February 2009 Archives
Working out the sizing of the walls, should I push it towards loadbearing brick. Not that much floor space left, really. Could be interesting, could be stupid. Hm.
The word 'indicative,' in this context, really does mean just that. We can call it a first version, a first sketch - either way, it's a first...
...more to follow later on tonight. Work, as always at the moment, in progress. I am in progress, basically.
Good tutorial with Wolf earlier on today.
Should have blogged earlier, but working on several drawings, none of which are blogable just yet.
Pages below are spreads, though broken up here; hope you can read them.
Good tutorial with Wolf earlier on today.
Should have blogged earlier, but working on several drawings, none of which are blogable just yet.
Pages below are spreads, though broken up here; hope you can read them.
There seems to be only quick posts at the moment, and this is no exception: just got back from a good tutorial with Wolf (after having had another good one with Mike yesterday), and need to continue churning out pages for Tuesday - and for tomorrow.
Working on plans and sections at the moment, and will then focus on putting together 1) a setback corner, and 2) a first version/idea/sketch for what this corner building might actually look like.
After that, an annotations race through drawings that have been started but not completed. A not-in-the-morning tutorial would be highly appreciated.
Finally, make mental note: need to free up some time tomorrow to by a new hard drive. Technology working very much against me at the moment: scratch disks full, out of memory, low on everything.
Oh, and it seems Gramazio & Kohler aren't the only people out there rotating bricks: stumbled across this beautiful wall by Anagram Architects:
Working on plans and sections at the moment, and will then focus on putting together 1) a setback corner, and 2) a first version/idea/sketch for what this corner building might actually look like.
After that, an annotations race through drawings that have been started but not completed. A not-in-the-morning tutorial would be highly appreciated.
Finally, make mental note: need to free up some time tomorrow to by a new hard drive. Technology working very much against me at the moment: scratch disks full, out of memory, low on everything.
Oh, and it seems Gramazio & Kohler aren't the only people out there rotating bricks: stumbled across this beautiful wall by Anagram Architects:
Not sure whether you will actually be able to work this out yet as I'm on my way to put these crazily-coloured Rhino curves into Autocad to give them proper lineweights and inject some order to the madness, but thought I'd share some screenshots again.
The basic premise is to draw corner A in brick detail, with patterns that arise from rotation of the bricks, and also to show different construction alternatives (concrete, steel, etc - I'll get these done as soon as I have the first brick one up and running). I'm also doing one version with larger brick sizes (clay blocks). What is happening as I draw these is that I create a lot of tiny spaces that I'm thinking could be put to (reinforcement) use - by adding corners on the exterior, in order to enhance the existing corners, we also add corners inside of the actual wall. Could these corners, or rather the spaces they open up, be filled with, say, concrete?
Once again, sorry about the state of these drawings; just thought I'd get something up that you can comment upon.
First the drawing format that I'm using:
And then the beginning of the line chaos. Drawing with first designed row of bricks:
A closeup showing the spaces in between bricks:
Adding a few layers of bricks...
So. The information obviously needs to be broken down further, but it's there. Switching to Autocad now, and should have the brick one done in about on hour if I am to be on (some kind of) schedule. Final shot:
Hm. Okay, hope I'll be able to make this communicate for tomorrow.
The basic premise is to draw corner A in brick detail, with patterns that arise from rotation of the bricks, and also to show different construction alternatives (concrete, steel, etc - I'll get these done as soon as I have the first brick one up and running). I'm also doing one version with larger brick sizes (clay blocks). What is happening as I draw these is that I create a lot of tiny spaces that I'm thinking could be put to (reinforcement) use - by adding corners on the exterior, in order to enhance the existing corners, we also add corners inside of the actual wall. Could these corners, or rather the spaces they open up, be filled with, say, concrete?
Once again, sorry about the state of these drawings; just thought I'd get something up that you can comment upon.
First the drawing format that I'm using:
And then the beginning of the line chaos. Drawing with first designed row of bricks:
A closeup showing the spaces in between bricks:
Adding a few layers of bricks...
So. The information obviously needs to be broken down further, but it's there. Switching to Autocad now, and should have the brick one done in about on hour if I am to be on (some kind of) schedule. Final shot:
Hm. Okay, hope I'll be able to make this communicate for tomorrow.
Working away but just thought I'd post a few quick screenshots* to show where I am with the second corner (corner B). Sinuous exterior, orthogonal interior; the façade turning in on itself in the corner. Opportunities to bring in light in more areas than just the obvious opening. Not quite there yet, but a reasonable start I think. It looked and felt more complex when I was modelling it - as soon as I threw a material on it, I lost a lot of articulation. This is obviously what would happen with the bricks as well. It'll be interesting to see how that side of the project develops.
I'm going to drop this corner now and move on to the third (corner C), then set up plates and start over with turning corner A into something that we can discuss properly tomorrow.
