Remodeling Esplanade Theatre using Sketchup parametric tools and Rhino grasshopper

The Esplanade occupies the site of the former "Satay Club", a popular food haunt for Singaporeans which had been discontinued prior to the Esplanade's construction. Currently, the "Satay Club" has been re-allocated next to Sembawang Shopping Center which is now demolished.

Officially opened on October 12, 2002, Esplanade was developed at a cost of SGD 600 million.

On 5 July 2005, the opening ceremony of the 117th IOC Session was staged in the Esplanade, featuring a 30-minute long performance aimed at showcasing Singapore's multi-cultural heritage to her international audience.

The original design, presented to the public in 1994, consisted of unadorned glass cases over the theaters, and initially elicited criticisms from the public, including calling it "two copulating aardvarks"[2]. Critics also accused that the design is insensitive to Singapore's location and climate as it would have created a greenhouse in the tropical climate of Singapore, but according to DPA director Vikas Gore some form of shading was always intended[3], and a cladding of aluminum sunshades was added to the final design. The unique architectural design has been said to have an appearance similar to either a durian (a tropical fruit) or the eyes of a fly. Many Singaporeans casually refer to the Esplanade as "The Durian".

The software I used is:
Sketchup Parametric tools and Rhino Grasshopper

Sketchup parametric tools could be conveniently used as a modeling tool, due to its powerful extrution and other tools.

Rhino grasshopper could be easily used as generating the model or components of the model.

first presentation:
http://designinterfaces.blogspot.com/2009/12/blog-post.html
The program i used:
http://designinterfaces.blogspot.com/2009/12/rhinoceros-4.html
http://designinterfaces.blogspot.com/2009/11/sketchup-7.html

BIM with Allplan 2008

Remodeling Nakagin Capsule Tower with Bonzai 3D & BIM exercises with Allplan

The Nakagin capsule Tower is the pioneer of capsule architecture built for actual use.

Kisho Kurokawa introduced the idea of metabolism, the architecture which based on concept “plug-in” building.
Metabolism building is designed with characters of recyclable, exchangeability, is prototype of sustainability architecture.

These capsules are clustered around two cores, each with diagonal sloping roof and pointed top. Each box shaped living unit was designed with built in stereos and calculators for single business workers.
The capsules were prefabricated complete with furniture and appliances.
Each capsule was connected to the main shafts by only 4 high tension bolt and are designed to be replaceable.

Re-Modeling the Eden Project using Sketchup soap bubble plugin and Autodesk Revit Architecture 2010

The Eden Project is a visitor attraction in the United Kingdom, including the world's largest greenhouse. The complex comprises a number of domes. The domes are made out of hundreds of hexagons plus a few pentagons that connect the whole construction. The project was conceived by Tim Smit and designed by architect Nicholas Grimshaw and engineering firm Anthony Hunt and Associates (now part of Sinclair Knight Merz).

Sketchup soap bubble plugin. Used it to create the series of domes, which transfers shapes into tensile surfaces which can be applied to the physics of a dome. Autodesk Revit Architecture 2010.Conceptual massing tool.The tool newly introduced to the 2010 version enables the user to apply a set of different patterns to a specified surface.

http://designinterfaces.blogspot.com/2010/02/autodesk-revit-architecture-2010.html
http://designinterfaces.blogspot.com/2009/11/sketchup-7.html

Generating the Eden Project using Solid Edge, Sketchup and Rhino Grasshopper

The Eden Project is composed of a number of geodesic domes. These domes are made out of hundreds of hexagons.

I first used Solid Edge to draw the outlines of the volumes. Then I imported the data into Sketchup to take advantage of the Soap Skin and Bubble plugin to create the bubble form. Finally, I imported the model into Rhino Grasshopper and used a script to generate the hexagonal structure.

First presentation: http://designinterfaces.blogspot.com/2010/02/solid-edge-nx.html

Solid Edge + NX

Solid Edge is a hybrid 2D/ 3D parametric design system developed by Siemens. Main features include product, sheet metal and assembly modeling as well as drafting. NX is a suite of integrated CAD, CAM, CAE and PDM applications which aids in the entire product development process starting from conception to manufacturing.

Remodelling of New York Building in Bonzai3d and Autocad 2010

The museum building is split mainly for 2 uses that is emerging media and for production.

The structure is of a strip bending piling folding itself to create a floor with each change of direction the ribbon enfolds a production or presentation space on trying to combine the different users with activities and speeds.

