Monday 22 June 2015

Experiment 3


18 Sketches

Article Mash Up

Architects are confronted with new and emerging technologies including software’s and equipment, Antoine Picon raises some interesting points in relation to digital technologies. He explains that some see digital design as a threat to the architecture practice. The Aegis Hyposurface is a dECOi project that used numerous digital tools in the design process and has been marked the transition from autoplastic (determinate) to alloplastic (interactive, indeterminate) space, a new species of reciprocal architecture.Picon has discussed the value of various contributions to digital architecture, and the dramatic effect these contributions, such as The Aegis Hyposurface project, have had on the growth of society and information.

‘Aegis’ is a faceted metallic surface that has potential to deform physically as a real time response to electronic stimuli from the environment (movement, sound, light,etc), therefore, interact with the audience very effectively. The Aegis Hyposurface project influenced a matrix of possible designs within the built reality and helped developed digital culture.  

Although ‘The Aegis Hyposurface’ project was successful in terms of materiality, Picon conveys that concrete aspects of construction and building technologies are threatened and communicates the notion that computer designed architecture is more free and without constraints, and therefore tends to neglect material properties. dECOi’s vision of a moving surface would not be possible without the use of digital tools and calculations of materiality, the design is driven by a bed of 896 pneumatic pistons and the dynamic ‘terrains’ (the movements) are generated as real-time calculations. dECOi’s project had a successful impact on architecture and has influenced many designs. 



Mark Burry - Aegis Hyposurface -  http://mcburry.net/aegis-hyposurface/

Antoine Picon – ‘Architecture and the virtual: Towards a New Materiality’

Digital Culture in Architecture: an Introduction for the Design Profession
 
Two Point Perspectives 
2 Images in Lumion


The Plan
Zaha Hadid Riverside Museum
What is needed in Computational Design School 

Processes of Turning the plan into the Building
Trace Plan and place on map of UNSW to make sure it fits the space


Undeveloped Building in Lumion




My Plan

Moving Elements 

Moving Element 1: The first moving element was inspired by the term ‘hypersurface’ which was coined by Stephen Perrella and is said to be ‘interactivity between cyberspace, envisioned as hypermedia and architecture as a surface if projection or terminal.’ The building I have designed does not physically move, however the viewer’s perception of the building changes as they move around the space.


Moving Element 2: Having a building constructed out of glass may make it difficult for students to work due to the direct sunlight. Therefore, the second moving element is carbon fibre sheeting that glides up the façade to create a ‘block out’. Each separate space has its own sheeting so the whole building doesn’t have to be blocked out, however this would be possible from one button.
 
36 Custom Textures
Reviews from Students


Final Design
Moving Element 2

Moving element 1











My design links to the mash up articles due to the fact that I am using digital technologies in my design process whilst incorporating the notion of hyper surface for my moving element. I have also not had to consider any restraints in terms of materiality which was an issue discussed by Picon.