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My final design project was 4 separate towers generated from 3D Voronoi.

I went through many different design phases to get to this idea, also cutting down the number of towers from 6 to 4 because it looked too full. I wanted to have a fair bit of open space between each tower, but also to have some towers touching others.

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For my design I chose to design a mixture of Organic Architecture and Responsive Architecture. I originally started off modelling a structure with curved surfaces trying to make it Organic, but in the end I used the Voronoi tool to get randomly shaped geometry which I used to create my building.

The responsive Façade I had in mind was one that would follow the sun, allowing as much natural light as possible into the building.

I went through many different designs to get to my final design choice. I went through making helixes and a range of other geometrical shapes before I made more changes to my design proposal.

The site I chose for my building was the corner of Castlereagh Street and King Street, This area is created by the junction of Pitt Street Mall, Sydney Tower, Castlereagh Street and King Street. My proposal for the building on this site is a variety of open area shops that are topped by apartment buildings.

Each apartment building is designed to get maximum visibility of the surrounding city, because each floor is a different apartment.

Final Design

This is the final design I have. From one of the previous designs I got rid of the exterior and used 3D Voronoi to create Geometry, followed by List Item which I went through to choose the geometry I wanted.

Responsive Facade

This is the responsive facade I wanted to use. The Idea was that some of the faces in my design would have this. This facade was to be responsive to the sun, following the sun to allow as much light as possible into the building.

Next Design

In this design I started moving towards the separate towers.

First Design

This was the model design that I started working on first. The one thing similar was that I was aiming for a tower design.

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I was interested in a few themes for this assignment, lightning bolts, dead trees and cracked stone.

I chose these themes because I believe that some very interesting forms could be made with these themes as inspiration and used as ideas.

I decided to mix up two of these themes, cracked stone and dead trees, as my inspiration for my modelling.

The reason I mixed these up was that I wanted to create a cracked stone effect but with the 3d image similar to a dead tree. I did this using a lot of points, lines, pipes and lofts.

The 12 Iterations I made for the model were for different crack or branch patterns, or thicknesses.

I made different heights that the model can reach, different thicknesses of pipes and circles effecting lofts, and different positions of points which effect the directions of some cracks or branches.

I made the central part of my model able to change because in one way it can represent the trunk of a tree going from thick to thin, and in another way it can represent a large crack in stone, with changing directions and thicknesses.

Some of my Iterations were changing the length of some of the branches in the model, making them shorter or longer, higher or lower, this is because every tree branch or every crack in stone are different.

Inspirations

My inspirations is a mixture of dead trees and cracked stone

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Assignment in progress

getting the basic shape I want, but to start making some adjustments

Assignment 1 Progress