The building is simple and seems light weight with a lot of openness and high end infrastructure.

The building is dedicated to exploring - through the vehicle of new technologies - the connection between science and art.

The interlaced production and the presentation programs each have distinct physical attributes: while the production spaces require an even distribution of natural light and artificial light for day/night work, the exhibition spaces require a high degree of light control and sound isolation. Effectively these requirements necessitate that the fluid spaces of exhibition and the fluid spaces of production each constitute a discrete building: one filled with light and one that can be darkened. The levels of these buildings appear to be "shuffled together" like a deck of cards, their qualities put into relief on the facade.

After seeing and comparing all the softwares I came to the conclusion of using Bonzai 3d as it has a flexible and user friendly interface, building and bending surfaces by making NURBS surfaces to generate the building in way that one can go ahead with more variations too is one of the main features why I decide to make this as my first choice.

Using Alibre as second software to unbend the surfaces didn’t work as Alibre has parameters which are not so flexible.

So my final option was to take it in Autocad 2010 as the the smoothening and meshing of the building can be done as the final step.

http://www.formz.com/products/bonzai3d/bonzai3dVideo_320.php?startMovie=Interface_320.flv

http://webservices.alibre.com/OnlineTutorials/adtutorial.htm

http://www.delmarlearning.com/companions/content/1439056277/resources/11-edit-mesh.pdf

http://docs.autodesk.com/CIVIL/2010/ENU/AutoCAD%20Civil%202010%20User%20Documentation/index.html?url=WS27101fef35e777f918385e3fc0f4991cb-7fef.htm,topicNumber=d0e309824

http://designinterfaces.blogspot.com/2010/01/catia-digital-project.html

Remodelling the Zentrales Stellwerk using Sketchup Pro 7 and Grasshopper

Building brief description:
The Zentralles Stellwerk tower is a design of the architects Herzog & Meuron and consist in a sign tower for trains supervision. It is located in Basel, Switzerland and it was finished in the year 1997. The building main form characteristic is the facade of sheets of copper and the twist of the tower.
Programs used:
The modelling of the building will be generated with Sketchup pro 7 because of it simplicity to model and transform 3D regular shapes. This program is a good tool to easy solve 3D problems and allow several export extensions to keep working the model in other applications. In the case of this work, the program is useful because it allow to export as a DWG file, which is compatible with other program used in this work: Rhino 4.
To model the facade it will be use the grasshopper plug-in for Rhino 4 because of the fast and easy way to generate the louvers elements throug the components and the possibilities to live edit them. Grasshopper is a graphic algorithm editor integrated with Rhino 3D modelling.

First presentation:
http://designinterfaces.blogspot.com/2010/01/solidworks.html

Remodelling Eyebeam Institute using RhinoGrasshopper & Autodesk Inventor, Shi Xinyu

The Eyebeam facility in Chelsea will be the city's first institution dedicated exclusively to new media art and the largest institution of its kind in the United States.The spatial logic of the proposed building is based on a simple premise: a pliable ribbon that locates production (atelier) to one side and presentation (museum/theater) to the other.
Generally, for me, there are two remarkable features that I could learn a lot from this particular architecture. First, the relationship between the ribbon envelope and the two different spaces (Production & Presentation); how the ribbon’s folding and wrapping represents the spatial quality and requirement of the two different spaces. Second, the icon ribbon itself, how it folding and changing directions fluidly, creating a fluid object to connect different spaces, not only from the function and construction point of view, but also from aesthetic point of view.

Rhino Grasshopper:
The relationship between the ribbon envelope and the two different spaces (Production & Presentation). Therefore, I decided to use rhino + grasshopper to remodel this first stage, because, as we all know, grasshopper is a popular and powerful parametric rhino plug-ins, which is based on the logic of relationships between different objects. Therefore, it’s perfect to be used here to define the relationship between the ribbon envelope and wrapped spaces.

Autodesk Inventor:
The icon ribbon itself, how it folding and changing directions fluidly, creating a fluid object to connect different spaces. Therefore, I chose Autodesk inventor to remodel the second stage, because, Autodesk Inventor is professional tools for sheet metal modeling, which has powerful metal sheet bending tools. Therefore, it’s also perfect to be used here to create the fluid icon ribbon.

