Steven Best Benv2426

tasks 12

Final digital model

12 Iterations

Description with comments

Description without comments

Tasks 11

Completed model

Description file of model

Byculling out the first three circles from each set, I managed to remove the weird twist that was occuring at the top of the spiral. Also by lofting between the last circle for each set, I managed to properly cap the pipe. Doing so for the first capped the other end.

As far as laser cutting goes, I've changed my approach from earlier, and am now using a modified version of the waffle cutting file Jeremy gave us. It creates a series of planes on the x and y axes, taking the intersection between the model and those planes to form new geometry. The intersections of these are found to create the slots for joining, and the rest is identical to the waffle system, where it aligns them. At the moment I'm having trouble properly creating the pieces to cut, because the planes aren't slicing the original geometry properly. When I do cut it, I intend to use a firm mat board, 2mm thick.

Tasks 9

Design Development

This was the initial model from grasshopper and its description. Adding in another series of circles, I created an inner layer, which I hoped to be able to make the shell's thickness out of, but this didn't quite work as planned, as I couldn't join them.

Looking into how I would go about laser cutting this form, I decided to split the spiralling pipe into small sections, and create rings, joined by wire. This worked semi-successfully, but it doesn't like the massive twist in the conical shape.

Tasks 6, 7, 8

12 final citations of sources for assignment 2:

Almusharaf, Ayman M.; Mahjoub Elnimeiri (2010), Performance based design approach for early tall building form development. CAAD - Cities - Sustainability [5th International Conference Proceedings of the Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design (ASCAAD 2010 / ISBN 978-1-907349-02-7], Fez (Morocco), 19-21. pp 39-50

Abdelsalam, Mai (2009) The use of the smart geometry through various design processes: Using the programming platform (parametric features). Digitizing Architecture: Formalization and Content [4th International Conference Proceedings of the Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design (ASCAAD 2009) / ISBN 978-99901-06-77-0], Manama (Kingdom of Bahrain). pp 297-304

Al-Haddad, Tristan (2008), Parametric modulations in masonry. CAADRIA 2008 [Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia] Chiang Mai (Thailand), pp. 221-228

Ahlquist, Sean; Moritz Fleischmann (2008), Material & Space: Synthesis strategies based on evolutionary developmental biology. Silicon + Skin: Biological Processes and Computation, [Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (ACADIA) / ISBN 978-0-9789463-4-0] Minneapolis. pp 66-71

Baerlecken, Daniel Michael; Gernot Riether, (2009), From texture to volume: an investigation in quasi-crystalline systems. SIGraDi 2009 - Proceedings of the 13th Congress of the Iberoamerican Society of Digital Graphics, Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Baerlecken, Daniel; Kobiella, Olaf (2008), Math Objects. Architecture in Computro [26th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 978-0-9541183-7-2] Antwerpen (Belgium). pp 677-684

Dunham, Douglas (2004), Computer design of repeating hyperbolic patterns. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference of Mathematics & Design, Special Edition of the Journal of Mathematics & Design, Volume 4, No.1, pp. 83-90.

Hemmerling, Marco (2009) Twister: An integral approach towards digital design and construction. Computation: The New Realm of Architectural Design [27th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 978-0-9541183-8-9] Istanbul (Turkey). pp 299-304

Hemmerling, Marco; Knaack, Ulrich; Schulz, Jens-Uwe (2008), Complexity in digital architectural design. Architecture in Computro [26th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 978-0-9541183-7-2] Antwerpen (Belgium). pp. 85-90

Jirapong, Kamon and Krawczyk, Robert J. (2003), Digital Methods of Abstracting Forms from Nature. CAADRIA 2003 [Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia / ISBN 974-9584-13-9] Bangkok Thailand. pp. 695-706

Kasyanov, Nikolai (2008), Study of architectural shape formation in comparison with natural morphogenesis using computer simulation. Proceedings of the 8th European Architectural Endoscopy Association Conference.

Mallasi, Z. (2007), Applying generative modeling procedure to explore architectural forms. Em‘body’ing Virtual Architecture: The Third International Conference of the Arab Society for Computer Aided Architectural Design (ASCAAD 2007), Alexandria, Egypt, pp 697-712

Grasshopper experimentation based on research.

This is a series of grasshopper iterations that I did over the last few weeks. They are all experimentation on the same basic theme, the spiralling conical shell.

Tasks 5

6 exploratory citrations of sources for assignment 2:

Baerlecken, Daniel; Kobiella, Olaf (2008), Math Objects. Architecture in Computro [26th eCAADe Conference Proceedings / ISBN 978-0-9541183-7-2] Antwerpen (Belgium). pp 677-684

3 images of influential architecture:

for this I looked at natural forms in architecture, and found a few that really stood out to me.\

This is the Dalian Shell Museum, found in Dalian, China. It was designed by the Design Institure of Civil Engineering & Architecture of DUT