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A.1. DESIGN FUTURING Archigram: Plug in City
Archigram was a neo futurism lead to a radical movement in UK. They are supporting modular living units that could be moved around or ‘plugged in’ as desired by the occupants. The idea of city has been challenged, buildings cannot be considered as an isolated units and city becomes region. Plug in city, created by Peter Cook in 1964, this provocative project suggested a hypothetical fantasy city, containing modular residential units that ‘plug in’ to a central infrastructural mega machine. It is a constantly evolving megastructure that incorporates residents, transportation and other essential services. Buildings became moveable and changeable depends on the resident’s acquirement. The position of housing can be transferred with you when you changed your working place; shops can easily change its location; most importantly, the whole city can have moved away if there was natural disaster.
In this design, the definition of city and country had been challenged as well, the boundary between poor and rich vanished and the world became a whole. Archigram’s idea about machine and city do inspired the designing progress in the world. The design based on residents’ needs and services built up the city today. There are similar ideas in Japan’s animations as well, plug in city is just like Howl’s Moving Castle, was produced by Miyazaki Hayao and inspired by Diana Wynne Jones ‘novel, which created a city that has legs and moves and different creatures live in this city castle with harmonious daily life.
China Pavilion
The China pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai, China, also known as the Oriental Crown, was the largest national pavilion and the largest display in the history of the World Expo, 2010. It designed by He Jingtang, the director of the Architectural Academy of the South China University of Technology, this design combining both tradition and modern elements. It is 63-metre height with a resemblance to an ancient Chinese crown and its shape is like Ding-a vessel made for gods, so the pavilion can also represent the union between heaven and earth. Sustainable design was being strong emphasis within the structure by the exterior offering thermal insulation and natural ventilation. The inversed pyramid shape creates the self-shading from the sun, solar panels been added on the top roof and exterior walls affording electricity within the pavilion. A rooftop garden has also been introduced on the top of the pavilion with a rain water gaining system. The collected rain water can be used again for watering plants. Similar sustainable designs have been designed in many other modern designs as well. For example, MSD building has its own collecting rain water system for flushing the bathroom. Other then that, the local houses in Melbourne have its own collecting system and storage rain water at the outside of the house for reuse.
The rooftop gardening are the green water gaining systems are the white a
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area and the rain areas on the top roof.
The solar panels on the external walls. The whole building is actually covered by solar panels and the electricity been created used within the structure.
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A.2. DESIGN COMPUTATION Taichung Metropolitan Opera House in Taiwan Toyo Ito
These photographs display the cavernous form of an opera house by Japanese architect Toyo Ito, in Taiwan. It was first proposed by Taiwan government in 1992 and been final completed in 2016.
Toyo Ito names this horizontally and vertically continuous network the ‘sound cave’, the façade of this opera house features a series of hourglass walls, which are infilled with gridded glazing to frame the views of the city within the terraces. The cavernous hollows inside the house contains everywhere, stairwells, lobbies and auditoria. “I aimed to create the architecture of this opera house in such a way that the inside and outside are continuous in a like manner to how bodies are connected to nature through organs such as the mouth, nose, and ears.” Said by Toyo Ito. These unusual form of curve is made from sprayed concrete – curving components has covered in a layer of unifying shotcrete.
The techniques of creating the shape of the structure is quite challenging, a building with such a structure containing three-dimensional curved walls was tagged thought impossible - “but we are making the impossible possible”, said by Wu Chunshan, president of Lee ming construction.
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A nearly 4 metres large-scale model has been made to prove the integrity of the building. From the photograph, we can see that the continuous surfaces with its open structure which creatively and actively increase the engagement of its surroundings in all directions and provides incredible opportunities of artists and visitors, stage and auditorium, interior and exterior. The computing of the model proves the shape of the design is actually working in reality. The process of the design will be within the computation because such curvy structure is hard and difficult to draw or even calculate the detail by hand. It is believed that computation has re-define this design practice. By making all the structure together and putting them in parametric sequences, the possible changes of the design has become much easier. All the data will be changed automatically as one of the variable changed, no matter how small the impact will be, it will always change. The various possibilities of the geometric shapes have been discovered, such as this endless curve structure. The wall becomes the ceiling, the ceiling becomes the ground and the ground finally becomes the wall. The method of computing has definitely created a more widely possibilities in design, this tool can help us to develop more incredible shapes and designs.
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Voussoir Cloud IwamatoScott with Buro Happold
This architectural installation, Voussoir Cloud, was design by American architects IwamatoScott, located at the SCI – Arc Gallery in Los Angeles. The installation was created in collaboration with Buro Happold, engineering firm.
Voussoir Cloud is a landscape form of vaults with clusters of three dimensional petals’ columns, constructed by using paper – thin wood laminates, scored with a laser and folded along the curved seam into wedges. This light timber allows light to penetrate through which create the sense of beauty from this amazing geometric vault. The structure of this Cloud looks very curvy and light, these curvature produces a form that depends on the tension in the internal surface in order to hold its shape and allows for a structural porosity within the constraints of sheet material.
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The form developing of this installation is depending on the geometric performance of each units and their relation to the gallery walls. It is believed that Voussoir Cloud’ s structural and material strategies was very confusing intentionally. By introducing to the tool of computing, the development of its form has begun. Begin with a material operation, the process of design is focused on calibrating the relationship of digital model to physical result. From these figures, we can see some parts of process in digital tool, changing variables in the computer will resulting different geometric forms. The vast of calculations can be done by computer and the changes can be shown right after the fast calculate. Digital tools give more opportunities in the ongoing design and construction industries, it can create a model before the construction and people can learn, see and discuss about it. A smaller scale model can be done with it as well, the works and communications between architects and engineers will become more straight forward. It is hard to imagine that to design such complex structure only by hand and human calculations, computing is a suitable tool for architects to explore more possibilities.
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