First presentation posts:
http://designinterfaces.blogspot.com/2009/11/bim.html

Re-Modeling Esplanade Theatres by Soap Bubble and Grasshopper

　

Description of the building:

The Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay is a waterside building located on six hectares of waterfront land alongside Marina Bay near the mouth of the Singapore River, purpose-built to be the centre for performing arts for the island nation of Singapore. Taking its name from the nearby Esplanade, it contains a 1,600 seat concert hall and a 2,000 seat theatre for the performing arts. Esplanade theatre in Singapore was famous for the "durian surface". The metal facade in the top of the theatre could be turn on or turn off by electronic control.

conclusion：

Basicly speaking, using Soap Bubble which is plug in for Sketch up to creat dome or shed roof very easily and conveniently. just give what's kind of the grid you want work at and give the pressure, then u can get whatever you want. For the grasshopper, it's a plugin for Rhino which need people have good logic for creating 3D model,it's for people who are exploring new shapes using generative algorithms.

the first presentation :
http://www.snapxs.com/browse.php/58ab0364/9128e35O/i8vZGVza/WduaW50Z/XJmYWNlc/y5ibG9nc/3BvdC5jb/20vMjAwO/S8xMi9wc/m8tZW5na/W5lZXIte/mh1bGVpL/mh0bWw_3/D/b1/

AliasStudio 2009

the autodesk aliasstudio family of design software products optimizes the design process with a complete set of industry leading sketching, modeling and concept visualization tools for the creative design process that quickly bring ideas to reality in a single environment.AliasStudio streamlines consumer product, automotive and transportation design workflows and enables designers to capture their ideas digitally and then share with engineering teams, allowing industrial design data to be incorporated into the digital prototype.By promoting productivity and creativity, the AliasStudio product family helps companies create superior designs which drives superior business.
Tools for sketching, modeling and visualization are combined in one software package.It meets the specialized needs of designers:sketching, freedom to experiment with shape and form,creating organic shapes, visualization for design review,and data exchange with CAD packages.

Re-modeling the Central Signal Box Switzerland using Sketchup7 and Rhino4 Grasshopper

Short description of the architecture:Central signal tower
the entire building's skin from the adjacent 20 cm wide copper strips covered by these copper strips are twisted at certain locations to enter the sun, while the copper strips so that allowed their entire Building Open became the Faraday shield. This skin is the architectural form and function of imagery and then to a shift.
Short description of the programs and why:
The softwares which i used rebuild the model
 Autocad 2006
 Sketchup 7
 Grasshopper (Rhino 4.0)
Why i used the above softwares?
Autocad is easier to draw the 2D plans, sections and the elevations though the scaning pictures.
Skechup 7 is used to build the regular, basic and simple floors.It is easier to get the walls from the 2D lines used the pluging-in buttons.
The grasshopper software concentrate on the interesting skin of the model.

Remodelling Eyebeam Institute using Alibre Design&Autocad 2010

Diller, Scofidio + Renfro - Eyebeam Institute of Art and Technology, New York

Diller and Scofidio use ideas of transparency and fluidity to emphasise the inter-relatedness of materials spatial configuration and activity in creating an overall experience of the space. Technological elements are often used as a way of illustrating the social activity taking place in and around the building.

Alibre Design software is a sheet metal software which is why it was good for me to use this as Eye Beam Building requires the bending of metal parts as the structure is bending-folding as it goes higher.The option of flanging and unbending of the components by creating surfaces and these surfaces can be opened out.This was one part of the software which was effiencient and user friendly.

The part which is not so good about software is; it is too rigid and one has to have correct sizes/dimensions for each of the parts and deformations cannot be easily made in this software.

The second software i used is Autocad 2010 as my next step was to convert the structure into a solid since the building was looking very raw in alibre i decided to change and smoothen the surfaces by using subsmooth tool of the structure.

First Presentation

http://designinterfaces.blogspot.com/2010/01/catia-digital-project.html

The softwares links:

http://www.alibre.com/products/sheetmetal.asp
http://www.alibre.com/AlibreLibraries/ftp/training/Part_sheet-metal_1.pdf
http://www.autocad2010.org/tr/video.asp?tur=izle&Id=8

