Thursday 19th February - 17.00: Tutorials@LMU (JR/JL/GF). Extended ADDT deadline as per last week’s discussions.

Friday 20th February - 11.00 - 17.00: Architectural Machines AA Symposium (www.aaschool.ac.uk/).

Wednesday 25th/Thursday 26th/Friday 27th February - times 10 am - 6 pm: SmartGeometry 2009 pre-training and academic workshop in Generative Components, Westminster University, 4th floor auditorium.

Thursday 26th February - 17.45: final pin-up and crit for the Borgafjaell resort master plan. Please prepare a combination of digital and printed materials as you see fit, also bring your up to date printed portfolio and be prepared to discuss it with our invited critics.

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Maryam Khazaei

MA Digital Design in Architecture

Advanced Digital Design Techniques

ID:mak1093

18-11-08

Morphology of building according to nature behavior: Human Nature

There are many concepts of making a building today. But most of them are the result of a struggle between the concept and real thing which is constructed as an output. If we look around in nature there are too many kinds of natural building and structures which solve their static problem intelligently by paying attention simply to utility, physical and ecological elements, etc.

In this case I am looking at a very familiar/known smart structure and construction which exists around us, which is our body and the structure of it. Our bones and skeletons particularly and even morphology of some part of the molecular pieces like the nerve cell and the DNA cell in general are among the examples which I tend to note. Although human body and its structure has been known as an  movable component, and  buildings and constructions are often important for their stable structure ,It would be crucial if we pay attention to following reasons to discuss this case:

 1- Sustainability is one of the great advantages of a construction but in fact it has a lot of insensible moving in it which is not necessarily damaging the structure and is in fact inevitable.

2-Not all the natural structure and its moves are sensible.

one of the most important system in this research would be spine structure and its role to control and contact to the other relevant members in constancy  of structure(skeletons) and preventing of any  eventual happening  in stable situation. The other issue could be variation of system  as a joint system in this structure. From bone to bone till nerve to nerve in this system.

Case of studding:

 Referring to main structural system of human skeleton means, spine structure and consider more about :

It’s surface

Sectional surface

Relation between it and another part

And its function in relate of movement and stability.

 In this reference there is a constructed project that the design of the building was inspired by a sculpture of a turning human torso. Compression of spine behavior to holding the body in unsymmetrical axe:

Being inspired of nature helps obviously to find a system of components which have series of relation to each other and that make the system smart.

In this case, digital tools can help the research and design to find the hidden problem’s parameters and help designers to find the connection between the members in the digital area, particularly in stimulated 3 dimensional arenas. For example GC program can make some opportunity to made some stimulation to compare and find strategy to make some step for typical structure. It means that it could bring some methodology for consider new structure according to this process.(Like something that Lars Spuybroek has done as 5 speed methodology developing)

This research would be focused on one part of the examined subject. My sequences of research are outlined below:

Motivation: Inspiration of nature to make stable situation in face of inclination of every little bit to be irregular.

Problem: This inspiration can give the environment which is composed of comparison human made constructions (structure) and natural structures to reach an innovational solution.

Approach: Collected information from the nature and putting them in digital area to find the clear notion of sustainable and creative design. considering more in several type of structure depend on our case.( More about behavior of spine structure and cantilever system.)

The image bellow shows 4 different views of the same skyscaper, from the simplest to the most complex shape, that combines squares, triangular, polygenic and round shapes. All the floors are identical in the first rendition, and each floor is different in the last one. One of the most important system in this respect is cantilever in structure.

 Result: prepare of stimulate area with minimum probability of transient for designed construction.

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Applications of light pressure, also called radiation pressure, range from optical levitation to optical trapping and manipulation of biological particles.
Light can be modeled as either rays consisting of energy carrying photons or electromagnetic waves. In physical optics, we model light as an electromagnetic wave which carries both energy and momentum [1]. When electromagnetic waves strike a surface, pressure is exerted on the surface due to the momentum carried in the waves. This idea of light pressure can be traced back to Johannes Kepler. In 1619, Kepler correctly theorized that it was the pressure of light which makes a comet’s tail point away from the sun.

Whereas buildings can be considered as living beings, they can be effected by these forms of energy and modified in some of their parts and characteristics.
This thesis intends to explore the possibilities to create a reactive architecture as a thermo-sensitive skin in which it is possible to reconfigure its structure through input caused by natural forms of energy.

