Digital Design
Run by the same group of staff who co-ordinate Foundations of Design: Representation, Digital Design focused on the notion of parametric modelling. Using the skills built up over the semester, our final task was to create a pavilion for the Queen Victoria Gardens within a 5x5x5m space. I chose to take the waffle structure, which is often used to depict a complicated or interesting form, and “re-imagine” it to a point where the waffle itself becomes the feature. Hence, I came up with my design which features this overlapping timber lattice with a contrasting concrete surround. Using Twinmotion, a real time rendering software introduced during the subject, I was able to produce quality still and video renderings of the pavilion in it’s context within the gardens.
Featured here is the matrix used to determine design decisions for the pavilion. At every step, I evaluated the best solution which would satisfy my design intent of creating a pavilion which draws the public in to experience a series of interesting, intriguing, and varied void spaces. It is a clear and simple way to depict the design thinking which took place while creating the pavilion.
