Fly Through Animation

Fully Developed Lumion Environment

Lumion Environment Model Link

5 Real Time Image Captures of the Developed Lumion Environment

This image relates to the my theory by presenting a chrome and carbon fibre façade which incorporates high-performance materials.

This image capture presents the view of the bridge from the main entrance of UNSW from Anzac Parade. Utilising the bridge enables convenience to facilities used by Computational Design and Built Environment students.

This low camera angle shot portrays sketched texture representing movement in a scalar formation. The chrome and carbon-fibre façade presents computational capabilities provided in computational design.

This image presents the connection between the Red Centre Building, the School of Mechanical Engineering and the Barker Street car park through a 'carchitecture' approach. 

This image incorporates the utility of the UNSW Campus during non-teaching hours as a computational design student. Facilities used include the Red Centre 24/7 Print Room, Barker Street car park and the 24/7 BE space.

4 Real Time Image Captures Showing 2 Draft Lumion Environments

This image presents the layout option I had to take into consideration converting Sketchup to Lumion where form and structure changes across media's.

This image presents the adaptive façade without its material texture which defines its overall structure according to the rest of the bridge.

This image portrays the span of the bridge across the campus of UNSW and indicates the effect of architecture within an urban environment.

This image illustrates the overall scale and position of the adaptive façade providing a climatic effect to the bridges architecture.

Moving Component Test

Moving Component 1:

I created this structure using Grasshopper and Rhino3D software. It presents a performative and responsive approach to architecture as the façade compromises of panels that respond to UV light according to direction and strength. This enables the bridge to incorporate a climatic control providing sufficient ventilation of natural wind and sunlight. In the video below it presents how the façade surface changes and responds according to the orbit of the sun represented as the sphere. This was produced in grasshopper by utilising the centre of the sphere (sun) as an attractor point. The coordinates of this attractor point independently changes the size of the ventilation squares. In Grasshopper, I used a colour spectrum from green to red to isolate which panels of the façade would receive the most UV light and adapt by a certain degree. This adaption is presented through the following video:



Façade fly through:




Moving Component 2:

This is a video exploring adaptive louvers made in Grasshopper for the space requirements area of the bridge. Incorporating this technology, outputs a performative and responsive approach to architecture through environmentally driven structures. Using parametrics in Grasshopper allows for relative input adjustments to the angle of each louver across a surface rendered with particular geometry on it. This geometry represents sunlight, the higher the intensity of sunlight the greater the angle of that particular louver will open by.

Adaptive Louver System Grasshopper File Link

Space Requirements

This area of the bridge is able to inhabit 100 students who are drawn from all around the world and are supported by scholarships to study Computational Design.

This plan view depicts the location across the bridge to facilitate and inhabit the students.

This is a floor plan of the proposed building to facilitate and inhabit the students.

This is an animation of the facilities and rooms required for the students:

Sketchup Development

This capture within Sketchup incorporates the structural elements of the adaptive façade and access to bridge channels via Anzac Parade.

This capture illustrates the outlay of the access between the Red Centre Building, The School of Mechanical Engineering and the Barker Street car park.

This capture portrays the spatial scale of the channels of the bridge across the lower campus of UNSW.

This plan view outlines the channels of the bridge and how the connect to other buildings utilised by a computational design student.

This is a 3D viewer of the adaptive façade.

Adaptive Façade Sketchup File Link

Bridge Sketchup File Link

Campus and Bridge Environment Sketchup File Link

Rhino and Grasshopper Development

This is a screenshot of the Grasshopper script utilising curves on a image in Rhino. This helped me to allow the outlay of the bridges components within the urban environment of UNSW.

This is a render within Rhino of the voronoi structure produced to channel the bridge to particular facilities and buildings.

This is a render within Rhino of the adaptive façade produced through Grasshopper utilising an attractor point, surface area listings and parametric geometry.


Adaptive Façade Grasshopper File Link

Bridge Rhino3D File Link

Bridge Grasshopper File Link

Plan

Through this plan I attempted to connect each chosen building with in mind of accessibility, appropriateness to determine the most convenient way of getting around campus as a computational design student.
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Reason for bridge locations and positioning : With reference to my concept mashup I want to incorporate facilities that utilise or relate to areas of research in particular categories. The following portrays why I chose to include particular facilities:

Square House: Fabrication and physical modelling is a major part as a computational design student, therefore convenient access to the Fablab, 24/7 area and Workshops is necessary.

Anzac Parade: The main entrance of the bridge at Anzac Parade could implement convenience to and from the Red Centre Building. This also provides a safe way of transporting models, projects or posters via public transport from Anzac Parade to the Red Centre exhibition space.

Red Centre: This building is utilised mostly as tutorial and exhibition space for computational design students.

School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering: Involving the design of automobiles in the mashup incorporates the use of manufacturing mechanical utilities such as automobiles can provide the architectural practice with an understanding of design in a mechanical direction.

Barker Street Parking Station: Producing physical models, projects and posters can be hard to transport using public transport, so incorporating access from the Barker Street parking lot enables convenient access to the Red Centre exhibition space.