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 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