STUDIO AIR:PART B

Tim West 638861

B.1 Research feild: Biomimicry

While humans are certainly smart, we have invented and designed some incredibly clevler ideas, nature has a head start. The challege is not to overcome nature, or to be better than it, but to learn from it. Life on earth has been evolving for billions of years and that has produced many viable and interesting outcomes. The pricipal of biomimicry is the nature alreadly knows, and that can be mixed with technolgly and design to overcome our many problems.

B.2 Case study 1.0: The Spanish pavlion

SPANISH PAVLION EXPERIMENTS:Celll transformation LIne feildsPiont feildsImage sampler MIxing Feilds with im-

age samplers line feilds with spin force

Piont feilds with spin force

SUCCSEFUL OUTCOMES:

Outcome 1:I am definind this as a suc-sseful outcome becasue i fell that the space that i have defined is very use-able, there is potential for circulation and activities in the center

Outcome 2:This out come is succses-full based on same reasons as the previsous except it takes it to the next level by sense of energy and flow.

Outcome 3:The serpentine shapes that were proided in this it-eration make this another succseful outcome based on the fact that i fell this could be used on site.

Outcome 4:This geomtry looks very different to me that the others, i like the concept of creating a new shape that is both unque and reconiz-able, Thus this is a succse-ful outcome.

The criteria that i find appealing and useful is the idea that geotry can be used in similar, yet differ-ent ways across a site to give a circulation pathway, as well as a sense of energy.

B.3 Case study 2.0: ICHNOS - Digital [Sub]stance

The Case study here is the Ichnos 3.0, Devloped by a firm by the name of Digital [Sub]stance, and is a ‘bottom-up’ example for how to apprach design. “Ichnos” is the greek word for “footprint”, this project draws on the trails for human footprints. The project draws on data including the denesity of pedestrian traffic on awithin a certain road, and the second is the quanity of Wi-Fi networks within and area. this is used to create maps, both instant, meaning at certain times of the day, and and aver-age of the data over time. these factors define the gadianit of the geom-etry and the rotation of the cells in between. this is a dynamic project that turns invisible information, into visible information via the geometry, a spatial representaion. I am going to note that for my reverse engineer i am simply going to develop the shape without the inputs that Digital [Sub]stance used in the hopes of adapting it to the site.

EVOLO 06, Digital and Parametric architecture: Depth (Los Angeles and New York, Evolo Inc, 2014) pp.

Step 1:To Create the Ichnos i began by simply developing a similar geometry and extrud-ing it, then using a triming object to give the curved surface i find appealing

Step 2:The next step was to find a way to produce the geometry on a surface, i tryed lofting the surface and man-nually ajusting, how-ever this required too much input i my part so a needed a way to speed up the work flow. Also a major problem wasfinding a way to cap the object

Step 3:Here i found a way to reproduce the oblect on top of a surface, this removed some inputs on my part.Also i was able to use the a ruled surface to cap the oblect, which mantianed the curva-ture buth the surface and the extustion.

Step 4:A mojor problem a this point was that all the squres were still conected as if a grid, i had to seperate them to better define the geometry.

Step 5:The Last problem to deal with was that the extursion was even across the entrie surface, i had to find a way to blend that in a bit better. I did this by using two different surfaces and triming between them. This gave the defintion of the reverse engineer, and with some ajustments to the shape i developed to final shape (shown below)

Final result of the case study 2.0:

B.4 Case study 2.0: Develpoment; Form 1

Ruled surafces

A piped geometry

Extrusion of form

On a site

Normal form warped form taken formwarped 2 taken 2

B.4 Case study 2.0: Develpoment; Form 2

Ruled surafces

A piped geometry

Extrusion of form

On a site

Normal form warped form taken form warped 2 taken 2

UN-BAKABLE UN-BAKABLE

B.4 Case study 2.0: Develpoment: Form 3

Ruled surafces

A piped geometry

Extrusion of form

On a site

Normal form warped form taken form warped 2taken 2

UN-BAKABLE

Out Come 1: The way that the typology of the surface and the geomtry match each other makes this out come iteresting in how such a thing could be related to the site

Out Come 2: The Sense of weightlessness and the connection to the sky makes this very appealing, it is like a canopy, however i thing it may be difficult to develope

Out Come 4: The typolgly of this outcome is overwheled by the trian-gluar extrusions, this could be very interesting to include this in the site and really draw some attention

Out Come 3: This outcome is sussesful for similar easons to outcome 1, howver i think it is interesting how the square geomtry seems less co-nected and flowing than the hexagonal one.

