AAVS Journal

AA VISITING SCHOOL CRYSTAL CAVERNS SARA TAN [683718]

0.0 Introduction

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1.0 Precedent Study

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1.1 Cappadocia Underground City 1.2 The Truffle 1.3 Tokyo Plaza Omotesando 1.4 Hub Australia

2.0 Site Analysis

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2.1 An Urban Narrative 2.2 Radiation Analysis |Context 2.3 Site History

3.0 Design Methods 3.1 Week 1 3.2 Week 2

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4.0 Reection

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5.0 Appendix

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5.1 Biography 5.2 Credit 5.3 Bibliography

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0.0 INTRODUCTION This Journal aims to propose an experiential space through investigation of Laneway morphologies and Interior-Exterior studies.

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1.0 PRECEDENT STUDY These precedents present opportunities for excavation , exterior-interior relationship, evocative surfaces and functional opportunities.

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[1.1 Cappadocia Underground City] The Cappadocian Underground city was one of the earliest multi level spaces. The ancient cavernous spaces of the city are reminiscent of excavation processes. This inspired the use of boolean operations in this project. This process creates an interior void that provides opportunities for spatial exploration and effects.

Sections of the underground city allows further understanding of pathways within a multilevel space that might not be horizontal.

http://www.istanbul-daily-city-tours.com/61/CAPPADOCIA-DAY-TOUR-(B)

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[ 1.2 The Truffle | Ensamble studios ] “The Truffle is a piece of nature built with earth, full of air. A space within a stone that sits on the ground and blends with the territory. It camouflages, by emulating the processes of mineral formation in its structure, and integrates with the natural environment, complying with its laws.”

- Antón García-Abril (Archdaily, 2010) with the emphasis on nature this project blends into the site with consistent interiors and exteriors. These evocative surfaces allow for contemplation within a space.

http://www.archdaily.com/57367/the-truffle-ensamble-estudio/5008edd128ba0d27a7000d16-the-truffle-ensamble-estudio-photo

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[1.3 Tokyu Plaza Omotesando Harajuku |Hiroshi Nakamura] The Harajuku building site is an embodiment of Japanese fashion and cultural movements.

This Shopping complex was built to reflect the colorful and fashionable district. The faceted mirror surfaces in the entrance to the building presents the fashionable culture of the site.

The Faceted surfaces in this building creates a space with an ephemeral quality. This qualities add an emotional experience towards walking through the entrance.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Tokyu_Plaza_Omotesando_Harajuku_-_Tokyo_%2817959762380%29.jpg/1200pxTokyu_Plaza_Omotesando_Harajuku_-_Tokyo_%2817959762380%29.jpg

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[ 1.4 Hub Australia |Hassell ] Hub Australia is a company that was built on the idea of collaboration. Open space office typologies were used to enhance productivity in collaboration. Large open span spaces were proven to encourage connections, effective workflow and opportunities (Hassell,2013) .

These large spaces are inspires new ways of thinking about space and functional planning within a building

http://www.archdaily.com/57367/the-truffle-ensamble-estudio/5008edd128ba0d27a7000d16-the-truffle-ensamble-estudio-photo

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2.0 SITE ANALYSIS This part of the journal records site study that includes site analysis, site documentation and contextual modelling for radiation analysis. The site is next to the victoria market in Melbourne and the laneway studied is Therry Street.

In week 1, the site study begins with an scientific analysis of Laneways near the site.

This scientific study is done by setting up the camera in a static position and capturing photos at measured interval to observe dynamic and static interactions in the site.

Through the study of the captured images, an urban narrative is created. This type of investigation towards the site challenges traditional site study.

In week 2, more analysis (Radiation analysis, Site History) on the site was done to support the final design.

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[ 2.1 LANEWAY TO ARCADE : AN URBAN NARRATIVE ] DYNAMIC - STATIC | LANEWAY ANALYSIS TIMELASPE 11:00 AM

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[ 2.1 LANEWAY TO ARCADE : AN URBAN NARRATIVE ] DYNAMIC - STATIC - INTERFACE | CONTEXT | LANEWAY ANALYSIS PLAN

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The site has relatively erratic static and dynamic interactions with the infrastructure Pathways and roads depict dynamic movement

Reflection

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Sitting areas, performers, depict static movement The interface of site and inhabitants depict use of site.

Diffusion

Spatial and pathway planning of the design inspires human activity. Thus and it is important to consider human use of site before epicting site use.

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[ 2.2 RADIATION ANALYSIS ] HIGHEST - MID - LOWEST Radiation analysis of the site block is done with Ladybug in grasshopper reverencing surrounding site models. Radiation levels are highlighted with color.

[ 2.2 CONTEXT] The Site model shows that it is a high dense site with only laneways between buildings and queens street passing through the building that requires a tunnel through the building for the road that cuts through the building block.

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[ 2.3 SITE HISTORY ] Southwest of the building block is a carpark and underneath the carpark is the old Melbourne Cemetery where about 10,000 people were buried (Cooper, 2011). The carpark is highly criticized as an appropriation of the site with no respect to the existing cemetery.

