Hints from the latest Issue of Travel + Leisure

The latest issue of Travel + Leisure announced the highest ranking airport terminal facilities among airports all over the world. Although the ranking system by the author(s) is subjective most of the time, it still bring out some innovative ideas and inspirations to borrow and further improved in my hotel complex project. one of the seesion of in the features tab called "the 10 Coolest Hotel", some of the ideas and concepts are crazy and sounds impossible but the designers step behind to solve the recreational use spaces and places an innovative ways. Overall, I only can say the hotels are fabulous!

http://www.travelandleisure.com/

Model 2 - Play Around with GH

I initially wanted to create a pattern consists of geometries from circles and curves. I started with create a rang of sets for a variety of circle sets and set points along those circles to create line(s) to patch a set of patterns. However, I found my approach was only created points on a 2D dimensional plane and I want to have points on z axis as well. And then I add another set of points on z axis and y axis to generate a several sets of points in 3D. The shape come up is a bit wired and I use line battery to link the points each set. The messve lines seems to have a system then I make surface set up by the points and I found that some diamond like "curtain wall system" created that I am not expected. Anyway, I put a revolved surface battery to see what happened with these combination.

The final sets of surfaces look like this:

Model Exercise 1

Few days ago, I browsed the the hotel and hospitality websites to look for a typical movement and i find it's hard to seek one, especially mine is a hotel complex. I then brainstormed some possible activities in a hotel COMPLEX. Finally, i set the music performance in lounge bar and clubs as my target movement and take the movement of bowing by violinist 's right hand. I trace the joints of the violinist's arm to inspect the movement vectors, such as directions, angles and muscle relationships.


A diagram of the movement pattern generated by the joints and vectors. The mathematical functions are produced by the points on each body joint. The shoulder joint us set ti be fixed and the rotating angle of the shoulder joint is no more than 90 deg. in bowing movement. The angles of the elbow and wrist joints are set no more than 180 deg. Therefore, the sin and cos curves are applied in two functions to describe the absolute position of Point (xP,yP) on the violin bow.

Let r is length of arm, t is shoulder angle, t1 is elbow angle, x2 is x value of bow point and y2 is y value of bow point,

x2=2rt+r[1-Sin(t)]


y2=r[1-Cos(t)]+r[Cos(t1)]




I considered the music tempo for violinists. In the position of the bow on the E String, the fixed value input of r is 300 and i set a angle of 5 deg. for t and t1.

The result curve is:

After that, I enter 3 and 4 as t and t1 to simulate the the position of the bow on the other three strings. After that, there were 4 curves generated in total and then I applied loft functino in Rhino a model represent the movement of a single point on the bow. The final curve showing the general movement of the violinist's bowing movement in playing a range of music pieces.

Design Brief for BNE Airport Hotel Complex

The hotel complex is a place for recreational use and it mainly serves a great number of tourists from all over the world and local Queenslanders. To identify the Brisbane Airport as a gateway of Brisbane and Queensland, the complex will offers the positive and international image to the occupants in Brisbane Airport. Therefore, the overall design parameters are:

· The planning parameters of the hotel complex will follow the guidelines of the stated strategies, the Building Code Australia, the design guides for environmental strategies. The requirements of the emergency vehicular access and other building services management and maintenance shall be oberved.
· The overall internal design should be human proportional and a user friendly and intimate environment, such as the convenient access system should also be provided.
· The design development shall demonstrate high quality aesthetic and functional tourist attractive airport precinct.
· The building height shall be considered to ensure the fluent flow of flight.
· The hotel complex should achieve cohesive and harmonious built form to provide the services for business, leisure, tourists and transportation and it should embellish the existing landscape.
· The building should maximise views to the Moreton Bay, the Brisbane CBD and other surroundings.
· The hotel shall integrate with the conserved open spaces and vegetated spaces. The proposed integrations, such as plazas, observation points, covered walkway and son on, should enhance the aesthetical and functional attractiveness.
· All the public spaces should cater for various users’ needs, including the disabled.
· The built environment should be safe and easily accessible by adopting appropriate vertical transportation systems, displaying signs and way-finding floor patterns, and using artificial lighting.
· Appropriate ratio of public spaces and private spaces is crucial.

In addition, the design of the hotel complex will be more focus on fabrication theme. Therefore, the tectonics and constrution methodologies are one of the siginificant key issues to be considered in the design process. The following possible ideas on tectonics and construction design are listed.

1. Material Use

The materials will considerably appropriate for certain manufacture methods and easy to apply in the building design. The materials will be carefully chosen to achieve the aesthetic aspects, postitive environmental aspects and occupant safety aspects of the hotel. Due to the climate change and overload of fossil energy, the materials will be highly recyclable and manufactured locally with embodied energy as less as possible.

2. Construction Methodologies

The construction of the hotel complex will need to be affordable to contribute the heavy duty of the hotel services in the forecasting future. The hotel complex will be a static and long life spanned building. Therefore, the construction systems will achieve the best performance in construction durability. At the same time, the hotel complex will also meet the needs for future deelopment, such as the airport extent and infrastructure improvements. Therefore, the building will also partly adaptable and the building site will be conserve areas for future uses.