HW2: Designing your Own parametric Project.

This exercise is to force you to use the digital tool and think in digital ways when you faces a design problem

Step 1: finding a suitable problem.

This process is to find a interesting design brief that you want to solve. For example finding a competition that has a specific problem like

1. https://oar.archi/en/concursuri/oar/urban-regeneration-cibin-market-area/
2. https://www.youngarchitectscompetitions.com/
3. https://competitions.org/2009/09/qideal-theaterq-student-design-competition/
4. https://www.archrace.com/competitions/922.html
5. https://www.evolo.us/registration-2023-skyscraper-competition/
6. http://www.gbsware.cn/
7. https://sandbox.archi/
8. http://jdc.jzfz.com.cn/index.html#/
9. https://www.ccen.com.cn/info/1150/4898.htm

Above is just some samples you can take to base your design on.

Students is encourage to find a competition or a problem in life you actually want to solve. This has no right or wrong.

Normally any competition would have a specfic site, context and challenges. Each team is enourage to go through a list of ten competitions and choose two or three particular interest to you.

Step 2: Data Set and grasshopper plugin

With relation to the competition or design problem you want to solve, try your very best to find related data set

The data set can be weather, people data, gender, etc…

Grasshopper Plugins (rhino4food) includes

For example if i am interested in https://www.youngarchitectscompetitions.com/ the ability to find moon weather data and information is important.

for simple problem data set like earth weather, there are a lot of data on that already.

Step 3: Finding a standard

If possible find a set of standard that can classify good. For example good sound design, thermal comfort.

“Ideal Theater” Student Design Competition

The above competition is a easy pick from design problem set, good standard, plugin, etc…

Click to access ConSpec_Apr90_Concert_Halls.pdf

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/apollo/catalog/pan/mission/?17

Deliverables

A3 Presentation (presentation at >30pages)

A3 COLOR Print (<10pages) (get relayout from presentation)

Model folder (final model + script) (in progress models+scripts) (<100mb, remeber to clean up)

A1 Poster mould on KP board (A1 in color for exhibition if needed)

Step 4: form making : grasshopper plugins

This actually may be a good place to start. Most of the tools has interesting form

flowL

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/resources/mars_maps/1083/

https://data.nasa.gov/data_visualizations.html

https://grasshopperdocs.com/components/ladybug/importEpw.html

https://docs.ladybug.tools/ladybug-tools-academy/v/climate-analysis/weather-data

Sample on sound

1. ideal theater

2. find a plugin

3.

https://trashcansunlimited.com/blog/introduction-to-concert-hall-design/