRODUCTION.

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001 FAMILY BRANCHES VARIATION + FEA SIMULATION OF STRESS CONDITIONS

ADDITIONAL

FAMILY 001 PRODUCTION

COMPONENT 002

ADDITIONAL

THE DIGITAL EXPLORATION ALLOWED TO INTERPOLATE SOME ASPECTS OF THE PHYSICAL BEHAVIOUR OF THE SYSTEMS, AS WELL AS PROLIFERATE SAMPLE SURFACES IN RELATION TO THE PROPOSED FINAL INSTALLATION. FOR FAMILY 001, CHANGES IN THICKNESS AND POROSITY OF THE SURFACE (OWING TO THE USE OF DIFFERENT FAMILY TYPES AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION) WERE DEVISED TO RELATE TO EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS SUCH AS LIGHT AND HEAT. THUS ITS PERFORMANCES WOULD ENHANCE THE SPATIAL UTILITY OF THE ENVIRONMENT.

TITLE / OBJECT MATERIAL AGGREGATIONS FEATURED BY AAEMTECH

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FOLDING

ADDITIONAL

EACH COMPONENT THAT WAS DEVELOPED HAD ITS OWN VARIABLE PARAMETERS. COMPONENT 002 HAD DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS FOR HOLES AS WELL AS A VARIATION IN THE THE LENGTH AND WIDTH OF THE ARMS. IT HAD ALSO THREE PRIMARY CONNECTION OPTIONS (SIDE, EDGE OF ITS ARMS, BOTTOM); MACHINE SCREWS WITH NUTS TIGHTENED DOWN TO DIFFERENT LENGTHS PROVIDED TENSION AT THE BASE FOR THE CONNECTIVITY OF THE AGGREGATE FORM.

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THE PIECES WERE CUT FROM A PLANAR SHEET OF PLYWOOD AND DIFFERENT FIBRES ORIENTATIONS WERE TESTED. THE COMPONENTS WERE EVENTUALLY SOAKED AND THEN FOLDED. LASTLY THE PIECES WERE CONNECTED ONE TO ANOTHER.

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MODEL OBJECT

AA D.P. LAB LASER CUT

SURFACE PROLIFERATION

ADDITIONAL EMTECH

COMPONENT 003 VARIABLES TESTING

COMPONENT 003 VARIABILITY DIGITAL INTERPOLATION OF OBSERVED BEHAVIOUR

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COMPONENT 003 WAS OBTAINED BY FOLDING THE EDGES OF A TRIANGULARLIKE FLAT SHAPE OF PLYWOOD ONTO THEMSELVES. THE VARIABLE PARAMETERS WERE THE ORIENTATION OF THE FIBRES AND THE DEGREE OF POROSITY. THUS USING PHOTOGRAPHY OVER A GRID BACKGROUND, THE VARIABLE CURVATURES RESULTING FROM THE COMBINATION OF 6 DIFFERENT APERTURE SIZES IN RELATION TO 3 DIFFERENT WOOD FIBRES ORIENTATION LAYOUTS (DIAGONAL, VERTICAL, HORIZONTAL) WERE OBSERVED. THE CURVATURE OF THE PIECES, THE HEIGHTS AND THE RESULTING SHORTER LENGTHS AT EACH SIDES WERE MAPPED AND ALL THE INTERMEDIATE CONDITIONS WERE INTERPOLATED THROUGH A DIGITAL SIMULATION IN GRASSHOPPER. FINALLY PIECES WITH DIFFERENT CURVATURE WERE CONNECTED TO GENERATE FURTHER UNITS.

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TOP_FIBRES : 45°

TOP_FIBRES : 90°

TOP_FIBRES : 180°

SIDE_FIBRES : 45°

SIDE_FIBRES : 90°

POROSITY : 50%

POROSITY : 40%

POROSITY : 30%

POROSITY : 20%

POROSITY : 10%

POROSITY : 05%

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BASE UNIT SCALE 1:2

BASE UNIT SCALE 1:1 AND 1:2

SIDE_FIBRES : 180°

FRONT_FIBRES : 45°

FRONT_FIBRES : 45°

FRONT_FIBRES : 45°

SERIES R05

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AGGREGATION SERIES

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SERIES S01

SERIES S02

ONCE THE DEFORMATIONS RESULTING FROM FOLDING DIFFERENT PIECES WERE ANALYSED, TWO BASE UNITS WERE DEVISED.

SERIES R03

THE FIRST UNIT (CONNECTOR UNIT, DARK GREY IN THE RIGHT IMAGES) COULD BE DESCRIBED AS A PYRAMID WITH A RECTANGULAR BASE. IT WAS CREATED BY JOINING TWO BASE FOLDED ELEMENTS “BACK-TO-BACK”.

THESE TWO OPPOSITE FACES ALLOW FOR A CONNECTION WITH SIMILAR UNIT MATCHING THE SAME CURVATURE. THE SECOND UNIT (LIGHT GREY) WAS DESIGNED AS AN OCTAHEDRON CONNECTING FOUR FOLDED ELEMENT AND RESULTING IN FOUR FACES AVAILABLE FOR CONNECTIONS. THOSE FACES ARE ROTATED 90° DEGREES FROM TOP TO BOTTOM. BASED ON THE POSSIBLE WAYS TO CONNECT THE TWO DIFFERENT UNITS MACRO AGGREGATION RULES WERE DEFINED. DIGITAL TESTS ON DIFFERENT CONFIGURATIONS ACHIEVABLE WERE THUS PERFORMED.

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ON ONE HAND RANDOM AGGREGATIONS WERE DESIGNED, ON THE OTHER, THE POSSIBILITY TO DEVELOP HIGHLY SYMMETRICAL OUTPUTS WAS STUDIED, EXPLOITING THE BASE UNITS GEOMETRICAL PROPERTIES. ADDITIONAL

RULES OF AGGREGATION

ADDITIONAL

FAMILY 003

ADDITIONAL

AGGREGATION SERIES

LASTLY THE DIGITAL AGGREGATIONS STRUCTURES WERE TRANSFERRED INTO PHYSICAL MODELS. THE STIFFNESS OF BOTH UNITS COMBINED RESULTED IMPROVED IN COMPARISON WITH THE SINGULAR PIECES. WHEN NESTED IN EACH OTHER FOR LARGER ASSEMBLIES, THEY FUNCTIONED AS ARCH-LIKE ELEMENTS.

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SMALL CIRCULAR C-SHAPED WOOD PIECES WERE USED TO JOIN CONNECTOR UNITS TO BASE UNITS, SLOTTING THEM OVER THE ADJACENT EDGES. THE 1:2 SCALE ASSEMBLY PROTOTYPE WAS SELF-SUPPORTING ONCE A CABLE (RUNNING THROUGHOUT THE STRUCTURE) WAS ATTACHED AND TENSIONED AT THE BASE, INCREASING THE FRICTION BETWEEN ONE ELEMENT AND ANOTHER.

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SERIES R05

SERIES R04

SERIES R07

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MODEL OBJECT

AA D.P.LAB LASER CUT

SERIES R06

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TITLE / OBJECT URBAN FLUCTUATIONS

OBJECT / TITLE

URBAN FLUCTUATIONS

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THE FLUCTUATION OF WATER LEVELS ALONG THE RIVER THAMES HAS THREATENED LONDON FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS. THE URBAN CONDITIONS AND INFRASTRUCTURE OF THIS METROPOLIS HAVE TAKEN A DEFENSIVE DESIGN APPROACH IN RELATION TO THE NATURAL CONDITIONS. THE THAMES BARRIER, BUILT IN 1982 PROTECTS LONDON FROM SEA SURGES WHICH LEAD TO FLOODING; IT IS EXPECTED TO BE INSUFFICIENT BEYOND 2060.

DUE TO THE BUILT CONDITIONS NOW ALONG THE THAMES, THE RIVER CAN NO LONGER SHIFT ITS BANKS AND DISPLACE WATER WHEN FLOODING OCCURS. THIS ISSUE OF FLOODING PRESENTS MAJOR FINANCIAL ISSUES TO RESIDENTS AND BUSINESS. THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY 2.2 MILLION HOMES AND 185,000 BUSINESSES THAT LIE WITH FLOOD RISK ZONES ALONG THE THAMES. THE SITE, THE ISLE OF DOGS, IN THE EAST END OF LONDON IS A WELL-CONNECTED YET UNDER-DEVELOPED AND FLOOD-RISKED URBAN TISSUE WHICH PRESENTS THE OPPORTUNITY FOR RE-DEVELOPMENT.

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IN THIS STUDY AN ALGORITHM THAT GENERATES AN URBAN LANDSCAPE IS DEVELOPED, BASED ON THE NATURAL CONDITIONS OF THE RIVER THAMES, ITS FLUCTUATION IN TIDAL CYCLES AND FLOODING LEVELS. THE INTENTION IS TO RE-DEVELOP AN EXISTING URBAN TISSUE AT THE ISLE OF DOGS IN ORDER TO CREATE AN INHABITABLE RIVER EDGE CONDITION THROUGH A LANDSCAPE THAT MANAGES WATER LEVELS AND DEVELOPS PROGRAM THAT RELATES TO THE WATER SYSTEM. A RANGE OF PROGRAMMATIC FUNCTIONS WITH VARYING DENSITIES IN HOUSING, OFFICE AND LEISURE ARE PROPOSED IN RELATION TO THE PROJECTED GROWTH AT THE ISLE OF DOGS. THE PROGRAMS ARE DISTRIBUTED ONSITE BASED ON THEIR TOLERANCE TO VARIOUS WATER CONDITIONS AND LEVEL OF PROTECTION FROM FLOODING. BRIEF

ADDITIONAL

EMTECH

FLOW SIMULATION

THE WATER LEVELS ON THE SITE HAVE HISTORICALLY VARIED AT DIFFERENT LEVELS FROM LOW TO HIGH TIDE DURING NEAP AND SPRING TIDES. ALL OF THE FLOODS OCCURRED BEFORE THE THAMES RIVER BARRIER WAS ESTABLISHED. THESE LEVELS ARE SHOWN BELOW AND CORRESPOND TO THE IMAGES.