The excavational nature of boolean processes in the building may allow for discovery of the site past.

http://melbournewalks.com.au/the-old-melbourne-cemetery-queen-victoria-market-tour/

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3.0 DESIGN METHODS The unit explores materiality and its impact on urbanism. This is done by the study of building podium and slabs. The site outline is extruded into a slab. With the use of boolean excavation methods, the slab is made into an inhabitable 4 storey space. The use of plaster models tests out the use of materiality in boolean processes.

The design also addresses building morphology impacts on urbanism with evocative pathways between spaces in the building that mimic laneway morphologies.

This unit also aims to go against conventional methods of designing public urban spaces.

The design method of this building challenges conventional design methods with its use of scientific context evaluation, Three Dimensional space planing and use of point clouds in exploring interior and exterior spaces.

As shown in the next page the design process goes between computational design and plaster model making. This allows for further exploration of the relationship between the two typologies.

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[ DESIGN PROCESS | 3.1 WEEK 1 ] 1

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CONTEXT STUDY | CONCEPT

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3D FUNCTION PLANNING

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COMPUTATIONAL POINT CLOUDS

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MODELLING

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Quela was used to simulate swarm behavior that will generate the paths. These paths were used as a guideline for cube erosion.

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The original cube was sliced into boxes to prepare for erosion.

Pull point and cull pattern wa given radius.

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Sin and remap was used to grow geometry along path curves. Constant rotation and scaling of geometry.

Using pull point and cull patern, an erosion of a given radius was set.

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[ 3.1 FORM FINDING MATRIX ]

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Time 120 s

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Pros : Opportunities for horizontal pathways Cons : Heavy Structure, Cannot see internal space without sectioning

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Pros : Interesting cave like spaces Cons : Structural Viability

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Pros : Lighter structure Cons : Too much erosion

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[ 3.1 MODEL MAKING WITHOUT COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN ] Foam board was cut using the hot wire cutter to create faceted shapes as form work. The Form finding process began with exploration of physical three dimensional space planning and formal iterations within a set box.

Allows for random iterations.

Clear Faceted Morphology

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[ 3.1 MODEL MAKING WITH COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN ] Computational methods were used to design these block and the form work was sent to the CNC machine. The form-work was placed into the box and plaster was poured in to set.

Random Iterations depicted by computational quela agents.

Intricate facet morphology creating more curvilinear shapes.

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[3.1 POINT CLOUDS] [RIGID SPACE]

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[ 3.2 INTERIOR URBANISM | LANEWAYS ] Laneway Studies The proposition aims to reinvent Melboune’s Laneways. The site provided was in victoria market. The CIty council plans to regenerate the site and inject growth into the area with 9000 new jobs at the market and 12,000 Jobs in the Surrounding Context. The proposition aims to create better streets, improve public realm, balance the heritage fabric, Instigating new development, Taller builidngs to accommodate for more use and space control. In addition to the councils vision, Victoria Market also has a Pending National Heritage application.

Our scheme aims to interrogate the Melbourne laneway typology in its use in and place in the current and future Melbourne city. This is done through the analysis of how positive and negative space relates to the urban fabric, with laneways as a void to the surrounding environment. The understanding of positive and negative space is done through the use of plaster models.

Interior Urbanism“The point is the same design principles apply whether the hunk of environment involved is indoors or out. Environmental design was about lowering the difference between inside and outside, ‘sometimes by placing only transparent glass walls between them, sometimes by plans that unite indoor and outdoor space’ ( Charles, 2016, p.69).

The point clouds were use to present the ideas of interior urbanism with imagery that takes away the boundary between interior and exterior.

The excavation and faceting in the proposition adds an emotional ephemeral quality to spatial experiences through the builidng.

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The programme within the building were blocked out three dimensionally and the midpoints of each block was drawn out to creath pathways within the building. The drawn pathway was divided into points which were then extended into more blocks to create path tunnels.

The programme blocks and path tunnel blocks were faceted using lunchbox in grasshopper and booleaned against the site building slab of 20m heightx 41.5m x31m.

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[ 3.2 FINAL EXHIBITION MODEL ] Similar to the models that were made with computaitonal design methods, the final 1:50 model was made with CNC formwork in a box , with plaster poured into it.

This Modelling processes is a lot more precise than the former form finding model in 3.1 Building Programmes were planned out in 3D and faceted with grasshopper. This forms the formwork that is then booleaned against the extruded site slab.

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[ 3.2 ISOMETRIC POINT CLOUD ] Stripping the builidng texture in the point cloud presents representation of solid and void relationships.

The isometric view allows for a three dimentional understanding.

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[3.2 ELEVATION POINT CLOUD ] Stripping the builidng texture in the point cloud presents representation of solid and void relationships.

The elevation allows for a Facade / vetical understanding.

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[ 3.2 POINT CLOUD VIDEO TIME LASPE ]

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[ 3.2 RENDER VIDEO TIME LASPE]

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4.0 REFLECTION This proposition relates to the thinking of our perception of edges and creates a new understanding of solid and void.

