Summer studio
Enable the Intelligence of City
‘Triangular Tower’
Collaboration:
Douglas / Momo / Wang. 2017
Tutor _ Mark Helme / Omid Kamval
“One cannot make architecture without studying the condition of life in the city”
Aldo Rossi
Mage cities are the future. It is projected that two third of the world’s population would live in cities. The time of smart urban environments is coming, which are more intelligent for diverse demands of citizens for cultural communication, mechanical operation, and substance flows etc.
Globally metropolises have gained influence, who have become so powerful and effective that they expand based on occupants demands and desires. Big cities are attractors. They offer jobs, facilities and are by themselves a destination for anybody that believes in progress.
Matrix
It all begins with an idea. Maybe you want to launch a business. Maybe you want to turn a hobby into something more. Or maybe you have a creative project to share with the world.
Exhibition Prototype
Since there is no additional glue applied for disk joints and triple-grouped cane sticks, which tightly get stuck completely relying on friction.
To emphasize the spatial quality, we explored different type of infill system.
After testing the surface effect of dense string weaving, paper machine, polypropylene, and fabrics, yet the high flexible nature of cane made these systems difficult to control. In the end, vacuum formed plastic is designed, which keeps a consistency with our tensile structure, materializes the space inside the skeletal system, and adds perspectives for high dense formation.
Appendix & Prototypes
As a 14-day intensive design studio, AA subject is really a challenge yet exciting experience. It very broads my opportunities of being a designer for the first attempt to complete a high-rise project interlinked with urban perspective. I also got training for the skill projecting my design into reality quickly through practice form finding method of design, and gain lots of inspiration of how to become a professional architect from my tutors, advisors and group members.
Although we are expected to work out a final design, two weeks are too short to achieve the best design performance. For joints, 3d print joints would generate better effect for our system, but this option was blocked by time limit.
Review the completion of this subject, I get much benefits from the procedure. Not only has my operation of digital programs, such as grasshopper, got some fundamental knowledge, but it is also one of my valuable experience working as a team at my early design stage. In general, the process was interesting, during which there were several fancy ideas were come up, which have the potential to examine in the future.
This project urged me to think about the future development of the architecture from urban view. Both of them are experiencing development, evolution, and challenges, as production of civilization. ‘Highrise building allows us to achieve density when and where, by mixing tall, medium-high and low buildings’ (Otto Glaus). The new urban form probably would be highly organized and more intelligent through vertical growth and horizontal connections, which is also the outcome of design and thinking.
The tutor’s opinions were supportive and lectures were helpful. I would also thank my group mates, Mo, Doug, and Bi, with whom I worked together all the time during 14 days. It has been a priceless memory full of effort and encouragement.