Excursion Mediatic Cloud9

tomorrow morning we have a scheduled visit to the construction site of the Mediatic by Cloud9:

We meet at 10:00am

Carrer de Roc Boronat 117
(cross sterret: Carrer de Sancho de Avila)

Metro: Red Line, Glories

Dear Students,

The Phal [moodboard] _ GLoK

SNAPDRAGON

Anthurium Andreanum - Moodboard

After further analyzing the flower we have found the following characteristics, along with the ones mentioned before:

- Palmate veined. Veins diverge from near the leaf base where the stem and spadix are, and radiate towards the edge of the apex of the leaf.
- On the face of the spathe the veins project outwardly while the “skin” sinks inward. Hence the corrugated appearance.
- The direction of the veins influence the leaf’s plication.
- Colors: Yellow(spadix), red(mature spathe), green(during maturing process of spadix and spathe), purple(during maturing process of spathe)
- Mature leaves are a strong, solid and vibrant red, while in the maturing process the leaves have a combination of a deep purple, green and red color.
- Main color, red which means: attention, attraction, standing out.
- The veins are the vascular tissue (conducting tissue) of the leaf. They are examples of pattern formation through ramification, that pattern is called venation. Our main concept.
- Venation subtype: craspedodromous, veins stretch up to the margin of the leaf.
- Leaf morphology: heteroblasty, characteristic in which a plant displays different shapes and/or colored leaves while young and older.
- Spathe creates a spiral section around spadix.

From these findings we have developed certain initial ideas of what kind of spaces and or atmospheres we would like to accomplish within this courses project. The three image columns above, architecture, ambience and nature, illustrate some of those ideas. Be it the spatial bounding structure, the density of said structure for the light ambiance inside, the levels within the project, the colors and such. Along with these ideas we looked at other natural examples of venation such as the roots of a tree for further inspiration.

To further understand the topological modeling program Topmod, we have developed a series of models with the purpose of understanding and grasping the newly learned commands and also experimenting with these models to find their pros and cons making an initial selection, or set of, for further analysis and design.

Through this model testing we found, as with all testing, positive and negative results. The positive results were considered as such because they had further potential for spatial, structural and or surface use. The ones that were considered negative where considered so because we felt they were “dead ends” or contained geometry errors which would not be useful for further analysis.

The two models selected where one created through the multi-face command which created a set of interior tunnels, and the other through poche which created an interesting corrugated surface. These where selected because not only did we see further design possibilities in them, but we saw architectural interpretations of the parameters of our Anthurium Andreanum within them. For example, the tunnels could be seen as the veins that run through the project and the corrugated surface as an interpretation of our leaf’s corrugation.

Anthurium Andreanum

Anthurium Andreanum is the name of the flower we have chosen to scrutinize for the purpose of developing our butterfly house for this course. This flower has many strong characteristic that can be applied to an architectural representation.

The Anthurium Andreanum is a vivid flower, generally found in a vibrant red color with a bright yellow spadix. Its strongest visual characteristic is its venation. It is a palm-netted, palmate- veined flower where its main veins diverge from near the leaf base where the stem and spadix are, and radiate towards the edge of the leaf. The strength of the veins influence the spathe’s corrugation and their direction influence their plication.

As we can see in the panel, during its growth process the spathe wraps around the spadix until completely unwrapping itself and pulling away from it when the flower is ready for pollination. The skin of the spathe is materially strong yet flexible, something we would like to utilize on our project. Not only is its surface visually smooth yet rough due to its corrugation and almost plastic like material but its red color adds to its pleasant appearance. Red is known as a powerful and attractive color.

An interesting characteristic of the spathe of this flower is its translucency. In spite of its strong material and color it manages to allow a sufficient amount of light through.

ACAP _ Moodboard & TopMod Exercises

Petunia Violacea

taak // moodboard

taak // orchidPlication

Iris_X

Iris Xiphium: image based phenotyping using Iris_X Gene

Site

It´s Plot B, the larger, trapezoid shaped site right on the edge of the rock.

Site Location?

There is some confusion regarding the site location. Could you please specify if the site location is the small area "A" or the larger area "B".

