Form and Performance

Natural Models for Environmental Fitness

Form and Performance

Nancy Cheng

Univ. of Oregon Architecture Department head Nancy Yen-wen Cheng, RA, LEED AP researches how design tools and approaches shape outcomes, with a specialization in how craft and computation can stimulate the creative process. She has developed expertise in manipulating sheet materials to create light-modulating structures and has researched how surface relief patterns can increase convective cooling. She has developed fold and slot joints that give structural rigidity to foldable sheet structures and is eager to apply them to rapidly deployable refugee shelters.

Homepage: http://blogs.uoregon.edu/nywc

Dandelion by Emily Pollman w Carl Berry

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Solar Responsive Skins

Static patterns can adjusted according to Ladybug’s Solar Radiation (heat) that hits a surface over an analysis period.  You can tune a shading structure for the summer (months 6 to 8) o make it appropriate for the whole year (months 1 to 12) . These examples use uto’s MeshEdit to explode the Analysis Mesh The […]

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StomaScreen

Group Project by Spencer Russell, Jesse Elliott, Shawn Wallace, Casey Kootz and Bob Bo Hu

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Feb 17 and 19 Class notes

Class Notes I. Review of student projects II. Fractals & Recursion A. Yale website with natural and mathematical examples (see Mandelbrot artcle in the course disk) http://users.math.yale.edu/public_html/People/frame/Fractals/ B. Michael Frame on Benoit Mandelbrot and Fractals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz8NJ7ZVXwQ C. Fractals in Architecture: Ron Eglash inspired architect Xavier Vilalta (TedTalks) Iranian vault patterns D. Fractals and Self-similarity in Grasshopper […]

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Feb 10, 2016 Class Notes

I Homework review Matching Data structures Mode Lab Grasshopper Primer. F 3.5 & 3.6 Grasshopper Primer David Rutten’s Grasshopper3d Data Tree Masterclass II. Inspiration Presentation : Zandra on Doris Sung Kim’s Breathing Wall and Living Architecture. III. Discuss: How can ideas about genetics and evolution contribute to design thinking? A. Evolution of Eyes video by National Geographic […]

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Feb 5, 2016 Class Notes

Challenge:       1. curve that grows and unfurls 2. tree Focus: simulating growth, using tools like graph mapper for adjustable designs 3. Graph Mapper 4. Adjustable Towers 5. Fractals : branching 6. (if time allows) Metaballs

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