Assignment 3 – The Re-Presentation

1 x blog: 

http://alyssa1390.blogspot.com.au/

1x developed design proposal (blog entry):

 http://alyssa1390.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/week-10.html

3x blogged evidence of design development: 3ds max creation of my design-

http://alyssa1390.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/independent-task-week-10.html 

3 x A1 Display panels in an interactive PDF format (3 page PDf in a single file), which should include:

• Minimum 1 x embedded model with named and saved views

• Minimum 2 x embedded animations or video capture

• Minimum 2 x high quality post-production visualizations & 2 x high quality renders

• Minimum 200 word introduction

• Information produced from your Prescribed Additional Representation

2 animations:

Individually chosen Prescribed Additional Representation:
(Web media creation with html and Flash)  
http://alyssakristi4.wix.com/arch1390

Satisfactory completion of Exercise- Precedent Study and Design Proposal:
http://alyssa1390.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/independant-task-week-7.html

Downloadable source of my assignment:
http://www.mediafire.com/?l04cv5wcma5ta

Updates!

Pre-production renders

Week 11

Material palette/montage

Independent task- week 10

1) My completed modelled draft of my building

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2) interactive web interface draft design

Week 10

1)

Expressive montage (click the photo for an enlarged image!)

2) The type of spaces I'm aiming to create are just relaxing places to be in, such as rooms with flowing water or white open-spaced areas with various panorama views of the landscape.  The types of use groups that would use my architecture as a place to relax and get away from any negative or daily worries would mostly mature older teenagers and young adults. The main colour scheme I'm sticking to is on the lighter spectrum of the colour wheel by using alot of pastel colours and different shades of white.

3) I'm using the power of an interactive web media creation with html and flash to challenge the design and representation of my architecture by allowing concepts of "free-flowing/fluidty" and "translucent spacial proportions"to be integrated into my design aswell.
Just a couple of examples and ideas that the web creation could provide for this assignment:

• The cover/opening page of the website will have a panoramic render of my design and the landscape that it sits on, with an animation that showcases my aspects of translucency and fluidity by perhaps fading-in the render and then once you click enter the background will have a translucent effect as to not over-shadow the information infront of it.
• I've thought about the "flowing" aspect of my design with the image  gallery having an infinity amount of loops when the mouse scrolls through the images, so it seems like it never ends which ties into my fluidity concept.
• Using flash would allow me to utilise animations to its full potential which I would not be able to do with just using a pdf and putting images in them. Animations such as fade in effects, transitions, colour changes and animations when you click a button etc. 
• I am planning to make a shoet CG video of my building, perhaps a short walkthrough through the building. The digital technique of incorporating a video in my website would further add onto its interactivity with its pause/play/skip/fast forward options.

The image below is what I drew up in studio about the layout of my website. 

Independent Task- Week 9

1) I have some updated sketches of the recent design that I had in mind

2) Just demonstrating through the screenshots below that I know how to embed an interactive 3d model into a pdf. The draft that I've embedded into the pdf file was my previous idea so  please don't mind this horridly incomplete model.

Created a new view

Normal View

Cross section

Week 9

Just clarifying that :
A retreat is somewhere that individuals go to relax and learn more about themselves by having some time to reflect on themselves and their lives.

 In studio I've discussed the following with my tutor:

• External environment:

The landscape should be integrated in the architecture too because of the concept of fluidity, so the architecture should flow into the landscape essentially creating one form. Integrating the landscape would also help with the notion of relaxing and 'getting away' from everyday life to come and relax in a retreat.

• Interior:

With fluidity and translucency being my concepts, the retreat should have a 'light' ambiance to the environment-thus, the interior should flow from indoors to outdoors. My interpretation of bringing a soft and light feel into the scene whilst incorporating my concepts in the design is to have windows throughout the building and perhaps a panoramic view of the outside. Also have materials that have some translucency to them, perhaps some light screens instead of walls to divide up the spaces.

• Finalising the prescribed additional representation:

My tutor was suggesting to create a short cg film to showcase my ideas clearly, so I'm taking a great leap of faith that I'll be able to lean how to video edit quite soon! So with the short film, I'm going to be embedding it into an "interactive web media creation with html and a combination of flash".