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LOW TIDE NEAP: 2.10M HIGH TIDE NEAP: 5.50M LOW TIDE SPRING: 0.25M HIGH TIDE SPRING: 7.60M

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WATER LEVELS ANALYSIS

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NEAP TIDAL CYCLE TIME: 6 HOURS FROM HIGH TIDE

LOW

TO

SPRING TIDAL CYCLE TIME: 6 HOURS FROM HIGH TIDE

NEAP TIDAL CYCLE TIME: 6 HOURS FROM HIGH TIDE

LOW

TO

SPRING TIDAL CYCLE (DAY/NIGHT) TIME: 6 HOURS FROM LOW TO HIGH TIDE

LOW

TO

THE AMOUNT OF FLUCTUATION PER HALF-DAY CAN REACH UP TO 7 METRES. THIS PRESENTED US WITH AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXPLOIT THIS VARIATION IN AN ARCHITECTURAL CONTEXT.

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THE SITE CONDITIONS OF BUILT AND UNBUILT AREAS WERE ALSO LOOKED AT AS PART OF THE URBAN TISSUE AND THE RATIO OF SHORELINE TO DOCK LINE.

TIDES legend SIMULATION - British Geological Survey data

THE SIMULATIONS AND DIAGRAMS ILLUSTRATE THE GENERATED LANDSCAPE, SHOWN AT BOTH LOW AND HIGH TIDE CONDITIONS. IN ADDITION THE CONNECTIONS ARE SHOWN AT THESE CONDITIONS.

flooded area

8.8m / 9.8m

docks

7.8m 4.8m / 5.8m / 6.8m

AT LOW TIDE, ALL CONNECTIONS REMAIN ACCESSIBLE AND NO CHANGES OCCUR TO THE URBAN CONDITION OF THE PATCH. AT HIGH TIDE, THE TEMPORARY CONDITIONS ARE NO LONGER ACCESSIBLE, AND SPECIFIC PROGRAMS THAT ARE TEMPORARY ARE ALSO BELOW WATER.

3.8m [AOD 0m] flooded area

2.8m 1.8m 0.8m 0.0m

thames river bed

water HT neap

SPRING TIDAL CYCLE ] 1.5M DURING FLOOD 1928 AND 1953 TIME: 6 HOURS FROM LOW TO HIGH TIDE

FLUCTUATION LEVELS

GENERATED LANDSCAPE

LANDSCAPE LEVEL

+ 0’ AVERAGE WATER LEVEL

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+ 0’ Average water level DESIGNED WATER CLUSTERS

+ 3.7’ WATER LEVEL

++3.7’ 3.7’water waterlevel level

HIGH TIDE CONDITION

LOW TIDE CONDITION

+1.5M

+ 4.8’ WATER LEVEL

+ 4.8’ water level

WATER

LANDSCAPE LEVEL

+3.7M

LOW FLOOD CONDITION

WATER

LANDSCAPE LEVEL

+4.8M

SPRING TIDAL CYCLE + 3.1 M DURING FLOOD 1947 TIME: 6 HOURS FROM LOW HIGH TIDE

TO

HIGH FLOOD CONDITION

WATER

+ 5.1’ WATER LEVEL

+ 5.1’ water level

LANDSCAPE + 5.8M WATER LEVEL PROGRAMS PROTECTED FROM FLOOD

CNC LANDSCAPE MODELS

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TITLE / OBJECT URBAN FLUCTUATIONS FEATURED BY AAEMTECH BUSTLER

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HEIGHTENING ATTRACTORS

HEIGHTENING ATTRACTORS

HEIGHTENING ATTRACTORS

LT0 LANDSCAPE GENERATIOIN program area

009A

program area

010A

012A

LOWERING ATTRACTORS

section interval

IN THIS STUDY AN ALGORITHM THAT GENERATES AN URBAN LANDSCAPE IS DEVELOPED, BASED ON THE NATURAL CONDITIONS OF THE RIVER THAMES, ITS FLUCTUATION IN TIDAL CYCLES AND FLOODING LEVELS. THE INTENTION IS TO RE-DEVELOP AN EXISTING URBAN TISSUE AT THE ISLE OF DOGS IN ORDER TO CREATE AN INHABITABLE RIVER EDGE CONDITION THROUGH A LANDSCAPE THAT MANAGES WATER LEVELS AND DEVELOPS PROGRAM THAT RELATES TO THE WATER SYSTEM. A RANGE OF PROGRAMMATIC FUNCTIONS WITH VARYING DENSITIES IN HOUSING, OFFICE AND LEISURE INon site Site with program clusters andARE PROPOSED Sectional Intervals RELATION connections TO THE PROJECTED GROWTH AT THE ISLE OF DOGS.

examine programs nearby

apply program data (size,etc) at each program area

1

1 3

THE GENERATION OF THE LANDSCAPE TAKES A SECTIONAL APPROACH, WHERE THE URBAN TISSUE IS DIVIDED THROUGH REGULAR INTERVALS. EACH INTERVAL TAKES MORPHOLOGICAL DATA FROM THE PROGRAMS THAT LIE WITHIN THIS INTERVAL, AND BASED ON THIS DATA FROM THE PROGRAM CATALOGUE AND CORRESPONDING SEDIMENTATION SECTION, A FULL SECTION IS GENERATED.

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THROUGHOUT THIS PROCESS, THE HEIGHT OF THE PROGRAM CLUSTERS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PIECE OF DATA. THE ALGORITHM ELEVATES THE LANDSCAPE WHERE PROGRAMS ARE, AND THE WIDTH OF THE AREAS IS BASED ON HOW BIG EACH CLUSTER IS. AT THE SAME TIME, PROFILES OF SYSTEMS OF PROTECTION FROM THE TIDES ARE IMPLEMENTED IN THE DIFFERENT SECTIONS. ADDITIONAL

LT1

1

1-2

1 3

3-4

+ SLOW VELOCITIES + GENTLE SLOPES

7-8

2 4

7 + SLOW VELOCITIES + GENTLE SLOPES

009C

010C

2 4

8 6

LT3

009D

010D

015D

+ HIGH MATERIAL LOSS + HIGH POROSITY + HIGH DISPLACEMENT

8 6

LT4

8 8 + LESS MATERIAL LOSS, + GREATER DISPLACEMENT + FLOODING VEGETATION

009E

011E

12 SECTIONS SECTIONAL VARIANCE

014C

+ LESS MATERIAL LOSS +GREATER ACCUMULATION + FLOODING VEGETATION

4 6

7

LT2

2

3 5

7 5

013B

2

4 6

+ HIGHER VELOCITIES + STEEP SLOPES

010B

+ HIGHER SLOPE LOSS + LESS ACCUMULATION + HIGHER DISPLACEMENT OF SEDIMENTS

3 5

7 5 5-6

LOWERING ATTRACTORS

generate section

009B

Landscape sections

LOWERING ATTRACTORS

LANDSCAPE GENERATION

016E

12 SECTIONS

12 SECTIONS

ADDITIONAL EMTECH

LANDSCAPE FLUCTUATION

AERIAL VIEW

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ADDITIONAL D3 NATURAL SYSTEM COMPETITION SPECIAL MENTION: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY DETAIL YEAR TYPE

: 2012 : URBAN RESEARCH

THROUGHOUT THE PROCESS, BOTH HARD AND ECOLOGICAL ENGINEERING METHODS WERE ANALYSED FOR CONDITIONS WITH VARYING SLOPES AND SURFACE ROUGHNESS TO LINK TO THE SPECIFIC PROGRAMS AND THEIR DISTRIBUTION ON-SITE. THE URBAN LANDSCAPE IS COMPUTATIONALLY GENERATED THROUGH AN ALGORITHM WHICH DISTRIBUTES PROGRAMS AND GENERATES SECTIONS THROUGH THE URBAN TISSUE, SIMULTANEOUSLY ASSIGNING RELEVANT SECTIONS FROM ENGINEERED WATER MANAGEMENT METHODS. THE SECTIONS GENERATE THE LANDSCAPE FOLLOWING SPECIFIC LOFTING CONDITIONS IN TERMS OF SAMPLING STEPS, ROUGHNESS AND INTERPOLATION. THE DESIGNED GEOMORPHOLOGY OF THE RESULTANT LANDSCAPE EXHIBITS A SUSTAINABLE URBAN ENVIRONMENT THAT LIVES WITH THE FLUCTUATIONS OF THE RIVER’S NATURAL WATER SYSTEM. THE MORPHOLOGY UTILIZES THE FLUCTUATIONS FOR THE GENERATION OF FLOW THROUGH VARYING WATER LEVELS, THE FILTRATION OF RIVER WATER USING POROUS MEDIUMS WITHIN THE LANDSCAPE TOWARDS RESERVOIRS FOR DOMESTIC USE, AND IRRIGATION THROUGH CONTROLLED DRAINAGE PATHS.

