MArch: Reflective Journal

For the last couple of weeks, I parked my physical modelling tests whilst I focused on pulling together my DS3 portfolio for the draft...

Handing in DS3 marks the end of semester 1's work. Overall I was fairly happy with the work that I handed in for this draft submission....

I returned to the site a week after the previous visit, with the primary aim of attaining the photos for the photographic site sections...

Thinking ahead to the need to physically print out and bind my design work into portfolios, I have been weighing up different formats...

With the Technology module out of the way and the DS3 draft hand-in coming up imminently, it has felt like a good time to really...

In the second iteration, the variable that I changed was the heights of the bamboos. I retained equal heights around the perimeter, but...

For the first fabric formwork physical modelling iteration, I elected for a full, uniform grid of bamboo – equally spaced and all of the...

I am wanting to test out the idea of fabric formwork initially through physical modelling. Because it is a concept that I have not worked...

My explorations into using living bamboo as scaffolding to support rigid formwork for casting concrete have helped advance my project,...

As it is the Christmas break from teaching,I decided to take some time to read the Smartcities book that I bought at the end of CJ Lim's...

For the final review of the semester, I presented a few key conceptual things which had been present in the interim review, and then...

Having decided a couple of weeks ago that my printing experiments hadn't provided the best solution for representing time, I wanted to...

This Wednesday concluded the Open Lecture Series for this semester, with CJ Lim coming to talk about his and Ed Liu's book Smartcities,...

Alongside the computer and physical models, I have also produced a series of sectional drawings to further illustrate this concept that...

Pleased that the first phases of the modelling process had been a success, I then wanted to push it further and try and cast in the...

With the base and forest in place, I then put together the faceted formwork of the card. Despite all of the pieces being cut precisely on...

Once I had completed the Grasshopper definition, I took the cut patterns that it generated and laser cut the model pieces. The base and...

After spending quite a few hours in Rhino and Grasshopper, I have managed to write a Grasshopper definition which: Gives me cut patterns...

As with testing the geodesic ideas, I want to use computer modelling, physical modelling and drawing side by side as a linked process....

Using geodesic domes as the form for some initial computer and physically modelling speculation led me to testing the idea of bamboo...