Fluid Architecture - Week 12

Today what I am working on is editing the form a bit. I removed the walls, and I am rotating the right side of the building in such a way that the structure forms the wall and the roof itself. But I am maintaining the walls made on the left side of the form.

Il post some pictures of how it looked before and how it is changed now.

Before

After

So basically, what I have done here is that, I rotated the overhang in BLUE in such a way that it sits on the ground. This way it also creates an opening fo the people to enter into the spaces. It also acts both as a OVERHANG CREATING AN INTERIOR SPACE, rather than an overhang creating an outdoor space.




ENTRANCES
So by rotating the overhang, I have created two entrances, where people can come in and go out of the building from two sides. It also acts as a pavillion kind of a place or a TRANSITIONAL spaces where people can move through the building spaces.

 view showing the circulation of people through the building

Entrance 1

Entrance 2

From both the pictures you can see how the overhang is now supported by the ground.


ROOF GARDENS
I also worked on making grass on the roof, to create a roof garden which will act as an outdoor area where people can walk upto.
Here is the process how I did it.

I tried to render the images, but the file seems too big because of the grass.. So what I will do is, try to create the grass on half of the roof so that the file will be a bit smaller.

According to my timetable, for Thursdays class what I am supposed to do is do more experiments.
So the first experiment is going to be

1- Working on experimenting with tsunami waves onto my building.

2- After working on the waves, I tried on working with modifying the form a bit, mostly creating openings.

 2a- As for the structure of my overhanging roof, I converted into a skeleton steel frame which can be more lighter now.

2b- After that, I used the same technique, to convert the walls into a steel frame so that it will be stong enough to support the roof. The technique I used is similar to the previous one, I seperated the walls from the rest of the structure and add on a solid wireframe. To make it more intresting, I selected seperate faces and applied a solid wireframe so that the structure would look more abstract.

Here are some images I rendered using blender.

top view

overhang over the outdoor area (looking from left)

over hang over the outdoor area (looking from right)

steel frame structure

steel frame structure supporting the roof

steel frame structure (looking into the community area)

steel frame structure (taken from inside the community area)

 

3- Now I am going to try to work on creating a entrance to my building.
I used the cloth experiment to determine where my entrance would be. I place the cloth in the direction where people will be accessing the building.
Here is an animation how it worked out.

So basically, from this animation it is obviously highlighted where the entrance will be. The front face of the building.

Fluid Architecture - Rapid Prototype Model

Here are some pics of the rapid prototype model I did for the conceptual design submission on week 9. I am planning to rapid prototype more cross sections  of my building for the final submission.

I am just very glad that it turned out right.

Fluid Architecture : The next step

So after the form of my building was confirmed, the next step is how to make it function as a building. I have worked out the areas allocated for different spaces. But these spaces need to be broken down to functional spaces.


My building consists of two floors. The lower floor consists of commercial spaces, community spaces and the outdoor spaces.

As for the function of spaces, I was thinking that the commercial space can be a shopping complex. The shopping complex is going to be in two floors.

Hence the spaces can be further divided into spaces for small shops, an escalator or stairs to access to other floors, and a small cafe'.

For the community space, I was thinking of creating a community club which can host many activities for families and people to come and spend some time togather. The lower floor can be used as a space to host games like, a pool club or a chess club. For the upper floor, I was thinking to convert it to a gallery space, where artists can come host exibitions.

As for the outdoor space, I want to create a small park where people who visit the building for either shopping or the gallery or the community clubs can take a small break. The outdoor space will be kind of facing the river so it would provide a better view.

So as for the form, I am trying to simplify the faces, as there are a bit of messy bits. I am working on the roof overhang above the outdoor area.



This is how it looked before.

 This is how it looks after editing

You can see that the surface looks a bit clean now that the messy edges and faces has been deleted.

Overhang over the outdoor space without any supports

These are the two roofs that need supports to perform well structurally.

The next part of it was, that I was thinking how the form would act structurally, since there are a lot of roof overhangs. These over hangs need a column or maybe a tension cable for it as supports.


I did some research, and i found some ideas which can be similarly applied to my roof structure.

Here are some pictures.

http://aedesign.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/richmond-olympic-oval-vancouver-british-columbia-canada/olympic_oval_140210_01/

http://aedesign.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/distorted-courtyard-house-beijing-area-china/distorted2/

http://aedesign.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/house-into-espoo-finland/jyrki-tasa_1/

I will need to work out some sketches and apply these structural concepts on my roof structure.