UF.03 PAGE.37 COUNTER

LANDSCAPE MILLED MODEL

BRIEF

FLUID SIMULATION ON LANDSCAPE

ADDITIONAL EMTECH

: HTTP://EMTECH.AASCHOOL.AC.UK/

TITLE / OBJECT POP-UP THEATRE

OBJECT / TITLE

POP-UP THEATRE

FEATURED BY AAEMTECH AA PROJECT REVIEW 2012

ADDITIONAL EMTECH INTERNAL COMPETITION FOR THEATRE PAVILION IN HACKNEY DETAIL YEAR TYPE

PT.00 PAGE.38 COUNTER

: 2012 : DISMOUNTABLE CANOPY

THIS PROJECT WAS A PROTOTYPE FOR A DEPLOYABLE, MODULAR ENCLOSURE FOR A POP UP CINEMA IN HACKNEY AND WAS DISPLAYED AT THE AA PROJECTS REVIEW EXHIBITION IN LONDON. A MAJOR REQUIREMENT WAS THAT IT BE EASY TO DISASSEMBLE AND TO PACK AWAY IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME. THE SOLUTION WAS A SET OF STACKABLE, DOUBLY CURVED PANELS. THE CURVATURE OF EACH PANEL IS SLIGHT, BUT WHEN ASSEMBLED INTO A WHOLE, THEY PRODUCE ENOUGH DOUBLE CURVATURE TO ACHIEVE STRUCTURAL STABILITY. BRIEF

MODEL

ADDITIONAL

ADDITIONAL

COMPLETE PAVILION

FEATURED BY AAEMTECH AA PROJECT REVIEW 2012

THIS WAS THE FIRST CONCEPT DESIGN FOR THE POP-UP THEATRE PAVILION. SINCE THE BRIEF WAS TO DESIGN AN EASY DEPLOYABLE AND STACKABLE STRUCTURE THE IDEA WAS TO DEVISE A STRUCTURE MADE OUT OF PLANAR PLASTIC LOOPS WITH A FABRIC INFILL. ONCE FOLDED THE PLASTIC LOOP WOULD BE UNDER TENSION WHICH WOULD BE COUNTERBALANCED BY THE FORCE INDUCED CLIPPING THE FABRIC INFILL.

ADDITIONAL EMTECH INTERNAL COMPETITION FOR THEATRE PAVILION IN HACKNEY

AN ADDITIONAL CLIP WOULD ALLOW THE PANEL TO BE CLOSED AND BECOME FLAT AGAIN, THUS MAKING POSSIBLE TO RELEASE THE STRUCTURE, ONCE IN PLACE, LAYER BY LAYER.

TITLE / OBJECT POP-UP THEATRE

DETAIL YEAR TYPE

PT.01 PAGE.39 COUNTER

AFTER THE DEFORMATIONS OF THE RODS WERE TESTED, A DIGITAL MODEL WAS DEVELOPED. THE DIFFERENT DIMENSIONS OF THE PANELS DISTRIBUTED ON THE SURFACE WERE RETRIEVED FROM THE MODEL TO BUILD A PATCH OF THE STRUCTURE.

: 2012 : DISMOUNTABLE CANOPY

CANOPY OBJECT

PANEL FOLDING

POP-UP DEPLOYMENT

PROJECT REVIEW

ADDITIONAL

THIS WAS THE FINAL PROTOTYPE FOR A DEPLOYABLE, MODULAR ENCLOSURE FOR A POP UP CINEMA IN HACKNEY AND WAS DISPLAYED AT THE AA PROJECTS REVIEW EXHIBITION IN LONDON. A MAJOR REQUIREMENT WAS THAT IT BE EASY TO DISASSEMBLE AND TO PACK AWAY IN A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME. THE SOLUTION WAS A SET OF STACKABLE, DOUBLY CURVED PANELS. THE CURVATURE OF EACH PANEL IS SLIGHT, BUT WHEN ASSEMBLED INTO A WHOLE, THEY PRODUCE ENOUGH DOUBLE CURVATURE TO ACHIEVE STRUCTURAL STABILITY.

TITLE / OBJECT POP-UP THEATRE FEATURED BY AAEMTECH AA PROJECT REVIEW 2012

ADDITIONAL EMTECH INTERNAL COMPETITION FOR THEATRE PAVILLION IN HACKNEY DETAIL YEAR TYPE

PT.02 PAGE.40 COUNTER

GEOMETRY

ADDITIONAL

THE GEOMETRY WAS DEVISED BY SAMPLING THE SURFACE OF A SPHERE AT REGULAR INTERVALS, SUBDIVIDING ITS U,V DOMAIN. THE PANELS WERE OBTAINED BY CONNECTING GROUPS OF FOUR POINTS FROM THE SAMPLING. THIS RESULTED IN A SERIES OF ROWS OF NON PLANAR, IDENTICAL PANELS (SAME PANEL AT THE SAME LATITUDE, INDIFFERENT TO THE LONGITUDE).

THAT WAS THE REASON UNDERLYING THE CHOICE OF THE SPHERE AS A BASE GEOMETRY: UNITS FROM THE SAME ROW COULD BE STACKED TOGETHER AND BE INTERCHANGEABLE, THUS REDUCING THE TIME FOR THE ASSEMBLY AND THE SPACE REQUIRED FOR THE STORAGE.

: 2012 : DISMOUNTABLE CANOPY

CANOPY OBJECT

AA M.WORKSHOP MILLED

SEGMENT OF THE CANOPY

ABS 3D PRINTED JOINTS

ADDITIONAL

TO ACHIEVE THIS CURVATURE WAS A SYNERGY OF TRADITIONAL CARPENTRY AND DIGITAL FABRICATION METHODS WAS DEVELOPED. THE 4 TIMBER MEMBERS OF EACH PANEL WERE CUT WITH A COMPOUND MITRE CUT (ANGLED IN TWO DIRECTIONS).

TITLE / OBJECT POP-UP THEATRE FEATURED BY AAEMTECH AA PROJECT REVIEW 2012

ADDITIONAL EMTECH INTERNAL COMPETITION FOR THEATRE PAVILION IN HACKNEY DETAIL YEAR TYPE

ADDITIONAL

: 2012 : DISMOUNTABLE CANOPY

EACH PANEL CONTAINED 3 UNIQUE MITRE CUTS, EACH OF WHICH HAD ITS OWN LASER-CUT JIG TEMPLATE TO AID IN THE FABRICATION PROCESS. IN ORDER TO JOIN THE MEMBERS AT THIS DOUBLE ANGLE, A HYBRID JOINT CONSISTING OF A 3D PRINTED CONNECTION PIECE MADE FROM ABS PLASTIC WAS DEVELOPED. THE ADVANTAGE OF THIS NEW AND INNOVATIVE METHOD IS THAT THE COMPLEX JOINERY THAT WOULD BE REQUIRED TO PRODUCE THE JOINT ONLY OUT OF TIMBER WAS ELIMINATED. THE TIMBER PIECES REQUIRED ONLY LINEAR CUTS, AND THE 3D PRINTED PIECE SERVED TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF THE DOUBLE ANGLE CONNECTION. FOR THE FOOTINGS, A SEPARATE 3D PRINTED PIECE WAS DEVELOPED THAT WAS MORE REINFORCED STRUCTURALLY, AND SERVED TO BRING THE DOUBLY ANGLED JOINT DOWN TO THE GROUND AT A 90 DEGREE ANGLE.

PT.03 PAGE.41 COUNTER

DETAIL OBJECT

STUDIO INTEGRATE ABS PRINT

PROTOTYPE AT AA PROJECT REVIEW

ADDITIONAL EMTECH

: HTTP://EMTECH.AASCHOOL.AC.UK/

TITLE / OBJECT ADAPTIVE WINDBREAK

OBJECT / TITLE

ADAPTIVE WINDBREAK

FEATURED BY AAEMTECH AA PROJECT REVIEW 2012

DETAIL YEAR TYPE

: 2012 : MATERIAL RESEARCH

THE BRIEF OF THE PROJECT WAS TO RESEARCH AND DESIGN AN INHABITABLE, RESPONSIVE SURFACE CAPABLE OF ADAPTING TO BOTH ITS ENVIRONMENT AND ITS USERS, EMPLOYING BOTH PASSIVE AND ACTIVE STRATEGIES, LEADING TO NOVEL SPATIAL EFFECTS FOR PROGRAMMATIC USE. THE MATERIAL SYSTEM HAD TO ADDRESS THE DESIGN PROBLEM AT DIFFERENT SCALES AND GENERATE RESPONSIVENESS AND INTERACTIVITY AT THE LOCAL, REGIONAL, AND GLOBAL LEVELS THROUGH THE INTELLIGENCE OF MATERIAL AND GEOMETRY. THE SURFACE HAD TO BE DESIGNED AS AN URBAN INTERVENTION IN THE PLAZA CONFINED BY THE RIVER THAMES AND THE SCOOP, ADJACENT TO LONDON CITY HALL.

AW.00 PAGE.42 COUNTER

LOOKING AT THE SPECIFICITY OF THE SITE, THE GOAL IN ADDRESSING THE BRIEF WAS TO CREATE A RESPONSIVE WIND SHELTER, BORROWING STRATEGIES FROM BOTH NATURAL AND ARTIFICIAL WINDSHIELD TYPOLOGIES. STUDIES ON BRANCHING SYSTEMS AND INTERACTION OF TREE FOLIAGE WITH THE WIND WERE PERFORMED. A RECURSIVE ALGORITHM WAS CREATED TO DIFFERENTIATE SURFACES WITH A BRANCHING LOGIC. THIS LED TO THE DESIGN OF A COMPONENT CAPABLE OF VIBRATING AT DIFFERENT FREQUENCIES IN ORDER TO DISSIPATE WIND ENERGY WAS DESIGNED. FINALLY, WIND PRESSURE AND SUN RADIATION ON SITE WERE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT TO MODULATE ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS IN THE AREA THROUGH A RESPONSIVE WINDSHIELD. BRIEF

DISSIPATION THROUGH SURFACE ROUGHNESS

ADDITIONAL EMTECH

ADDITIONAL

TO DESCRIBE AND REPLICATE THE MECHANISM NATURAL WINDBREAK, STUDIES ON THE PHYSICS OF TREES UNDER WIND LOADS WERE INVESTIGATED.