Remodeling Eyebeam Institute using Rhino Grasshopper and Autodesk Inventor

EYEBEAM INSTITUTE
The Eyebeam facility in Chelsea will be the city's first institution dedicated exclusively to newmedia art and the largest institution of its kind in the United States, housing an exhibition space,artist-in-residence studios, an education center with multi-media classrooms, a state-of-the artnew media theater, a digital archive, a restaurant, and a bookstore. It will be dedicated toexploring - through the vehicle of new technologies - the connection between science and art.The structure will be approximately 90,000 square feet, rising from a 15,000 square-foot site.Construction is due to begin in 2004.The relationships become more intricate when a loop of ribbon at one level is sheared in half and slipped into alignmentwith a level above or below. The new alignment allows a production space to infiltrate a presentation level or viceversa.The ribbon is two-ply with a technical space sandwiched between layers that houses the building's "nervous"
i choose this two programes because grasshoper is a parametric program. we cancreat a fold paper system by generating . after that the model still need to be edited.so i choose autodesk inventor. this program is good at editing a surface

the first presentation :
http://designinterfaces.blogspot.com/2009/11/autocad-2010-parametric.html
the two programes presentation link
http://designinterfaces.blogspot.com/2009/12/blog-post.html
http://designinterfaces.blogspot.com/2009/12/rhinoceros-4.html

Remodeling Eyebeam Institute using Bonzai3d and Solid Thinking

Description of the building:

The hybrid nature of the Museum of Art and Technology, both museum and production/education facility, provokes an architecture of cross-programming and spatial interweaving. The architectural concept begins with a pliable ribbon that partitions the programming; production spaces to one side (blue) and presentation spaces to the other (gray). The ribbon undulates from side to side as it climbs from the street, floor folding into wall, folding into floor, slipping back gradually to fit the diminishing zoning envelope. With each change of direction the ribbon alternately enfolds a production or presentation space, thus combing together the major program divisions and populations of the building (residents and visitors) as well as their diverse activities and speeds.The ribbon is sometimes sheared and slipped into alignment with a level above or below, thus, conjoining a production and presentation space. The building is designed as a system of controlled contamination.

The Software I use is: Bonzai3D+ Solid thinking

1)Bonzai3d has radial bending tools, by which makes the deformation
control.
Bonzai3d could be used for modifying the model by different forms,
for example, by object, by surface or by curves.
Bonzai3d could be used for the surface editing, such as offset
surface.
2)Solid thinking has a powerful surface editing function.

The software presentation links:
Bonzai3d:
http://designinterfaces.blogspot.com/search/label/Du%20Xushen
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Solid Thinking:
http://designinterfaces.blogspot.com/2009/12/solid-thinking.html

Re-Modeling Esplanade Theatres using Rhino Grasshopper and Sketchup7

The Esplanade Theatres on the Bay is located in the island nation of Singapore.Esplanade Theatres on the Bay is a riverbank building which is positioned on 6 hectares of prime riverside land along the Marina Bay near the mouth of the Singapore River. The Esplanade Theatres on the Bay in Singapore was constructed purposely to be the centre for performing arts in the city with a diverse culture. It was designed by two architectural firms working in conjunction: by DP Architects (DPA) of Singapore and the London-based Michael Wilford & Partners (MWP),The unique architectural design has been said to have an appearance similar to either a durian (a tropical fruit) or the eyes of a fly. Many Singaporeans casually refer to the Esplanade as "The Durian".

This is the first time I use grasshopper and soap bubble tool. From the beginning, I research the architecture and analyse which software is better to remodel it.Then learn the software the blog.Although the model looks like very difficult,there
are many components,after remodeling,I understand use grasshopper to model it is not easy.It is a good chance to learn the two software grasshopper and sketchup7.

first presentation:
http://designinterfaces.blogspot.com/2009/12/alias-studio-tools_14.html

Re-Modeling Nakagin Capsule Tower by using Rhino Grasshopper and Sketchup 7

Discription:
The Nakagin Capsule Tower designed by Kisho Kurokawa and located in Shimbashi, Tokyo.The Tower was composed by prefabric capsules.Those capsules in different positionsof the tower have different altitudes.The altitudes are relating to the positions of platforms in the traffic core, which combine with those prefabric units.And most of the orientations of capsules were fixed in existing building ,only those capsules in the corner of each tower have uncertained orientations.

To re-modeling and generating the nakagin capsule tower ,I firstly studied the interesting building logic of Kisho Kurokawa.I conclude the idea of matabolism is qute faciniting .Although the tower looks very complicated, but the logic is quite clear and easy. Therefore ,with the clear and easy logic , the model could be generated and modeled quickly by several simple operations of grasshopper and sketchup 7.

