Concept form Sydney

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Reflection/Brainstorm - TED.com

Our initial experimentation can be seen to be a free exploration of form generation. The combination of digital form generation as a stimulus for a physical model output, we chose to explore the haptic exploration of modeling.

Through our experimentation we have explored modeling as:

Container; a hollow mass, essentially a facade construct. This provided little explanation of internal layout but rather the exploration of faceted geometry to create unique form.

Stacking; skeletal models, dealing with the practicality of structure. Laser modeling enabled us to explore the intricacy of structure resolution. By massing within Revit and converting our buildings into laser cut planes, models became a exploration of strengthening connections and stability.

Modular: creation exploration, through the laser cutting of set shapes we were able to rapidly explore form in the physical setting. The shapes implicated limitations of our forms but as a result the forms provided a syntax of pattern and rhythm, generated from their components.

These explorations represent to exhaustion of physical modeling. And has left us asking ourselves what are other stimulants that will enable us to generate new forms of a more rigorous composition? And thus bring us closer to the realisation of a flexible Architecture.

Taking the precedence of the seattle library as a precedence it can be seen that the form is generated from a direct interpretation of creative programming arrangement.

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/joshua_prince_ramus_on_seattle_s_library.html

This has lead to our investigation into experiment 1. What makes a building program and how does that programming generate or influenced by the building form?

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Digital Art

The following images were created through an accidental discovery. We had a number of our paper unfolded shape templates lying near our scanner, and were looking for images to scan to represent our explorations over the last few weeks. We suddenly realised these discarded shapes were a source of untapped potential, as they would give us organic expression through digital technology. Their scrunched up forms added to the 'random' effect.

Photoshoot! (architects get up close and personal with models...)

The photographs below are some of the strongest images of our 'documentation', the exploration we have been conducting in folded cardboard forms and laser-cut shapes. We set up a rudimentary photoshoot in our garage and with a tripod digital SLR camera, a few ikea lamps and some bright yellow wrapping paper as a backdrop, in a nice long sunday we were able to take the 281 photos it took, to get some clear, quality images.

This shot depicts accurately the contorted shape of the paper form, with a complimentary inward-facing shadow providing a complimentary duality between the two.

This form suggest movement with its directional lines and angular surfaces that .

These triangular shapes were captured as if they were floating across the room - showing modular construction can still be dynamic.

This modular form took the shape of an organism, with its intricate junctions.

The individual models share a similar syntax.

Flatpack shapes - 1 analysis

The exploration of unfolding shapes in Sketchup produces interest flat geometric shapes of interest in their own right. Evocative creature forms park the imagination and create an interesting character to a seemingly random formulation of shapes. It is almost like the human I recognises that all these shapes come together to make a whole some how (in 3D) and is imagining how this takes might take place in 2D.

Stagnant Pond - Exploration

Taking a hexagon rotated in both the X/Y Origin and then Z Origin I tried to explore surface generating from the peaks that formed formed. The shape was complex and sections through it alluded to the idea of the stagnant pond.

Through the use of geometry the stagnant pond becomes alive again and posses the dynamic qualities associated with linear structures. The perception of movement and flow is expressed in the nodes that connect the triangles together.

This is similar to the effect of shattered glass or the formulation of crystal, while there is a random formulation of shape a pattern seems to emerge.

Like a section through a building there seems to be levels and visual connection between spaces. This is an interesting take on the idea of a dome, the typology its self is more related to the idea of the stagnant pond but the use of geometric shapes rotated in the axis of a circle add a unique quality to the space worth exploring further.

Shape Generator - Geometric Play 1

By taking a 2D shape, moving it through the Z co-ordinate and rotating it interesting forms start to generate.

shapes have also be generated from a series of lines rotated in plan.
the lines has been connected to create a skeletal frame
planes are then formed to create a unique shape derived from the square
this is an extrusion of a circle
the top of the shape has been altered using the scale tool, this has changed the overall shape into something more like a trapezium
this has then been extruded again
not the shape has been rotated in the Z origin.
this shape has been generated from the rotation of a hexagon, it became to complicated to manage

Initial Sketch Up Form Generating Concept - Paintings

Image 1: Taking Picasso's painting the Weeping Woman 1937, i decided to attempt to recreate the dynamic folds and shapes that take place in the women's handkerchief as she cries.

Image 2: It is hard to see but the I have drawn a hierarchy of lines in the Z co-ordinate from the major folds in the handkerchief.

Image 3: The purple shapes highlight the elements that are affecting the shape of the handkerchief, the women's tears and hands manipulate the dynamic shapes as she cries.

Connecting all of the lines a array of dynamic shapes take form representing the handkerchief. While to an extent the shapes are a copy of the painting, a new form emerges representative of the original image but distinctively different.

Working in the 3D the issue of how to form a complete shape emerges and how do the sides of the handkerchief form? This issue highlights the complications of turning a 2D shape into a 3D mass.

The unfolded shapes become the blue print of the original. While a mass has been formed I decided to model only a remnant of the handkerchief. The process of unfolding highlights a range of complications which will need to be perfected in order to ensure maximum efficiency for the future.

Time consuming arise as the shape is unfolded, the triangles can over lay onto each other and without carful consideration to the final unfolded shape one can find themselves at a point of no return, unable to move forward without overlapping shapes, yet over invested in time already spent unfolding up to this point.

Unfold a complex smooth shape

Using the Google Sketchup Subdivide & Smooth plugin & the unfold plug in, a shape like the one below, can be generated and unfolded flat to 2D form.









We have made a collection of shapes like this, similar in complexity, so we now have the joyful job of tracing and cutting all these bits out and assembling! Looks like it could be another late night...

Unfold Sketchup - Sphere

Starting with a sphere...with holes cut into it.
Sphere is gradually unfolded, slice by slice...
Sphere has been unfolded, but is still not entirely flat...
Each slice is unfolded further to align to adjacent slice, until all are resting on the same plane...
Final Unfolded sphere in 2D format ready for cutting and building...