: HTTP://EMTECH.AASCHOOL.AC.UK/

TITLE / OBJECT ADAPTIVE WINDBREAK

DIFFERENT WAYS TO MEASURE THE BEHAVIOUR OF TREES UNDER DYNAMIC WIND LOADS ARE NOWADAYS ALREADY DEEPLY DEVELOPED (JAMES ET AL. 2006, HASSINEN ET AL. 1997, JAMES 2008, MOORE ET AL. 2005).

THE RESULTS POINTED OUT THAT THE TREES’ SWAY UNDER WIND LOW IS NOT HARMONIC AND ITS COMPLEXITY IS CAUSED BY THE INTERACTION BETWEEN BRANCHES WITH DIFFERENT MASSES AND WIND LOADS (JAMES ET AL. 2006), LOADS WHICH ARE NOT THEMSELVES CONSTANT.

FEATURED BY AAEMTECH AA PROJECT REVIEW 2012

DETAIL YEAR TYPE

DISSIPATION THROUGH MASS HIERARCHY

: 2012 : MATERIAL RESEARCH

THE DESIGN OF THE PROJECT’S ELEMENT WAS THEN ADDRESSED FOLLOWING THESE SPECIFICATIONS: CREATING A LARGE AREA OF INTERACTION, ALLOWING FLEXIBILITY BOTH THROUGH THE DESIGN OF A SLIM CONNECTION AND BY THE MATERIAL ITSELF (WOOD) WITH ANISOTROPIC PROPERTIES. THE ABILITY TO STRESS THE WOOD IN AN ELASTIC WAY WITHOUT HAVING PLASTIC DEFORMATIONS OVER CYCLES OF LOADS WAS THE CRITERION ON THE BASIS OF WHICH IT WAS SELECTED. LASTLY, TESTS WERE PERFORMED IN ORDER TO VERIFY THE AMOUNT OF VIBRATION AND THE ABILITY OF DIFFERENT PARTS TO ACT TOGETHER AS CLUSTER AND THEIR ABILITY TO DISSIPATE WIND ENERGY BY THEIR VIBRATION AND QUAKING. A PHYSICAL MODEL WAS DEVELOPED IN ORDER TO TRANSLATE THE BRANCHING MECHANISM INTO A SIMPLE SYSTEM. A PIECE OF 3MM PLYWOOD WAS SCORED, ATTEMPTING TO CREATE VARIOUS LEVELS OF ACTIVATION, ACCORDING TO THE BRANCHING LOGIC. WETTING AND BENDING THE PIECE ALLOWED THE SCORED PARTS TO POP OUT AND DEFORM, REVEALING THE “BRANCHES” OF THE STRUCTURE, EACH ONE WITH DIFFERENT LENGTH, PROPORTION, AND MASS. EVERY LEVEL, THEREFORE, HAD SUB LEVELS, EACH OF WHICH WAS ACTIVATED BY THE MOVEMENT OF THE LOWER ONE.

LEVEL 1 LEVEL 0

IN ORDER TO CHECK THE RESPONSE AT DIFFERENT FREQUENCIES AND CONFIRM THE STRUCTURE‘S PERFORMANCE, THE MODEL WAS TESTED ON A FINITE ELEMENT SOFTWARE APPLYING TO GRAVITY FORCE A SAMPLE SPECTRUM OF FREQUENCIES. AS EXPECTED, DIFFERENT FREQUENCIES ACTIVATED DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE STRUCTURE, AND THE ENERGY DERIVING FROM THE EXTERNAL LOADS WAS SPREADED INTO DIFFERENT BRANCHES. DESPITE THE FACT THAT WIND IS OFTEN THOUGHT OF AS A FORCE WITH A CONSTANT MAGNITUDE, THIS IS NOT THE CASE. IT IS ACTUALLY A HIGHLY COMPLEX SERIES OF FLUCTUATING FORCES. THIS FLUCTUATION IS REFERRED TO AS THE WIND POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY (PSD). IT IS MADE UP OF SEVERAL WAVES OF WIND LAYERED OVER THE MAIN STEADY WINDSPEED. THESE WAVES ALL HAVE DIFFERENT FREQUENCIES AND AMPLITUDES. THIS IS WHY A FLAG BLOWING IN THE WIND FLAPS WILDLY. IF THE WIND WERE A CONSTANT FORCE, THE FLAG WOULD SIMPLY STAY STRAIGHT IN THE DIRECTION OF THE WIND.

LEVEL 3

FREQUENCY: 0.0234092 HZ

FREQUENCY: 0.0234092 HZ

FREQUENCY: 0.0324549 HZ

Plate Disp:DZ (m)

Plate Disp:DZ (m)

Plate Disp:DZ (m)

0.000000e0 [Pt:1433,Nd:2150] 0.000000e0 0.000000e0 0.000000e0 0.000000e0 0.000000e0 0.000000e0 0.000000e0 0.000000e0 0.000000e0 0.000000e0

FREQUENCY: 0.0243111 HZ Plate Disp:DZ (m) 1.017174e-10 [Pt:925,Nd:1336] 0.000000e0 0.000000e0 0.000000e0 0.000000e0 0.000000e0 0.000000e0 0.000000e0 0.000000e0 0.000000e0 -1.034814e-10 [Pt:740,Nd:961]

AMPLITUDE

HARMONIC MOTION

MASS DAMPING MULTIPLE MASS DAMPERS

0.1

0.2

0.3

0.4

0.5

0.6

0.7

0.8

0.9

FREQUENCY

MAIN TRUNK

BRANCHES

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IMPROVING SURFACE DISSIPATION

DAMPING NATURAL MECHANISM

LEVEL 2

SPECTRAL ANALYSIS

1.091610e-9 [Pt:1486,Nd:2181] -8.104373e-9 -1.730036e-8 -2.649634e-8 -3.569232e-8 -4.488830e-8 -5.408429e-8 -6.328027e-8 -7.247625e-8 -8.167224e-8 -8.627023e-8 [Pt:1433,Nd:2150]

FREQUENCY: 0.0243111 HZ Plate Disp:DZ (m) 1.178337e-9 [Pt:998,Nd:1371] -1.154547e-9 -3.487432e-9 -5.820316e-9 -8.153200e-9 -1.048608e-8 -1.281897e-8 -1.515185e-8 -1.748474e-8 -1.981762e-8 -2.098406e-8 [Pt:925,Nd:1336]

1.704092e-10 [Pt:1329,Nd:1941] 1.334769e-10 0.000000e0 0.000000e0 0.000000e0 0.000000e0 0.000000e0 0.000000e0 -1.250494e-10 -1.619817e-10 -1.804479e-10 [Pt:1111,Nd:1587]

ADDITIONAL EMTECH

RESULTING TESSELLATION WIND + SUN DATA

SOLAR IRRADIATION ANALYSIS

: HTTP://EMTECH.AASCHOOL.AC.UK/

TITLE / OBJECT ADAPTIVE WINDBREAK FEATURED BY AAEMTECH AA PROJECT REVIEW 2012

FREQ: 30.19 HZ

DETAIL YEAR TYPE

: 2012 : MATERIAL RESEARCH

FREQ: 95.32 HZ

FREQ: 18.63 HZ

THE PRECEDING RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS LED TO THE DESIGN OF A SINGLE COMPONENT. THE RHOMBUS BECAME THE BASE SHAPE OF THIS COMPONENT SINCE THIS KIND OF SHAPE ALLOWS FOR A RECURSION OF 1 TO 4, AS ALREADY SHOWED, AND PERMITS A SIMPLE SUBDIVISION OF A WHOLE SURFACE. THE COMPONENT WAS SUBDIVIDED INTO FOUR PARTS AND EACH QUARTER WAS FURTHER SUBDIVIDED INTO TWO SUB-LEVELS, WHICH INCORPORATED THE FOLIAGE ELEMENTS. EACH OF THESE LAYERS COULD BE OMITTED ACCORDING TO THE DESIRED PERFORMANCE OF THE SURFACE. THE SHAPE OF THE SUBDIVISIONS AND THEIR PROPORTIONS (MASS, LENGTH) WERE DEFINED THROUGH STRAND TESTS OF THEIR PERFORMANCE. THE DAMPING LOGIC WAS IMPLEMENTED ON THE COMPONENT THROUGH THE FOLIAGE ELEMENTS, WHOSE DESIGN AND PERFORMANCE WAS ALREADY EXPLORED.

