E-volve

Final Map

2009-06-26T16:50:00.002+10:00

Below is the link to our teams final fabrication.

Well City

Enjoy.

Team E-volve's Trailers and Extra Images

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Feature Trailer

Extended Trailer

E-vole Final Map

2009-06-18T19:19:00.001+10:00

Here is the final map, we created for the presentation.
However, we want to continue to working on it.

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=0e4a282696329119a0f2f20c509059d9e742aba97843afbfce018c8114394287

Video

2009-06-17T15:49:00.003+10:00

30 sec and two minute video

FINAL FABRICATION - PROPOSAL + IMAGES

2009-06-17T13:23:00.027+10:00

For this particular design we wanted to create an environmnet which suggests a solution for a hypothetical and highly possible solution that may occur in the fututre.
This situation is desertification.

With the challenge of using Crysis as the meduim to express the proposed design. The Key elements that were vital in the creating a real time ennvironment. Was the environmental impression, the accurately fabricated design, along with the sense of lighting, environment and interactivity.

We wanted to achieve a sense of the environment, a journey that is associated with the theme of desertification. This situation is highly possible in the future and there should be sanctuaries and place to live like this. in terms of the interior spaces, it was fabricated in such way to to display a colour scheme and some sort of difference in terms of the interior environment as opposed to the outside.

View down the well area.

Ramp corridor.

Mid section of the well.

Stephen once told us that the scale of the model is terribly out of scale. In comparison to the images provided by the architect, the front door’s size is relatively tiny when place with the external walls. With this initial wall span being over-scaled, the internal space is massive. For a house suited for two to four, this is too much spacing. Would that not be a good thing? Well, of course, but we are really trying to match the architects’ design. When trying to solve this issue, we tried to search deeper into the information provided in the eVolo website but there were none, so we just used our own scales from standards and “what’s appropriate” or “looks right”. Wilson was in-charge of the modelling. He made sure that the measurement stayed true to our analysis of 2.6m floors of 15x15 (previously 30x30). The scaling made it very possible to ‘decorate’ the internals appropriately.

The terrain stayed ultimately the same. An older map was revisited, revitalized, redesigned, reformed, and really sexy (in my opinion that is). I (Jack) gave it a little touch-up, bringing back the lake (because I initially thought it would omit the effect of the well. I also placed more trees and green along the ground. We were asked to give the space a point of entry or “how does one get there?” Our solution? A road.

External night views.

Wirada was in-charge of the furniture and interior design. For this, she researched certain contemporary designs and began applying it to the model. We, as a team, saw that there were some unexplainable texturings. For example, a stone wall like ours with wallpapers did not make sense, nor did we approve of such dark colouring. So she went ahead and revisited those rooms and redesigned it. We approved of its current design as it suits the environment and gives off a nice, warm feel or aura, if you must. In comparison to the old, this new design feels cosy and the space feels sufficiently used.

Top bedroom.

Master bedroom.

In our final and complete fabrication, we wanted to make sure our viewers or clients can see exactly what the architects’ image shows. We had pretty much discarded our old model because the windows were shocking (or maybe not) dissimilar to what the architects provided. Namely the pool image:

Private pool room.

Pool area.

Here you can clearly see our attempt to recreate this visual. I believe we have done a good job on this.

REFERENCES (FURITURE MODELS & TEXTURES)

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FURNITURE MODELS

[DINING TABLE] Benji_02 2009, Classic Dining Table from the 60's, Google Warehouse, accessed 10 June 2009, http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=f621be1c08e36564cd8afaa5c495c080.

[LIVING01] Corpio S 2007, 3 piece furniture set, Google Warehouse, accessed 5 June 2009, http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=c151bb03b633d8fe83f4566cf0664c43.

[KITCHEN] DTurner 2007, Steam Table and Prep Station, Google Warehouse, accessed 5 June 2009, http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=

6178ea19f21aaf39fb2295fcd7f882f8.

