Independant task- Week 7

1. 1)  A brief outline of Project 1 – What was your chosen architecture? What were the concepts unpacked in your concept model? 
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3. For project 1 I made a digital concept model which drew inspiration from SANAA's Rolex Learning Center. I had an initial concept of of simplicity and free-flowingness, which I then developed into translucent spacial proportions and fluidity. 
4. I wanted to convey 'lightness' throughout the model. With my fluidity idea created a series of curved lined sequences at the base of my digital concept model to make an illusion of a fluid and light structure.

1. 2)  A visual analysis of 2x precedent studies as a pair – One from your Project 1 architect, another from an architect of your own choosing. How are they conceptually similar to Project 1? 

3)  A Design Proposal and Design Draft for Assignment 3 – List three specific building types and functions for your new design. How can they challenge the concepts and ideas you have looked at in

Project 1? Select one and begin a first design draft. 

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   • A residential area/home with an intimate sort of setting.
   • A skyscraper-like building.
   • The last one that I could think is some kind of office building.
   • A fourth specific function for my building is a retreat centre (which my tutor suggested)

So I've re-finalised my function from a residential building to a retreat space for young teens/youth to relax and reflect. This choice of creating a retreat center would allow my concepts of  Fluidity and Translucence to follow through the concept design.

4)  A Short Description on your Prescribed Additional Representation – What is the relevance of the technology you have selected to the nature of your design? What kinds of techniques and processes would you use from this technology in order to engage with the design of your architectural solution?

The technology that I am going to use is Modo for rendering and some of the complex modelling with the curved and flowing features of my design, 3ds max will be used as my primary source of modelling, photoshop to edit the renderings. 
I was planning on making an Interactive web media creation with html and a combination of Flash but I'm still deciding as it has been suggested to me to produce a CG short film on my building. For now I am focusing on creating my design and completing the visualisation.