LOW PRESSURE = HIGH POROSITY + FEW LAYERS

MID PRESSURE = MID POROSITY + MID LAYERS

HIGH PRESSURE = LOW POROSITY + INCREAS. LAYERS

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CFD WIND ANALYSIS

THE WIND ENERGY FLUCTUATION WAS THE BASIS FOR THE COMPONENT DESIGN. SINCE THE DIFFERENT LAYERS OF THE COMPONENTS HAD DIFFERENT MASSES AND DIFFERENT NATURAL FREQUENCIES (FREQUENCIES AT WHICH THEY RESONATE), THESE DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE COMPONENT WOULD BE EXCITED BY DIFFERENT FREQUENCIES WITHIN THE WIND. THE OVERALL GOAL WAS THAT THE NATURAL FREQUENCIES OF THE DIFFERENT PARTS WOULD BE SO THAT THE STRUCTURE WOULD NEVER RESONATE AS A WHOLE, BUT RATHER EACH LEVEL WOULD RESONATE SEPARATELY. THIS EFFECT WAS SIMULATED IN STRAND FIRST BY RUNNING A NATURAL FREQUENCY ANALYSIS ON A COMPONENT. THIS ANALYSIS SHOWED THE FREQUENCIES AT WHICH IT WOULD RESONATE. THIS DATA WAS THEN FED INTO A SPECTRAL RESPONSE ANALYSIS ALONG WITH A SAMPLE PSD TABLE. THROUGH THIS ANALYSIS IT WAS POSSIBLE TO EVALUATE WHICH PARTS OF THE COMPONENT WOULD VIBRATE AT CERTAIN FREQUENCIES AND HOW MUCH THEY WOULD BE DISPLACED. THIS ANALYSIS WAS IN TURN APPLIED ON LARGER PATCHES OF COMPONENTS AND EVENTUALLY THE ON ENTIRE STRUCTURE. DIFFERENT PROPORTIONS WERE TESTED TO SEE HOW THESE CHANGES WOULD AFFECT THE VIBRATIONAL BEHAVIOUR OF THE SYSTEM. IN THIS TEST, THE PREVIOUS COMPONENTS WERE STRETCHED IN ORDER TO MAKE THEM LONGER AND THINNER. THESE SMALL CHANGES RESULTED IN DIFFERENCES IN THE NATURAL FREQUENCIES OF THE STRUCTURE AND THEREFORE IN THE GLOBAL VIBRATION. ACCORDING TO THE IDEA OF DEVELOPING DIFFERENT SPATIAL CONDITIONS, AND THE EXPLORATION OF WIND-SURFACE INTERACTION, THE SURFACE WAS REFINED THROUGH CFD ANALYSIS. ADDITIONAL

FREQ: 25.53 HZ

FREQ: 2.015 HZ

FREQ: 2.701 HZ

FREQ: 1.754 HZ

FREQ: 1.330 HZ

SPECTRUM ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION

ADDITIONAL

DETAIL

A PRELIMINARY SURFACE WAS DEVELOPED ADDRESSING THE ISSUES OF THE WIND PRESSURE. THE SUBDIVISIONS OF THE SURFACE WERE INCREASED WHERE FACING THE WIND. THE DIMENSION OF THE PIECES WAS JUST A SAMPLE ONE, WHICH WOULD BE EVENTUALLY MODIFIED IN ORDER TO VIBRATE TUNED WITH THE SPECTRUM SUPERIMPOSED.

TITLE / OBJECT ADAPTIVE WINDBREAK FEATURED BY AAEMTECH AA PROJECT REVIEW 2012

DETAIL YEAR TYPE

SHADOW ANALYSIS

ADDITIONAL

EVENTUALLY MODIFICATIONS WERE INTRODUCED. ON ONE SIDE THE DIMENSIONS OF THE COMPONENTS WERE INCREASED AND DIFFERENTIATED TO MATCH DIFFERENT POSSIBLE FREQUENCIES OF EXTERNAL FORCES, AND ALLOWING THE COMPONENTS THEMSELVES TO VIBRATE ACCORDING TO THEIR THICKNESS. A SECONDARY GOAL WAS TO MODULATE LIGHT WITH A MINIMUM DECREASE OF ITS RADIATION INSIDE THE PAVILION. THE PRESSURE SAMPLES OVER THE SURFACES WERE THEN INTEGRATED WITH SOLAR DATA SAMPLES, BALANCING THE TWO PARAMETERS AND ALLOWING FOR PROTECTION FROM WIND WITHOUT SACRIFICING ACCESS TO SUNLIGHT.

: 2012 : MATERIAL RESEARCH

IN THE FIRST EXPERIMENT, WAS NOTICED THAT THE ONLY AREA WITH REMARKABLE DEFORMATIONS WAS THE PART ON THE EDGE WITH LONG, FREE SECTIONS. THIS WAS BECAUSE THESE SECTIONS WERE FAR TOO LONG TO BE LEFT UNSUPPORTED, AND WERE THEREFORE FLAPPING WILDLY WHEN SUBJECTED TO THE WIND SPECTRUM. IN ORDER TO FIX THIS ISSUE, MORE RESTRAINT NODES WERE ADDED, TO CONTROL THE VIBRATION IN THESE AREAS. ADDED THE NEW RESTRAINT NODES, THE SIMULATION WAS RUN AGAIN. IN THIS ANALYSIS, BETTER RESULTS WERE OBSERVED. ON THE OTHER HAND SOME AREAS WERE NOT VIBRATING TO THE DESIRED DEGREE. PARTS OF THE STRUCTURE NEEDED THEN TO BE MODIFIED IN ORDER TO ALLOW FOR MORE VIBRATION/ENERGY DISSIPATION. TO ACHIEVE THIS, THE NATURAL FREQUENCY WOULD HAVE TO BE CHANGED. THIS COULD HAVE BEEN DONE EITHER BY CHANGING THE THICKNESS OF THE MATERIAL (OPERATING ON THE MASS), OR BY CHANGING THE MATERIAL ITSELF (OPERATING ON THE ELASTICITY).

A FURTHER SIMULATION WAS RUN ON THE SYSTEM IN ORDER TO CONFIRM THESE ASSUMPTION. PATCHES THAT WERE NOT MOVING IN THE FIRST SIMULATION WERE ADJUSTED IN TERMS OF THEIR THICKNESS AND MATERIAL PROPERTIES TO ACHIEVE BETTER DISTRIBUTED VIBRATION RESULTS. THE DISPLACEMENT ON THESE PATCHES WAS ACTUALLY INCREASED DURING THIS SIMULATION. THROUGH MANIPULATION OF MATERIAL PROPERTIES AND ADDING OR SUBTRACTING SUPPORTS, IT WAS POSSIBLE TO GAIN GREATER CONTROL OVER THE OVERALL VIBRATION OF THE SYSTEM. THE INITIAL HYPOTHESIS ABOUT HOW THE STRUCTURE WOULD BEHAVE AGAINST THE WIND WERE CONFIRMED BY THESE STUDIES. DIFFERENT FREQUENCIES AT WHICH PARTS OF THE STRUCTURE VIBRATED WERE FOUND, BUT THE ONES WHICH WERE ABLE TO MAKE THE WHOLE STRUCTURE RESONATE WERE NEVER ACTIVATED. THEREFORE THE STRUCTURE WOULD BE IN AN ALMOST CONSTANT STATE OF VIBRATION AT SOME LEVEL, WHILE MAINTAINING STRUCTURAL STABILITY.

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MODEL OBJECT

AA D.P.LAB LASER CUT

DECREASED POROSITY INCREASED POROSITY

SHADOW CONDITION +++

SHADOW CONDITION ++

SHADOW CONDITION +

1 M.

ADDITIONAL EMTECH BLOG

: HTTP://EMTECH.AASCHOOL.AC.UK/ : HTTP://HTTP://SELFASSEMBLING.BLOGSPOT.CO.UK/

TITLE / OBJECT MACRO SCALE SELF-ASSEMBLING SYSTEMS FEATURED BY AAEMTECH

DETAIL YEAR TYPE

SA.00 PAGE.46 COUNTER

: 2012 : DISSERTATION

OBJECT / TITLE

MACRO SCALE SELF-ASSEMBLING SYSTEMS

RESULTING STRUCTURE EXP.01

ADDITIONAL

ADDITIONAL

ASSEMBLY LOGIC: CUBES THROWN ON A TEMPLATE

IS IT POSSIBLE TO DESIGN A STRUCTURE THAT ASSEMBLES ITSELF? SELF-ASSEMBLING MECHANISMS EXIST IN ABUNDANCE IN NATURE, PRODUCING STRUCTURES AS DISTINCT AS CRYSTALS, PROTEINS AND TISSUE. NATURAL AS WELL AS ARTIFICIAL EXAMPLES EXIST AT THE NANO AND MICRO SCALE, BUT HAVE RARELY BEEN ATTEMPTED AT THE MACROSCOPICSCALE. THE FIRST OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED STUDY WAS TO EXPLORE THE CHARACTERISTICS AND APPLICATIONS OF SUCH SYSTEMS, WITH THEIR MAIN PROPERTIES BEING HIGH LEVELS OF REDUNDANCY WHICH IS INTRINSICALLY RELATED TO GEOMETRY AND MATERIAL.

TITLE / OBJECT MACRO-SCALE SELF-ASSEMBLING SYSTEMS FEATURED BY AAEMTECH

DETAIL YEAR TYPE

C01

THE SECOND OBJECTIVE WAS TO INVESTIGATE THE ISSUES OF SCALABILITY WHICH HAVE LIMITED FORMER STUDIES. A SERIES OF DIGITAL AND PHYSICAL, (MATERIAL, AND COMPONENT BASED) PROTOTYPESYSTEMS (CONSISTING OF MACROSCOPIC-SCALE COMPONENTS) WAS DESIGNED, BASED ON NOTIONS ABSTRACTED FROM STUDIED EXAMPLES.

: 2012 : DISSERTATION

LASTLY, A FURTHER OBJECTIVE WAS TO EXPLORE THE POSSIBILITY OF DESIGNING A SYSTEM, COMPOSED OF MACROSCOPIC-SCALE UNITS, THAT SELF-ASSEMBLES (WITHIN A PROBABILISTIC RELIABLE INTERVAL) INTO SOME FORM OF STRUCTURE AT THE ARCHITECTURAL-SCALE. THE LOGIC DEVELOPED COULD APPLY TO A SELF-ASSEMBLY CASTING SYSTEM, WHERE A MINIMUM SET OF COMPONENTS ALONG WITH A TEMPLATE SYSTEM AND A THROWING SEQUENCE COULD BE USED IN ORDER TO CREATE A VARIETY OF STRUCTURES AND GENERATE AS WELL VOIDS, WHERE SPACES ARE NEEDED. CONSEQUENTLY, CONSTRUCTION TIME, LABOUR COST AND SPECIALIZATION COULD BE DRASTICALLY DECREASED COMPARED TO ALREADY EXISTING, CONVENTIONAL CASTING TECHNIQUES. FOR THE FIRST EXPERIMENTS THE GEOMETRY OF THE CUBE WAS USED IN ORDER TO STUDY THE SELF-ASSEMBLY BEHAVIOUR RESULTING FROM THE THROWING OF COMPONENTS ONTO A TEMPLATE. VARIOUS PARAMETERS WERE TESTED SUCH AS THE TEMPLATE DIMENSIONS AND SHAPES, THE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS, THE ENERGY INPUT, AND THE WEIGHT OF THE COMPONENTS TO EVALUATE THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE SUCCESS OF THE PROCESS. TO OVERCOME THE SYSTEM LIMITATIONS, THE STEPS OF A SEQUENTIAL PROCESS WERE SET UP, IN ORDER TO HAVE MORE CONTROL AND DIFFERENTIATION ON THE OUTCOMES.

