Exhibition

  Here are some pictures of my set up at the exhibition - Including the final finished 3d printed stadium with working floodlights.

Poster

Stadium Print

 I have successfully completed my first print of my stadium. The first print is one of great anguish and struggle..the half of the roof. I found that it wouldn't print to the build plate and so i kept trying and trying until i finally got a working prototype..
here are the pics

I am currently printing my other half and hope to begin printing my stadium seats soon..

Some Quick Renders

 Here are some quick renders of my Wave Stadium. As you can see, they are very quick renders, but it gives an insight into what it could look like

Stressed..

 Yesterday I tried 3d printing my gear wall facade. For some reason, almost every machine was completely stuffed. The one machine I could get working didn't print properly and screwed up halfway through. If we are to 3d print our models by Wednesday...well..lets just say that is very very very wishful thinking..lets do the math shall we..about 40 -50 students..6 3d printers or so - 1-2 of which are actually functional haha..oh im so stressed its not funny..ive come in a few times over the past few weeks..and none of them have been functional anymore than they were the other day..

Anyways here is a picture of 'gears'. As you can see..the print stopped when the gears were no more than 1/8th of their thickness...I really don't know how Im going to get anything done by Wednesday..

My stadium alone will take days to 3d print..so im really not sure how im going to be able to do this.

More Pictures of the finished model in Rhino

Assignment 5: Nature Inspired Architecture - The Wave Stadium

For my 5th installment of grasshopper  we had to create something that emulated an aspect of nature. I chose to combine my two favorite things - soccer, and of course, the natural aspect - the australian surf.

I thought of several ways to get my design across, in a way that saw it fitting for both my ideas - It is the year of the 2014 world cup after all. It inspired me to design for a conceptual future in which Australia would one day host the world cup. The design takes the formulation of an ocean wave tumbling down to create a unique piece of architecture.

In the beginning when I started many weeks ago, I thought to myself - how am I going to model a stadium..let alone something that mimic's forms from zaha hadid. I came up with this. It was my first attempt at shaping something like a stadium. I figured, building blocks. Take small steps and build up towards what I want to do.

 My first attempt - as you can see, consisted of me trying different approaches to creating a basic stadium structure. This attempt saw me create triangular prism's to make the shape of basic grand stands. Of course, this was not want I wanted, and thus I continued my endeavour.

My next attempt saw me create a 2d shape of a grandstand and then extrude in several directions, allowing me to create a slightly more complex stadium structure - first without a roof, then with one.

without roof

with roof

As you Can see - my early designs were quite flawed. Firstly, they didnt look anything like a wave (i had not yet come to that part) but more so, they looked very prismatic. I wanted something more free flowing - and Thus, brought me to my next design.
I had finally created the shape I wished for.

The design shows a 360 view of a wave slowly building up. Just as a wave starts off as nothing more than a small lump in the ocean, one side of the grandstand is very low. As it builds up, it gets higher and higher, until it curls and crashes down.

Inspiration for the design

 As I kept designing the stadium, I began to run into several problems. Firstly, I found it very difficult to place seating in, considering the shape of the stadium. I ended up going with the approach shown in the picture blow.

I had placed seating on the bottom level within the parameters of where I wanted it to go.

Now for the roof...

The Roof was troublesome to say the least. I wanted an interesting patten, yet once which still contained the concept of modern Australian living, combined with the love of the beach and aussie surf.

This random generation script I obtained from http://www.co-de-it.com/wordpress/code/grasshopper-code combines both of these. The individual square holes, when places in random matrices such as these, creates somewhat of a foaming effect - the same way an ocean foams whilst rolling and crashing back into itself.

The Stadium roof will have led lights through it, so for the final exhibition it can have several lighting features.

I am undecided whether or not to add a second level to the stadium. Perhaps for the final exhibition I will but for now it is complete.

I call it - The Wave Stadium 3.0 :)

(1.0 and 2.0 were the ridiculously failed earlier attempts)

I have to say I am quite pleased with it thus far. It will be interesting to see if it prints as I wish it to however.


Script Link: http://www.gamefront.com/files/24258890/DANIELJOSEPH_3332502_WAVE_STADIUM_ASSIGNMENT5_BENV2426.zip