[PICTURE] Gigi60 2009, Old picture, Google Warehouse, accessed 8 June 2009, http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=3a845a4fef855373e3f7a74e12a274ef.

[COUCH] Google 2007, Curl lounge couch, Google Warehouse, accessed 8 June 2009, http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=2e2f34305ef8cbc1533ccec14d70360b.

[CHAIR] Google 2007, Cushioned dining chair, Google Warehouse, accessed 8 June 2009, http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=876f974fb8b7becd9aa57619897b669d.

[BED] Google 2007, King size bed 2, Google Warehouse, accessed 10 June 2009, http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=b4736cc1abe8c521e885718e52a574ae.

[CARPET] Jon 2006, Traditional Persian rug, Google Warehouse, accessed 8 June 2009, http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=588ada2090d2b2c4142aa18688bc8ec0.

[RUG] Kyle 2008, Area Rug 6'6", Google Warehouse, accessed 11 June 2009, http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=9440b8f906204583b6a7a2291cca4f9e.

[COVERED TABLE] Laarkk 2008, Covered table, Google Warehouse, accessed 5 June 2009, http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=2d0f4d977d61aecf89c33ded8af67808.

[SHELF] LillyXO 2009, Shelf, Google Warehouse, accessed 8 June 2009, http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=e5b7f453e1eca58ee819c67cb4ccafd3.

[STUDY SHELF] Murali S 2008, Siblings' Study Shelf , Google Warehouse, accessed 10 June 2009, http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=71399eadb2fb605995887813f23f35f7.

[LAMP] Tokar B 2008, Lamp, Google Warehouse, accessed 10 June 2009, http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=266dfa40fa180656f95441fc651d725b.

[ARMCHAIR] Zeuss 2009, Seabury Armchair, Google Warehouse, accessed 10 June 2009, http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=c4f9249def12870a2b3e9b6eb52d35df.

[TV] 15 TAPS 2007, Big TV + Shelves, Google Warehouse, accessed 8 June 2009, http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=9724c2b64b4fe9fd8a8f3532f8f8cf34.

TEXTURES

[STONE] Google Sketchup7, Stone_Flagstone_Ashlar

[WHITE FLOOR] Jingzun Ceramics Co., Ltd 2009, Textures-Ceramic-Tile-JW606010, Made-in-China.com, accessed 12 June 2009, http://www.made-in-china.com/image/2f0j00hMdQblvsEDkfM/Textures-Ceramic-Tile-JW606010-.jpg.

[FLORAL] Mao 2007, 6 Free Floral Background, accessed 10 June 2009, http://www.snap2objects.com/2007/07/04/free-vector-and-bitmap-floral-backgrounds/.

[WOOD] Mediafile 2008, Wood Backgrounds 2, accessed 10 June 2009, http://www.mediafire.com/?oguxdinyj4i.

[GANITE] Noche A 2005, Granite_azul_noce, Wikipedia, accessed 11 June 2009, http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Granite_azul_noce.jpg.

[TILE] No Author, Blue Tile, http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_IvDcbmva_NM/SFAuQdUdLyI/AAAAAAAAAgk/ORcePcCikHY/s320/tile2texture.jpg.

Interior Schemes

2009-06-15T19:30:00.005+10:00

Some interior schemes for our group progress, Wirada and I (Swati) researched and spent some time deciding on materials and the colour scheme, so we can bring some life to the interior spaces. Here are some samples we found:

Wk 12 progress

2009-06-15T18:48:00.002+10:00

In our last week of studio we were briefed by Jeremy and Graham on our work, they gave us valuable ideas to improve our fabrications.

We have to make improvements in the outside environment, adding more vegetation, and a pathway for our terrain.

We Also have to alter the building, adding another level, as it does not match the original design of the building. Also adding the stairs to the pool, as there is not easy access in that particular area.