SOLID C.

C01 C02

CUBES WITH HOLLOW PARTS WHICH COULD BE CAST TO BECOME CONNECTED WERE DESIGNED. THE SOLID PART OF THE CUBES COULD BE SEEN NOT ONLY AS A NEGATIVE BUT AS A FRAMEWORK WHICH COULD BE REMOVED AFTER THE CASTING.

C02

THE EXPOSED TUBE ENDS OF THE WAX CUBES WERE SEALED WITH WAX, LEAVING OPEN JUST ONE FROM WHICH PLASTER WAS POURED. AFTER THE PLASTER DRIED THE WHOLE ASSEMBLY WAS HEATED WITH A CONSTANT TEMPERATURE AND THE CAST STRUCTURE WAS REVEALED.

VOID

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HEATING THE WAX MOLD

DIFFERENTIATION OF UNITS: DIGITAL SIMULATION AND WAX COMPONENTS

ADDITIONAL EMTECH BLOG

ADDITIONAL

: HTTP://EMTECH.AASCHOOL.AC.UK/ : HTTP://HTTP://SELFASSEMBLING.BLOGSPOT.CO.UK/

TITLE / OBJECT MACRO SCALE SELF-ASSEMBLING SYSTEMS FEATURED BY AAEMTECH

DETAIL YEAR TYPE

: 2012 : DISSERTATION

THE PREVIOUS EXPERIMENTS DEALT WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF A RANGE OF PROTOTYPE MACRO SCALE SELF-ASSEMBLING SYSTEMS. THEIR EVALUATION, THROUGH EXPERIMENTATION, ALLOWED THE PROTOTYPES’ CHARACTERISTICS, BEHAVIOUR, AND LIMITATIONS TO BE IDENTIFIED. SYSTEMS FOR EMBEDDING INFORMATION INTO PROTOTYPE COMPONENTS (SUCH AS THE USE OF SPECIFIC GEOMETRIES AND MAGNETIC PATTERNING) WERE ALSO STUDIED. ALL OF THIS PROVIDED THE FOUNDATIONS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF FURTHER PROTOTYPE-SYSTEMS. THESE NEW PROTOTYPES, HOWEVER, RATHER THAN BEING GENERIC SYSTEMS OF SELF-ASSEMBLY (AS SEEN PREVIOUSLY), WERE FOCUSED TOWARDS DEVELOPING THE MOST SUCCESSFUL OF THE PREVIOUS GENERATION OF PROTOTYPES, TOWARDS PERFORMING ARCHITECTURE OR ENGINEERINGRELATED FUNCTIONS IN REAL-WORLD SCENARIOS. THE PREVIOUS PART OF THE STUDY THUS DIRECTED SUBSEQUENT WORK TOWARDS SYSTEMS WHICH ASSEMBLE ON WATER SURFACES. THREE SEPARATE SURFACE ASSEMBLING SYSTEMS WERE DEVELOPED WITH DISTINCT COMPONENTS, IN TERMS OF GEOMETRY, SCALE, EMBEDDED-INFORMATION, INTENDED ENVIRONMENT OF OPERATION AND OF COURSE, APPLICATION: A BREAKWATER SYSTEM, AN OIL RECOVERY SYSTEM FOR USE DURING OIL SPILLS, AND LASTLY A SYSTEM FOR DEVELOPING BUOYANT PLATFORMS. EACH ONE OF THESE SYSTEMS ENTAILS ITS OWN ASSEMBLY LOGIC, PROCESS OF ASSEMBLY AND ISSUES WITH SCALABILITY AND OTHER LIMITATIONS, WHICH ARE ALSO IDENTIFIED IN THIS SECTION. IT WAS INTENDED THAT THE PROPOSED APPLICATIONS TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SYSTEM, AS OBSERVED IN THE PREVIOUS SECTION: NAMELY, THE WAY IN WHICH SELF-ASSEMBLY IS NOT SUITED TOWARDS PRODUCING HIGHLY SPECIFIC, PRESCRIBED RESULTS, BUT RATHER RANGES OF SIMILAR OUTPUTS OF DIFFERENT FORMAL ARRANGEMENTS, THE METHODOLOGY ADOPTED INVOLVED ITERATIVE PROTOTYPING AND EXPERIMENTATION. THE PROTOTYPES ALSO SERVED TO IDENTIFY POTENTIAL ISSUES WITH SCALABILITY AND OPERATION. THESE ISSUES ARE DISCUSSED AND HIGHLIGHTED AS POINTS FOR FUTURE RESEARCH. LASTLY, AND ON A SIMILAR NOTE, THE PROTOTYPES SERVED TO ASSESS THE FEASIBILITY OF THE PROPOSED SYSTEMS.

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THE ISSUES WITH THE TEMPLATEBASED GRAVITATIONAL SYSTEM, DESCRIBED PREVIOUSLY, EVIDENTLY RESTRICTED THE SYSTEM’S POTENTIAL IN TERMS OF POSSIBLE OUTPUTS AND SCALABILITY. THIS, IN TURN, LIMITED ANY REAL-WORLD APPLICATIONS. THESE ISSUES WERE ALSO CLEARLY RELATED TO THE STRICT INFLUENCE OF GRAVITY, WHICH MADE COMPONENT RECONFIGURATION IMPOSSIBLE AND THEREFORE SEVERELY LIMITED STOCHASTIC INTERACTIONS BETWEEN COMPONENTS (CHARACTERISTIC OF SELF-ASSEMBLING SYSTEMS).

FURTHER PROTOTYPE SYSTEMS WERE THUS DEVISED, TO WORK IN AQUATIC ENVIRONMENTS.

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THE RECONFIGURABILITY OF THE SYSTEM IN THREE-DIMENSIONS OR ON THE SURFACE OF THE WATER (WITH FLOATING COMPONENTS) ALLOWS THE DUNE-LIKE GEOMETRIES (THAT WERE CHARACTERISTIC OF PREVIOUS AGGREGATES) TO BE AVOIDED. A TEMPLATE, PREVIOUSLY CRUCIAL TO THE SYSTEM, WAS ALSO NO LONGER REQUIRED. THIS WAS ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT FOR THE ASSEMBLY OF LARGE STRUCTURES WHICH PREVIOUSLY REQUIRED EVEN LARGER TEMPLATES. IT WAS ENVISAGED THAT THE WATERBASED COMPONENTS WOULD CONNECT BY MEANS OF MAGNETS. MAGNET POLARITIES USED IN CONJUNCTION WITH SPECIFIC GEOMETRIES COULD DEFINE SPECIFIC LOGICS OF AGGREGATION FOR SETS OF COMPONENTS.

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TO EXPLORE THE POSSIBILITY OF CREATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES, WHICH AGGREGATE SIMILARLY BUT UNDERWATER, A SECOND SERIES OF PROTOTYPES WAS DEVELOPED (AIMING AT THE CREATION OF ENCLOSED SPACES, RINGS AND TUBES).

THE COMPONENTS WERE SUBMERGED AND ENERGY INPUT INTO THE SYSTEM BY STIRRING THE WATER. AGAIN, EXPERIMENTS INDICATED THAT STRUCTURED ASSEMBLIES WOULD AGGREGATE FOLLOWING THE PRINCIPLES DESIGNED INTO THE SYSTEM (PROVIDED THAT THE ENERGY INPUT INTO THE SYSTEM WAS NOT TOO HIGH). IT WAS CLEAR, HOWEVER, THAT THE INTENDED CLOSED TUBE STRUCTURE WAS AGAIN JUST A SINGLE POSSIBLE OUTCOME FROM MANY POTENTIAL OTHERS. ANOTHER POSSIBLE OUTCOME GIVEN THIS PARTICULAR SYSTEM, FOR EXAMPLE, WAS THAT OF A SINGLE, CONTINUOUS STACK OF CONNECTED COMPONENTS. THE MOST PROBABLE OUTCOME WAS A TUBE-LIKE STRUCTURE NOT FULLY CLOSED. THE SELF-ASSEMBLING PROTOTYPE SYSTEMS DEVELOPED CLEARLY INDICATED THEIR SUITABILITY TOWARDS CONSTRUCTING ORDERED, OPENENDED, NETWORK-TYPE STRUCTURES RATHER THAN THE HIGHLY-SPECIFIC ARTEFACTS USUALLY REQUIRED IN ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING PROJECTS. THEIR SEMI-RANDOM NATURE MEANS THAT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PREDICT THE FINAL OUTPUT STRUCTURE, AND THUS SHOULD BE USED WHEN ANY ONE OF THE PARTICULAR RANGE OF OUTPUTS IS SUITABLE. HOWEVER, THE USE OF SUCH SYSTEMS WITHIN AN ARCHITECTURAL/ ENGINEERING CONTEXT IS NOT WITHOUT SCOPE. AS SHALL BECOME EVIDENT, SELF-ASSEMBLING SYSTEMS COULD BE USEFUL IN LIMITING COSTS OF SKILLED LABOUR, PROVIDE SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO SOLVE WITH TRADITIONAL METHODS BUT ALSO BE SUITABLE FOR CONSTRUCTING STRUCTURES UNDER DIFFICULT CONDITIONS. THREE MARINE-BASED APPLICATIONS HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED, THAT WOULD SELFASSEMBLE AT THE MACRO-SCALE: THE FLOATING PLATFORM FOR LAND RECLAMATION, THE FLOATING BREAKWATER, AND EMERGENCY STRUCTURES TO DEAL WITH OIL-SPILL RECOVERY. ALL THREE SYSTEMS AGGREGATE ON THE SURFACE AND ARE THUS TWO-DIMENSIONAL ASSEMBLIES.

