28NOV 2012
© The core of this project focuses on exploring the significance of such displacement, through use of digital technological adjuncts, permitting older things to enjoy a new appearance. We are not trying to “Replace the Old with the New”, but rather to employ the spirit of “Rebuilding the Old Within the New”, in the hopes that the medium is able to permit re-envisioning and re-conceptualizing New and Old, both as to patterns / atmosphere / culture, responsively restoring a sense of mutual respect and interdependence on site.
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Circle packing
Discussions about Circle Packing belong to the fields of topology and geometry. They use circles for optimal packing and arrangement media, requiring each adjacent circle to proximately engage their neighbors without stacking, to attain the optimally efficient spatial packing.
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In daily life, these principles are often deployed with packaging and containers, such as where space is limited, for example, to optimally place wine bottles so as to optimize additional placement of beer bottles.
Component units
CD protective layers are made of an organic chemical known as Polystyrene ( hereinafter referred to as uncovered CDs ), which appear transparent and as if an Acrylic-like material; most uncovered CDs are covered with this material, as well as a reflective surface coating and special chemical coating.
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The bare CDs are connected together with 2.5mm wide plastic cable ties, and testing determined that a hole of 3.
© 5mm distance from the edge of the CD to the hole provided the optimal load stress of 8.7kgs, approximately within the 8kgs stress load capacity of the cable ties.
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RhinoScript
During the development and implementation of this design, we tried to use scripting language to operate or control the complex, repetitive command input. Converting the spatial model into cutting file processes required altogether five different steps:
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© Geometric surfaces generate different size surfaces, with a diameter ranging from 7-12cm.
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© Provide a name to each curve and establish its own layer.
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© Determine the intersected points from each proximate component then record their names and set them in related layers.
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© Separate the components into 23 groups, and arrange them flattened from the 3d modeling space.
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© Place the components into cutting files.
Cutting Module
Acrylic materials can be used with laser cutting, mostly for optimized arrangements of material within the scope cutting of cutting processes.
© To ensure firm placement of the uncovered CDs and laser processing, it will be necessary to produce an extremely fast setting and replacement module.
In a laser platform cutting module, there were altogether 15 CD placement holders, facilitating changing locations, and allowing the CD discs and cutting template to maintain some distance, avoiding laser production causing base template material to overheat and turn black.
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Supporting Frame
As for the vertical aspect of the project, consideration of the structural design and other external elements ( weight / wind affects / human factors ), required internal use of a supporting frame for completion of the design. This frame structure is mostly made from hollow acrylic tubing (diameter = 6 / 4mm), integrated in conjunction with 4mm filled acrylic tubing.
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Rambler façade / Min-Chieh Chen
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About this project In the past decade, Taiwan has been a major producer of CDs, and as technology has progressed, these too have been largely displaced.© © © © © © © © © © © © © 
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