The lighting also needs to be fixed in terms of giving it a sense of space,
the texture and colours that were used in the fabrication. It was stressed that we have an interior theme for it.

Otherwise also some A.I too

E-volve - Intensive 15 Day Schedule

2009-06-03T07:31:00.004+10:00

(PLEASE CLICK TO ENLARGE )

Red – E-volve Team

Yellow – Jackey Tran

Green – Wirada Deerajviset

Blue – Wilson Tan

Pink – Swati Tiku

LIST OF IMPROVEMENT AREAS

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LANDSCAPE

- Accessibility – road, vehicle, pathway, etc.
- Environment – dust, wind, clouds, tornados, etc.
- Realistic vegetable – flexible to environment (e.g. wind)
- Realistic water – colour, wave, effects
Relevant Specialisations
- Custom Vegetation – Consult with Jae
- Weather Controls - Wirada
- Custom Mini Map – Stephen
- Advanced Water – Allan
- Traffic Control - Suthea

BUILDING

- Create Aquarium
- Fix up wall and floor
- Import new door/window styles
- Modify the existing furniture
- Create theme for each building
Relevant Specialisations
- Advance Doors and Windows – Consult with Melissa
- Advance Elevators (Movers, Escalators, etc.) - Wing

MATERIALITY

- Search for the right textures
- Modify the existing textures
- Create realistic textures – bump map, reflection, transparency, etc.
Relevant Specialisations
- Advance Textures – Consult with Pui Pui (Rebacca)

INTERACTIVE ELEMENTS

- People - sitting, talking, eating, cooking, cleaning, swimming, etc.
- Animal – birds, camels, snakes, fish, etc.
- Sound – people conversation, nature sound, action sounds, etc.
- Vehicles – people driving
- Teleporting – teleport to different buildings
- Interactive objects – TV, chair, bed, etc.
Relevant Specialisations
- Advance AI – Consult with Cameron
- Custom Animations (Character + Vehicles) – Kenneth
- Custom Characters (Change Default, ect.) - Joanne
- Advance Sound – Jane
- Advanced Player Movement (Teleportation, flying, etc.) – Teresa
- Interactivity with In-game Objects - Monica

LIGHTING

- Artificial light - add lights both interior and exterior
- Natural light – adjust sun position and brightness
- Create on/off light switches
- Change light colours
Relevant Specialisations
- Custom Lighting Interactivity – Consult with Eva

PRESENTATION

- 1 x 30 second “Feature Trailer”
- 1 extended trailer (minimum of 2 minutes)
- Minimum 10 Stunning Images
- 5 minute Selling presentation
- Set of display panels outlining the entire project in a “Presentation Room” within the Fabrication
- Final Super Post to the team journal, including all outputs
- Complete referencing for all material used
Relevant Specialisations
- On Screen Overlays (Text, information, etc.) – Consult with Swati
- Cutscenes, Staged Walkthroughs, ect. - Jackey
- Custom HUD - Wilson
- Multiplayer Options – Karl
- High Quality Video and Image Export – Phillip
- Video (Materials, Web, etc.) – Michael
- Packaging, skinning, etc. - Alichia
- Analysis – Essmael

