Final poster

Final poster

Grass Hopper file

Sliders

Draft Poster

Dynamic Architecture - Rotating Tower

I began by Looking into Dynamic Architecture and some concepts going on at the moment.

One of the concepts i came along was "A moving skyscraper for New York" where they discussed

having a view which changed over night .

These buildings come at a high cost and have only been thought of been built in Dubai a few concepts are still being discussed.

I tried to incorporate this kind of theory into my design, through Grasshopper my structure can change width twist and rotate similar to the building in the video above.

References:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iY0Uuyf8Xhw

http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/29/a-moving-skyscraper-for-ny/

http://www.dynamicarchitecture.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7%3Auae&catid=6%3Adynamic-projects&Itemid=15&lang=eng

Experimentation

Figuring out Rhino render

Playing with transparency

Trying out different shapes with

the sliders

Twistted Forms

After experimenting with tree branch forms i was having alot of difficulty and decided to change to Twisted Forms and figures

This building concept is all about the idea of always changing forms

and twisting and rotating, this is the basis for my model and what i

tried to capture.

A natural form of twisting and turning created by a tornado.

Draft of Branches/ Student suggested tutorial

Tree Branch form created in Rhino, need to form them from GH

Student Suggested Tutorial:

My student suggested tutorial comes from Benjamin Hur. Allowing you to create

an array of boxes and also being able to change the sizes of the boxes however you

want with sliders

http://www.paramod.net/post021/attractor-box.htm

Week 2 Task - Research

I did some research Into tree structures and found an architectural firm that literally uses tress in their designs and soley depend on the structure of the tree to create their buildings. This interested me as i want to apply this type of structure into my model.

This shows an example of they can be used. This for me is to Literal as

they actually use trees to create the structure i however would like to more

integrate the branches more grasshopper like the picture in the bottom left.

Branch effect i wish to Create, perhaps with move branches.

References:

Picture 1 and 2: http://wholetreesarchitecture.com/Media_Calendar/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/WT_Case-Study_Urban-Infill.pdf

Picture 3: http://www.wholetreesarchitecture.com/Phase1.html

Picture 4: http://www.wholetreesarchitecture.com/CaseStudies.html