Grose Valley
Blackheath, Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia


http://www.genkin.org/gallery/landscapes/alpine-mountains/hanging-rock-blue-mountains-nsw/hanging-rock-blue-mountains-0004.jpg


http://www.genkin.org/gallery/landscapes/alpine-mountains/hanging-rock-blue-mountains-nsw/hanging-rock-blue-mountains-0002.jpg



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cryengine

Experiment 2

Final Submission

Interdependence

The end is never the resulting effort of a single person or a single group. It is the collaboration of many people and many groups.

At first, my model was massive as I thought that it was supposed to be a building, but my tutor sugessted that I scale it down by a lot. The brief also does not suggest that the monument itself is a building. In accodrance with my previous idea of equality between the lanscape and architecture, I chose to to scale down my model so that it would not seem more significant than the lanscape. However the rigidity and artificiality separates the two clearly. The 'space for the students' exists both on the architecture, and the surrounding terrain.



The transparent box on the left represents one group of people, in my case, the architects who form the conceptual ideas. A bridge from the block, passes through the void of the central block, representing engineers. Architectural ideas must pass by the engineers. The monument bridges a ditch and the surrounding flat terrain loops around, representing how Visualisation Artists interact with both parties.

I used textures to symbolise concepts for different parts of the architecture.


3 chosen textures

At first, ideas are light and conceptual...

... We consider different perspectives...

... As the ideas develop, they gain more detail and substance...

... Until we reach what we think is the goal and wonder where to stop tweaking... 

Google Sketch Up Model

Tag: "Claire Wu ARCH1101 2012 EXP2" (all one phrase)

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?q=Claire+Wu+ARCH1101+2012+EXP2&styp=m&scoring=t&btnG=Search

CryEngine 3 level

The original Folder in Levels had 6 versions, but because it was too big to download, I deleted an internal folder and its contents, but the levels should still open.

http://www.mediafire.com/?bvp4c5etftaqxod



Experiment 2

36 gradient textures

I hoped to create relationships between each square through similar shapes, techniques or continuity

 

36 gradient textures




Top left




Centre



Bottom right

Centre right




3 chosen textures

 

Reasoning for my choices will be evident in my next post.

Experiment 2
Electroliquid Aggregation


Interdependence
The end is never the resulting effort of a single person or a single group. It is the collaboration of many people and many groups.

Wholistic and dispersed elements compliment each other in fusing the building and landscape creating a sense of equality

After posting my electroliquid aggregation, the class was told to 'make the aggregation like a piece of literature' and 'think about the landscape not just the geometrical properties of the models' which was what I had done in my previous aggregation.


So, in class I combined my two concepts


"Wholistic use of a singular material heightens a sense of monumentality"
+
""Dispersion and fragmentation results in the landscape enveloping the building"
=
"Wholistic and dispersed elements complement each other in fusing the building and landscape thus creating a sense of equality"


I then considered the clients - Architecture students, Architectural Computing students, and Civil Engineering students.


"Architects and Civil Engineers both deal with the everyday built environment, yet both contribute differently to different aspects to create a complete structure. Without engineers, architectural ideas remain as just ideas. Without architects, a design may lack some creative flair. Visualisation Artists enable others to gain a better understanding of the structure."


 Then stripping this from its direct relation to this course and this experiment, I formed my final aggregation.

Experiment 2

Combined model in Sandbox

The task for this week was to combine the models so that they somehow touch each other. My two models here seem to be separated, but they actually combine on the cantilevered platform. Thinking about how different people would approach the building, I thought of the engineer's path and decided that an underwater entrance would be interesting, so I carved a river in the landscape that leads to the base of the model.

Experiment 2
Electroliquid Aggregation

Synergy
1+1=3

Combine two models, one concept from each artist in "electroliquid aggregation"

Placement of elements and subsequent effects of light stress self importance.

Vertical elements and infinite space create ambiguous bounds and play on the building's significance.

Wholistic and dispersed elements compliment each other in fusing the building and landscape, creating a sense of equality.

Experiment 2

Axonometric drawings of concepts

Dispersion and fragmentation resulting in the landscape enveloping the building.

Horizontality and low scale of the building complements the discreteness and invisibility of the architecture.

Reflection as a way of creating infinite space and ambiguous bounds.

Intersecting shapes and forms distorting internal and external perceptions.

Placement of planes as a filter of light.

Verticality of elements stresses importance in the landscape.

Wholistic use of a singular material heightens a sense of monumentality.

Model and CryEngine3

"Placement of planes as a filter of light"

With the 'filter of light' idea, I also wanted to play with colour and transparency of elements. I used primary colours to emphasise the simplistic prismatic forms and because secondary colours can be create depending on which section of the model is taken into account. The monument cannot be physically feasible (with current technology) so I included solid walls inside the glass casing, and still maintained the 5 prism restriction.