Wednesday, 11 April 2012

Tier 1 & 2 Submissions

Tier 1 Submissions


Tier 2 Submissions

Refined Sources & New Resources

Two Main Sources:
1) Riley, Terence. On-site: New Architecture in Spain:Metropol Parasol . New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2006. 
2)  Koutamanis, Alexander. CumindCAD, "Modeling irregular and complex forms."2001. Accessed 08.04.2012.
http://cumincad.scix.net/cgi-bin/works/Show?_id=avocaad_2001_13&sort=DEFAULT&search=complex%20geometry&hits=1403

Supporting Sources:


Design

-Rashid, Hani and Couture, Lise Anne. Asymptote: Flux. London: Phaidon Press, 2002. 
-Ishii, Kazuo. Membrane Designs and Structures in the World. Japan: Shinkenchiku-sha, 1999. 
-Herwig O. Featherweights - Light, Mobile and Floating Architecture. New York: Prestel Publishing, 2003. 
-Db, Ridhika. DesignBoom, "Zaha Hadid: Chengdu Contemporary Art Centre."2010. Accessed 11.04.2012. 
-Chiarella, Mauro. CumindCAD, "Geometry & Architecture: Nurbs, Design and Construction"2004. Accessed 11.04.2012 

Complex Geometry
-Gregory, Paola. New Scapes - Territories of Complexity, Switzerland: Birkhauser, 2003. 
-Curland, Scott. CumindCAD, "Modeling Designs with Shape Algebras and Formal Logic" 1996. Accessed 08.04.2012
- Abdelsalam, Mai. CumindCAD, "The Use of the Smart Geometry through Various Design Processes: Using the programming platform (parametric features) and generative components" 2009. Accessed 11.04.2012
-Liu, Yu-Tung. The HybGrid: From Form Generation to Form Adaptation . Taiwan: Birkhauser, 2003.
-C. Bovill. CumindCAD, "Fractal Geometry in Architecture and Design" 1996. Accessed 08.04.2012


Aspects of Design
1) Db, Ridhika. DesignBoom, "Zaha Hadid: Chengdu Contemporary Art Centre."2010. Accessed 11.04.2012. 
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/12200/zaha-hadid-chengdu-contemporary-art-centre.html

2) Riley, Terence. "New Architecture in Spain: Metropol Parasol".New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2006.


3) Chiarella, Mauro. CumindCAD, "Geometry & Architecture: Nurbs, Design and Construction"2004. Accessed 11.04.2012

http://cumincad.scix.net/cgi-bin/works/Show?_id=0131&sort=DEFAULT&search=computer%20aided%20design&hits=8862


Aspects of Complex Geometry
1)  Abdelsalam, Mai. CumindCAD, "The Use of the Smart Geometry through Various Design Processes: Using the programming platform (parametric features) and generative components" 2009. Accessed 11.04.2012
http://cumincad.scix.net/cgi-bin/works/Show?_id=ascaad2009_mai_abdelsalam&sort=DEFAULT&search=geometry&hits=541

2) Liu, Yu-Tung. The HybGrid: From Form Generation to Form Adaptation . Taiwan: Birkhauser, 2003.


3)  C. Bovill. CumindCAD, "Fractal Geometry in Architecture and Design" 1996. Accessed 08.04.2012

http://cumincad.scix.net/cgi-bin/works/Show?_id=0dfb&sort=DEFAULT&search=complex%20geometry&hits=1403

Grasshopper File

Grasshopper Pictures

Lexicon

Aesthetics                   Fluid
Boundaries                  Light
Catenary                     Modulation
Complexity                  Motion
Flexibility                     System

Sunday, 8 April 2012

3 Pictures of Influence


Chengdu Contemporary Art Centre
Architect: Zaha Hadid
Location: Chengdu, China



Cagliari Contemporary Art Centre
Architect: Zaha Hadid
Location: Cagliari, Italy



Bejing National Hotel
Architect: Emergent
Location: Beijing, China

6 Sources For Assignment 2

3 Aspects of Design

1) Rashid, Hani and Couture, Lise Anne. Asymptote: Flux. London: Phaidon Press, 2002.
The firm Asymptote draws inspiration from organic systems focusing on the "light, speed and traversing virtual boundaries" within the building system. This book is particularly useful to me as it contained a lot of inspiration I drew for assignment 1.

2) Ishii, Kazuo. Membrane Designs and Structures in the World. Japan: Shinkenchiku-sha, 1999.
This book does studies on structures formed by the membrane pattern. I find the use of materials used in each different design or structure was pretty cool and how it relates quite well to the subject we are doing.

3) Herwig O. Featherweights - Light, Mobile and Floating Architecture. New York: Prestel Publishing, 2003.
This book offers architects a new idea of architecture, an "exploration of lightness and movement" for future works. It covers a wide range of buildings such as Bruno Taut's glass house, Crystal Palace and the Millennium Dome and shows how with new materials within our grasp, we will be able to incorporate a sense of efficient flexibility and mobility in structures which is light and inflatable


3 Aspects of Technical Complex Geometry


1) Gregory, Paola. New Scapes - Territories of Complexity, Switzerland: Birkhauser, 2003. 
This book explores space with a combination of interactions and relationship with landscapes. Covering a range of different relationships between land and building, it should be viewed as a "place of the mind, a way of imagining reality".

2) Koutamanis, Alexander. CumindCAD, "Modeling irregular and complex forms."2001. Accessed 08.04.2012.
http://cumincad.scix.net/cgi-bin/works/Show?_id=avocaad_2001_13&sort=DEFAULT&search=complex%20geometry&hits=1403
This article shows that computer-aided design systems now enable architects to be in full control of geometric aspects which mean that architecture can now be displayed and created with a wide range of geometric representation.

3) Curland, Scott. CumindCAD, "Modeling Designs with Shape Algebras and Formal Logic" 1996. Accessed 08.04.2012
http://cumincad.scix.net/cgi-bin/works/Show?_id=7b57&sort=DEFAULT&search=%2b1996%20Fractal%20geometry%20in%20architecture%20and%20design&hits=478
This article describes the hierarchical model of the shape and it's relation to space and geometric construction, topology and logic.