Assignment3 FILEFRONT FILES

Grasshopper file: http://www.gamefront.com/files/20448773/3267546_Yuan_Du_Assignment3_ghx

Rhino file: http://www.gamefront.com/files/20448775/3267546_Yuan_Du_Assignment3_3dm

Assignment3 IMAGES OF PHYSICAL MODEL

Assignment3 GRASSHOPPER - ILLUSTRATOR LASER CUTTING

 The illustrator files of my tower building pieces. Edit in Auto CAD

The screen shot of the baked pieces in Rhino

Assignment3 GEOMETRY DEVELOPMENT AND THE EXPLAINATION O THE GRASSHOPPER FLOW GRAGH

This my Rhino Grasshopper script and the explanation of the flow-graph

Assignment 3 TEXT IN FINAL POSTER

BIOLOGY- SPIRAL BIONICS

In this assignment, the main design idea is to develop my model and make it match the design theme in my assignment 2, that is, a bionic spiral structure.

In this design concept,  Bionics architecture design principles are that through the form, structure, function and environment, buildings could mimic the characteristics of a biological species in nature, and those could make the buildings more functional, more beautiful, more energy efficient, more ecological and more sustainable.

Those layered structure is the best way to realize biometric structure. The shape of the model chosen, I also want to realize a spiral tower. These biometric structures are often found in nature, as I summarized in my second assignment essay. For example, the honeycomb structure, the new bionic building completely changed the traditional architectural design and construction characteristics of these times to perform better, more suitable for the use of human habitation, and life in the functional requirements. Here, I hope my design and surrounding environment can be combined in a nature way.

In the model, I have chosen is to create a good foundation in the Rhino after the graphics in the grasshopper flow graph, the adoption attempting is the establishment of a Rec-Grid. This is because the initial consideration is the shape of the basis for bionic architectural structure. After that, give it a Slider to arrange the value of the width and length. Then, set up the Series and Slider respectively to control other values. Secondly, the connections between them, such as the Move and the value of Rotation, all of those are defined the appearance and structure of experimental model initially.

These are preliminary method or experimental expression of the bionic architectural design feature - the double spiral structure. The more detail design and the relationship between them in the future experiments will be presented more clearly. For this building design, I chose to use the combination of appearance and building their own, that is, Bionic function. The functions of this building not only used to fulfill the basic functional features, but also used to content the overall arrangement of space and the functional requirements of structure, all of these required a higher standard when I built it in the CAD space. However, bionic building function do provides any problems to the city traffic system.

For the site chosen, I had chosen to build my model in the site of junction of Pitt Street Mall, Sydney Tower, Castlereagh Street and King Street. I put my 3ds model into the city site and the model will have a feel that compliments the splendor that is Sydney Tower and interacts with pedestrians.

Assignment3 FINAL POSTER

This is my final poster, I do not changed it a lot
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Assignment3 PHOTOMONTAGE AND SITE SELLECTION

 I had chosen to build my model in the site of junction of Pitt Street Mall, Sydney Tower, Castlereagh Street and King Street. I put my 3ds model into  the city site and the model will have a feel that compliments the splendor that is Sydney Tower and interacts with pedestrians.  This two images will in my Final poster.

Assignment 3 12 ITERATIONS

The Flow graph script is the online tutorial I had learn in my own assignment design. 

 The main pieces in my model is the floors of the building, and its geometry could transform by the slider figure changing. The Floor geometry is in the red circle, and the building surface geometry is circled in blue.

 

Those are my 12 iteration images that  I have made by changing the figure of the sliders which model shape is needed to make my poster.
In those iteration images, I try to test the number of floor and the shape of angular.

The change of the floor geometry with more anglers each way.

Those images shows that the gaps form the two building component geometry.

Those images shows the floor levels and shapes changed in the Z direction

The rendering images showed that the basic geometrical changed  around with floor and the building surfaces.

Assignment 3 DRAFT POSTER

In my draft poster, I want to put the images on one side or put them in two opposite side, this could make people easy to read it. and for the quality of the images, I'll use the best option to render the images.

