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T-Rex
Installation
Project

WEBSTONE TUNNEL

SKY AND WATER

THE ISLAND

KINETIC +

THE HUB
IBS
Design
Competition
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The Design Build Project
Professor Chandler Ahrens
Digital Design Team: Gracie Davis, Sam Leder, Ye Jin Lee
Fabrication Team: Jim Noh, Gabe Dash, Rebecca Erde, Matt Brice, Amber Ibarra
Representation Team: Jennifer Rokoff, Paige Bergmeier, Amy Sun, Matt Weinberg

The installation for T-Rex explored how architecture affects human senses, as well as the
effects generated by the architecture entity. The design build team developed a struc-
ture that could alter and adjust levels of light, contrast, continuity, and fragmentation
in order to modify individuals perception by using reflection, refraction, and diffusion.
ELEVATIONS & PLAN MATERIAL TESTING FOLDING DIAGRAM
Multiple different types of plastics and rivet joints Each piece has 5 bending lines. Every single piece out of over 300
were tested for their strength in the engineering lab. pieces has its own shape and size as well as 5 unique bending angles.

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The light level of the interior of the atri-

um, where the installation took place, was
measured using light meters simultane-
ously to create the most accurate results.
WALL CONNECTION JOINT

Using Grasshopper, an algorithmic mod-

eling plugin for Rhino, the design and
number of modules were chosen careful-
ly to create the most effective outcome. natural light map

DIGITAL DESIGN ITERATIONS

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LIGHT BEHAVIOR DIAGRAM LIGHTING DIAGRAM
Following the idea of continuity and fragmentation, the pieces make smooth yet broken lines. This diagram shows how each These diagrams are section, elevation, and plan view showing how
pieces reflect and refract light in specific angles, calculated and programmed in Grasshopper, in order to diffuse it overall. light is being reflected and refracted through out offices and atrium.
WEBSTONE TUNNEL RESEARCH: TEMPERATURE
Average temperature of St. Louis by months and seasons since 1950
Our site, Elephant Rocks State Park, is a state
park of Missouri. Known for chains of gi-
The diagram is a visual representation of average temperature of
ant rocks, they were formed over 1.5 billion
St. Louis since 1950 sorted monthly and seasonally using the data
years ago. Using two big elements, space and
from The National Weather Service. Starting with the smallest black
time, the site has been investigated and re-
circle, every increment of a black circle represents 10F. Every col-
interpreted into the form of an observatory.
or scheme illustrates different months. The right vertical column
shows the average temperature of each weather of each year.
ELEPHANT ROCKS COLLAGE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ROCKS AND GROUND

Exploring rocks in the park led to the fascination in relationships in between

rocks and between rocks and ground, and eventually to studying crevasses.

pressure point

space between the touch point

SPIDER RESEARCH & Daddy Long-Legs SPIDER WEB STRUCTURE RESEARCH

During the study of crevasses, there was one major similarity among crevasses: spiders and spider webs. Being the perfect habitat for spiders, Dad-
dy Long Legs Spiders in this case, every single crevasse was filled with spiders and spider webs. This led to the research of spiders and spider web structures.

COMMON HABITATS

-Size: 2-10mm body length (but can be upto 80-90mm) Daddy Long-Legs spider (Cellar spiders) Pholcidae Tree Branches
-Life Span: usually about 2 years (but some can live upto 25 years) Daddy Long-Legs spider (Cellar spiders) Pholcidae
-Species: about 40,000 species that are known Basic info.
-Species are divided into different families Basic info.
-Small bodies with 8 long flexible legs (usually about 2 inches in mature)
1. Araneomorphae (about 90% of all species) -Cream to pale brown color
2. Mygalomorphae -Small bodies with 8 long flexible legs (usually about 2 inches in mature)
-6-8 eyes
3. Mesothelae -Cream to for
-Lives pale brown
about color
3 years
-Eating Habitat: carnivorous -6-8 eyes
-Eats small moths, flies, mosquitoes, and other spiders
-Prey methods: trapping with webs or using venom -Lives for about
-Fangs are too3short
yearsto bite human skin but known to have deadly poison
-Unique Abilities: -Eats small moths, flies, mosquitoes, and other spiders
-Walk on any surface without falling -Fangs are too short to bite human skin but known to have deadly poison
Habitat
-Move in any direction fast
-Jump high -Urban Areas (houses)
-See in wide angle (very small blindspot) Habitat
-Make thin, tangled, irregular shaped web with no pattern at all
-Produce and use silk to create a web strucutre -Place where there will be no disruption (especially by human)
that can be usedi n various ways -Urban Areas
- Under(houses)
rocks, under furniture, ceiling corners, sheds, garages
-Produce deadly venom -Make-They
thin,tend to form
tangled, a community
irregular shaped web with no pattern at all
-Place where there will be no disruption (especially by human) Rock Crevasses Ground Holes
- Under rocks, under furniture, ceiling corners, sheds, garages
-They tend to form a community
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SECTIONS
SITE MAP

The map in the middle is the site map that shows where
the trail path, rocks, quarries, and etc are located.
BB The cut out map is the part where rocks are placed.
The sections of AA and BB are done to further under-
stand formations, cravesses, and relations of rocks.
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SITE MAP
BB
WEBSTONE TUNNEL MODEL
 SKY AND WATER EARLY PROCESS OF DESIGNING AN OBSERVATORY

The site, Chain of Rocks Bridge, located in Illinois, this project is about During the process of material testings playing with reflection and refraction, only things that caught were the reflection and refraction of sky and water.
designing an observatory for scientists. The bridge is too old and small
to be used anymore, so currently is just a visiting location for tour-
ists. The first thing to catch my eyes was the reflection on the water.

