4 Nisan 2017 Salı

House in Forest

Our design is based on an idea about sustainable and innovative approaching to the main topic.

As a house as a home, a forest is uniq and special place for years for the living beings. Thinking ofparent cluster, forest is a house for us which fed by water. Life moves on around water.Every family member of the forest need water to survive. Being a part of a forest starts with being a part of water. As a conceptual idea we wanted to cling on the fountain of the forest. The powerful movement of a river in a forest is the key of the project.

The movement of a river is the most powerful energy in a forest comes out by nature. This power of movement of a river observed exahustive and analysed by Rhino+Grasshopper. As a result of this motion we mapped of the water of the river. This mapping are explaning the water movements and routes. Thus shaping of the river by this routes let us to see, how to get maximum surface area by this tracks. These surfaces have maximum friction surface under water we can use this power to occur the energy comes by river movement.

Obstacles in the river like a tree or a rock, shapes water around. We used this points to create house areas to use. Also getting maximum sunshine to the house is possible with location and the best location is an open area like water elements. As a material of construction wood elements and stone we used as a part of forest.

Living in a forest alone is not realistic, being a uniq house piece of forest is not being a part of forest. With this approaching we created a community, neighbourhood and creating new living spaces for other livings in forest. There are 4 housing zones to live and there are small livings spaces for other neighbours like small creatures.

Following the shapes of the water creates potential of right air way comes from forest and river.In addition of them acting form of the house like river dont blocks the water flowing and being in the river by surfaces let the control of the water resistance.

Project Team
Ersin Abay
Cansu Yeni



6 Aralık 2016 Salı

Freeform Surface Panelling

    This was a ceiling modelling study that I worked on in the office. The ceiling has double curvature surface which is bending from facade to ceiling and ceiling to facade. Also the designer wanted to have the surface covered with hollow round modules. Then I started looking for computational solutions in grasshopper.
    There was only one constrain and that was to keep the surface of the ceiling (the freeform shape). Panelling algorithm changes in each material and each fabrication method. We needed an optimisation strategy to find an easy production and implementation method. Budget was also an important factor (as usual  :).
    I searched many materials, many connection details, many construction methods and many surface partition algorithms to be able to build this ceiling.

    The research period was informative for me. You can find some applied panelling examples and related partition algorithm that I tried below. 

Thank you for reading.
Cansu








22 Eylül 2016 Perşembe

The UnLimbited Arm



Making a hand is so easy with a 3D printer anymore. All informations and 3D model at below links. Here you can see my "UnLimbited Arm" study. I thank for Osman Koç and Robotel Team for their help.

http://www.teamunlimbited.org/the-unlimbited-arm/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=369PX9LzUPs





















20 Eylül 2016 Salı

Dynamo Study 3 - Facade Rationalization



Setting Adaptive Components in Revit



Scheduling Panel Corner Angels


Grasshopper Panel Connection Detail


Dynamo Panel Connection Detail


Grasshopper Panel Connection Detail 


Dynamo Panel Connection Detail

These panels modeled with "extrusion" command in Grasshopper. Adaptive Family works like "sweep" command, because of this, panels move over the alignment. 


List Tansformation for Panelling


Glass Panel Array



6 Eylül 2016 Salı

Dynamo Study 2 - Facade Rationalization

This facade consists of the combination of a rectangle and a 8 sided star. This computational logic allows to study it in algorithmic environment.

Grasshoper Script

Facade Rationalization process have been done at Rhinoceros- Grasshopper. Optimization process forge ahead between facade consultant and designer.
I wanted to follow up all process in BIM environment step by step. I am looking for the differences between CAD & BIM environment in Rationalization process. Is BIM has an advantage during rationalization process for computational cases?


Initial Geometry

Main Horizontal Alignments


Surface normal disjointedness

Curve selection rule

Facade Trigon and Tetragon Paneling

It is certain that this topic has extended research area. I keep reading and continue to experiment about it.  I will create new titles based on them...
Thank you for reading.
Cheers,