# MAA2 - STUDIO
### First studio meeting

## *Megan Smylie - Sensor as designer*

An investigation into the potencial of real-time datadriven responsive architecture.

- Conditions on how cities are formed
- Architectural responses to human interaction (reactive architecture)

Main point of her proposal perfomative objectives
- data, environmental conditions
- creation of a ecosystem
- lack of specific idea - super generic
- photobioreactor? changing the urbanenvironment by creation of functioning and attractive architectural system.

##### Methodology
- Determine the relationship of different urban topics an matter on urban environment.
- Determine appropiate materiality and mechanism for formal and atmospheric adaptations???

`` Final prototype collecting data and display responsive adaptations.``

**To improve:**
- hypothesis // better formulated research question
- smart spaces versus smart devices(first ok)
- mechanical perfomance vs biological enhancing performance vs capturing/activation devices
- Choose what is more relevant and understand the implies limits of each
- Comfort of pollution?
- The scale of operation / building / instalation / space / device ?
- Climatic issues / energy / interaction / mechanic / instalation /space / methodology

### V2.0

- mediating the urban conditions of pollution
-bioorganims perfomance to create architecture that is responding to (air pollution)
- take care of visuals afterall we are architects
- nature-based solutions
- organism that can be integrated with other existing systems
- mechanical adaptation of systems that improve air quality: but choose either material or mechanical based

### V3.0

- investigate deeper breathing /
- microscale operation
- component scale maybe be different from what you have in mind, think how biomimcry occurs and how scaling up will happen
- close up to a catalog of systems/materials and start testing on them

### V4.0

- bring stadistics
- filtering or breathing
- focus in one subject
- CONTEXTUALIZE YOUR RESEARCH ON THE SUBJECT-if it as clean air , suty the currently air cleaning systems and filters...
- create a catalogue of diferent materoials systems based on performance, define which perfomances are you interested in
- create of combine systems to see what you can extract from the combination of thoses.

### V5.0

- hydrogel and sodium polyacrilate experimentations
- retrofiting
- comparison and testing with the size of the chambers and amount of materials to test the longevity on the water absorption.
- testing chamber to test the thermal capabilities of the system, in order to be able to know the max properties of it and propose different formal proposals.
- metariality combination is key point here
- references of how passive heating could be achieved
- forget about the morphology and think on the mechanism of heating, not to make a tunnel

### V6.0
- started set-up for testing humidity and temp diference
- still has to develop the passive heating
- passive cooling(ok)
- how can different 3D perforations can enhance cooling or heating (the material side is not that related as of now)
- find other references of the base principles (passive ventication, passive heating, passive cooling)

### V7.0
- solar locatiokn
- basic facade sola wind
- openining
- facade whole geometry
- spikes diferent types of geometries
- for humidities, water capatation
- spike orientation
- openings

## *Surayyn Utaha - Platform*

Generating responsive subway station boxes through smart sensing and user feedback systems

- Personlized experiences
- Metro station are more sensitive than other spaces on this aspects
- Show how to reference stat !!!! / great potential for narrative
- mention refence studies
- Treating metro stations as microenvironments /
- Air quality or environment an a whole in the human experience.
- How can we rise awearness of current condition vs actuate on it / maybe visual responce **chromogenics** colorfull unicorns
- users as input / collector/ not really taken as actuators
- to take in accont that metro stations are vital links in the urban program and act as atracctors of pedestrian flows

##### Framework

- must look for the real conditions of subway rail systems and what are considered on their design and how it influences the metro system
- Everything before the scientific interest is actually the scientif interest / has to be summorised and visualised but so far good
- Could we collect data in barcelona metro? for a case study?
- Improve the functionality of subway systems(user as active) or user experience improvement.
- be careful not to neglect the actual functionality of metro stations and the problems it has
- limitations of already build systems and few modifications can be realistically done

**DONT NEGLET ALL THE PARAMETERS, CAN´T BE REDUCED TO 4 ENVIRONMENTAL DATA**

**Definition of microenvironment!!!
microclimates?**

- Is there going to be a design proposal in the end?

