DPM II DIGITAL PORTFOLIOBIANCA MOLDOVEANU

“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying”

Friedrich Nietzsche

CONTENT

01 Form Finding02 Digital Image Processing 03 Technical Illustration04 Digital Fabrication

01 FORM FINDING

Observation: As a group, observe a biologic or geologic system (from the list of sustainable themes). Try to describe a natural process and how it gener-ates form (or performs within an environment). What are the generating forces in the system? Can the resulting forms be described geometrically? Is there an environmental efficiency related to the studied form/process?

01 FORM FINDING Spider Webs

Synthesis: Produce a digital (performative) diagram of the system. Un-derstand the forces that produce change in the process. Try modelling the system’s lawfully interacting forces and understand how they generate the geometries you’re trying to describe. Run the process multiple times with changing parameters. Refine it, re-tune it – think about it as the rules of a game with multiple outputs. Generate variations.

Test: Test the relevance of the generated objects. Can the formal process be replicated physically as a model or as a tectonic reality in the built environ-ment? Do physical mock-ups perform as envisioned?

Funnel Web Tubular Webs Sheet Webs Dome Webs

Testing the web by streching it in different ways. Reproducing the formation process

02 DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING

02 DIGITAL IMAGE PROCESSING Webbing Density

You are asked to explore the medium of drawing and digital image process-ing to communicate ideas that are not usually communicated by traditional representational techniques. Based on images and models from your previ-ous project on Form Finding, you are asked to create one evocative image that communicates the essence of your experimentations and results, but goes beyond simple representation of your work. Communicate an idea.

Pay very close attention to detail, colour, layering, and composition of your image and even the quality and texture of the paper it is printed on. Pay closer attention to line weights. Avoid at all costs, low resolution pixelated lines and images. Treat it as a priceless painting that will be exhibited in the most fa-mous of modern art galleries.

03 TECHNICAL ILLUSTRATION

03 TECHNICAL ILLUSTRATION Comparative Board

CONNECTION NETWORK

CONNECTION

NETWORK

VORONOI FORMATION

Voronoi is a special kind of decomposition of a met-ric space determined by distances to a specified district set of objects in the space. The tessellation can be performed in 2D and 3D.

You are asked to begin with the line drawings produced during the DPM Formfinding sessions and demonstrate how those concepts have been developed into an architectural design for the site you have chosen. In this way, the board should include at the same time diagrammatic and detailed representations of your project, and a comparative overview ofthe development process.

VORONOI FORMATION

Voronoi is a special kind of decomposition of a met-ric space determined by distances to a specified district set of objects in the space. The tessellation can be performed in 2D and 3D.

04 DIGITAL FABRICATION

04 DIGITAL FABRICATION Tectonic Board

This board is an opportunity to reflect on and construct – with 3D mod-elling and fabrication techniques – the tectonics of your proposal. The board should include drawings of the rationalisation process culminat-ing in a set of profiles to be digitally fabricated on the laser cutter.