links to Grasshopper definitions used for assignment 3

Here are links to some grasshopper definition files that assisted me in my own definition. They assisted in unrol.ling my curved surface and applying a HHexagon surface texture to my unrolled surfaces.

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/forum/topics/vb-surface-pattern-tutorial

http://www.co-de-it.com/wordpress/code/grasshopper-code

http://heumanndesigntech.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/unroll-ruled-surfaces-in-grasshopper/

http://www.grasshopper3d.com/profiles/blogs/unrolling-surfaces-in-1

Sources

Gregory, P. New scapes: territories of complexity (Switzerland: Birkhauser) 2003

Papadakis, A. Innovation: from experimentation to realisation (London: New architecture group pty ltd) 2003

Rosa, J. Folds, blobs & boxes: Architecture in the digital era (Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of art) 2001

Aldersey-Williams, H. Zoomorphics: New animal architecture (London: Laurence King publishing ltd) 2003

Burry, J., & Mark Burry The new mathematics of architecture (London: Thames & Hudson) 2010

Spuyeroek, L. Research and design: The architecture and variation (New York: Thames & Hudson) 2009

Influential Architecture

'Green roof' School of Art, Design & Media - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

"This 5 story facility sweeps a wooded corner of the campus with an organic, vegetated form that blends landscape and structure, nature and high-tech and symbolizes the creativity it houses."

http://inhabitat.com/amazing-green-roof-art-school-in-singapore/

Lyon-Saint Exupéry Airport (Lyon Satolas Airport) - Lyon, France

"The building's most striking profile, based on two converging steel arches 120 meters long and 40 meters high. The building is most obviously expressive of a bird, symbolizing flight...the two main arches coming together at the bird's beak."

http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/lyonairport/index.htm

'Belgo Zuid' - London

An international restaurant that "explores the Belgian idiosyncrasies as a theme. The design strategy was to explore the formal, structural and organisational qualities of the brief, beyond the intentional kitsch origins... stomach, intestines barrels of beer & medieval vaults were some of the form making references"

http://www.f-o-a.net/#/projects/619

References and assistance using grasshopper

My final forms evolved from a simple spiral. Unsure where I was going with my theme of logarithmic spirals, I watched 'Generating a Spiral in Rhino’s Grasshopper Plugin' tutorial on Designalyze. I was shown this tutorial from my tutor Melody. This is the basis of all my iterations.

To watch this tutorial please click on the link below:
http://www.designalyze.com/?p=3

The rest of the components of my definition were added by experimentation with grasshopper. However i did receive assistance from my classmate Rose with the relocating scaled instances of the form to different points on my spiral.

Final poster

Final Renders - 2nd Evolution of Inital iterations

My Third set of iterations investigated the geometric progression of the spiral, the increasing scale. I still maintain the basic principle of the spiral; however instead of representing my theme with the use of surfaces connected by curves, I used spheres which I programmed to increase in size as the rise in height with the use of a series node. Then with the image of a vegetable in my head, I wanted to represent the small logarithmic spirals within the large spiral. With the use of vector, move and scale formula within my flow graph to create what I felt to be an sophisticated & graceful system.

Final Renders - Evolution of iterations

My second set of iterations evolved from the first set, but this time I added an additional graph that controlled the height of these organic spirals, shown in the images above. The XY points were still controlled by the one value, but the Z points were now affected by an additional formula. I found that when the z points were controlled completely separate of the XY Values much more interesting forms were created.