WEEK TEN TUTORIAL TASK THE USEFUL GRASSHOPPER TUTORIALS FOR ASSIGNMENT 3

At the beginning of the process of the assignment3, I had to decided to make a spiral tower in the model. I had used the Poly lines in rhino, and move them and get the loft to make the shape of the whole building geometry in Grasshopper.
The tutorial  I found is  I do not floor the way that showed in the tutorial but got the nearly same building in a totally different method that is what I thought is most important in the experimental modeling course.

Those are some useful online tutorials

Here is a useful blog link: http://sac3.blogspot.com/

WEEK NINE THE EXPERIMENTAL MODELLING TASK

The flow-graph of Grasshopper

The building I choose to follow with

The Side view of the experimental model

The whole view of the experimental model

The elevation view

The top view of the model

WEEK EIGHT GRASSHOPPER TASK

WEEK SEVEN RESEARCH ESSAY DESIGN DRAFT

The research essay

Non-Linear Systems Biology- Bionics

Throughout the world, every species has unique shape, structure and function. In architectural design perspective, many high-rise buildings are designed by architects who inspired from nature. This is because the application of bionics has positive prospect in architectures, which not only improved the human living condition, but also improved the human living quality. Architectural Bionics is based on the research of functional organization and the shape of living species, and explores the scientific and reasonable construction discipline in architecture, and to enrich and improve the architectural design, building form and structure, and also to promote the functional rooms’ layout more efficient. Architectural bionics is not only an effective method in building forms innovation, but also is a realistic way that makes buildings harmoniously into nature. With the rapid growth of population, the urban construction space is depleted. In order to use the rest existing urban land resources, the tall buildings have been developed rapidly, and the bionics technology has also been widely used in those buildings design. Therefore, it is the future direction of building development. This essay will discuss the detailed examples of these buildings and different prototypes of those building are innovation. Firstly, the importance of their design principles will be illuminated in different perspectives, and secondly, their form, structures, functions and method to build will be explained and compared.

Bionics architecture design principles are that through the form, structure, function and environment, buildings could mimic the characteristics of a biological species in nature, and those could make the buildings more functional, more beautiful, more energy efficient, more ecological and more sustainable. Currently, a number of bionic buildings has built in the world, the bionics theory and its applications could be classified into four main categories, that are form bionic, bionic structure, functional and ecological bionic. The following specific examples will be combined for analysis in those categories.

Form Bionics

Form Bionics is the most common one in architectural uses; it could not only achieve a new innovative building form design, but also play an important role in the new-style structural system to create a remarkable architectural images and cultural effects. One of the most famous innovative architecture-Turning Torso in Malmo was the best examples that creating substantial synergies among bionic and building form. This 54 storey building is about 189 meters high, and it is divided into nine district level layer, every district layer include 5 single floors, and each floor is rotated a little, so that the entire building was rotated 90 degrees. It is believed that the original design of this building inspired by the twist of the human body sculpture, and its rotation form also distorted the vision of human. Therefore, the typical bionic form architecture increasing the readability and resonate of architectural work.

Another typical example is the Urban Cactus in Rotterdam; This 19 storey apartment could provide 98 residential units. At the same time，the curve and patchwork shape design of the balconies not only make the exterior space of each residential unit get enough sunlight, but its unique bionic architectural form makes the building itself become a landmark of Rotterdam. Thus, it can be seen that the bionic theory promotes the development of new high-rise buildings in the future.

Bionics Structure

Bionics Structure is that architects get inspiration from natural physics which include mechanical properties, the relationship of natural structural, the properties of natural material, at the same time, the application of it in building structure design achieves the implementation of functional requirements that the traditional structure cannot fulfill. Architects get the structural inspiration from nature is that with the minimum building material, to create the maximum structural stiffness and the structural bearing capacity, and also the largest use of space. These are the future building structural research direction.

