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 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

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