STUDIO AIRWEI CHERN SOON2015/SEMESTER 1 CHEN

A L G O R I T H M S K E T C H B O O K

01: LOFTING + SURFACE

By lofting the curves and manipulating the lofted options in grasshopper allow one to explore other more interesting surfaces although the curves are of the same shape.

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01: TRIANGULATION + VORONOI 2D

Triangulating surfaces and piping creates series of patterns which can act as canopy (as above) or even spaces for children to play in (as below)

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01: VORONOI 3D

By scaling the sizes of each of the Voronoi cells, different openings and spacings are created which might be applicable to use as facade pattern where sunlight can be blocked or allowed to penetrate whenever needed.

By offsetting the edges of the Voronoi cells, interesting sections within a box can be created. This would be useful in terms of designing an interesting shelf with different sizes of spacings.

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01: OCTREE

INTERESTING INTERIOR LAYOUT

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02: GEODESIC CURVE

FROM CURVE

TO STRIPS

TO CURVES

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02: CONTOURING

Experimented on contouring the curves in different direction.

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02: MESH GEOMETRY

Manipulating the strength of the mesh geometry creates sharp corners organic geometry.

Manipulating the Iterations of mesh geometry creates curved organic forms

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02: MORPHING

Morphing a surface with interesting geometries result in a curved surface with patternings on the surface which can contribute to aesthetics of architecture.

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02: CURVE INTERSECTION

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02: SECTIONING

Sectioning allows one to create patterns on surface which is unpredictable depending on the curves used to cut the surface which result in different patternings depending on how you cut the surface.

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03: GRIDSHELL

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03: PATTERNING LISTS

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Using surface divide to create points on the surface

Using populate geometry to create random points on the surface resulted in different patternings

Inputting different scripts for ‘cull pattern’ and ‘partition’ leads to even more significant difference in the patterns generated,.

04: Field Fundamentals

Pavilion-like form is obtained with interesting surface coverage where some parts are transparent and some parts are not

04: Fractal Tetrahedral

Series of boxes are created for which the function can be deternmined by the user, be it sitting standing or even as hide-and-seek playgrounf

04: Modelab Intro Video (6,7,8)

05: Evaluating Field

05: Graph Controller

Attempted Case Study