Re-Modeling the Nakagin Capsule Tower using Rhino Grasshopper, Sketchup7 and ArchiCAD, Sun Ke

Re-Modeling the Nakagin Capsule Tower using Rhino Grasshopper and SketchUp 7

Please be aware that you need to put sufficient labels to your blog entries in order for me to grade your project! Please use as a minimum the following: for 1st presentation: POST ENTRY NAME: Name of the program you are describing POST DESCRIPTION: Please add some text that describes your program LABELS: YOUR NAME / NAME OF PROGRAM / FIRST PRESENTATION / WS0910 for final submission: POST ENTRY NAME: Name of the building + Names of the programs that you used for instance: Re-Modeling the Eden Project using Rhino Grasshopper and Autocad Revit POST DESCRIPTION: Please add: - short description of the architecture (from your booklet) - short description what computer programs you used and why - link to first presentation posts about the programs that you are using LABELS: YOUR NAME / ARCHITECTURE / ARCHITECTS NAME / NAME OF PROGRAM1 / NAME OF PROGRAM2/ FINAL SUBMISSION / WS0910

Re-Modeling the Eden Project using Rhino Grasshopper and Autocad 2010

Project description:
The Eden Project is a visitor attraction in the United Kingdom, including the world's largest greenhouse. The complex comprises a number of domes that house plant species from around the world, each dome emulating a natural biome. The domes are made out of hundreds of hexagons plus a few pentagons that connect the whole construction; each of these is a transparent cushion made of tough plastic. The first dome emulates a tropical environment, the second a warm temperate, Mediterranean environment.

The project was conceived by Tim Smit and designed by architect Nicholas Grimshaw and engineering firm Anthony Hunt and Associates . Davis Langdon carried out the project management, Sir Robert McAlpine and Alfred McAlpine did the construction and MERO designed and built the biomes. Land Use Consultants led the masterplan and landscape design. The project took 2½ years to construct and opened to the public on 17 March 2001.

Used software:
- Autodesk AutoCad 2010® has managed to add a host of new features and capabilities to its flagship product. But while last year the new ribbon-bar user interface overshadowed a relatively short list of new capabilities, this time around AutoCAD 2010 offers some incredibly powerful new functionality for both 2D and 3D users (incl. New Parametric Drawing Tools, Dynamic blocks, Organic 3D Modeling - 3D solid, 3D mesh, 3D surfaces, 3D faces, polygon meshes, polyface meshes, regions, Smooth Object tool etc.)
- Rhinoceros® is a stand-alone, commercial nurbs-based 3D-modeling tool, developed by Robert McNeel & Associates.Like many modeling applications, Rhino also features a scripting language based on the Visual Basic language, and an SDK that allows reading and writing Rhino files directly. Rhinoceros 3d gained its popularity in architectural design in part because of the Grasshopper plug-in for computational design.
- For designers who are exploring new shapes using generative algorithms, Grasshopper® is a graphical algorithm editor tightly integrated with Rhino’s 3-D modeling tools. Unlike RhinoScript, Grasshopper requires no knowledge of programming or scripting, but still allows designers to build form generators from the simple to the awe-inspiring.


First presentation:
http://designinterfaces.blogspot.com/2010/02/gis-geographic-information-systems.html

Re-modeling the Esplanade Theater using Rhino and ParaCloud

Brief Description of Esplanade Theater:

The Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay is a waterside building located on six hectares of waterfront land alongside Marina Bay near the mouth of the Singapore River, purpose-built to be the centre for performing arts for the island nation of Singapore. Taking its name from the nearby Esplanade, it contains a 1,600 seat concert hall and a 2,000 seat theatre for the performing arts.

The library@esplanade is located on the third floor of the building. There are outdoor performing centres, and retail and food space at the Esplanade Mall. There is an outdoor open space on the fourth floor of the building.

The building was designed by two architectural firms working in conjunction: by DP Architects (DPA) of Singapore and the London-based Michael Wilford & Partners (MWP).

Computer program used for the Re-modeling:

We have used Rhino and ParaCloud to regenerate the model of the Esplanade theater. My software for this course is ParaCloud. ParaCloud deals with pattern modeling. The Esplanade theater has a specific “pattern” of its shading devices. If we import a “mesh” surface ( in case of Esplanade it is the glass shell) in Paracloud and populate the “component” (in case of Esplanade it is The shading device) on the mesh, it would be convenient to get a good result accordingly. That is why we used ParaCloud to regenerate this building. We used rhino to create the”mesh” and the “component” because it is easy and perfect to get a “faceted” surface using UV degree and point count in Rhino. That is why we used Rhino as well.

1st presentation:
http://designinterfaces.blogspot.com/2010/01/paraclodgem.html