Schedule Floral Obsession Course

Tuesday April 14th

Introduction Lecture

10:00 AM-12:00 PM (ESARQ Barcelona)

Introduction Lecture for the Floral Obsessions course at the ESARQ Barcelona. Biodigital Architecture Master Course. Issue for the lecture: Based on the Paper Botany Bay I will talk about three main issues in the realm of Flowers interesting as a base for specultations about architectural opportunities within this field: Spatial conditions (Anatomy, Morphology, Manyfolds, Topologies, differentiaon of space, sepals and petals, whorls and creeeping, coloration, ornament as space, deep articulation etc) Structural conditions (Veinings, Canopys, performative surfaces, sound structure by manyfold conditions, heads and stems, Flower bouquets, Parasites (Orchids), surface articulation, ripples and corrugations etc) Material conditions (cell compounds, veining, colorations, differentiated surfaces, fibrous patterns, fibers, cells etc) Floral sensibilities: (Colorations, gradients, bouquets, surface conditions, spatial conditions and flowers. Items of nature and technology providing opportunities for further scrutiny.)

Wednesday April 15th
Introduction into NURBS modeling in Maya

10:00 AM-4:00 PM

Thursday April 16th

Introduction into TopMod
Introduction into the Topological Mesh Modeling Software TopMod. Click the adjanced link to reach the webpage of the softwares programmer, Ergun Akleman, to obtain more information on the program, and some tutorial videos. Find also a lot of Information at the TopMod Wiki Page http://www-viz.tamu.edu/faculty/ergun/index.html

10:00 AM-1:00 PM

Presentation of Flowers

1:00 PM-4:00 PM

Excursion into a park, or the next flower store, to obtain some exotic flowers for scrutiny and inspiration. Explore the plants morphology and anatomy in order to understand the underlying rules of floral forms. Introduce a specific language and vacabulary to the course in terms of correct terminology out of the field of Botany: Whorls, sepals, petals, filaments, ovarys, stem, pollen etc.
Excursion to Park Guell
4:00 PM-6:00 PM

TASK: Butterfly House

The task of the course will be the design of a Butterfly House, including plans, sections, renderings, and in best case animation. The plans should include an idea of the assembly and fabrication approach as well as an outline on the used materials.

Friday April 17th

Introduction into TopMod II
10:00 AM-1:00 PM

Till Monday April 20th

Cladistic Diagram of 50 TopMod Models
Concept Development

Monday April 20th

10:00 AM-1:00 PM (ESARQ-Barcelona)
Table crits
2:00 PM-4:00 PM (ESARQ-Barcelona)
Moodboard Elaboration
Create a Moodboard depicting the approach of the project. The Moodboard should contain information about the chosen Terminology, the Morphogenetic Idea as well as representations of possible sensibilities and the opportunities provided by the chosen approach.

Tuesday April 21th

10:00 AM-1:00 PM (ESARQ-Barcelona)

Moodboard Presentation

Boards of the different groups: The pinup is not printed but just projected on the wall via videobeamer. We will discuss the approaches. Every group has about 10 minutes for the presentation and discussion.
Post Moodboards into the Blog

2:00 PM-5:00PM (ESARQ-Barcelona)
Python Introduction

Wednesday April 22th
10:00 AM-1:00 PM (ESARQ-Barcelona)
Python Introduction

2:00 PM-3:00PM (ESARQ-Barcelona)
Lunchtalk on Rigorosity, Geometry and Fabrication

Rigorosity, Geometry and Fabrication. What´s their relation. What the heck should we care about rigorosity, right? Well the rigor in the program is applied as a way to obtain three things within the course: 1: Discipline in the creation of a discoursive argument. 2: Precision and cleanness in the geometry of the created components of the architectural entity 3: Resulting out of the precise geometry of the object, a faccilitation of the digitaly controlled fabrication process, wether this is 3D printing, CNC Milling or Lasercutting.

3:00 PM-5:00 PM (ESARQ-Barcelona)
Project Elaboration


Thursday April 23th
10:00 AM-1:00 PM (ESARQ-Barcelona)
Desk Crit
2:00 PM-5:00 PM (ESARQ-Barcelona)
Python Scripting Assistance


Friday April 24th
Visit Construction Fair


Till Monday April 27th
Project Development (Post in the Blog!)

Monday April 27th
Project Development survey, all day desk crit.


Tuesday April 28th
Midterm Review
10:00 AM-1:00 PM (ESARQ-Barcelona)

Wednesday Thursday April 29th April 30th
Project Development (Post in the Blog!)
Excursion Villa NURBS (Cloud 9) to be announced.

May 1th till May 8th
All day!
Project Development (Post in the Blog!)
Endspurt Presentation Preparation, Model making, plan drafting etc.

May 8th
10am Final Presentation – Guest Crits to be announced.