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Module Two: DesignLucy Watson

Student No: 584866Semester 1 2012Tutorial Group 7

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Rhino ModellingInitial Design

This was my original design as formed in module one.

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Rhino ModellingContouring

As I began to think about contouring, I drew lines on an A4 piece of paper with a distance of 1cm. I then placed my design onto the paper and proceeded to produce contour lines which woud help me visualise my design more in terms of contours.

After completing this, I realised that my design was quite boring in terms of the contours, as they were very similar in shape. I then decided to distort my de-sign further to create more interesting lines.

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Rhino ModellingContouring

After distorting my design, i then sliced it into sections to make it easier to create the contour lines. I placed the sections onto A4 paper and traced around the edges.

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Rhino ModellingInitial Design

After tracing the contour lines, I then uploaded them into rhino, and traced around the edges to form contour lines that I could use to form my model in rhino.

I then successfully placed the contour lines ontop of each other, forming the basis of the lofting process.

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Paper PrototypesCurves

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Paper PrototypesEdges

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Selected Natural Process - Snow Flake FormationPannelling ResearchAs I started to think about the texture for my lantern in module two, I de-cided to look closer at the surface of a snowflake, to see if it could provide some inspiration. I researched images of snowflakes magnified to see the surface up close.

From my research I found that different types of snowflakes have different surface textures, some being quite smooth while others more rough and bumpy. It is often discussed that no two snowflakes are the same, but when Nancy C. Knight, of the National Center for Atmospheric research in Boulder, Colo-rado viewed them under a microscope, she discovered matching snow crystals in 1988. Although the crystals were not your usual snowflakes, but rather hollow hexagonal prisms, nonetheless they appeared very similar.

When viewing snowflakes under a microscope, care must be taken in order not to deform or melt the ice. Most snowflakes are observed by researchers at a moderate magnification of 30X to 500X, often using low temperature scanning electron microscope (LT-SEM). This is because of the fragile nature of snow samples, being sensitive to ex-posure to light, which is needed to photograph the crystals. By using LT-SEM, samples are frozen to temperatures below -170 degrees where they can be placed in a vacuum and observed for many hours with no structural chang-es.

The size of a snowflake, and subsequently the surface, depends on time, temperature, and he amount of water vapor available, and is usually translu-cent in appearance.

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Selected Natural Process - Snow Flake FormationPannelling Research

Snowflakes also sometimes form what’s known as feather ice, which form at temperatures below -30 degrees Cel-sius. I thought this form of crystallization was appropriate for my research as I could picture my lantern adopting similar characteristics to this.

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Panelling

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Precedents Modern Webbing Wall Decor Panels Duomo by Michelle Arieu

ZPO tower Dubai

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Reflection

After completing module two, I realise that I would still like to develop my idea a little further, and add more complexity to my de-sign. i was not quite happy with the model created in rhino and would like to trial a few more panneling designs before deciding on a final. I found the rhino programming to be quite difficult as I am not used to or familiar with this type of program and therefore struggled with designing pannels which fitted with my ideas.

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Resources

http://somethinordinary.blogspot.com.au/2009/01/natures-spectacular-geometry-of.html

http://www.gizmag.com/zpo-tower-dubai/12077/

http://www.bestarchitecturaldesigns.com/2012/02/modern-webbing-wall-decor-panels-duomo-by-mi-chelle-arieu/