The student conducted physical experiments boiling onions to study how their layers separated and became transparent. They used the concept of transparency in layers to develop a building design. Software experiments were used to model wind particle flows on the building site to generate a random building form. This form was developed in Revit using massing between tracked points. Space planning was then conducted to layout the interior of the emergent building form.

1. -Initial concept
- Physical experiments
- Software experiments
-Massing Outcome
-Space planning
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WEEK 9 – Project 2

2. Project 1 Node Concept
-- Pre-fabricated 5m x 5m Node
- Original activity – drawing
- Concept – Layers
(drawings are made up of
different layers)
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3. Concept and Emergence
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4. Physical Experiment
- Needed a subject that is made up of layers
- Needed monitor the relationship between the layers
- Decided to use half an onion and boil it in varying
amounts of water at different heats
-Key Findings
- Outer layers began to discolour and become
transparent
-Subject was seen to open up around a point (not
middle)
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5. Physical Experiment
- Picked up the idea of transparency and carried out the
experiment again to then take apart the layers and analyse.
Outer View
Inner View
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6. Layer
(outside to
inside)
Opacity /
Transparency Level
(out of 100%)
Thickness (percentage
of total form)
Layer 7 15% 5%
Layer 6 20% 8%
Layer 5 40% 10%
Layer 4 30% 12%
Layer 3 40% 14%
Layer 2 65% 15%
Layer 1 70% 17%
Core 80% 18%
Layer 7 Layer 6
Layer 5 Layer 4
Layer 2
Core
Layer 3
Layer 1
Physical Experiment
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7. Concept
- At this stage I had my concept of layers
and this new idea of transparency
- Using the layers and transparency
could mean that the building could be
quite lucid and not have a definite form
that would be “concrete”
PIC OF NEW CONCEPT
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8. Concept
- Therefore I had my concept and a rough idea of
how I wanted the building to use transparency.
- But how was I to generate a form? If I was to have a
subject manipulated by forces such as wind or other
elements on site, what would this form be? A cube? A
rectangle? Would the emergent form be simple a
deformation of one of these basic forms?
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9. Concept and Emergence
- I went back to my initial thoughts on how I could use emergence to generate a form and
decided to try and model forces on the site such as the wind and human traffic etc
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10. Software Experiments
- Modelled particle flows in the
dominant wind directions on
site at the approximate speeds.
Yellow – Summer wind directions
Red – Winter wind directions
0range – both summer and winter
directions
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11. Software Experiments
-I froze the scene at the point where the
intersected and picked approximately 20
points to track
- I imported these points (to scale) into
Revit and using massing began to bridge
these points in a way that would form a
shell
-This would allow me to generate a
form that was not a deformation of a
set form such as a cube, but a form that
was generated by random by the
program.
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12. Software Experiments
-I realised I would be only able to
use the larger section of the
mass to model as my footprint
due to size restraints
- To stay true to the concept I
wanted to keep this outer shell
as the outer layer and feature
the building mass inside
(outlined in red)
-Applied some relevant levels of
transparency to both sections
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14. Massing Outcome
Screen Capture with Edged Faces – Key Shots
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4 5 6

15. Massing Outcome
Render attempt - Orbit with Context
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16. Space Planning
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17. Space Planning
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18. Space Planning
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19. Space Planning
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20. Space Planning
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21. Space Planning
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