Alex Lee

PROJECT

Computational Design

A quick showcase of special projects I had completed during my studies at the University of New South Wales

RoleStudent Researcher
Date2013 - 2017
ToolsVarious
ClientPersonal, UNSW
Me presenting in my honours year

At university, I completed my bachelor's degree in Computational Design at the University of New South Wales. I studied for 4 and a half years, including the a year of honours.

Below are some of the more note-worthy projects that held significant challenges.

Closeup of HEXTIC on launch day

HEXTIC

Sydney Architectural Festival 2014 installation at the Grasshopper Bar, fabricated with hexagonal prisms reflecting water ripples with integrated LED lighting for visual effect and interaction.

I designed the interaction & visual light animations using Processing 5 (Java) and used the manufacturers' priority software to project the colours in the lighting matrix.

A birds eye view of the HEXTEC installation on the floor at the Media Architecture Exhibition Sydney 2015
Photograph facing south of the HEXTIC installed at the door of the Grasshopper Bar in daylight for the Sydney Architecture Festival 2014
Photograph facing south of the HEXTIC installed at the door of the Grasshopper Bar in the afternoon for the Sydney Architecture Festival 2014
Photograph facing north of the HEXTIC installed at the door of the Grasshopper Bar in daylight for the Sydney Architecture Festival 2014
A part of the HEXTIC structure in production, testing lighting.
Photograph facing south of the HEXTIC installed at the door of the Grasshopper Bar in the late afternoon for the Sydney Architecture Festival 2014
Me presenting to the ARUP team in my honours year

Green Star Daylight Simulation

For my 3rd-year graduation thesis, I developed a workflow to produce a 3D Voxel Daylight Simulation with a Green Star Lux analysis.

The workflow was created with the 3D modelling software Rhino and Grasshopper (visual scripting). The simulation was done using using the plugins Honeybee and Ladybug.

I would later submit the paper with assistance from the course director to the Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA) and present the study in 2016 at the University of Melbourne.

A rendered simulation of the floor's Lux measurements in comparison to the Green Star daylight requirements. Displayed in a voxel grid, colourised as a gradient from red to green (fail to pass respectively)
Floor plan of Summer Hill Flour Mill Building 3C 8th Floor, in early design. left is a rendered simulation without walls while the right displays the rooms with the white areas as Green Star 'liveable' zones.
Two diagrams representing the overall findings of the research both displaying an increased volume of failed volumes in accordance to Green Star. Left is pictures a voxel grid while the right uses area.
Renders representation of the entire Summer Hill Flour Mill building 3C in early design, each floor consisting of a voxel Green Star daylight simulation.

Big shoutout to

Matthias Hank Haeusler

University of New South Wales
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