Design Description

FLUID_MOTION_Design Description//

This is a one-year team project which is focused on how to form an architectural space based on liquid’s behavior and how to achieve the physical fabrication with robot.The original inspiration comes from the vibration of liquid.

The first chapter is a series of computational simulations about liquid’s behaviors–vibration, interaction,flow,and splash–to explore and study the law of liquid’s motion.As an extended research, in the first chapter has made some interesting explorations on liquid’s motion, which we can clearly see different liquid’s performances in this special dancing structure.

Chapter Two and Chapter Three consist of the real experiments and the algorithm simulations.We use hot glue as our experimental material to test the characteristics of the fluid and we have got some ideal results which can prove that liquid can self-generate very complex structures in the real physical https://www.360docs.net/doc/bd11976883.html,parisons between the results in the experiment and the algorithm simulations reveal striking similarities.After that,we start to explore more complicated liquid’s motions and structures. Compared with the former liquid’s space,we have got some non-linear liquid’s space which is continuous,irregular and multi-layered.And for the bubble structure in the liquid,we have got some new bubbles which are directional,irregular and have density change.Such continuous and directional structure is very similar to human blood vessels which have a lot of branches,extensions,and different thickness.

Although we have got some complicated liquid structures in the experiments,we found that the whole shape of the structure is constrained by the container,which means if we use a square container to do the experiment then the whole shape of the structure will be square-shaped.To solve this problem,we have done more experiments to test the material.With the help of the glue gun,we can create glue fibres,and those fibres can flow in the water,stick to each other and form space.

Although the fibre structure break the whole-shape limitations of the liquid structure,it still has its own shortcomings.The glue fibres are too soft to hold a large structure,so in the fourth chapter we reanalyze the liquid structure with a new method–the distribution of stress lines.We can design the weaving pattern based on the stress lines,which can achieve both the fibre textures and liquid structures.We believe that this is a much more promising fabricating logic just like human body.It is not random but logical and convincing.

The fifth chapter mainly aims to discuss how to accomplish industrialization of this weaving fabrication with robots.In order to meet the needs of production,we optimize some shapes and control points by using modularization and hope to apply the lattice as the basic input of the production and let robots weave on its surface depending on coordinates.

At the same time,we also explored how to achieve large models with this method.We divided the whole structure into many small pieces based on geometrical relationship,produced each part respectively,and assembled all pieces based on the former relationship.Moreover,another important thing in this research is to optimize the cooperation between the robotic tool and the bench while turning computational design into industrial production.

FLUID MOTION//Index

Chapter_01//Design Inspiration

//Research Reference

Chapter_02//Prototype Finding

//The Physical Properties of liquid

//Integral Form-finding Analysis of Liquid //Form-finding Evolution of liquid Chapter_03//Physical Realizability

//Hot Glue Material Applications

//The Composing of Liquid Structure Chapter_04//Digital Simulation

//Filament Applications

//Digital Pattern Translation

//Structural Pattern Distribution

//Structural System Development

//Prototype-based Application Chapter_05//Robotic Fabrication

//Pre-test and Robotic Constraints

//Robotic Tools and Benches

//Grid-optimized Simulation

//Fabrication Working Process

//Advanced-test and Robotic Constraints Chapter_06//Physical One-to-one Model //Fluid Simulation Prototype

//Digital Pattern Simulation

//Robotic Fabrication