B.5 Fabrication proto-types After many itterations and devlopments up to this point i tryed to es-tablish a fabrication techque.I devloped a new geometry for a proto-type. The geomtry is largly de-fined by its cellular form and the double curved surface. I imagied that the space could be a pavlion and that the cellswould be filled will plants.

but the3D printing the protype ended in failure...

After this fail i descided to alter my geomtry so that it could laser cut. this meant changing the definition to a flater surface so that it could be developed. this turned out to be much more useful for me.

OLD Geometry

New Geometry

Green: SpearmentMinimum width: 50 cMSoil: Chalk, clay, Loam, SandWater moderatltyPartial Sunlight ok

Orage: ParsleyMimimum width: 45 CMSoil: Loam OnlyWater WellPartial Sunlight ok

Blue: LemonGrassMinimum width: 90 CM

Soil: LoamWater well

Full sunlight

Purple: SageMinimum width: 90 CM

Soil: Chalk, Loam, SandWater occasinally

Full Sunlight

Gold: RosemaryMInimum Width: 150 CMSoil: Chalk, Clay, Loam, SandWater Moderatly Full Sunlight

B.6 Proposal: The Meri Creek Communinty GardenThe Meri Creek community garden will bring people to-gether, and give a new sprit to this area.

I have defined each cell as its own seperated species of plant type. Treating each plant seper-atly will allow for greater enviromental control. The will each be filled with their own soils so as to improve growth and given different treatments for the sunlight and watering they each get.

In making the space use-able i have defined a maxi-mum height of 1.4 meters and will ensure that each cell is accseeable by devel-oping serpentine shapes (or cells that are not cen-nected).

The site:I have Choosen to develop an extremly long site that will cover many communities, so that they may be brought toghter.

The area is dominated by resisdetial homes, it is also away from major roads so that the gar-den will be quite.

The New garden will cross the river the way it does so that it is always looking on the creek but also so that it will avoid the need to re-move much of the native vegitation that is alreadly there.

Being a long site much of the gardens will take the form of a pathway, however i want there to be placed to stop and sit so that peo-ple can interact with each other, look out to the creek and enjoy the natural senic veiws, take a rest from a long walk or bike ride and really enjoy the plants.

SIte 1: The first pavlionLocated at the south end of the gardens

Seating Area

SIte 2: The pathwayThis will follow the curvature of the river

SIte 3: The pathwayThis site has a natural slope downwars so that it will all have veiws

Seating Area

Developing a canopy: On hot days people will want places to sit in the shade, I am going to delope a canopy that will provide such a func-tion. This will alter the site into a connection betwwen two pavlions, giving a sense of destination and begining to the jorney that people will take along the site. The canopy will be placed over the seating areas i have shown above

First devlopment:using the geomtry willl provide a conec-tion between that ground and the air. However, this will not stand up

Second devlopment:by altering the geotry i will be able to give a understandable structure to use

Thrid devlopment:This iteration maintains the geom-try and will be stable

B.7 Learning Out-comes and objectivesBy uning the Parametric Models i was able to respond to my site ex-termly well, I was able to bring the typography of the landscape and use it in rhino to develop my design with the site in mind the enteir way.

Looking at my precdents i thought about what i felt was wrong with them and what other things they could be used for. When i looked at ichnos i felt that the cells and the landscape they developed, although beautiful, could be put to better usage. Looking at the spanish pavlion i tryed to think about all they way that their defintion was missing out a possible opututies.

I relation to my final design, i felt that it could be developed even fur-ther to take the design to the next level, improved interaction, further exploration of the fabrication and structure, and a more clearly defined program are where i intend to go next.

B.8 appendix