Assignment 2: Final Submission

Poster

Animation

http://youtu.be/O4fGwjUOGhc

 

 I originally intended to use a camera track view with a target path and camera path to achieve my animation, however I was unable to achieve an adequate curve that suited the modulating angles of the primitives to correctly fly through the spaces.

I am quite disappointed with this outcome however hope to still use my understanding for camera tracking for my third assignment.

Image of

You can see in the left image that the two curves that the target and camera path will follow, as of yet, I haven't been able to get a good view from these (the camera keeps rotating in interesting ways).

Grasshopper Final

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3imrb19yichehrp/qsVf_zk86s 

The Grasshopper file can be found in the above link
Note you must open both files to see corresponding model and grasshopper attractor method. 



There is quite alto of redundant coding which was not used in the final production of this assignment, however I have left the coding to show my experimentation process as well as my process for achieving my attractor.

Attractor method

Assignment 2: Interim Submission

 Submission Posters (2/2) and GH File:

 https://www.dropbox.com/sh/e9k3eks5ukm03j5/b9kvOUkz1Q

Design proposal:
Using an Limitated Number slider I was able to create a Motion sensing architectural system that responded to the X and Y co-ordinants of a person within a building with reference to the location and angularture of the Sun. The System acts conjunction to their movements. Spheres are created, getting larger or smaller shifting in density to create more or less shading dependent on the suns power for that particular day.  

• Embed your animation [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQZejRPgc44].

• Name your pdf using the format: arch1201-2014-<firstname>-<lastname>-project2.pdf


• Upload your pdf to your blog AND email your pdf to your tutor before 11am Friday 11 April 2014 (week 6).

Week Five Studio Exercise: For Data Dependency

TASK 1

1 Find a classmate to pair up with, who has a mock-up proposal which responds to the same environmental factor as you. 
Present to each other your design proposal then discuss and take notes in pairs, covering the following points: 
• Does the design proposal fulfill the basic requirements of the brief? 

I need to think about the different angles to provide ultimate shadow effects. 
if the angle is very steep you have to move the shapes closer to the side of the facility where as if its over head it will be directly in line with the occupant. 

• Is the design proposal a thoughtful and well-thought-out response to the brief? 

Yes though I need to think about the different shapes i need or grid and weither I am going to manipulate the shape and or size of my different over head elements. I am also needing to work out what the 

• What strengths and weaknesses can you identify of each other’s proposals? 

My Design, I need to think about angles and the actual shape and co-coordinating the shapes so that they close and open in reference to where the person is moving but also the location of the sun at different times of the day.

• Compare the design proposal to the examples shown in last week’s lecture. Are there similarities? Are there difference? Are these differences significant enough such that it is not an imitation? Is the design proposal innovative? 

Interactive with the person and buildable, original, in realtime hard to build. need to think about XY coordinates of the sun and the person. 

Bill Gates house

http://www.ihome.asia/blog-post-2/

Documentary a walk through of bill gates house:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqF9U9GhC9M

Lucus and I's ideas are very similar in the idea that an attractor is used to shield the occupant from the siun by manipulating shapes and or the number of shapes. 

TASK 2:Export your grasshopper document [File > Export Hi-Res image] and post it on your blog

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/e9k3eks5ukm03j5/b9kvOUkz1Q

TASK 3: Create a new viewport setting that you will use to prepare your 3D animation.

Task 4

4 Prepare an animation for your poster. Watch Andrew Heumann’s video on recording data from slider components in 

Grasshopper [http://vimeo.com/39730831]. Then: 

• Modify Heumann’s definition to suit your dynamic architectural response (animating a control knob? Animating a 

Boolean toggle? Rotating a different object compared to a cube? Have more than 4 variables?). 

• Record a sample demonstrating your dynamic architectural response. 

• Export the animation images, ensuring you change the file extension from .bmp to .png [right-click the slider bar > 

animate]. 

• Animate the results using video editing software to compile the images into a video, e.g. in Adobe Premiere, import 

the images, change all their duration to 1 frame, and use the “make new sequence from clip” tool. 

• Post the resulting animation onto your blog

Task 5

Digitalised Poster

Independent Study

Task 1

1. Prepare your SketchUp model for importation into Rhinoceros. Ensure that double faces and redundant geometry are removed and that unused geometry and components in the model are purged (Window > Model Info > Statistics: purge). Ensure that components are grouped appropriately (consider components that will be static and components that might be parametric). Import your SketchUp file into Grasshopper. Experiment with the import settings to ensure your model imports appropriately (e.g. you may or may not want to weld geometry). 

Exporting From Sketchup into Rhino tutorial:

I encountered a number of problems delivering my model from sketch up into rhino. Firstly was my actual file had a lot of missing edges and faces which needed to be fixed. Because a lot of the shapes were generic within my model, I found it easy to fix this by quickly re sketching the shapes from scratch. This was a little more time consuming then I thought but enabled me to export successfully into rhino. 

I found this tutorial helpful in exporting my design:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7jNPfP_9mI
Because I have been having trouble exporting my sketchup model, I did a practise 'Mock' export instead. 
My Practise Model in Sketch up before export:

After Export in Rhino

I am not sure weither or not the solid is suppose to look like this... 

2 Select 1 of your storyboards to develop in Rhinoceros and Grasshopper. Describe the key idea of the proposed architectural response in approximately 50 words. Post this description to your blog before next week’s studio class. 

One of the storyboards I wish to develop in rhino and grasshopper is the light shielding motion sensing device (storey board 1). 
I would need a series of points which are the base of a particular shape. The shape can be poly or circular changing the radius and number of sides using a number slider. I will also have an attractor method that uses an input (number slider or other) which will reflect that of the motion of an user (I will do something similar to the sphere and point method in last weeks tutorial task to achieve this). The points will reflect the position of the user and so will effectively shift and manipulate the outline or radius, position and number of sides of the exterior shielding shapes. I will condition the code so that the shapes become more dense whilst directly over the user and more sprawled to allow light to filter through into the facility. 

3 Program the basic functionality and create a mock-up of your selected storyboard by incorporating parts of your Rhinoceros model. Complete your mock-up proposal before next week’s studio class. 

Grasshopper File

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/e9k3eks5ukm03j5/b9kvOUkz1Q