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CHINESE NATIONAL GAMES ARENA

THE SITE FOR THE CHINESE NATIONAL GAMES ARENA IS LOCATED IN A SHENYANG UNIVERSITY COURTYARD LINED ON THREE SIDES BY UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS AND ON ONE SIDE BY MAJOR ARTERIAL STREET WHICH FEATURES THE NEW 300KMH SHENYANG HIGH-SPEED RAIL LINE. THE DESIGN IS A SIMPLE VOLUME WHICH BECOMES INCREASINGLY ARTICULATED AND TRANSPARENT TOWARDS PUBLIC SPACES AND ITS MAIN ENTRY. THE ARENA WILL HOUSE 3,000 FIXED SEATS ABOVE THE MEZZANINE LEVEL AND 2,000 RETRACTABLE SEATS BELOW. IT IS DESIGNED FOR MAXIMUM FLEXIBILITY TO ALLOW FOR BOTH OFFICIAL JUDO EVENTS IN 2013 AND FOR PERFORMING ARTS EVENTS, PUBLIC LECTURES, AND STUDENT SPORTS EVENTS AFTER THE COMPLETION OF THE GAMES. THE RETRACTABLE SEATING SYSTEM ALLOWS FOR THE CONVERSION OF A 51M X 31M GAMING AREA INTO A 64M X 44M MULTIFUNCTIONAL SPACE. THE BUILDING SKIN IN DISCRETIZED INTO A PATTERN OF APERTURES, GRADIENT RELIEF, AND FLAT SURFACES FEATURING METASEAMS. METASEAMS, ALTHOUGH THEY ARE IN FACT INSTRUMENTALIZED AS EXPANSION JOINTS, ARE IMPORTANT AS ORNAMENTAL LINEWORK WHICH TIES ALL ARCHITECTURAL SURFACES TOGETHER.

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THE SITE FOR THE CHINESE NATIONAL GAMES ARENA IS LOCATED IN A SHENYANG UNIVERSITY COURTYARD LINED ON THREE SIDES BY UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS AND ON ONE SIDE BY MAJOR ARTERIAL STREET WHICH FEATURES THE NEW 300KMH SHENYANG HIGH-SPEED RAIL LINE. THE DESIGN IS A SIMPLE VOLUME WHICH BECOMES INCREASINGLY ARTICULATED AND TRANSPARENT TOWARDS PUBLIC SPACES AND ITS MAIN ENTRY. THE ARENA WILL HOUSE 3,000 FIXED SEATS ABOVE THE MEZZANINE LEVEL AND 2,000 RETRACTABLE SEATS BELOW. IT IS DESIGNED FOR MAXIMUM FLEXIBILITY TO ALLOW FOR BOTH OFFICIAL JUDO EVENTS IN 2013 AND FOR PERFORMING ARTS EVENTS, PUBLIC LECTURES, AND STUDENT SPORTS EVENTS AFTER THE COMPLETION OF THE GAMES. THE RETRACTABLE SEATING SYSTEM ALLOWS FOR THE CONVERSION OF A 51M X 31M GAMING AREA INTO A 64M X 44M MULTIFUNCTIONAL SPACE. THE BUILDING SKIN IN DISCRETIZED INTO A PATTERN OF APERTURES, GRADIENT RELIEF, AND FLAT SURFACES FEATURING METASEAMS. METASEAMS, ALTHOUGH THEY ARE IN FACT INSTRUMENTALIZED AS EXPANSION JOINTS, ARE IMPORTANT AS ORNAMENTAL LINEWORK WHICH TIES ALL ARCHITECTURAL SURFACES TOGETHER. METASEAMS, RELIEF, AND APERTURES WILL BE EMBEDDED INTO BOTH CASTIN-PLACE CONCRETE AS WELL AS GLASS FIBER REINFORCED CONCRETE PANELS.

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ARTIC COMPETITION FOR PUBLIC ART [PRELIMINARY DESIGN]

ARTIC WILL BE A TRANSPORTATION FACILITY WHERE PEOPLE WILL SEAMLESSLY MOVE BETWEEN TRANSIT SERVICES TO REACH SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ACTIVITY CENTERS AND BUSINESS DISTRICTS. TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT IN THE IMMEDIATE AREA WILL INTEGRATE WITH ARTIC TO FORM A VIBRANT SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY. TOGETHER, IT WILL REPRESENT ORANGE COUNTY’S CONTINUING TRANSFORMATION FROM RURAL FARMLAND AND SUBURBAN COMMUNITY TO A THRIVING METROPOLIS. “ARTIC ITSELF WILL BE AN ICONIC DESIGN. THE ADDITION OF PUBLIC ART WILL ADD TO THE CULTURAL IMPORTANCE OF THIS EXCITING PROJECT” SAID MAYOR TOM TAIT.

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PRELIMINARY MODEL AND STUDIES WITH PHYSICAL SYMULATION SOFTWARES WERE MADE TO DETERMINE AN INTRIGUING AND CHALLENGING FORM. ADDITIONAL

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THIS PROPOSALS BASED ON CREATING A COMPLEX VISUAL OSCILLATION BETWEEN TWO AND THREE DIMENSIONAL REALMS. SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE DISCIPLINES OF SCULPTURE AND PAINTING, THE PIECE REGISTERS AS A MASS BUT ALSO AS A GRAPHIC. LOOPY, SPOTTED PATTERNS FLOW OVER MANIFOLD SURFACES, SIMULTANEOUSLY DISSOLVING THE MASS AND RE-ESTABLISHING IT. TRANSPARENT ZONES ALLOW PEOPLE TO VIEW DEEP INSIDE THE OBJECT, THEIR GAZE PULLED INTO INVOLUTIONS IN INTERIOR SURFACES. THEY CAN SEE THE INSIDE OF THE MASS-PAINTING. THE HUMAN BRAIN, RECENT NEUROSCIENCE SUGGESTS, IS NOT ENGAGED IN “SEEING” SPACE, BUT IN ACTIVELY “MODELLING” SPACE. RESIDING ON MULTIPLE ONTOLOGICAL LEVELS, THIS PROJECT IS AN ATTEMPT TO FORCE THE BRAIN TO HEDGE AND GUESS IN ITS “MODELLING” OF PHYSICAL REALITY. THE COLOURFUL PATTERN LANGUAGE, WHILE FANCIFUL AT FIRST GLANCE, IS NOT SIMPLY A VISUAL PHENOMENON. IT IS THE RESULT OF INTERSECTING A MAP OF STRUCTURAL STRESSES WITH A PAINTERLY SENSIBILITY. THE LOOPY MASS IS ANALYSED AS A COMPOSITE SHELL STRUCTURE, REVEALING AREAS OF LOW AND HIGH STRESS. THE RESULTANT COLOUR-GRADIENT MAP IS MANIPULATED TO PRODUCE CERTAIN VISUAL EFFECTS BUT ALSO BROKEN DOWN INTO LAYERS OF VARIABLE THICKNESS AND MATERIAL STRENGTH. COLOUR AND PATTERN THEREFORE ONLY PARTIALLY INDEX MATERIAL FORCES; THE PIECE EXCEEDS SIMPLE MATERIAL EXPRESSION TOWARDS SOMETHING WHICH CORRELATES NATURE AND CULTURE. FINALLY, LAYERS OF SUPER-THIN TECHNOLOGY ARE EMBEDDED INTO THE STRUCTURALLY FIBER COMPOSITE SHELL. THIN FILM SOLAR TAPE IS TUCKED BENEATH THE OUTERMOST LAYER OF THE SHELL, WHILE ORGANIC LED LIGHTING FILM IS EMBEDDED ON THE INSIDE OF THE SHELL, IN ACCENT LAYERS. THE SOLAR TAPE CREATES MICRO-PATTERNING WHICH BREAKS DOWN LARGE SURFACES AND GENERATES ENERGY TO POWER THE LIGHTING SYSTEM. AT NIGHT, MYSTERIOUS GRAPHIC AND SILHOUETTE EFFECTS ARE PRODUCED, HEIGHTENING THE DIMENSIONAL PLAY OF THE PIECE ADDITIONAL

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SPAN DEL CAMPO-MANNINGER ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN

SPANS EXPLORATIONS OF CONTEMPORARY MOODS ARE FUELED BY THE OPULENT REPERTOIRE OF FORMATIONS IN NATURE AS WELL AS FORM AS A DRIVING FORCE AT LARGE. THE UNDERLYING PRESENCE OF CURVILINEAR DESIRES REFLECTS BACK AND RADIATES IN CONDITIONS INFORMED BY A MANIFOLD OF CULTURAL LINEAGES SUCH AS BAROQUE GEOMETRIES OR THE PRESENCE OF THE ENDLESS IN FREDERICK KIESLERS WORK.

