Siyu Lei (Lerain)

Student No: 590520 Semester 2/2012 Group 16

MODULE ONE IDEATION Natural Process One – Water Vapor

Water vapor can be produced from the evaporation or boiling of liquid water or from the sublimation of ice, which is really inter-esting because it can forms with different shape by different container. As some of the water vapor cools, we see it as a small cloud called steam. This cloud of steam is a mini version of the clouds we see in the sky. The process of water vapor’s formation is when matter is under heat and pressure that ex-changes from liquid to gas.

I searched form YouTube of the process by saying what there are two main point of va-por, first is water vapor can expand and sec-ond is water vapor is warm which can hold and absorb more water in them, when the air is cold outside is has less water.

Gas runs into each other to form the air current and eddy when they are released form the contain-er. Water vapor has a very high temperature when it mixes with air outside, which will arise the air temperature, then the air temperature arises the density of it will decrease, therefore the water vapor is always keep rising up into the air.

The fluidity of the water vapor is analogous to a ribbon being blew bywind. Showing how the wind orairflow will impact the water vapor which twists, shifts, expands with the exterior components.

An illustration of flowing ribbons twine together showing the similarity to form the pattern of wa-ter vapor.

The next process is to think about how a water vapour would make it pathway around human torso. The density of the water vapour will change if the temperature is changing. The smoke starts to vanish when the surrounding temperature is getting lower and lower and eventually dissolve in the air.

As we know water vapour only exists at very high level temperature environment, so l also found some pictures of body temperature map to show which part of the body has the highest temperature. Then make the water vapour passes through the body from the highest temperature point to the lowest.

Another main idea of making water vapor passes through the body other than temperature is twisting which illustrates how water vapor rising up.

Front view Side view Back view

In Dubai, plans to break ground on architect David Fisher’s “first building in motion,” the Dynamic Tower. The design of the tower is built around self-sufficiency, with each floor mov-ing independently from one another and strategic solar panel-ling as well as wind turbine power. The idea is to harness the effect of a 360 degree view from constantly rotating floors, which creates an organic structure that is always changing shape, which relates to the concept of water vapour with a twisting shape.

Precedent Acknowledgement -- Building in motion

Natural Process Two – Candle Flame

Flame can be described in many ways and lots of people are do-ing fire, I’m choosing candle flame as one of my natural process. Candle flame is different form fire because fire flame shows how pattern interact each other, but candle flame is an independent object.

When blowing the candle flame, it curves, swirl and twine it forms a animal tail like shape, the density of the flame will decrease and has less oxygen around it. When the flame is separated from combustible gas, and all the hot air has been blown away only the cold air remained that the flame is temporally hypoxia it will finally extinct.

The arrows showed which directions the flame will go when people blow-ing the candle. Candle flame is really hard to abstract since it is already too abstracted. I discussed with m tutor who said I should think of this process out the frame, such as why the flame extinct. If the amount of oxygen is less than carbon dioxide, and the density of carbon dioxide is very high which causes the flame extinct. Even the gases are invisible but I still can use the idea gases are fighting each other.

So I’m going to describe this concept by showing that carbon dioxide is fighting with oxygen to show how the flame will extinct. I drew the combination with three ball shape to represent carbon dioxide in order to differentiate from oxygen.

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Precedent Acknowledgement

This building shows at the top right is the dramatic “Dubai Towers – Dubai” have been announced as the centerpiece for “The Lagoons” development. The four towers, designed by TVS (Thompson, Ventulett, Stainback and Associates), ranging from 54 to 97 floors, are clustered to form a choreographed sculpture, repre-senting the movement of candlelight.

The Towers will combine in form to represent the evolutionary and innovative achieve-ments of Dubai. They will be characterized by a range of additional facilities including retail, entertainment, and residential which merge to create a vibrant, dynamic commu-nity. The curves of the towers and they look like they are just slightly twisting.

Natural Process Three – Water Balloon

This idea comes form when I was watching the slow motion of water balloon explosion moment on the internet. W hat attracts me is when the balloon explode it looks like a firework within a very short term, it also shows the death of the balloon. When we keep pouring water into the balloon it will change the original shape of the balloon. The inside capacity remains the same but the pressure is keep increasing by the water , the inside wall of the balloon will be overwhelmed and eventually explode.

Sketch of the pattern formed when the water balloon is explode. The shape looks like a firework from different viewing point.

They look like firework but my tutor said even firework is too close to water vapor, which still has the similarity between them. So I expand it a bit more to make a ball shape lantern with spikes impale the balloon when exploding. The bottom shape represents the moment of water explode out, together to show the death of the water balloon process.

The arm is showing the life of the water balloon from birth to death. The model is sitting on the shoulder then flow the arm. The next step is to think how I turn this process into a 3D design by using Rhino. Changes may be taken for further work.

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Final Proposal

Precedent Acknowledgement -- Science World Vancouver

Science World at TELUS World of Science, Vancouver is a science centre run by a not-for-profit organization in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

The Science World ‘golf ball’ shape is a standout among Vancouver’s buildings. It is always easy to spot, shiny and round at the eastern end of False Creek. Science World Vancouver was originally built for Expo ’86, though it is sometimes referred to as the ‘golf ball’.

This building looks like the water balloon before explode. It has two layers, the outside it the frame of the shape which could illustrate the wall of the water balloon and the inner shape could illustrate the water that is being hold by the balloon. Epically during the night, the reflec-tion of this building just look like the balloon has exploded and the water went out eventually hit the ground.

Refelction

This week’s lecture is mainly about patterns in architecture design. And pattern is a sequence, distribution, structure or progression, a series or frequency of repeated/repeating unit, sys-tem or process of identical or similar elements. The lecturer used many examples to show dif-ferent patterns, for example: knotted cog, Round Klein Bottle, Hopf Fibration, Archimedean Spire and so on. Another use is material organization. For example, the Parade Store in Tokyo and material organization research at university of east London.

Lost in Parameter SpaceAbstraction is about reducing the amount of information while reducing is about finding the optimal way to transport it. As the natural processes I have chosen are already too abstract, therefor it is really hard for me to do further development. I discussed with my tutor, he gave me some fresh and challenge ideas of how to achieve a better work. Design must be input step by step. And evolutionary methods are no exception to this rule.

Fleischmann et al.Material behavior computes form. In the physical world, material form is always inseparably connected to internal constraints and external forces; in the virtual space of digital design, though, form and force are usually treated as separate entities – divided into processes of geometric form generation and subsequent engineering simulation. For example, the Madan people in southern Iraq have developed a profound understanding of the material behaviour of bundled reed. Their Mudhif houses are built out of conical, initially straight reed bundles that are fixed to the ground and subsequently connected at the tips to form elastically bent arch structures.