This propositon created a conversation that questions the typology of architectural representation. “Are clear photorealistic images or evocative conceptual images central to the design representation?�

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[ 4.0 FURTHER REFLECTION ]

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The final outcome of our studio work was definitely unprecedented and could not have been anticipated given the workflow and design methodology implemented throughout the two week period. It was clear from the very first day that a different style of thinking had to be implemented in order to reap the fruits of the ‘process’ The design process begun through raw experimentation with the casting of a plaster model in a form ply box, the method by which the mass was deducted served as the biggest challenge. Establishing a rule set/ framework to inform a generative process over the course of the week, was personally a challenging task. Trying to balance the physical art of model making, computation to inform future iterations and conducting relevant site analysis concurrently was challenging but in a way mimicked working in practice - having to think about different factors and facets related to the design.

This multi-dimensional approach lead us to start thinking about how the iterations that were being generated could feed into a design concept. The site we were given was in Victoria market where Melbourne City Council has a plan to regenerate the site and inject more growth In the area, with 9000 new jobs at the market and 12,000 jobs in the surrounding context. -Some of the plans for the site include: better streets, new laneways, improving the public realm, balancing the heritage fabric, instigating the “right type” of new development, taller buildings with setbacks from the streets & tower space controls. Our scheme sought to interrogate the standard typology of Melbourne’s laneway, its use and place in our city and society. We analysed how positive and negative space directly relates to the urban fabric of Melbourne’s laneways’ relationship acting as the void to its adjoining built environment.

Through the week 1 experiments, we explored the idea of void vs solid, public vs private and interior vs exterior. We simulated the pedestrian flows to generate new three dimensional paths in the block as per the guidelines provided. We sought to challenge the traditional vertical and horizontal relationship between slabs and walls. In order to revitalise the block, we used erosion of constantly changing shapes, scales and orientations along the paths quelea created according to the sin function, to create new and unprecedented spatial qualities. We managed to created a new spatial interface allowing people to interact with the building as infrastructure, hence triggering different behavioural patterns. Before we concluded on our desired arrangement, we analyse the sun exposure and acoustics. We put the public space closer to the sun and the private space away from the bustle of the main streets and finally analyse the relationship between the different selected functions and how they could co-exist.

The final outcome from a computational perspective we felt was quite successful however due to limited polystyrene supplies, we lost a significant amount of time preparing and repreparing the CNC fabrication file. The milling process took an extensive amount of time and greatly diminished the mount of time we had to assemble the 20 or so polystyrene pieces to accurately reflect the negative void space constructed in rhino and grasshopper.

Throughout the studio both the most challenging and the most rewarding aspect was converting the computational model into a real life 1:50 model, seeing the imagined computational model come to life.

The Pointcloud exercise gave us an insight into how buildings are used through the emphasis of edges vs. surfaces, how most typically view and interpret buildings. When analysing laneways we observed some of the defining characteristics that differentiate one laneway from another as outlined in the lecture given by the phd student on laneways in week 1. Some of these include: Concealed vs visibility, impermeability vs permeability, short vs long, narrow vs wide & low density vs high density. Our project focused on how the delineation between these different categories could be dissolved, opening up the potential for a variety of program to be used in a space, fostering a sense of community through shared program such as incubator office spaces - hot desking and the dual occupancy of contrasting program, encouraged formally through the fluctuation in room sizes, lighting conditions and acoustic properties.

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RENDERED ELEVATION

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[ COMPARISON] The Comparison between the Point clouds and the renderd view’/ physical model created a conversation about architectural representation.

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[ INTERSTITIAL SPACE] The Interface between different infrastructure create an interesting experiential quality.

This is prominent with the combination of exhibiting models from the unit.

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[ 5.0

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Studio Earth | Secrets

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Digital Design Fabrication | Within The Wave

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5.1 BIOGRAPHY SHI MIN SARA TAN -University of Melbourne Architecture Major Undergraduate (currently undertaking) -‘O’ Levels in Design and Technology -Certificate of completion for Basic Rhino and Grasshopper Courses in Freeform solutions (Authorised Rhino Training Centre) Skills: Rhinocerous, Grasshopper, Autocad, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, In Design, Corel Painter Pro, Drawing, Model making Interests: Design, Sketching, Photography, Writing, Reading.

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[ 5.3 BIBLIOGRAPHY ] Cooper, M, 2011, Burial ground: historian slams Queen Vic carpark plans, viewed 28th July 2017, < http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/burialground-historian-slams-queen-vic-carpark-plans-20110315-1bwch > Hassell, 2013, Hub Australia, viewed 28th July 2017, < http://www.hassellstudio.com/en/cms-projects/detail/hub-australia > Johnny 2012, Now Open: Tokyu Plaza Omotesando Harajuku by Hiroshi Nakamura, viewed 28th July 2017, < http://www.spoon-tamago. com/2012/04/25/now-open-tokyu-plaza-omotesando-harajuku-by-hiroshi-nakamura/ > Rice, Charles. Interior Urbanism, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2016. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/unimelb/detail.action?docID=4337987.

“The Truffle / Ensamble Estudio” 26 Apr 2010. ArchDaily. Accessed 28 Jul 2017. <http://www.archdaily.com/57367/the-truffle-ensamble-estudio/>

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