Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Assignment 3 - Frame Work Form



BRIDGEOLOGY //


Simulation driven design my refer to the certain process of design in which design is developed through physical or mathematical simulation of the phenomenon based on design variables.
In this project as a practice of “design as simulation” I tried to develop a design for the structural frame work and the surface form of a pedestrian bridge.
The process of form generation of the frame work is controlled based on different parameters of the bridge. The generated forms are analyzed under self-weight of the structure to determine the deflection. The goal of the simulation is controlling the form based on the maximum deflection.




parameters of design//
In this design different perimeters are introduced to enable an acceptable design 
control

#1 Overall Span
#2
Span of the two big ellipses
#3 Width of the ellipses
#4 Heights of the ellipses
#5 Inclination of the ellipses



Lets take a look at different forms generated by messing with different design variables//




Form #1





displacements// 





Form #2



Displacements//





Form # 3




Displacements//



Monday, September 10, 2012

Assignment 1 - Sketching The Plan


Rules of Scattering//



                                        Crematorium, Baumschulenweg, Berlin, Germany, Axel Schultes Architects, 1999.

Concept//

possibility of mapping a randomly placed configuration into a rule-based arrangement, reversely, makes it possible for us to create rule-based randomness !




Project//
In this project a simple instance of creating a rule based randomness has been demonstrated. Using interrelated circular translations we see how a rigid rectangular plan can be turned into a flexible “random-like” configuration! 

                                                            Original Plan

                                                  Path of circular translations    
   
                                                    Dynamic Model

                                                         Plan. ONE

                                                         Plan. TWO



                                                         Plan. THREE


                                                         Plan. FOUR