Landscape Video & Photography module started with a intense workshop, where we had the opportunity to film on site during Friday and Saturday and discuss with Suzanne Hoffer the main storyboard of each team’s video project. Another great input about how we percieve space through photographs was given today by Corina Rüegg (www.corinaruegg.ch) , followed by great discussions between her and the rest of the MAS LA students.
Together with the IT specialist Karsten Droste, we are discussing possibilities and workflows of integrating an IT company within an landscape architectural project. Already on the first we were introduced to a set of techniques how to overcome the communication hurdle, like using OOD: Object Oriented Design.
Final Presentation
Within the final presentation, the 3 teams introduced their final project proposal to the IT company. It was very interesting to see, that given the same task and same tools, we came up with 3 different outputs: a consensus system, a micro system and a planning system. Each of this system implements a different approach, the consensus system displays the stakeholder view, the micro system integrates a bottom up strategy and the planning system tries to organise the details.
We all enjoyed – many thanks to all
Instructor: James Melsom + Luis Fraguada
Using sensors, abstract data sources and geo-locations, visualization of the dynamic performance of the site was fed into our ongoing Synthesis projects. A combination of Grasshopper (Rhino), Processing, Arduino, and other scripting methods, as well as a measure of on-site improvisation.
Presentation
During the final presentation, held on the 16th of April, the students presented the development of their projects, demonstrating sensory measurements, and developed tools as well as their applications to design.
Students’ Work
Students: Argyro Theodoropoulou, Angelos Komninos
Following the trace of the old river, near the conservational area, they collected data concerning humidity, luminosity, temperature and soil moisture of the area. The data analysis helped them understand the correlation between changes in vegetation, topography and temperature and also offered crucial information about future design approaches, especially in terms of vegetation.
Student :Gaganjit Singh
Gagan was interested in designing an application that allows you to map the photos you take during a walk, and visualize them in a 3D environment such as Rhino. He used Grasshopper to combine the data from the photos, the gps track, the angle and the direction of the camera. In the end he was able to simulate a walk in Rhino, placing the photos in 3D view, along the gps path.
part A
part B
part C
Students: George Sarmaniotis , Alexandre Roulin
Alex and George tried to analyse data they received from the canton, concerning geology and the several layers of different soil elements, next to the canal and the big highway. After the analysis, they visualized their results with grasshopper and projected them into the topography, via Google Earth.
Student: Mohamed Abdel Wahab
Following the edge of his specific area of study, Mohamed used the soil moisture sensor to collect ground humidity data. The analysis of the data led him to a better understanding of the correlation between vegetation, topography and ground moisture. He used Rhino and Grasshopper to visualize the results of his data analysis.
Students: Maki Hasegawa , Gebhard Merk
Maki and Gebi focused on a specific area of the Linth canal. They measured the hydroelectric power produced by the Linth, the fluctuation of the canal and the water temperature during the year. To collect the needed data, they used a flying drone (to photoscan the specific area of study) and a water speed measuring boat inside the canal. Finally they visualized their data using Rhino and the Grasshopper plugin.
part A: Accoustic Doppler Current Profiler, tethered boat
part B: Linth simulation
part C: UAV mapping, photogrammetry
Students: Jacqueline Frizi , Sofia Prifti
Sofia and Jaqueline took several readings in the area next to the Zurich Lake, using sensors that mesure temperature, lux and humidity. They analyzed the collected data, combined it with Bafu data and visualized it using Rhino 3D design and different video techniques. They also tried to optimize the existing and future designed pathways, connecting the specific area of the valley.
The MAS LA students, just finished a three-days workshop with our guest tutor, Luis Fraguada http://fraguada.net/, as the start of Module 4.
We worked with Luis’ plug in for Grasshopper, Ghowl, http://www.grasshopper3d.com/group/ghowl, and we had an introduction to arduino and the use of the different sensors for collecting data. Another site visit, with the testing of the sensors concluded our three days workshop with Luis.
The challenge of the workshop was to explain the concept of our project by visualizing a story line and capturing a specific atmosphere within the site. The software we used were Autodesk 3ds Max, the forest Pack Plugin to give a complete solution for creating vast surfaces of trees and plants and V-Ray for 3dsmax which allowed us to quickly and easily create realistic images. Martin Burr a scenographer and Aron Lornicz who is working for Herzog & de Meuron taught us how to visualize our conceptual ideas and tell a story about our design.
Our Results:
Some Renders
Videos
students: Angelos Komninos, Argyro Theodoropoulou
students: Sofia Prifti, Jacqueline Frizi
student:Gaganjit Singh
students: Alexandre Roulin, Sarmaniotis George
students: Maki Hasegawa, Gebhard Merk
student: Mohamed Abdel Wahab
Some photos from the first day_Guest Lecture: Martin Burr
sources:
http://www.itoosoft.com/tutorials/tutorial_basic.php
http://www.laubwerk.com/home/laubwerk-plants-meet-itoo-forest-pack/
http://www.chaosgroup.com/en/2/index.html
instructor : Magda Osinska
How we can form our virtual environment? What are the relationships between topology, tools and design? How we can create a relation between the audience and our design?
“Scenography creates form from content. It gives the content meaning and purpose. The narrative space is generated from ideas, things and stories whose message in conveyed through that content. Scenography re-contextualizes things and makes them talk, imbuing them with relevance in the present.” Uwe R. Brückner
After the end of our second three-day Design Input Workshop, with FrédéricRossano, the MAS LA student team had a presentation about the Final Synthesis projects, with Christof Girot and the rest of the teaching team. The diversity of the projects was very interesting and the feedback from the teaching team was extremely helpfull.
So lets continue the hard work till July!
Sofia Prifti, Jacqueline Frizi
Argyro Theodoropoulou, Angelos Komninos
Alexandre Roulin, George Sarmaniotis
The module uses the programming language Processing to introduce students to the principles of parametric design.Through several exercises, which build on each other in content, and a lecture series with guest speakers the possibilities of ‘programmed design’ are learned and discussed. The goal is for students to be able to recognize and define starting points for programming in a design. Processing is especially appropriate for integrating teaching and research. It was developed from a continuously growing group of people at MIT’s Media Lab and made available to the open source community. As a result, Processing allows ideas to be realized and prototypes to be created relatively efficiently. In addition, its procedural introduction makes it easy to learn, and we have observed that the learning curve is very good.
Instructors Georg Munkel, Pia Fricker
The first week of module 3 , we did the “tile exercise”! From simplicity to compexity, this was a interesting exercise and an “a priori” step to go further in Processing world! The results were impressing.
student:Jacqueline Frizi
student: Maki Hasegawa
student: Alexandre Roulin
student: Iro Theodoropoulou
student: Sofia Prifti
student: Gaganjit Singh
student: Angelos Komninos
student: Georgios Sarmaniotis
student: Mohamed Abdel Wahab
student: Gebhard Merk
Last Wednesday we had the presentation of Module 3.
All the projects were amazing!