In bionics building structure part, the double spiral structure is designed in widely applications. This is because when two single spiral structure intersect to each other and they could become a double spiral structure. Then, it will improve the bearing capacity and stiffness of building structure rapidly. The application of the double spiral structure in architecture field has achieved the dual effect of building structure aesthetics. The most successful example is the JIN MAO Tower. The main structure of these buildings, such as the steel frame is connected by nodes, and the nodes of structure with the steel frame itself constitute as a whole part of buildings. Both of them coordinate the external pressure points that forced on structure, and participate by the effect of force. The force acting in the opposite direction would produce the same effect when the force works on one node. Therefore, those could reduce the total pressure on the structure, and that could enhance the structural stability. All of those have been widely used in tall buildings, and the majority of them are designed to have a strong structural truss, thereby increasing the overall structural strength of the buildings.

Functional Bionics

The functions of contemporary architecture is not only used to fulfill the basic functional features, but also used to content the overall arrangement of space and the functional requirements of structure, all of these required a higher standard when architects design or arrange the building space. However, bionic building function provides a solution of these problems to the architects. The more comprehensive example is that, the building in Tokyo. Thus, based on those, through of the functional bionic, architects could inspired in the species in nature, so that the overall arrangement of building space could become more innovative.

Ecological Bionics

Ecological Bionics is the creative formation methods that to adapt the new building environment by studying the principle of biological growth and natural ecological discipline, which combined with its own architectural features. The principle of it is to mimic the growth of biological species in nature, while the structure of its spatial design is continuously changing. There are some other economic values in bionic buildings in our society. For example, Turning Torso could create synergies among substantial environment and economic benefits. The short term local tourism revenue arises from the leisure and recreation values of this building. In general, more clear evidence would be the revenue derived from tourists visiting the Malmo in Sweden. Such revenue would far outweigh the costs of establishing this famous landmark building. Based on those, it is clearly that bionic architectures will mainly be a new trend of architectural evolving in creating economic benefits.

In conclusion, Bionic theory in high-rise building has been in use widely, it improved the living conditions and living environment, also it played an important role in improving building space and utilization of natural resources. At the same time, in the building structure part, bionic theory also played an important role in improving building structural strength and the innovation of architectural form. It could be seen that bionic theory affects the building sustainable development and ecological protection. Based on those, It is believed that with the development of building technology and materials technology, the application of architectural bionics will be further developed and research in depth. In the future, more beautiful, more practical, more environmentally friendly and more economical bionics building will become more popular.

WEEK SIX THREE ARCHITECTURES IMAGES AND DESIGN IDEA

1. UCX Architects, Cactus House，Rotterdam, Netherlands.

Comments: Cactus House is located in the Netherlands, Rotterdam. The building's stylish, its design idea is to provide the maximum in each house of outdoor space and indoor lighting. It's open platform can grow flowers, irregular shape allows sunlight into the interior from various angles.

Images Sources: Dongliang, YU. “The Theory and Application of Nionic Design in High-Rise Buildings.” Structural Engineers (2009): 139.

2. Santiago Calatrava, Turning Torso, Malmo, Sweden.

Comments: Cactus House is located in the Netherlands, Rotterdam. The building's stylish, its design idea is to provide the maximum in each house of outdoor space and indoor lighting. It's open platform can grow flowers, irregular shape allows sunlight into the interior from various angles.

3. Synthesis Design Studio, Helical vertical farm, Dubai.

Comments: This building will be located in a central location close to Dubai, can clearly see the Burj Dubai. Building is surrounded by extensive gardens and a lake at the base floor and several ponds. Oasis building itself consists of three towers around a central spiral formation. Its external fluoride by the ETFE plastic cover, this layer will constitute the internal structure of fluorine plastics and as the internal insulation. Solar coatings will be applied to the outside of ETFE film, used to generate electricity. Placed in the floor between the vertical axis wind turbine to provide electricity for buildings. Sewage is treated to be re-used, anaerobic digestion tank to the scene of waste generated, the methane produced in the process to provide more power.