Architecture

[TheIllustrativeMan]

I figured I would give this side of my life its own topic.

So for those of you who don’t know, I’m currently in school to become an Architect. As a part of our 5-year program, we are required to submit a portfolio at the end of our 2nd year as part of a review process. At this time there is also an academic review. There are only 30 slots available in the 3rd year program, so it is extremely competitive.

I got my acceptance letter today.

Below is the portfolio I submitted. All of the work enclosed was produced within the 4 semesters of the lower division program. Huge swaths of what I had done had to be cut in order to meet the 60-page maximum required by the program, but my most important and best work is here. Some of the images are a bit washed out due to calibrations made for printing purposes.

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Wow, congrats on the acceptance letter!

[TheIllustrativeMan]

As some of you may know, I’m taking summer classes right now. Why I thought taking Calculus and Computational Methods at the same time in condensed summer form was a good idea we’ll never know.

Last week I had a presentation for Computational Methods about a script I’m developing in Grasshopper.

I won’t be posting the full presentation here, and there have been some significant shifts based on the critiques provided, but here’s what I’m working on:
https://i.imgur.com/1OnQ1x2.png

My proposed project involves parametrics, fractals, and light.

https://imgur.com/rkDjV6k.png

This is my target site, where a “Light Gallery” will be installed. I made this model at 1"=16’ scale.

https://imgur.com/D6S0deD.png

Site has trouble with shadows in the evening, the most important time of day for a gallery.

https://imgur.com/D4x04Gb.png

Precedent 1: Masdar City PRT Station lightwall which mimics daylight.

https://imgur.com/wmzuuhp.png

https://imgur.com/aTtVfrX.png

Precedent 2: Busan Cinema Center featuring an RGB “cloud”.

https://imgur.com/9xEXlyU.png

https://imgur.com/YtJuHZZ.png

Lighting requires analysis. This is a DIVA script I put together to analyze the existing site.

https://imgur.com/jnXSqp0.png

It analyses natural lighting as shadows.

https://imgur.com/Ba1Ss8e.png

As well as creating Luminance maps.

https://imgur.com/mefnPSH.png

These even allow for pinpoint Candela per square meter measurements.

https://imgur.com/JrVrA8Y.png

https://imgur.com/XrU4Oot.png

So we have taken the shadows and added light.

https://imgur.com/sqvesx8.png

But what about the design?

https://imgur.com/PQrmzC9.png

Here is a purely hypothetical organic parametric form which could be designed based on the program.

https://imgur.com/c4WUllp.png

Retopology of this generates a triangulated surface for parametric manipulation.

https://imgur.com/9xHDvft.png

Precedent 3: Embedded Project, a fractal surface.

https://imgur.com/PCJIchk.png

https://imgur.com/QUREUQN.png

Due to the lack of information on the Embedded Project, I started researching fractals.

https://imgur.com/zilClIi.png

Fractals have theoretically infinite levels of detail.

https://imgur.com/VccYdEm.png

But this is the case because they are recursive, meaning they repeat the same mathematical process within itself.

https://imgur.com/5Y6NuVJ.png

https://imgur.com/T1VCE8k.png

This same process can be applied to arbitrary polygons generated from my retopology.

https://imgur.com/5xIawb9.png

These polygons get subdivided.

https://imgur.com/NLEvNUx.png

And then those subdivisions get subdivided.

https://imgur.com/MRZb9we.png

This is my recursive script. Each of those blocks contains a script.

https://imgur.com/AcLOmSC.png

This is the block script. TL;DR: it builds a grid from which it selects a point and then subdivides.

https://imgur.com/igTIMZI.png

By changing seed values you can change the pattern.

https://imgur.com/JS4MKW6.png

These changes can be made based on light.

https://imgur.com/ApOXb29.png

Ultimately, this is the sort of look I would be hoping to generate.

https://imgur.com/DvK1Hw9.png

Sauce.

[Andreas]

Really interesting tor read through this.

[TheIllustrativeMan]

So i sorta got behind due to the sheer amount of work I’m processing at the moment. Ultimately all that above lead to this:

https://i.imgur.com/igdmC3z.png

More recently it’s developed that I’m currently active in 4 competitions on top of studio and on top of this project. Most recently a friend and I submitted an entry for a tiny house competition which required us to build the house in 2 8’ pipes.

These are some of the drawings we submitted:
https://i.imgur.com/lMx7bWbl.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/hirH7UMl.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/bZmEix9l.png
https://i.imgur.com/lGcgMwel.png
https://i.imgur.com/djf0f9hl.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/hCr2sbvl.jpg

[TheIllustrativeMan]

The project above has been selected as a top 5 finalist in the competition.

Now it’s all to be determined by Instagram votes. I’m currently in 3rd place. If everyone could vote that would be most helpful. The prize is a scholarship which would allow me to stay in school.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqc4-02lHOE/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet

As an extra incentive, the team will release a developer livestream of Prime 2D if I win.