I must have forgotten to pay the time tax or something - I'm sure there used to be 24 hours in a day. Now it feels more like six.
*I'm not supposed to do any renders, so these are just print screens. Working on line drawings for the plates.
I'm going to drop this corner now and move on to the third (corner C), then set up plates and start over with turning corner A into something that we can discuss properly tomorrow.
I must have forgotten to pay the time tax or something - I'm sure there used to be 24 hours in a day. Now it feels more like six.
*I'm not supposed to do any renders, so these are just print screens. Working on line drawings for the plates.
That of the deadlines passing by, of course; somehow I still seem to hold on to the belief that I will have three plates for tomorrow, though I'm a good 19 hours late with posting these images, and they haven't even been put together into the first plate yet. Hm. But: they are showing the first corner, the one where the building meets the ground, on the corner, opening up the corner both to the south and to the west of the building envelope. And whereas this may not look like much yet (wip!, wip!), the fact that there is a first corner to discuss makes me so happy that I'm just going to go on and design a second one straight away and leave the plate-making for later, since that takes less energy.
More to come later on today. The only other thing on my plate is a tutorial with Wolf at 4.30, which should be good. I'll post some notes from my tutorial with Toni Kotnik yesterday as well.
Wip pics:
More to come later on today. The only other thing on my plate is a tutorial with Wolf at 4.30, which should be good. I'll post some notes from my tutorial with Toni Kotnik yesterday as well.
Wip pics:
Whilst trying to get my TS idea together - reading up on innovative brick structures through the ages and trying to find an interesting approach to creating a new kind of brick skyskraper - I'm working on the corner where the building meets the ground. 48 fairly rough and stupid sketches (no thinking, huh?) yielded a kind of parti sketch showing four moments or conditions that I would like this particular corner to achieve: a manipulation of the ground plane (effectively opening up a larger volume beneath the building, a kind of faceted layering of smaller corner moments, an opening of the entire building (entrance) on the corner itself, and finally the external (brick) braiding that I've discussed over the past couple of weeks or so:
Simultaneously tweaking the Grasshopper brick course code to be able to model the 'in-between' (generic) façade moments. I can now adjust brick size in three dimensions, joint spacing (both directions), and rotation of brick. I'll add more as soon as there's time. A bug cost a few frustrating hours yesterday that I probably should have dropped, but I really wanted to make it work. Here's a spread showing different iterations that were done using this code:
Hoping to get the following up during the night:
Corner plate(s)
Case studies (non-reinforced brick, reinforced brick, brick veneer) - probably with placeholder images for now
Timeline
Tech manifesto/statement
Manufacturing process
That's too much, of course, but hey! if we don't at least aim to get them done, it's probably not going to happen.
Simultaneously tweaking the Grasshopper brick course code to be able to model the 'in-between' (generic) façade moments. I can now adjust brick size in three dimensions, joint spacing (both directions), and rotation of brick. I'll add more as soon as there's time. A bug cost a few frustrating hours yesterday that I probably should have dropped, but I really wanted to make it work. Here's a spread showing different iterations that were done using this code:
Hoping to get the following up during the night:
Corner plate(s)
Case studies (non-reinforced brick, reinforced brick, brick veneer) - probably with placeholder images for now
Timeline
Tech manifesto/statement
Manufacturing process
That's too much, of course, but hey! if we don't at least aim to get them done, it's probably not going to happen.
Okay. I rather badly need to update this blog, but there hasn't been much time, and there isn't really time to do it just now either. So here comes a promise: this weekend will be update-the-blog weekend, over and above all the drawings that need to be done. Quite a lot has happened over the past week or so - there is work to upload, just not enough time at the moment to sit down and go through all the folders and re-format images and blah blah.
With that, I'm going back to the drawing board. I'll leave you with a few strange early-day sketches for curvaceous brick façades that I put together just to show the TS tutors what I am (may be) trying to do in terms of exterior articulation. Still just an idea, a quick experiment - the final structure should be much less ornamentally curved and much more tense, like ligaments, muscles, tissues flowing into and out of each other within vaguely articulated corner zones. I've promised eMineN to work on three specific drawings without thinking, and aside from reading up on Gramazio & Kohler's interesting brick experiments, that's what I'm doing. I hate not thinking, yet have to admit to liking how often when you stop, the building starts to happen.
With that, I'm going back to the drawing board. I'll leave you with a few strange early-day sketches for curvaceous brick façades that I put together just to show the TS tutors what I am (may be) trying to do in terms of exterior articulation. Still just an idea, a quick experiment - the final structure should be much less ornamentally curved and much more tense, like ligaments, muscles, tissues flowing into and out of each other within vaguely articulated corner zones. I've promised eMineN to work on three specific drawings without thinking, and aside from reading up on Gramazio & Kohler's interesting brick experiments, that's what I'm doing. I hate not thinking, yet have to admit to liking how often when you stop, the building starts to happen.
