Tianyao LiuStudent ID:582160 Sememster 2,2012

Sketch Proposal 1 Bones

When I started thinking about natural process and patterns, the first thing came into my mind is the bone structure. Expanding and circling around the central “backbone”, this structure has a relatively high stableness just like leave structure.

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Bone structure has been widely used in modern buildings due to its stable properties.

In biology, any group of fish that stay together for social reasons are shoaling

Shoals of fish produce dynamic and diverse patterns which are continually changing.

A natural representation of Conerging and Diverging

Sketch Proposal 2 Fish Shoal

In the zone of repulsion very close to the fish, the focal fish will seek to distance itself from its neighbours in order to avoid a collision.

In the slightly further away zone of alignment, a focal fish will seek to align its direction of motion with its neighbours.

In the outmost zone of attraction, which extends as far away from the focal fish as it is able to sense, the focal fish will seek to move towards a neighbour.

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This image demostrates a shoal of fish schooling towards one direction to avoid any individual prey.

Above

Visual Patterns mignt be useful in design:Dots - each single fishCurved linesOne directionSpiral shape

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Common usage of this shoal shape in real world buildings and a demostration of this shape using clay

Above

While watching the pictures about fish shoals, I have attempted to sketch down those curves and waves

Sketch Proposal 3

Animal Movements

Demostrate those movements by using series of squares and lines. Similarly, the difference in depth of colour and blurred edge can also create the feeling of moving and accelerating

Note the 4 legs as 4 fixed points

Highlight the changes of which leg is on ground while the horse is moving

Connect the highlighted points

A series of geometry shapes are generated.

Like a canter, the horse will strike off with its non-leading hind foot; but the second stage of the canter becomes, in the gallop, the second and third stages because the inside hind foot hits the ground a split second before the outside front foot. Then both gaits end with the striking off of the leading leg, followed by a moment of suspension when all four feet are off the ground. A careful listener or observer can tell an extended canter from a gallop by the presence of the fourth beat

Connect those shapes and turn it into three dimensional

Similarly, I also tried to place those shapes on a plane rectangular and create the 3D shape based on that.

Development 2Taking the forcus on the horse’s legs, I noticed that the shape of their legs were also changing caused by the stretching during movement.

Therefore, I did the following diagram of the shapes of the horse’s legs (but only the two that touches the ground)

Therefore, I did the following diagram on the shapes of the horse’s legs (but only the two that touches the ground)

Combining those “legs“ together, I came u with the shape above.Every two lines with the same colour is one pair of legs during movements.

Looking at details

The 3D form of those “legs“ can be basic cones or square-based cores.

Models using clay

Final Model

Critical Analysis

It has been an extremely tough learning for me since module one was introduced. When I first started this module, I was not quite sure about what the brief entitled and what the whole project expected, especially after I had missed all the week one classes. The lectures so far have effectively expanded my thoughts on what was natural pattern and how to manipulate those patterns into structures. The one on week three especially, inspired me to think about the human effect involved in this manipulating process – would I change a lot on the natural pattern or keep it as it is.My original ideas, as shown on the previous pages, were quite straightforward. I kept almost all the basic shapes listed in my natural proposals. For instance, I used pillars in bone structure, spirals in fish shoals and so on. After discussing with my tutor, I got the suggestion of not thinking too limitedly, but more creatively and abstractly and that really helped me a lot in the horse idea.The use of Rhino, I would say was still the biggest challenge for me. It was unlike any other software I have used before and it did take me quite big amount of time to try to figure out what which window is used for.