Hypotheses:
"Translating biological skin as a multi-layered / multifunctional membrane into the facade in order to design a smart facade." In other words, "Designing a system by being inspired by biological models."Research Q:
"How can I design a breathable facade regarding the air ventilation, in order to make a suitable indoor space? "
"How can I design a skin system for a facade to make it breathable in order to have a good ventilation?"
Qs:
"How can I design a breathable facade regarding the air ventilation, in order to make a suitable indoor space? "
"How can I design a skin system for a facade to make it breathable in order to have a good ventilation?"
Qs:
- What is the basic rule of its function and how translate it to the facade?
- Which type of skin am I going to choose as a basic subject?
- How can I test the translation process in order to achieve a physical aspect?
- How will I design the system: by using smart materials or mechanism?
- Which type of digital tool can I use to prove the results?
Methodology:
- Simultaneously research on biological skins and architectural elements
- Choose one of the possibilities
- Analyze its function and try to find a way to translate it to facade in order to design a system( being aware of the basic principle of the biological skin)
- Model the schematic biological design with digital tools (ex. GC)
- Test the model and process function regarding to make physical benefits(ex. Ecotech?)
- Find a tool (GC) to model the facade and manipulate it during the process
- Test the model for physical aspects(Ecotech?)
- Repeat from the 5th step while considering the biological concept
- Evaluate and modify the results
- I checked the link. Its really useful, thanks.
- Regarding my discussion with Greg Keeffe in a few weeks ago, I sent an email to him to ask about different possibilities for translating nature to facade
- I talked to Andy van den Dobbelsteen and he gave me some literature and data in this case
- Regarding my discussion with Greg Keeffe in a few weeks ago, I sent an email to him to ask about different possibilities for translating nature to facade
- I talked to Andy van den Dobbelsteen and he gave me some literature and data in this case
Hi Sara,
ReplyDeleteHere below some comments on your research proposal. The general problem is still your whish of combining everything without choosing. You should make your research topic being more and more focused, not the opposite. Yesterday you were not decided between light and ventilation; now you wrote even about all possible climate factors. I understand the building’s skin should be able of fulfil many requirements, but still you cannot pretend to investigate all of them in a so short time. Keep them in mind, make their inventory, but then please pick up one of them to work with and test (also you cannot test all of them at the end, already light analysis or one different filed of analysis will be enough). This is about your research subject. While about the skin system you are going to develop, again you might not need to combine both mechanical systems and smart materials. You could either use one or the other. It is a choice. Keeping broad you overview is quite important, but in order to make successful your research in the short available time, you need to have a clear focus. You need to make choices.
Beside this general suggestion, here below some more specific comments. You do not have to come up now with a perfectly defined research proposal, better improvements and further clarifications will come during your research work. So I would suggest you to quickly start now your research work as priority, but please, in a while come back on this proposal in order to review it and post it again by keeping into consideration also the here below comments.
As hypotheses you formulated: "Translating biological skin as a multi-layered / multifunctional membrane into the facade in order to design a smart facade". This does not explain what you are going to test. Are you testing the support given by biological models? Are you testing a system you designed by being inspired by biological models? Are you testing a digital process to support the design of skins’ systems inspired by biological models? Or what else? This needs to be clarified and expressed in the hypothesis.
The research question you formulated is too board and does not take into account the role of biological models. Also, as told, ‘climatic condition’ is a too broad ensemble of factors to be manageable in a so short time. If you really do not want to choose only one aspect, maximum keep them up to two and define your research question to study how to combine both. I.e. you can say: biological skins are able to fulfil conflicting requirements. Using them as model can support the design of system able to fulfil conflicting comfort requirements, like in certain conditions ventilation and daylight (or other two) are. And then you can focus on designing a skin system which allows all the possible combinations of ventilation and daylight needs (being permeable to both at the same time, only one of them, both not, different percentages of both, and so on). But in any case I would say not more than two.
The questions you ask your self in the problem statement are important, but are not a problem statement. A problem statement should point out the problem you are going to solve through your research.
Please, beside your documentation and reading work, start tackling the problem by following your own research proposal (make your choices and i.e. start designing your system).
Michela
The comment here above refers to a previous research proposal delated by its author - for further comments see next post's comments.
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