Poster Resubmission and model (repaint)

Model (paint version in progress)

Poster final and filefront link

Grasshopper : http://www.gamefront.com/files/20445250/final_trial_J_edit_autosave__gh

Rhino : http://www.gamefront.com/files/20445260/renderro_3dm

Descriptions and progress

 Inspired by the idea of Futurist and Vorticism movement, this structure will be at the heart of Circular 

Quay. Construct with steel structure and concrete base.

The concept of this structure is to express dynamism, speed, bold and high-tech.Combining each of the vertex gives a bold shape and randomize it makes it dynamic and repeating the randomization of this shape produces an abstract futuristic wave like movement. And using steel as the armor of the structure to give a high technology look. Vorticism is more like an art movement that branched out from Futurism and Cubism. They have the same characteristic except Vorticism captures movement in an image like I am trying to capture

movement in architecture.

The chosen site is near to sea so to compliment the choosen area i developed my structure based on wave movement and to support my vorticism concept as well. I used steel as the structure material because it is the ideal material for futuristic and high-tech concept. Since my structure is huge and bulky, glass is fragile and is impossible to build it with brick also. The rendered images above are done in V-Ray 3DS Max. And the site

image is taken from Google Maps. Below are the iterations done in Rhino software with Grasshopper plugin. The first image is one of the section of the structure and as I develop the model, I randomize the model using Delaunay triangulation algorithms and stretch it to size to fit the site. The iteration images are the process on how i develop the finishing model and by experimenting with my idea, theme and concept.

This is the images I work on Sketchup and rendered with V-Ray Sketchup. Besides experimenting with the 

shapes and my ideas, I also did a few experiment on different software. The first picture is rendered in translucent glass and the second image onward is with plastic like material.  I tried changing the size and edges to make it more  stable and jet-like.

This piece of structure is able to withstand wind and heat as the air is able to travel around. Its a standalone and unique structure. And the open structure allows more natural lighting. Modern architecture is all around us 

today. Take a walk through any populated area and you are bound to find elements in the surrounding buildings that can be considered Modern. Modern architecture, like many of the architectural movements before it, leans heavily on the latest building techniques and materials to achieve its goals. To me, futuristic or modern architecture is something we vision in mind and make it into reality and ignore past styles and attempt to create something entirely new.

Rendering, more progress....

GH, iterations and recent progress

Some Progress

Laser Cutting and Material selection

It was pretty tough trying to separate the pieces and number it one by one, there's like hundreds of it. But it will harder when i want to glue it all together. And i wanted it to look like metal surface so i decided to pick cardboard because its cheaper and i can just spray it silver when i have done sticking it all together. As for now i am still waiting in queue for the laser cutting.

Proposal and site analysis

I noticed a nice land at Rozelle Bay that will make a good place for my structure.
It is near the bay and if we look ahead its the Anzac Bridge. Opposite the land is the Sydney Boathouse.
It has a nice surrounding by nature and beautiful view of the bay and the bridge during the day or night.

My structure is influenced by futurism and vorticism movement. And is functioning as an exhibition centre.

http://www.rozellebay.com.au/location.html from this link you can see there is an empty land opposite the boathouse.


UPDATES :

I made my decision to stick with my initial site the toaster.

More inspiring pictures

Jaime Gili's artwork futurism + vorticism

The Vorticism group began with the Rebel Art Centre which Wyndham Lewis and others established after disagreeing withOmega Workshops founder Roger Fry, and has roots in the Bloomsbury Group, Cubism, and Futurism. Lewis himself saw Vorticism as an independent alternative to Cubism, Futurism and Expressionism.

Though the style grew out of Cubism, it is more closely related to Futurism in its embrace of dynamism, the machine age and all things modern (cf. Cubo-Futurism). However, Vorticism diverged from Futurism in the way it tried to capture movement in an image. In a Vorticist painting modern life is shown as an array of bold lines and harsh colours drawing the viewer's eye into the centre of the canvas.

