MArch: Reflective Journal

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...

I have now submitted my Design Studio Integrated Technology B (DSIT B) report. This is the first of two technology modules which make up...

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...

Submitting my Thesis concludes my Context Studies for the whole of this degree, after completing Stasis in the second semester of first...

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

I was glad to be asked back to critique the same group of undergraduate students for their final review of the semester as I had for...

I am now satisfied that film is the primary medium that I should use to convey time-based changes of the site. However, as architecture...

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...

Near the start of the academic year, a friend and I were approached about teaching some software to undergraduates. The undergraduate...

Building on my work with historical maps, the first thing that I had decided that I needed to do was to redraw the maps that I had found...

As has already been stated, a large part of my analysis of the site has been focused around the history of the site and how it has...

About four weeks before our final Context: Thesis written submission, we were required to present our work so far in a ten minute...

This tandem physical modelling and computer modelling and drawing process has been a really useful way of initially testing the concept...

The final modules to do were to test and demonstrate the casting on formwork process. For this, I used a card formwork/mould, built from...