Ai Ling Kwon_BENV2426

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.