Progress and iterations

The Complete Metropolis - Official Trailer [HD]

Futurism - The Dead Movement That Lives

Sources 2

Isogeometric shell analysis with Kirchhoff–Love elements

J. Kiendl K.-U. Bletzinger; J. Linhard; R. Wüchner

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 1 November 2009: (Volume 198, Issues 49-52) p. 
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NURBS as basis functions for analysis have proven to be very efficient and offer the great feature of exact geometric representation. For a Kirchhoff–Love shell element they additionally have the significant advantage that the necessary continuities between elements are easily achieved. The element is formulated geometrically nonlinear. It is discretized by displacement degrees of freedom only. Aspects related to rotational degrees of freedom are handled by the displacement control variables, too.

Sources

Ich versuche eine Psychoanalyse des Ortes, an dem ich lebe. [I am trying to psychoanalyse the place I live in.]
Author : Imdahl,Georg
Source : Kunstforum International, no. 205, pp. 208-229, Nov 2010-Dec 2010
Discusses the life and work of Polish artist Monika Sosnowska (b.1972). The author highlights the architectural themes in the artist's sculptures and huge site-specific installation works. He examines in detail her recent installation entitled "The Staircase/Die Treppe" (2010; col. illus.) which dominates the interior courtyard of the K21 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen in Dusseldorf (24 April 2010-15 April 2012). He also commends the geometric sculptures installed in the Polish pavilion at the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007, with which Sosnowska first came to international attention. He sketches her biography, highlighting her studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Posen and subsequently at the Rijksakademie van beeldenden kunsten in Amsterdam. In interview, the artist explains that modern architecture in her native Poland was a key early influence. She examines the failure of the utopian ideals of Modernist architecture. She also discusses the contemporary art scene in Warsaw where she lives and works.  Journal pages : 208-229 Journal article.


Drawing now: eight propositions
Author: Hoptman, Laura
Source : New York: Museum of Modern Art, distributed in the U.K. by Thames & Hudson. 2002, 192 pp. (130 colour) ISBN: 0-870-70362-5
The book is divided into eight sections on the methods, techniques, media, and scales explored by the artists: Drafting and Architecture; Mental Maps and Metaphysics, Popular Culture and National Culture; Fashion; Likeness and Allegory; Envisioning a City; Science & Art; Comics & Other Subcultures; and Ornament and Crime. The 26 artists are: David Thorpe, Paul Noble, Toba Khedoori, Kara Walker, Kai Althoff, Shahzia Sikander, Ugo Rondinone, Jockum Nordstrom, Chris Ofili, Neo Rauch, Barry McGee, Franz Ackermann, John Currin, Elizabeth Peyton, Mark Manders, Russell Crotty, Jennifer Pastor, Julie Mehretu, Matthew Ritchie, Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo Nara, Richard Wright, Graham Little, Kevin Appel, and Los Carpinteros.
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, distributed in the U.K. by Thames & Hudson

• Title:The new space conception : space time [HUC]
• Author: Sigfried Giedion
• Description: Space, time and architecture  : the growth of a new tradition / Sigfried Giedion. 
• PublisherCambridge : Harvard University Press 
• Date: 1967 

Title: Planning sustainable and livable cities [HUC]

• Author: Stephen Wheeler
• Description: The city reader / edited by Richard T. LeGates and Frederic Stout. 
• Publisher: London : Routledge 
• Date: 2003 
• The transition toward more sustainable cities will not happen overnight. But through a growing ecological and social consciousness, the development of innovative models and examples, and better understandings of the policies, programs and designs appropriate to urban sustainability, new, more sustainable forms of urban development can come about.
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3 Architecture images

German Architect : Wolf Hilbertz

Autopia Ampere

Architect : Jacque Fresco

Circular City by Jacque Fresco

Submission

Progress 3

Progress 2