Education 2008-2009 Semester 1

We had loads of fun tinkering on the “interactive playground” model this week.

The model:

The programming:

The presentation:

Have some scribbles on the project which I’m working out now.

After our talk yesterday, I was inspired to look at my second organ in a totally other way. Instead of it housing the private zones of mulitple other organs on different levels, the second organ can function as one. That is supplying. The slender tubing will house the vertical circulation, what then spreads out in coffee zones or toilet facilities. The skin of the second organ can still be used as a part of the surroundig organs it touches. Like meeting area’s or educational facilities.

More & Visuals sunday night, after I get back from my weekend away.

I’ll be doing research in creating a model which handels a double curved surface in virtools. It will consist out of curves in 2 directions bound by manipulator nodes. These can be moved individually, but also multiple at the same time. After giving this model a shape, it can be tesselated with a skin which is delauny based. I also want to give the model a structure by giving the curves volumes in a specifik manner.

Posting in Progress

The BFB compititon was fruitfull for me to think how my organ can not only connect to other organs, but can be an intregate part of the building on more lvl’s.

The organ does not only create space, it also devides space among the other clusters.

Summary Group Design Meeting

Today we had a long discussion on how we envision our group design, and particulairly on the the cluster design and towers. It became a bit more obvious what the positive and negative features of the main design were. But also that were missing lack of scale and undefined organs. Organs that can be everything thus being actually nothing. Also it’s still unclear how we solve the organs we did not design yet. And how they connect in the main design. We discussed the locations, but if it will fit?

I’ll be developing a parametric model in which we can easily can recreate our main design, and create the connections floor by floor. This we can use as a scheme to progress in to floorplans. In this model we the “towers”, “tower” floors are parameters, and connections between these objects can be created.

Ontop of this we still are uncertain on what the main theme is we will be using as the Open Space Faculty is still a to generic term, which doesn’t really capute our design idea in one word or sentence.

Role of the Organ in the Main Design

It became apperent today that he organ has a substantial bit in the loadbearing of the “towers”. This will also in fluence the design. Should it be pierced with beams, or will the onion structure hold? Is it a better option to go with a hyve like structure? What does this mean for the floor plan, and the dual used skin? These are all questions I’ll be doing research in.

As you might have noticed my production has been below standard as of late. This has multiple reasons, which will only result in multiple excuses. It’s done & I’m rdy to Rock.