**To improve:**
- data flows to add over sensors data(cross refence data among different fields not direct tranlation of those)
- design with data
- start with design process and maybe use metro as case study
- Don't try to be a computer scientist
- Try to compare differenct urban environments and have stat that leads you to metro
- **He wants to do simulation at the end**

### V2.0

- urban transit is targeted
- stable and predictable system already stabished
- emotional mapping as an imput
- video recognition for emotion
- face/gestures
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### V3.0
- using Google Reviews as a data collection platform
- biometric data that you can extract from wrables can be a possible way of collecting urban qualitative data
- data collection of reviews compared to transit flow of users
- geolocalize data of qualitative data to help you overlap it with the qualitative data
- if using semantic analysis also use twitter data
- not only sematic analysis data, but embed other forms of collecting data
- embed users profile of the comments

### V4.0

- image recognition for santiment classification
- different strategies (processes of collecting data) : images that are given / images provided by users
- different levels of accuracy of the images, to train different qualiatives behaviours.
- how do you index comfort / how do you measure comfort
- what are the accepted standars on public space as comfort,lighting,etc to detec differences on the trained models with the different sets of input data of the users.
- GO UPUPUPUP GROUND! PUBLIC SPACE!
- if the system works on the street level is easier to apply it to controlled environments as metro spaces,as they have less complexity.
- Indicator such as: materials, light, amount of a color (such as blue) / how to extract from thouse comfort quality
- TO DO : DIAGRAM OF PARAMETERS (matrix of indicator related to emotions)
- simplify the initial model, to:this is the training code, based on this date and this are my conclusion.
- overlapping the data from the semantis analisis and get the comparison for the inputed image data and the semantic one, in order to be able to discover the discordancies.
- ****TIMELINE OF DEVELOPMENT, to find deliverables****(detailed diagramed timeframe)-

FOR NEXT TIME:
-timeline
-index of indicators
-proposal of case studies

### v5.0

- discover risk areas of where each value/different sentiment trigger can have more impact on the space instead of creating a system unit based on different individual elements
- clear ideas of emotions related to typologies
- if we have data on what makes people happy we can train an algorithm to extract the typologies models that create the kind of space we want to have and how to modify the prexisting space.
- extract the perfomance data of the space with the comparison between emotions produced/space that produces that space.

## *Ankita - programmable reconfigurable structures*
###### DIGITAL MATTER CONTINUED
Fabrication method for caste freerform surfaces by using reconfingurable auxetic structures.

- optimization components
- efficient mass production, production optimization
- auxetic system behaviour
- concrete casting / demolding and reusable framework
- explore different technologies for concrete depositing .you can make real structural systems?concrete is 3t per m3 yeah there is a bit of controvercy here
- so far there have been only problems in the casting part
- they tried with plaster and it failed
- also plaster and fiberglass failed / the mold deformed a lot under the weight of the material so the final was shit that what i mean any articulated system with multirotational nodes doesn´t hold
- cost!!

**to improve**

- reusability
- materiality to use with, look on other fields
- catalog of existing formwork, reusable, lots, eficiency, cost, lifecycle
- prototype, material ( constraint on mass production pricing)

### V2.0
- Preconfigurable formworks
- Configurable bed references mechanical based and panelization
- reusability - create a system component to system study
- materiality of the component/geometry
- compromise between : Accuracy / Freedom of form / Reusability
- Diference between lost formwork and formwork that acts as reinforcement
- The materials used for both the formwork and the casting have to be investigated through experiments
- layer of inteligence(possible feedback system)together with actuation **monitoring of displacement** geometry control
- she needs to use material expansion systems()
- challenge to have a clearer relation between the geometry and shape achieved by it
- pay more attention to forces
-perfomance of the model( maximize movement with minimun effor-geometry relationship)
- I see two possibilities in terms of the overall system: having material that can be used as reinforcement and stays part of the casted material or having a super durable material that is reused as a framework