The structure of the skin is thought as an experimental parametric surface; a light-filtering structure system made of thousands of cells that can change their shape, plus small openings that can modify their diameters.
These openings, under effect of heating caused by light, will have the same behaviour of pore of human skin.
The aim is to investigate this parametric structure and its behaviours through generative and parametric tools: making different simulations, analyzing it and studying different design.

The proposal is to utilize the generative posiibilities of algorithmic scripting within physical and mechanical computing.
Light as one of the most important components in architecture and I would like to investigate the best way of “how to catch” and to “express” it.
It would be very interesting to have a double reaction to the light in the skin of an architectural body:
- to catch the EXTERNAL LIGHT and let it go through its skin ;
- to express the INTERNAL LIGHT in the opposite direction towards the exterior.
This will create a level of interconnection between the life of a building and the life of sourrounding environment and could give it autonomy.

Considering the physical theory of the pressure generated by photons and one of the latest experiments done by Wendy Zhang, (assistant professor in physics at the University of Chicago) in wich is shined a laser beam through a soapy liquid, producing a long jet that eventually broke up into droplets, the concept of RADIATION PRESSURE will be studied.

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My intention is to use Generative Components as a tool to explore possible ways of setting up a dynamic relationship between developed lines and surfaces, and their folded counterparts. The interest lying in the dialgue which can take place between a 2-dimensional set of information directly related to commercially available methods of fabrication based on initially planar elements such as laser cutting, abrasive waterjet cutting, plasma cutting and 3-axis cnc cutting; and its assembled volumetric counterparts.

The technique of tailoring being significant in this respect through its success at creating a reciprocal relationship between three distinct states:
state 1: The human body being measured as a three dimensional object
state 2: The developed cutting pattern bearing shapes related to the measured body
state3: The sewn artifact folded and stitched to create a new volume relating to that which was first measured in state 1, yet also independent from it.
Reciprocality allowing the alteration of any of these three states, whilst controlling and predicting the outcome this will have on the next or previuos condition thus proceeding in a non linear fashion.
Being aware of the limitations within Generative Components and its preference to function in a one-directional manner avoiding loops, I nevertheless feel there is space to explore ways of succesfully establishing parallel relationships between inter-dependent types of information.

It is worth emphasizing that although a necessary part of the investigation, that of exploring possible ways of folding and unfolding a particular geometry does not represent the main interest of the research, which as stated previously lies in the dynamic relationship which can be installed between these distinct conditions.
Nevertheless existing scripts developed for other software such as ‘IntelliUnfold’ by Solid3dtech or ‘Lamina 1.0’ by Lamina Design should be valuable sources of information in order to understand which key factors of a particular geometry should be taken into consideration when developing it.

Finally the tailoring paradigm being an existing and successful method of installing a creative process through the dialogue between three distinct geometric conditions; will be explored in terms of its notation systems, and various techniques used to customize, alter and adapt forms parametrically.

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STACKING

Stacking is one of the most ancient and primal form of assemble and construction. The way components – equal or different – are put together in a simple manner result in an easily understandable system where to achieve success – stability – one needs to control balance. Normally this is achieved by robustness, perceived to be directly linked to density, or compactness of the mass.

In the architectural context stacking is translated in walls, space enclosure systems used to create and define shapes and spaces, both at material and psychological level. Such systems are usually characterized by the use of pieces of reasonable/hand-able size that obey to an industrial/serialized production methods that obligates to a formatted/fixed shape with no or little variation leading to some sort of pattern.

My interest lays in how to use this system and aim this research to the application of the new production logics on the parametric tools that assist design.

With the advances of technology in the field of parametric modelling, computer aided manufacturing and changes in the construction process, constrains that dictated this systems in the past are no longer present. We can now manipulate larger/bigger elements, and industrial production is no more the standardized serialized manufacture but the multi uniquely elements realization.

By using parametric tools it will allow the system properties to be explored and pushed beyond. Keeping its natural stability and structural performance, search to make the system respond to other architectural demands and assess implications in the visual forms, from total density to the point it dissolves and is no more.

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Critique Session for Brief01 Work

with:
Jonas Runberger; Gustav Fagerström, Tom Tong, David Cole & Daniel Norell

by:
Andrea Marini, Gregory Lazarou, Joao Gomes, Luis Tillan, Maryam Khazaei & Sinem Kulak

*Sorry to the others wich presentations are not featured, I’ll try to update later