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AirStudioARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STUDIO

XIAODI ZHANG

2015

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B.2. CASE STUDY 1.0

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MORNING LINE

-Aranda Lasch

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Fig 1. Drawing of the Morning Line Project

The Morning Line is a project which conceived as a collaborative plat-form to explore the interplay of architecture, art, cosmology and music. The Morning Line is formed by intertwining lines connecting to each other. The structure has no single beginning or end, only movements around multiple cen-ters. Each bit of the structure is inter-changeable, demountable, por-table and recyclable which allows the piece to change over time.

Making the fractal structure by grasshopper, I scaled different shapes of geometry by a series of times in different order. The plug-in of Bullant was used for finding the geometry of joining fractal units. Patterns on the surfaces and patterns in the space were drew based on the geometry of fractals. The patterns replaced the original geometry and made the entire ge-ometry joinable.

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SPECIE 01

SPECIE 02

SPECIE 03

SPECIE 04

ITERATION OF SINGLE FRACTAL UNITS

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ITERATION OF SINGLE FRACTAL UNITS

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ITERATION OF THE GEOMETRY

SPECIE 05

To join the units together, I used Bullant to create a series of different fractals joining together, and then I drew curves and surfaces to select the joining units randomly. I also bake the Bullant fractals and delected parts of them in rhino to create the geometry.

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ITERATION OF THE PATTERN(on the surface)

SPECIE 06

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ITERATION OF THE PATTERN(in the space)

SPECIE 07

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ITERATION OF PATTERN & GEOMETRY

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B.3. CASE STUDY 2.0

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DEEP SURFACE MORPHOLOGIES

ICD: Prof. A. Menges, S. Ahlquist ITKE: Prof. J. Knippers, J. Lienhard

Summer Semester, 2012

“Negotiating form, performance, and context in form-active material systems.”

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REVERSE ENGINEERING

STEP 1 STEP 2 STEP 3

STEP 1: Generate and offset Voronoi grid. Move the Voronoi grid to create a proper height and then graft and loft the curves.

STEP 2: Convert the loft surface into Mesh. Use Mesh Surface to generate the numbers of U, V values. Set the mesh edges as Spring and the rest length. Set the Mesh vertices on the Voronoi edges to be the Anchor points. Use Kangaroo to create the tensile structure.

STEP 3: Select the discontinuity points of the Voronoi edges to be the Anchor point, so that the units are only connected by the common points.

STEP 4: Change the shape of Voronoi grid to make the base geometry more dynamic.

STEP 5: Extrude the new grid and draw a surface, then find the interaction of the surface and brep by BREP|BREP definition. Use polyline to redraw the grid between vertices as lines. Repeat STEP 2.

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REVERSE ENGINEERING

STEP 3 STEP 4 STEP 5

STEP 1: Generate and offset Voronoi grid. Move the Voronoi grid to create a proper height and then graft and loft the curves.

STEP 2: Convert the loft surface into Mesh. Use Mesh Surface to generate the numbers of U, V values. Set the mesh edges as Spring and the rest length. Set the Mesh vertices on the Voronoi edges to be the Anchor points. Use Kangaroo to create the tensile structure.

STEP 3: Select the discontinuity points of the Voronoi edges to be the Anchor point, so that the units are only connected by the common points.

STEP 4: Change the shape of Voronoi grid to make the base geometry more dynamic.

STEP 5: Extrude the new grid and draw a surface, then find the interaction of the surface and brep by BREP|BREP definition. Use polyline to redraw the grid between vertices as lines. Repeat STEP 2.

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B.4. TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT

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ITERATION OF TENSILE FRAME

ITERATION OF BASE PATTERN

ITERATION OF BASE SURFACE

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ITERATION OF TENSILE FRAME

ITERATION OF BASE PATTERN

ITERATION OF BASE SURFACE

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ITERATION OF TENSILE REPRESENTATION

ITERATION OF TENSILE GEOMETRY

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ITERATION OF TENSILE REPRESENTATION

ITERATION OF TENSILE GEOMETRY

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PROPOSALMERRI CREEK

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SITE ANALYSIS

Topology & Hydrology Flora Planning Overlay&Localities Property Allocation

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SITE ANALYSIS

Property Allocation Rail & Railway Station Road & Road Facilities

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SITE SELECTION

Design SiteGeorge Knott Reserve

Topology & Flora area for the Design Site Surrounding Regions for the Design Site

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SITE SELECTION

Design Site

Heidelberg Road Bridge

Northcote Park

George Knott Reserve

Surrounding Regions for the Design Site Litter Distribution

Litter Density

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Litters along the riverbank Site View

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LandmarkHeidelberg Road Bridge

Site View

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DESIGN CONCEPT

“Litter Cage”

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water flow

Litter captured in the litter cage