#### to do:
- to include work on flexible joints as state of the art examples
- next step: **geometrical design research**
- next step: **relation between cast material and the auxetic system material**
- metaeriality of formwork
- materiality of casted materials
- flexible join state of art.
- evolution of digital tools for
- variety of config

### V3.0

- contextualize the research on the construction industry
- hipotesize the systems on the field
- add more examples/study cases on the formwork states on the industry
- talk about initiatives on flexible formworks and explain the limitations/constraints of actual technologies
- explain each word of the hipthesis(what is flexible formwork,what is metamaterials,auxetics, auxetics in architecture)
- video sugestion to explain auxetics
- for such a system to work what components do we need'rather than jumping to the parts themselves
- a proper slide to explain the categories that allows you to program your system.
- diferentiate clearly between computation-fabrication

### V3.0

- refine the system and prioritise simplicity
- scale up the prototype
- have variation of prototypes (choose a scale that allows you to recast at least 3-5 times)
- protocol for assembly
- develop a digital design to identify the limits of the variation of form
- check the most developed double-curved surface geometry (use as starting point) and make the comparison industry-wise on viability (time,cost,fabrication complexity)
- reinforcement and structural integrity of the system becomes an
- important discusion between the monolitic structure or the component based, informed by the material use in the fabrication status.NEED reinforcement?
- VARIATIONS OF THE SYSTEM TO TEST MAX VARIABILITY

NEXT TIME:
- case studies of where can we apply this system and similar projects where such systems have been positioned

## *Yimeng Wei - Form follows perfomance*

From mechanic to organic (perfomance,material,structure,optimization,3d printing,robotic)

- get apart from the machine for living concept of actual architecture.
- try to defirantiate your work from clichés
- design organic with performance, this is the premise for computational optimization
- composite fusion? multimaterial printing
- performance oriented material optimization
- organic architecture (form follows a function in nature, do we still follow the same premise in architecture)
- way too focused on tools

**To conclude:**

- What is organic, what organic and what mechanic component you want to work on
- Define what is the purpose of the research
- Functionally graded material to enhance pourposes
- there is no methodology yet
- three categories are not really clear
- organic form- aesthetics
- material an physicality
- new manufactoring techinque on multimaterial printing? is that the final outcome
- connection among digital fab with material and performace
- why that is needed?
- what is the goal of that
- organics mechanics? does it exist? nice to look for it.

**FOR NEXT TIME:**

- New presentation, follow given structure
- Complete State of the art
- Extract examples of research not only from market and industry
- Conclude on the niche your research will be located / what problmes in the state of the art are yu solving
- Don't forget to be original!
- Fix hypothesis accordingly

### V2.0

- How can we improve 3D printing with concrete
- alternative materials?
- -not coherent in streamlining the conccept /materialization
- material selection
- perfomative concrete?
- Functionally graded concrete: what performance you want to achieve and what material can help you with that
- If he takes the natural (living organisms) inspiration path and show what is the goal and what materials he will explore to fabricate through additive manufacturin

### V3.0

- large scale material samples test
- -brick size
- -focus on what you really whant to test , it is perfomance on structure, it is properties aesthetics
- don´t worry on 3d
- perfomance test with data, scientific, quantitative
- start with case studies and clarify how does the functional grading effect the structural properties of the composite
- read read read

### V4.0

- contextualize what is the current problem, is that the current materials are artifitially and so has more impact?
- is because those natural based materials are in more symbiosis with the environment?
- propose alternative materials that are apropiate for construction whilst having less impact in the environment
- chitosan based composite material for construction!
- diferentiation of the composite for controlled,erosion,structure,skin,etc
- study on the actual construction material impact
- interested in manipulated biobased material in order to exploration potentials for future architectural applications

### V5.0
- document drying with a proper set-up
- set clear goals for the material
- extract material data properly
- define goals
- difine 3D