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Top 3 images are render of superflat I showed in yesterday 's final jury.
Since I didn't have enough drawing to explain step between block to flat link with a project agenda presented weak.
Now I'm working on both drawing and flat so will make sense more once flat is situated in my block.

Now I'm working on sequence of images to tell story of lifestyle in my "Body Building", I was browsing nike ads early in the day and try to get idea of images.
I really want to look my sky sports filed like steet basketball court in LA with grafitt and all those.
Those three are first try.

I think I need to adjust angle of paper thin people then it would look better.

I completely forgot to blog !!
Well I worked out my presentation layout and think I have enough material to present up to superflat. (circulation and structural method and all those.)
So now I'm working on rendering of flat and couple of drawing. (plan/axo)

now I got and pick up my laser file so hopefully model of detail corrugated panel folding will be ready for tomorrow.

Well picture itself is quite dark and color of my building is white so border become really obvious.
Is it better if I turn foreground b/w and make it less opaque?

comment?

Some big render for site collage.
Monia !! I finally managed to render A2 image (though 72dpi) on my laptop!
I like view from the side but there are still lots of things flying around...
I think I should model whole site after superflat jury and render it before table.

For flat I think I should really make my design look more liveable or usable.
However detail of corrugation is really interesting to tell story of container.

Starting from concept of making furniture and fixture out of panel of container, then surface area from original rectangular panel were folded and leftover remains cut out at original place.
However cut out had lots of problem so now I communicate this idea through materiality of corrugated steel panel.
In my idea corrugation become sophisticated joint and I want each piece of folded furniture gradually appear from wall.
Do renderings (red fold) communicate with what I'm saying ...?

Here I listed up what I'm going to bring on Tuesday to disuss presentation layout for Final Jury on Friday.

This terms's work

1.site render (or collage) no.1
2.site render (or collage) no.2
3.flat render no.1
4.flat render no.2
5.flat conecpt sheet (to explain basic layout of a flat)
6.1.14 test laser model
7.1.8 new test model (for detail of folding with corrugated sheet)

Works continue from last term.

1.public circulation
2.private circulation
3.structural method (for new superblock configuration)

Is there anything missing?

I try to find good view for collage.
This is one of my choice since you can see escalator go through each cluster and tells oraganization of building.

Well metal doesn't look very industrial rather like light aluminum.

I still need to make collage of how sky sports field is used.
If you know good reference please let me know.

I think I just need thousand of people enjoyning activity.

Sorry I was disconneced over the weekend since I always use my neighbor's wireless network since my own network cut off by fire in my building (not in my flat) 3 weeks ago.

Anyway I'm trying to work out design of flat.
Rendering is second version of my flat with all the furniture made from one folding of panel.

For pin-up I will try first section of my flat.

Here is a try of one continuous fold.

I oredr to work with constrain of dimension of container panel this fold was unfolded iplane and set on unfolded plan of 4 container flat.
Then entire sheet of panels are folded.

Starting from this space resulted from folding business now I try to embed series of furnishings, interior fixture, etc...though fold itself isn't geometrically comprehensive.

Last sc shot is first try to make one fold into staircase.

From a tutorial on Friday, now I'm trying to make 3d forms first (rather than starting from 2d rectangular sheet of panel) in order to make this tecnique of folding in more articulaed way.
(last try was only folding of a single panel and angle of each fold wasn't even specified.)

A method is to divide cube into polyhedron.
In third sc shot, a cube was divided into 24 tetrahedrons.
Then delete some faces (a tetrahedron become open but still connect to others with a panel overlapping each other ) and make one continuous loop of panel.

I firstly tested with single volume then now I'm testing intersection of 2 volumes.

Well even rendering don't tell much about what I'm doing with folding steel panel since panels are paper thin in digi model...
Thus physical model will help me understanding what kind of quality of space it has.
If you see rendering carefully (I'll write and draw profiles and explanation)
now flat have got series of interior, which are balcony bed, partition bed, ceiling bathtub, dining table staircase !!
SInce 2 functional obejects (interior) are made as one piece folded from single panel.

After working on minimizing number of frames in a cluster I got an interesting idea.
In previous posts only part got rotated were central quint headed joints but now this could happen everywhere else.
Thus structural performance of panel would be more free and internal organization of a cluster will be evident also from outside.
I'll make first model for tomorrow.

Renderingis from underground slab scape without slab !!
It won't look as open as this once slabs are introduced on site but will have different lind of quality of space from sky sports fileds.

A path colored green is public access from street to sky sports field.
(In this rendering I'm trying to show circulation from street to sports filed.this is the reason everywhere else is shaded black.)

I will show all the circulation available in my superblock, which are connection among these main 4 parts of the building.
(I will also have close shot of each part like second one.)