MATERIAL TESTING
To study qualities of reflection, a subwoofer was set up under a PVC pipe full of water elevation right
and a flashlight was set up to flash at an angle. The subwoofer was set up in order to
mimic anunpredictable natural condition of a river by using vibration and frequency.

plan
FINAL OBSERVATORY DESIGN

elevation right

private

public

plan section
 THE ISLAND
This project was all about finding patterns and forms
in nature using drawings, woods, and wires. It start-
ed with finding a leaf and finding an interesting pattern.

PROCESS

In this leaf tracing, the goal was to get as much

detailed information as possible. From choosing
the photo with the greatesvt details of the veins,
I traced every single small veins on the leaf
focusing on details of the vains of the leaf. Then
continued the pattern of decay and fragments.

SITE SECTIONS

Focusing on foreground/background and near/

far, I used the radial shape of the section
cuts form the center of the site drawing.
DRAWING

In this drawing, I continuted and extended

the pattern of irregularity and decay of
natural form with different line weights.
TOPOGRAPHY SECTION DRAWING

The drawing reminded of an island. To emphasize the feeling In section drawing, I focused on
of an island, I used lots of inch long pieces of basswood to continuing and radial shape of the
describe the volume and irregularity of the topography. sections of topography and wire module.
WIRE MODULE

In wire module, I mainly focused on continuing the pattern of the basswood topography and emphasizing the volume and more variety.
 KINETIC + SYSTEM PROTOTYPE PROTOTYPE 1

ABSTRACT

http://archigram.westminster.ac.uk/project.php?id=60

Humans have been solving problems and improving life quality through using nature. This is possible because nature had been evolving
for millions of years and everything has scientific reasons and explanations behind it. Such concept of adopting the science behind the nature
and transforming them into something beneficial to humans is called biomimicry. Spider is one of very few species that has an ability to move in
any directions with great speed. A study of spiders locomotion explicated that the leg movement patterns and the unique leg structures allow
spiders to move any direction with great reflex. The objects around us can be divided into two big categories: static and kinetic. Static objects,
including desks and beds, are stationary while kinetic objects, such as cars and bicycles, have movements. While most of the objects around us
belong within the categories of either static or kinetic, how do static objects become kinetic by using principles of biomimicry? There are various
ways to transform energy into a movement or a momentum, however, using kinetic systems, without using any motors or complex technical systems,
is the simplest and most suitable in transforming an every static object into a kinetic object. A research of kinetic structures resulted in finding of
inspiring forms of kinetic structures called kinetic arts. Theo Jansen built a wooden project called Strandbeast that can walk on a ground with wind
energy, he has studied movements of animals and insects for years and built tens of hundreds of working prototypes before he designed and
built the Strandbeast. In addition to Jansen beast, Bob Pottss Pursuit II shows the elegance and smooth repeating motion of a bird. Unlike Jansens
wooden self-driven kinetic art, Pottss kinetic art is focused on the smoothness using metal and a motor. Ron Herrons project in Archigram called
Walking City is a design of a nomadic city. The walking city was designed by Herron with a hope he can travel around the Earth without leaving
his home New York City and the rising urban life style. A recent project by Manuel Dominguez called Very Large Structure is very similar to Her-
rons project, but at the same time very different. Both had a futuristic dream of living in a nomadic city, but Dominguezs projects purpose is to
search, collect, and use resources around the Earth to improve Earths climate change and global warming by efficiency and mobility. How would
a person with deep interests in sustainable design and concerns for the worsening environment design a same project incorporating biomimicry?
FINAL PROTOTYPE
 THE HUB MASTER PLAN

The Institute for Basic Science design competition

while interning for Heerim Architects & Planners. It was
a joint venture with DA Group and Haenglim Architec-
ture & Engineering. The project was to design a re-
search lab complex for worlds leading scientists and
students. My participation in this project is research-
ing site and laboratories, designing master plan,
building final topography and site models, working on
program and design, and preparing for the presen-
tation. The project won 2nd prize in the design com-
petition out of 10 largest architecture firms in Korea.

Labs Community Area CommuneEquipments

GREEN HUB BLUE HUB ORANGE HUB

space where nature com- space where water con- space where community
forts people nects people shares ideas
MAIN LAB BUILDING FLOOR PLAN RESIDENCE BUILDING FLOOR PLAN

Family Suites

Double Suites

Amenities Single Suites

Labs
Commune Equipments

Roof Plan Floor Plan

Front View Front Section

Chemistry Biology

Theoretical
Data Center Administration Physics

First Floor Plan Third Floor Plan