Week 09 - E-volve Strengths and Weaknesses from the class

2009-06-03T02:09:00.003+10:00

STRENGTHS	WEAKNESSES
Solving future sustainability issues has been taking into actions in their building proposal. I liked the idea of sustainability in their presentation which immediately captured everyone’s attention. Some fine detailed custom textures have been applied throughout their design which adds more depth to the building itself. The environment itself was nicely modeled combining with realism and interactivities.	The challenge for their design comes from the building itself which is not a interesting architecture in terms of geometry, location and interactivity. Because their design is set in the middle of a desert, the sense of building and map scale could be improved in order to bring more into the inside of their building design.
Well textures & furnishing Very interesting video	Need to add more interactivity
Uses architecture that is in a different site context. The landscape really looks like a desert environment with a realistic looking oasis where the structure is. Good use of cinematic in the presentation give you the impersonation that you are stranded and lost then find an oasis.	The pool at the bottom of the structure doesn't show much depth and can be made to look more realistic. The other structural element which is the reservoir fulled with water should be modelled and Incorporated into the final map.
Really good take on presentation; informative, detailed and entertaining. Very realistic environment and context. Nice furnishings and interior textures.	Could add 'oasis' elements such as more greenery / birds etc. Internal circulation could also be explored further.
Evolve had some very good videos for the presentation, they where quite entertaining and used some humour which is good for a presentation. This meant people payed more attention because they didn't get bored too easily. The way they presented the videos also gave a better idea of what they are aiming for in their concept. They also had some very good internal spaces in the environment. These internal spaces where very well resolved.	Evolve had limited interactivity in there level, there was not much that the person could interact with, and not much that helped the person feel immersed or involved with the level.
Noticed that alot of work had been developed in the detail of interior textures. Incorporating a nice design. Really liked you presentation. Strong use of a storytelling narrative in your video to introduce the designs purpose.	Because of buildings position underground. We couldn't grasp the scale and overall shape of the building. Maybe you could capture and present some images of the plans in sctions of when you first developed it above ground.
The terrain is awesome, so realistic and represents exactly what it is that is being expressed.	Its a design that is underground so the idea of no windows in the building makes it feel somewhat claustrophobic. So the use of textures could maybe be used to help with a more calm environment.
Excellent on applying texture into building and furniture. All looks good. The storytelling video is quite interesting.	The context of environment might be added more interactive activities and lack of lighting effects inside building.
Textures are rich in terms of the interior of the building. It’s interesting and creative to use story telling to introduce the project.	Some of the interior is a bit dark, adding some lighting effect may help enhancing the brightness of the environment.
A good sense of landscape. Detailed furniture & textures	Lacking interactions and lightings
Good information -graphs- PowerPoint.
Beautiful desert environment and nice material texture.	Lack the concept of interactivity with the outside world, eg. how to get there?
The weakness of E-volve is the presentation of the building that includes the concept of space and the form of the building. They think the challenge is that how to deal the water feature and not let it clash with their main theme. The layout of interior furniture has been seriously taken into consideration for this team. They have troubles to import their furnitures because errors keep occuring. This consumes long time to place each piece of furniture individually for them.	The strengths of this team have successfully established good connection between the building on the site and landscape and appropriate portrayal of desert environment on the theme of survival. The textures of interior space are very rich and quite outstanding compare with the rest of teams in our class. Their interior space looks more alive with some features such as flowers, pictures, rugs, crokery, stationary and electronic devices.
Unique design Building has a fantastic connection with the surrounding water	Design got confusing Unrealistic elements such as no entry point
Nice interior features, great textures on furniture.	Could not get the picture of the overall design.
Building spaces are well detailed. The surrounding environment does give that image of loneliness.	Interactivity on exterior are lacking

Week 09 - Summary of Improvements

2009-05-14T18:53:00.006+10:00

The things that we want to improve and work on for our final submission are the following:

- More AI ( Animals, Sounds )
- Each building having a different function
- make the pool area more interactive ( maybe add more beach chairs, beach balls )
- Add the plants in the glass boxes
- Lighting ( Switch on and off ?)

These are some weaknesses that our team would like to work on, and improve further, but getting into the actual project we may find some other ideas or we can push the other ones on further.

Assignment 02 - Team E-Volve's Final Map Fabrication

2009-05-07T09:11:00.009+10:00

Below is a link to download our team's final map:
http://files.filefront.com/13719955

Note
Location of the folders
- The map --> C:Program Files/Electronic Arts/Crytek/Crysis/Game/Levels
- objects --> C:Program Files/Electronic Arts/Crytek/Crysis/Game

In this particular project the final submission was a challenge as we had to complete everything in the final submission including the atmospherics, the lighting , the sound, video’s and the furnishing of our building. As a team we had to action our weaknesses before we could continue on the project itself. One main weakness, or one the aspects is the space that has not been created yet. Having no concept of space sort of did not define or help convey our concepts , and needs to be worked on. The other weakness is presentation of the building. Although it is preliminary work, it still needs to have some sort of form, just to show what it will look like in the end form.