1-street
2-parking
3-flat
4-sports

Residents are usually allowed to get their flat either through escalator core from entrance on ground level or opening on cluster's sky sports field(I should make a hole on the sky fileds to show it...)

Either residents or visitor park a car in a parking from level -7 ~ 0 and use lift to get ground level to use public path (mass stair) or escalator.

*As same as last model underground part (slab scape) will be curved and become different type of public space so alternatively visitor might not use lift but stair (stadium like viewing stand)in order to get ground level or sky fileds.

I'm not sure how this visual communicate with my written explanation.
What do you guys think ?

More or less my configuration for superblock is done.
Now size of clusters is all same but some cluster share their roof top (sky sports field) with others next to each other on same level in order to arrange bigger flat surface.
While some clusters work as an individual cluster(no public access).

Yellow core has got escalator inside stops every 4 levels (stops at green block in rendering) and
serve people at one node from min 1 cluster to max 4 clusters.
Grey vertical columns are lifts serve people from underground parking to entrance hall at ground level.
Overall my block there are 50 cluster (one cluster has got 5~7 flats depending on number of bedrooms) and all are served by 8 circulation cores.

Public circulation is yet to be revised graphically but anyway all connected!!
Rendering of blue line refers to where it start and where it leads to but I need more work on this
and also interaction of these 2 different circulation system.

In last rendering structural core is shown as purple.
I am still modifying to make whole structure work as one like octed truss(don't knowspelling).
since it always makes closed roop of diamond in different size dipending on how many node it spans
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For Friday:
-Manifesto(I haven't touched so long...)
-Portfolio in In Design format (up to curent work)
-Flat in digi model

I was thinking a concept for my flat and come up with some idea.
SInce square frame is so rigid I want to break rigidity down inside frame.
Also when there are 2 containers next to each other and one on top of each other there is a duplicated panel so one remains same and another got folded.
Hence center quint headed joint is supported from all of folded panel and become centre of activity in the flat.

I try to make furniture by only folding technique.

I am still working on simplifying structure and circulation for whole superblock.
In the process of sorting out public circulation (escalator core) the fact that access to each cluster always starts from top corner of upside down pyramid (The way containers were stacked. ) become interesting idea to develop design of a flat.

I wanted to cut entire cluster diagonaly as circulation within a cluster.
In first sc shot, a container is now separated into components, frame and panel.
Joint of 4 containers was cut off and rotated.
By following original positions of panels and new position traced from rotation of quint headed joint it makes slope.

This idea could also be really interesting in fabrication to do with lamination and curving of panels.

SInce there are so many staircase on the skin of superblock (as viewing stand) I want to have no stairs in flat as contrast.

Still modifying the digi model.
I set the value for spanning of escalator 4 (I said 5 yesterday and it was wrong...) and it appears clearly in front and side elevation this alternatively affect efficiency of private circulation.
or rather efficiency of everything in my superblock.
Also I defined method of access from escalator core to each cluster.(Size of cluster varys whether a cluster spans one node or two)
Circulation within a cluster always start at the node located top corner of a cluster then leads downwards spiral or diagonal or some other way. (this is good beggining for a design of flat to start.)

I also start to defferenciate circulation core and core which is purely structural. (two appear same)

Let's get this done in this week!!

All the glay slopes in renderings are public path leads mass of people up to sky sports garden/field.

I haven't modified my digi model for so long and now comes to the point that I have to make more sophisticated configuration.
3rd try...

In glay rendering with structural/private path core Those cores are disconnected.
However now I defined my method better by setting up node container where escalator stops.
Screen shot shows a configuration with spanning value of 5 thus sky sports fields are set every 4 levels with size of any conbination of multiple of 5 (like X*Y, 5*5, 5*10, 10*5 ...).
At each node there are max 4 escalators stops at a point.

Rather than extending cores into ground like last time now cores are gathered at ground level then one single rectangular foundation (lift core stops every levels in underground parking) dig staraight down to ground.

After this both public and private circulation will be clear.

For flat I will use my scafolding model built in Hooke to see how container could be attached to core.(since a node becomes entrance to each cluster.)
Then I will use skin (cladding) of core to penetrate into flats as a division of each flat yet single continuous piece.

Yet to be explored...

Photo01:cutting piece for test panel for lamination and setting of form.
Photo02:3 layers of panel cramped down to be bent 90 degree at the curve of 4 cm radius.
Photo03:One side got bent.
Photo04:Another side got bent.
Photo05:Lots of cramps...It was hard to fit each panel tight at the curve.
Photo06:New way of perforation to get tighter crv but panel got broken because of wrong layout of fold line to do with direction of grain.
Photo07:Sheet 1 of fInal pieces to be sanded, laminated, bent, pierced, and assembled...
Photo08:Sheet 2.
Photo07:Sheet 3.
Photo08:All the pieces.
Photo09:Scafolding without top extension.
Photo10:Other View
Photo11:Other View