Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Final GHX Files

As the files are so large, blogger seems to have scaled them down abit so they aren't very readable

Final System No Comments

Final System With Comments

Final Design and Iteration Renders

Design Iterations - Curves

The Floor Curves Are The Basis of All The Other Elements

The Laser Cut Model Process

Finished Model

Partially Completed Model

Laser Cut Material

Laser Model Material and Thoughts

The material I have chosen is 1mm pasteboard due to its likeliness to the clay render I posted earlier. I did want to integrate some acrylic into the model somehow but I couldn't devise a method that would enhance the representation of the design.

I had some doubts about the sturdiness of 1mm pasteboard and wasn't sure that it had sufficient structural qualities to hold together without being too fragile. These doubts have been quelled on inspection of the laser cut material as it isn't as flimsy as I first thought and the model should be stable due to the amount of and position of vertical sections.

Laser Cut Model Visualisation

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Progression On New Building System

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

New Grasshopper System for Generating Apartment Building Form

Initial System

Sources on Cutting Edge Design and Parametrics

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3. Marek Hnizda, “Systems-Thinking: Formalization of parametric process”, Digitizing Architecture: Formalization and Content [4th International Conference Proceedings of the Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design (ASCAAD 2009) / ISBN 978-99901-06-77-0], Manama (Kingdom of Bahrain), (May 2009): 215-223.

4. Barczik, Günter; Kurth and Winfried, “From Designing Objects to Designing Processes: Algorithms as Creativity Enhancers”, Predicting the Future [25th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 978-0-9541183-6-5] Frankfurt am Main (Germany) ( September 2007): 887-894.

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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

3 Influential Architectures

Mosler Lofts

Architect: Mithun
Location: Seattle, Washington, USA

The City of Arts and Sciences

Architect: Santiago Calatrava
Location: Valencia, Spain

Beijing National Aquatics Center (Water Cube)

Architect: PTW Architects, CSCEC, CCDI, and Arup.
Location: Beijing, China

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Grasshopper WIP Definition Library

http://www.gamefront.com/files/20174762/WIPDefinitionLibrary.zip

Monday, March 28, 2011

Final Poster

Grasshopper Definition

http://www.gamefront.com/files/20169756/MagneticPavilion.ghx

Final Renders

Test Renders Of Final Iterations

Sunday, March 27, 2011

Final System Testing And Thoughts

Thoughts...

After much work creating many versions of this system and experimentation ive decided to change the paneling elements to 3 or 4 sided polygons that attach at each intersection. The box morphing is far to bloated and resource intensive for my liking.

One thing i have created in this system that im quiet proud of and will come in useful in future is a definition to convert intersection points (XYZ) on a surface into domains and then into UV coordinates.

In the interest of simplicity of elegance and simplicity im going to take my Experiments back a few steps to produce more iterations faster and interesting designs in terms of form.

Saturday, March 26, 2011

Parametric Magnetic Lines Concept

The idea is to start with a series of lines. These lines will then be divided into segments with points at each segment. Then attractor points will be introduced and the points on the curves will be deformed relative to the attractor points. The challenge is then to create interesting forms based on these new deformed curves. A structural system or a surface? what kind of surface?

Creating an Architecture

I've decided to create a structural and surface system combined. This way ill be able to bake the geometry of a skeletal structure based on the line deformations and a dynamic surface that is applied to the structure.

Magnetic Lines Pipe System Test

Here is a render of 1 of my current parametric attractor systems with a Pipe surface used to create the geometry. I think this is create a beautiful image as it is a simple and elegant arrangement of lines to create some form of shelter structure. The form suggests that the structure is being sucked down to the ground instead of something raising the structure.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Magnetic System Developement

At the moment I'm creating a series of lines, then dividing them into points, then calculating the deformations from the attractor point by comparing the distance to the attractor to a threshold, then creating a vector and translating the point using that vector. The new lines are then being offset and then lofted into a series of surfaces.

I'm using a bunch of nested series' to select the precise list elements that i want to draw the lines between.

After much experimentation with developing my own attractor systems to create a magnetic effect, ive realised that this method is an overly complex and bloated method of creating a grid, a more clean solution would be to use a point grid component. However the main advantage (which im yet to experiment with) is that ill be able to control the length and positioning of each row of points which creates the grid and lines.

Where to from here?

Im thinking of creating a truss system to apply to this system that will create a complex structural skeleton.

Paneling a parametric geometry that will have a relationship to the attractor point along lofted surfaces.