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A TREFOIL OF OBSESSIONS DRIVES THE DESIGN ECOLOGY OF SPAN. THE COMPULSIVE DESIRE TO SPECULATE ABOUT ARCHITECTURAL OPPORTUNITIES IN THE PRESENCE OF ANIMATED MATTER AND THEIR UNDERLYING GEOMETRY, THE DESIRE TO RIDE ON THE BALLISTIC TRAJECTORIES GENERATED BY BAROQUE LINEAGES OF ARCHITECTURAL THINKING, AND THE OPPORTUNITIES PRESENT IN COMPUTER CONTROLLED MACHINERY TO MATERIALIZE THEIR DESIGNS IN A PHYSICAL REALM. ALL THESE SPECULATIONS CREATE A MANIFOLD OF FORMS, FROM CONFERENCE PAPERS, TO INDUSTRIAL DESIGN PIECES, TO ARCHITECTURAL PROJECTS. THE LATENT ABILITIES DORMANT IN CREATIVE STRATEGIES DRIVEN BY ALGORITHMIC AND GENERATIVE PROCESSES AS WELL AS THE SIMULATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL PRESSURES GENERATE OPULENT, INTENSIVE SPATIAL CONDITIONS REFLECTING THE CRAVINGS OF SPAN FOR CONTEMPORARY ATMOSPHERES. ADDITIONAL

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BUSAN OPERA HOUSE COMPETITION

THE ARCHITECTURE OF THIS PROJECT OSCILLATES BETWEEN HISTORIC LINEAGE AND MOST ADVANCED CONTEMPORARY ATMOSPHERES. ADVANCED COMPUTATIONAL TECHNIQUES COLLIDE WITH ROMANTIC DESIRES TO PRODUCE AN ELEGANT SPACE FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF OPERAS, HISTORIC AS WELL AS NOVEL ONES. THE PROJECT IS ORGANIZED IN LAYERS. THE ENTIRE PROJECT OSCILLATES BETWEEN PROTECTIVE COATS AND PROGRAMMATIC ELEMENTS. THE OUTMOST PROTECTIVE LAYER CREATES THE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE ISLAND AND THE URBAN LANDMASS. IT ALSO INCORPORATES THE ENTIRE BACK OF HOUSE AREA. NESTED WITHIN THIS VOLUME IS THE PEARL: THE OPERA HOUSE. THE HOUSE ITSELF IS ORGANIZED IN SUBSEQUENT RADIAL STRATA. ON THE ONE SIDE TO PROVIDE THE AUDIENCE CHAMBER WITH AN EXCELLENT SOUND INSULATION, ON THE OTHER HAND IT ALLOWS TO CREATE AN EFFECTIVE STRUCTURE FOR THE OVULAR SHAPE OF THE BUILDING AS WELL AS A CLEARLY ORGANIZED CIRCULATION FOR THE FRONT AS WELL AS THE BACK OF HOUSE. THE CURVILINEAR GESTURES ARE BASED ON ELLIPSES, THIS CONCEPT IS APPLIED IN A RIGOROUS FASHION IN THE ENTIRETY OF THE PROJECT, FROM THE BASIC FORM OF THE OPERA HOUSE ITSELF, TO THE UNDERLYING PLINTH HOUSING WORKSHOPS, WARDROBES ETC TO THE BRIDGES CONNECTING THE OPERA ISLAND TO THE LANDMASS. THE SWIRLING NATURE OF THE BRIDGES AND WALKWAYS INVITE THE VISITORS NOT ONLY TO CONNECT TO THE OPERA BUT TO PACE ALONG THE PROMENADE CIRCULATING THE BUILDING. IN THIS EXTENT IT IS POSSIBLE TO INCORPORATE A MANIFOLD OF PROGRAM WITHIN THE PLINTH OF THE OPERA SUCH AS SHOPPING, RESTAURANTS AND CONFERENCE AREAS. THE PLINTH ALSO SERVES AS A PROTECTIVE MEASURE FOR THE OPERA, AS IT FORMS AN EFFECTIVE PROTECTION WALL TOWARDS TYPHOON AND POSSIBLE TSUNAMI. THERE IS NO APPARENT ENTRANCE VISIBLE IN THE OPERA, BUT THE BRIDGES CLEARLY MARK THE ENTRANCE TO THE BUILDING. ONCE IN THE LOBBY YOU WILL SEE A NEW LEVEL OF ARTICULATION OF THE SPACE. THE RICH OPULENCE OF HISTORIC OPERA BUILDINGS OF THE BAROQUE AND HISTORISM ERA OF THE 19TH CENTURY ECHOES IN THIS SPACE IN A CONTEMPORARY MOOD. WHILST THE BUILDING APPEARS FROM THE OUTSIDE IN NEUTRAL WHITE AND ONLY SPARKS HERE AND THERE IN GOLD, THE LOBBY TAKES THE VISITOR ON A TRIP TO ROMANTIC NOTIONS OF COLOR, WITH GOLD AS MEAN OF EXPRESSION CONNECTING THE ARCHITECTURE OF THIS BUILDING WITH THE HISTORIC LINEAGE OF OPERA DESIGN. ADDITIONAL

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MARIE BOLTENSTERN

HOSTED BY THE EMTECH STUDIO AT THE ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION, THE SUPER-SURFACE FABRICATION WORKSHOP WAS A WEEK-LONG EXPLORATION INTO COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN TECHNIQUES, WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASIS ON THEIR POTENTIALS AND LIMITATIONS. COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN, OR MORE SPECIFICALLY THE USE OF DIGITAL GENERATIVE AND EVALUATIVE TOOLS FOR ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN, HAS BEEN HERALDED AS THE NEW PARADIGM IN ARCHITECTURE FOR THE LAST DECADE. DIGITAL DESIGN TECHNIQUES COUPLED WITH RAPID PROTOTYPING HAVE PERMEATED ARCHITECTURAL EDUCATION AND PRACTICE AT ALL LEVELS. BUT, BESIDES THE ENDLESS RHETORIC AND BASELESS FORMS, WHAT CAN THESE METHODS ACTUALLY CONTRIBUTE TO THE FIELD? WHAT IS THE SCOPE OF THEIR USE? THE WORKSHOP SOUGHT TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS BY INVESTIGATING SURFACES, SURFACE MATHEMATICS AND MANIPULATIONS, AND USING THIS INVESTIGATION TO DESIGN SMALL (AND BEAUTIFUL) ARTEFACTS TO BE FABRICATED.

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THIS REQUIRED TWO, INITIALLY SEPARATE, EXERCISES. FIRSTLY, IT WAS NECESSARY TO UNDERSTAND THE GENERATIVE TOOLS BEING USED, AND HOW TO CONTROL THE SEEMINGLY ENDLESS RANGE OF POSSIBLE MANIPULATIONS AND OUTPUTS. STUDENTS LOOKED TO LIVING AND NON-LIVING NATURAL STRUCTURES TO UNCOVER HOW SPECIFIC, SIMPLE MANIPULATIONS CAN PRODUCE THE MOST COMPLEX OF FORMS. A DISCUSSION ON THE (DECEPTIVE) NATURE OF COMPLEXITY WAS, AT THIS STAGE, INEVITABLE: IS “COMPLEXITY” ANYTHING MORE THAN A TERM TO DENOTE THE EXTENT OF HUMAN PERCEPTION? WHEN THE RULES GOVERNING A SCENARIO CANNOT BE READ WITH EASE, BY THE EXAMINING THE OUTPUT, THE SCENARIO IS DESCRIBED AS BEING “COMPLEX”; IT REQUIRES SOME FORM OF DEEPER UNDERSTANDING. BUT, AS BECAME EVIDENT THROUGHOUT THE WORKSHOP, THESE GOVERNING RULES ARE NOT NECESSARILY ANY MORE COMPLICATED THAN THE MOST TRIVIAL OF SCENARIOS.

STUDENTS WORKS

STUDENT: SEBASTIAAN LEENKNEGT

SECONDLY, THE LIMITATIONS OF EXISTING AND AVAILABLE FABRICATION TECHNOLOGIES HAD TO BE UNDERSTOOD AND IMPLEMENTED IN THE GENERATIVE PROCESS. RECONCILING DESIGNED OUTPUTS WITH FABRICATION TECHNIQUES IS HARDLY EVER A TRIVIAL EXERCISE AND IT IS THIS SOMETIMES IMPOSSIBLE DIFFICULTY IN RESOLUTION THAT LEADS TO UN-BUILDABLE (OR RIDICULOUSLY EXPENSIVE) DESIGNS. STUDENT: FEDERICO MARTELLI

THE OUTCOME OF THE DESIGN AND PRODUCTION PROCESSES OF ANY ARTEFACT (ARCHITECTURAL OR OTHERWISE), AND THUS WHAT THE ARTEFACT LOOKS AND FEELS LIKE, ARE INEXTRICABLY LINKED TO THE TOOLS USED IN SAID PROCESSES. THIS STUDY OF DESIGN IN CONJUNCTION WITH THESE TOOLS HAS BEEN PRACTISED SINCE THE TIMES OF VITRUVIUS, AND IT IS ONLY IN THE YEARS FOLLOWING THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION UP TILL THE LATE 20TH CENTURY, THAT THE REALM OF ARCHITECTURAL THEORY HAS BEEN DIVORCED FROM THAT OF FABRICATION. THE RISE OF DIGITAL FABRICATION TOOLS IN ARCHITECTURE SHOULD, THEREFORE, REPRESENT A RETURN TO PREVIOUS PRACTICES, ALBEIT IN NEW MEDIA.

STUDENT: AARATHI MURALIDHARAN

RESULTS FROM THE WORKSHOP WERE ON SHOW AT THE ANNUAL, END OF YEAR PROJECT REVIEW EXHIBITION AT THE AA. THEY MAY BE VIEWED ON THE WORKSHOP BLOG: HTTP://EMPYTHON. BLOGSPOT.CO.UK/.

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