Wyndham City GatewayExpression of InterestPRODUCED BYXINTI WEIMAN HO KWANKIA TSZOUNS

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GLANCEDriving through highway is not interesting. The moment you see some-thing they leave your sight in seconds.

Travellers do not recall things happened in be-tween because they are out of your focus. Leafs by the road or a sign by road seemed forgettable, we do not expect excitement.

We are creating uncer-tainty, unclear contour to stir interest of drive-by.

“WHAT WAS THAT? A CAT OR A LION? I CAN’T REALLY TELL.”

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glance 01Content 02The peripheral vision 03Growth 05Scripting possibilities 08Interaction 10integration 11This is Wyndham 13Digital Fabrication 15Experimenting parametric modelling i 17Unidentified Form 19De-flatten surface 21Pico-Motion reaction 24Deployment 25Construction 27next click 29Inspirations references I

CONTENT

03 | Week 1

THE PERIPHERAL VISION

See straight, that this where your vision is most effective, objects on the fringe of our vision is not. Ironically when the driver come across, the project will be out of their horizon.

Through manipulating this dramatic feeling of disappearing approach The final product to be visible only from far, and vanish when you get close, re-appear in your rear mirror.

MESSAGE DELIVERED WITH-OUT WEIGHT IN SPLIT SECOND

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“Did you miss it?”

BUT HOW? >>>>>>>>>>>>>

05 | Week 2

GROWTH PROJECT 1

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07 | Week 3

“THIS PROCESS AFFORDED US A REPERTOIRE OF SUF-FICIENT RICHNESS AND COMPLEXITY TO APPROACH URBAN REGENERATION PROJ-ECTS WITH MULTIPLE SI-MULTANEOUS STRATEGIES.”- ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS

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SCRIPTING POSSIBILITIESParametric design allows architect to discover our environment in a data-driven viewport.

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“A SUSPENDED GEOTEXTILE THAT GRADUALLY ACCUMU-LATES HYBRID SOIL FROM IN-GREDIENTS DRAWN FROM ITS SURROUNDINGS.” - HYLOZOIC GROUND

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INTERACTIONIn nature, reaction hap-pens. Leaves move, bee stings. People expect interaction, things to change, happens. In Hylozoic series, Philip Beesley and team created a delicate system that re-act to existance of action. The surface rolls expands changes.

11 | Week 5

INTEGRATION

The process of integra-tion not only demands the designer to imagine the project, but also use the advantages of computer-ised techniques to put the designer inside and out of the project simultane-ously, which allows further manipulation of the project with a more wholistic horizon of perception to the project. Contemporary reinterpretations such as these can bring architec-ture to the present and provoke new interpreta-

tions of existing ideas.

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‘A SIMULTANEOUS, SYNCRETIC AND MULTI-SENSORY IMAGINATION AND AN EMBODIED EMPATHY THAT ARE CER-TAINLY BEYOND THE CAPACITIES OF THE MOST POWERFUL OF COMPUTERS.’- HENRY MOORE

13 | Week 6

THIS IS WYNDHAM

No this is not.

Wyndham has its wetland, equestrian centre, wine, people laughing.

Seed of change.

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THIS IS OUT OF EXPECTATION

BIO-INSPIREDSCRIPTED

INTERACTIONINTEGRATION

15 | Week 7

DIGITAL FABRICATION

Attractor Point

Arbitrary Points Boolean Pattern Curve Intersections Explicit Grids Overlapping Pattern Surface Grids Using Surface Norm

Curve Attractor

Image Sampler

Maths Function

Multi Maths Function

Streaming Text

Sets

Input

Associa

tion

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Arbitrary PointsAttractor Point Curve Attractor Maths Function Multi Maths Function Streaming Text Sets

Data Driven Rotation

Data Driven Extrusion

Boolean InputAttractor Point Curve Attractor Maths Function Multi Maths Function Streaming Text Sets

Data Driven Rotation

Curve IntesecAttractor Point Curve Attractor Maths Function Multi Maths Function Streaming Text Sets

Data Driven Rotation

Data DrivenExtrusion

17 | Week 8

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UNIDENTIFIED FORM

‘WHILE PHYSICAL FORM CAN BE DEFINED IN TERMS OF STAT-IC COORDINATES, THE VIRTUAL FORCE OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH IT IS DESIGNED CONTRIBUTES TO ITS SHAPE’, THUS MAKING THE FORCECSPRESENT IN THE GIVEN CONTEXT FUN-DAMENTAL TO THE FORM MAKING IN ARCHITECTURE.’- GREG LYNN

Mobius is an endless loop which leads to our concept regarding this project. The gateway is on the side of a highway, “endless loop” promotes the motion, speed, sense of time, as well as sense of belong-ing. Through experimenting with the two sets of physi-cal model ( interlocked & linked), we were able to get interesting changing results of the form, space itself and the light and shadow effect.

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‘WHILE PHYSICAL FORM CAN BE DEFINED IN TERMS OF STAT-IC COORDINATES, THE VIRTUAL FORCE OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN WHICH IT IS DESIGNED CONTRIBUTES TO ITS SHAPE’, THUS MAKING THE FORCECSPRESENT IN THE GIVEN CONTEXT FUN-DAMENTAL TO THE FORM MAKING IN ARCHITECTURE.’- GREG LYNN

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DE-FLATTEN SURFACE

The irregular surface is being visualized by a waf-fle. The contour remains when you see from side but disappear in the face.

It also project the change in sun angle further, since the ribs cast shadow on other, creating an overlap-ping shaded area.

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23 | Week 11

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PICO-MOTION REACTION

25 | Week 12

DEPLOYMENT

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27 | A few words

CONSTRUCTION

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NEXT CLICK

“The monster”

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THE TASK OF ARCHITECTURE IS TO STRENGTHEN OUR SENSE OF THE REAL, NOT TO CREATE SETTINGS OF MERE FABRICATION AND FANTASY. THE ESSEN-TIAL MENTAL TASK OF THE ART OF BUILDING IS ME-DIATION AND INTEGRATION.- PROF. JUHANI PALLASMAA. HELSINKI UNIVERSITY

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INSPIRATIONS REFERENCES

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