Final Renders

Assignment 3 Uploaded Documents

http://www.gamefront.com/files/21847858/3377356_Assignment3.zip

Model Images

Shape-way's Model:

Laser-cut Board and File:

Final Model:

Model Creation

Final Poster - Compressed File

Final Definition File

500 Words about my Final Design

The site on the corner of Cathedral Street and Crown Street was chosen as I wanted to design a building which would allow me to push my ability in Grasshopper to design a building which evokes a more emotional response from viewers due to its design as something which employs both aesthetical and function capabilities. As it is an entry point into the city the design has the ability to suit the area through its captivating design, drawing interest to the area and certainly ‘providing an exclamation mark for the area’.

As the site is residential, the addition of large office space would accompany this aspect well as people working in the building may eventually move into the area to be closer to work. The building offers grand views and I feel such a modern, forward thinking building would complement the area immensely and undeniably revitalise the area. The Two continuous flowing volumes amalgamate to create an internal world of continuous open spaces within the building, a new office and retail complex, taking the basic necessity of a building-like structure and generating an immersive, enveloping experience whilst still adhering to the design brief.

The continuous curved form offers unity and a sense of movement throughout the space created. Their arrangement throughout the centre of the different buildings acts as an integral communication mode that allows for connection to be enabled between the two building with possibilities for use including head offices, meeting areas, or open space for the entire office to experience which could cater to an office bar, restaurants or café’s. The practical layout includes public, retail and amenity space for the lower levels, progressing to emphasise privacy on the floors directly above, home to the office space area of the building, and finally finishing on the top floors which will host the bars, restaurants or cafes

Galapagos Testing

With use of the Galapagos component, I minimised the use of concrete for the structural façade through plugin the sliders controlling this aspect of my design into the program. As you can see above the initial stages of the program were very lengthy as the component worked the solution out with the final model looking below.

Before:

After:

The above images show how the structure was minimised through the use of galapagus.

Poster Draft

Iterations

Iteration 1 - 3: Rotation Experimentation

Iteration 4 - 6: Experimentation with Form

Iteration 7-8: Looking into the Form of the two Towers

Iteration 9 - 12: Experimenting with Bridge Design

Tower Form

Tower Split in two section defining structure and facade.

View into Tower 1

Render Looking into the Tower

More Modelling For Assignment 3...Model in Part

Buildings Floor Plates

Buildings Structure through its facade

Poster - Draft

Inspiration for Assignment

The Galaxy Soho Building being developed in China was the key inspiration for my final building design, although slightly different, the key elements are present in the form.

Assignment 3 Continued Experimentation

Today work was focused on creating a tile pattern for the outside of my tower and creating the form for my tower within the grasshopper definition opposed to the curves creating in the rhino program. The decision which needs to be made from this point is whether to laser cut my model or 3d print it....

Experimentation on Form of my tower...

Cont. Experimentation on form.

Assignment 3 Work Grasshopper Upload 1