Re_Flex Patterning

Integrating digital media with material world reveals emergent performances. Parametric modeling techniques encourage designers to study more one the envelopes of potentials instead of singular artifacts. Working with these envelopes reveal a design cycle that entails determination of relations and within this relational framework, dynamics keep design process active and variable. In the serie of workshops titled “Infections”, static and regular patterns of built environment are considered as “host bodies”. Their contextual potentials are revealed and digital technologies start the becoming of these bodies within the concept of infection. In second workshop titled “Re_Flex Patterning”, an atrium is considered as the host body. It will be studied beyond its gridal order, generating re-flex patterns as the initial step on the revealing of it’s potentials. Throughout the workshop, Grasshopper will be used as a tool of parametric modeling and digital deformation techniques, while physical form-finding will be studied on a composite material.

Re_Flex Patterning workshop is conducted at İzzet Baysal University Faculty of Engineering and Architecture between 6-8th May, 2013 by Tuğrul Yazar and Fulya Akipek, from İstanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Architecture.

Revisiting Infections v1 @ YTU: Fiber Grid

Below are the brief results of the first workshop, called "Gridal Infection" conducted at Yıldız Technical University Faculty of Architecture student festival between 4-9 February 2013. It deals more with the "digital side" of the problem, focusing on pattern deformations based on physical inputs such as capturing movement and sound. We used Rhino+Grasshopper+Firefly to realize student projects in this three-day workshop.

The first project called "Fiber Grid"

This is one of the three final projects of the Infections workshop at YTU. Conceptual framework is developed by Begüm Aktaş (YTU) and Merve Özhan (BAU). According to them; the existing host body is a 16×11 unit glass brick wall, which is constructed to separate the corridor of the faculty and to create semi-private spaces for various activities. In this project, the host body is considered as a dead tissue of an organism. Sound is considered as an injection that changes the inner structure of the organism and transform the dead tissues into sensitive fibers. This injection revitalizes the solid and gridal inner structure, and the more it gets fibrous the more it is sensitive. As the surrounding sound rises, the process gets faster and the fibrous structure becomes flexible. This project is realized by developing a grid out of interpolated curves, which are sensitive to a travelling attractor. The movement leaves traces as it is a history-enabled algorithm. Sound is used as another input to manipulate the attractor’s behaviour. Below are screenshots and photographs of the actual installation at YTU. For Grasshopper definition, you may visit designcoding.net





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