Project003 Emergent Form

I don't know what the forms are referring to for this time. They are parents and children. They are volumetric. They are rotating. They are very experimental and abstract.

The purpose of this assignment, personally, is to experiment the interaction between 3D components and the weighting of the component against the assembly. So each component is set to be very volumetric, convoluted and revolving as to create the opportunities of interpenetration when they are assembled as a whole.

By the way, the fillet command is awesome!

Please check the video

http://youtu.be/9w9If68ddcs

Project002 From Flat to Form

CATIA skill is improving! My intention of this project is to create a small component that could proliferate both horizontally and vertically in a parametric relationship. A numeric system of multiple of 6 is selected in response to the hexagonal grid system, to achieve the maximum of compatibility of the entire system, thus provide the maximum of possibility to proliferate.

It turns out that horizontally, given the regular geometric grid, the proliferation is quite possible. Vertically, 6 vertex of different elevation of the bulges produces a irregular hexagon which reserves the possibility of a complicated proliferation. Due to the limited skill of CATIA, this is what I can do so far. 

Project001 Sketching The Plan

Using CATIA to model the plan of Le Corbusier's 1922 Plan Voisin for Paris requires a parametric understanding of the plan. My personal approach to the interpretation of the city plan through modeling the towers' figure, the block footprint and the streets helps me to understand the figure within a block and the relationship between blocks. 

Moreover, the multiple possible solution generated by the program gets me thinking what kind of urban space is in that way, how people move through it, how people work and live in the towers, does dragging those corners like God make any sense as a field of forces affecting the design...

It was my beginning of learning CATIA, and a beginning of seeking the potentiality of the program assisting or dominating in design. 

http://youtu.be/XE4_DeTT6N4