I am designing a building which is tall enough to have good view of the city and habour side. It is a twist tower which shows the different angles of each floor which covers with the small bubble shapes. As I am expecting good views for each floor, especially top floors of the building I decide to twist all the floors in different angels. I chose the site of ‘corner of Castlereagh Street and King Street’. This site sits between junction of Pitt Street Mall, Sydney Tower, Castlereagh Street and King Street. As this site sits in the middle of the city and the council expects vertical tall building, I thought my idea of twist bubble tower will be appropriate of this site perfectly. The site that I chose places in the most famous shopping centre and mall in Sydney with the Sydney Tower, which results high flow of human traffic. The twist bubble shape of my design will be very distinctive and attractive enough to steal the visitor’s eye.
I got influenced as I start to looking at and study of Turning Torso building in Malmo, Sweden. This skyscraper building was designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. The building has five- story pentagons of nine segments which twist as it rises. Compare to ground floor the top segment is twisted ninety degrees clockwise. Compare with Turning Torso building, Infinity tower in Dubai designed to be rotate each floor independently which will creating a constantly changing architectural form. It was designed to rotate 360 degrees but due to the construction, they changed it to be twisting ninety degrees.
The Water Cube is the one of the perfect example building which explains the parametric geometry with the complication of the design processes. Chris Bosses, the main architect of the Water Cube, used ‘Soap Bubble’ ideas and combined his idea with Weaire and Phelan’s idea to finalize to show the exterior skin. Through study of these three buildings, I decide to design my proposal to twist each floor with angles to show the parametric and using Weaire and Phelan’s geometry to show both parametric and geometric. In my grasshopper file, the twist building is definitely showing the parametric through the size of the plan, height difference between the level and angle of the each floor. Also the geometry and parametric both will be showing through different sizes of the bubble shapes of the exterior skin.
From this assignment 3, I increased my knowledge of understanding of experimental modeling using Rhino, Grasshopper. With this program, I learnt how to show the parametric foam can be illustrate through computer process and develop the ideas of the geometry into simple format through resolving on it. The twist format shows the parametric form of the each floor of the building with different angels also with the bubbles shapes which covers the building distinctively involves with the geometry and parametric foam.
In my 12 iterations, I decide to choose to change the variables of the angles of the tower and the size of the external shape to show the different feeling of it.
Thursday, 23 June 2011
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