ARCH1101 EXP2: Grasshopper Script

I used grasshopper to create the "torch" as it allowed me to have more control over my design parameters.

ARCH1101 EXP2: Final Design Explanation

My final design uses the theme of the olympic event, symbolizing the Olympic torch as the main marker, showcasing the location's significance as well as being visible from a long distance away. It also adopts the environmental texture theme from Neri Oxman, using the hedge and timber materials to represent a natural space. In addition, it also uses her concept of organic form, with a curvilinear rising above the ground. Furthermore, Cedric Price's concept of flexible spaces is also represented with the fractal and frame-like base of the marker, giving a stable base to the "torch".

ARCH1101 EXP2: 36 Custom Textures

ARCH1101 EXP2: Axonometric and Parallel Projections in Lumion

Axonometric Model

Parallel Projection

ARCH1101 EXP2: Parallel Projections

Statement 1: Flexible space is naturally created through the design of organic forms.

Statement 2: Environmental designs seamlessly blend with responsive buildings, allowing textures to be used for multiple uses.

Statement 3: Temporary structures can be easily changed through the use of effective material ecology.

ARCH1101 EXP2: 6 Axonometrics

CODE1110: Achim Menges - Introduction

Computational Design Thinking – Summary

Sean Alquist and Achim Menges discuss several main points throughout their introduction:

Computation: Alquist and Menges address the difference between computation and computerization and how understanding this difference is key when learning about computation as a whole. They say it ‘can be broken down as methods which either deduce results from values or sets of values, or simply compile or associate given values or sets of values’.

Systems Thinking: They highlight the point of determining things as ‘piecelike’ or ‘patternlike’, where you view something as a ‘structure of components’. They describe every object as a hierarchy of components with specific patterns of distribution.

Parametric Dependencies: Alquist and Menges explain the development of structures regardless of its form and/or formation. Goethe brought this formalism that ‘marks a turning away from the simple structure of end-products and toward the active’.

Emergent Formations: This refers to a process that makes a feature’s appearance more defined due to the background boundary. Crutchfield says ‘an emergent feature also cannot be explicitly represented in the initial and boundary conditions. In short, a feature emerges when the underlying system puts some effort into its creation’.

Designing Computation: Alquist and Menges discuss the validation of computational design as a whole. They talk about how it needs purpose with the intent of solving crucial complexities that will dramatically affect the way we execute certain processes.