The crymod website was really useful in most stages of the project, it provided the necessary information to execute the tasks. Through out the Project there were various hiccups, mostly time consuming or even just our group not agreeing on things. The first one was the terrain, as a group we had to completely agree on the final terrain, now that was a problem because some of us wanted it to convey an oasis and others wanted it to be conveyed as an desert just isolated in the middle of no where ? So we ended up created an area for a single dwelling in the middle of no where, there are strong themes of isolation and desertification. The building looks quite beautiful and aesthetically pleasing in the Twilight.

Another challenge is not to allow water from the outside environment dominate that of which is in the building, because the water aspect is the most important feature of the building. And if we placed the water outside the building then that in turn would seriously affect the themes and concept of being isolated.

When having to arrange the furniture it was not as easy as it seems, just by dropping it in the building. The things that need to seriously be taken into consideration spacing between them, and also the layout. The problem in crysis was to organise objects in crysis, especially in the building. For example when the origin point of any particular building is inside the building but when confused of the orientation the object is outside. And that is when placing furniture in crysis becomes time consuming. In regards to furniture it proved to be difficult as because when importing into crysis, you cannot export all the furniture all at once, because errors occur and some of the furniture does not appear which in essence changes the aesthetics of the space.

Then the next task was to create the lighting, same as the objects, that was the problem that was encountered, it was very time consuming starting the lighting over again, the lighting also had to be tested during the night and day, for practical purposes.

Assignment 2 - Video Captures

2009-05-07T07:37:00.003+10:00

Well City - Basis and Detail

Well City - Experience

Assignment 02 - Image Captures

2009-05-07T04:18:00.004+10:00

Week 08 - Progress Video (Site & Model)

2009-05-06T23:38:00.001+10:00

Week 07 - Team Progress

2009-05-03T17:34:00.007+10:00

As time runs short, the team is starting to feel the classical pressure of "are we going to finish this on time?"
Luckily, the team is following the projected schedule as tightly as possible (of course, this update was a result of a delayed self-reminder).

As of this point, the terrain is near completion (about 99% - there seems to be just something that has not yet been included). The video below shows how the terrain looks as it is:

The building model is at a satisfactory level. There is no wow-factor, but note that it is still incomplete. It will be revised once every prelim-secondary aspect is finalized and in-place. Also, when all the new, never before encountered technical issues are resolved. The images are as follows:

Week 07 - Team Journal

2009-04-26T12:47:00.004+10:00

Terrain Progress

Texture Progress

On Thursday ( 23rd April 2009) we once again resumed class back to normal. We had the pleasure of a guest lecturer once again from the field of psychology to speak to us about Team and Group psychology. We found this to be of particular interests as working in a group has its pro's and con's. It gave us some insights as how to behave with others, so not to cause rifts and cause major blow ups. But that all again depends on personalities being put together and have to work on an individual idea. We think that this is one of the biggest challenges faced with any group, but we are very fortunate that everyone compromises and our work gets done.

This particular group meeting we discussed how we will action all the tasks that need to be completed, we also were not happy with the terrain because our theme is about an oasis in a desert and too exemplify that, we have to be careful of our vantage points and our location.

E-volve - 15 Days Schedule

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Team Schedule

2009-04-13T20:53:00.002+10:00

Team Journal Entry 4

2009-04-08T23:51:00.007+10:00

Today (04-April-09), we had a guest lecturer named Michael Brand, from Construction Management and Property. He presented many interesting aspects of conflict. Firstly, he gave us an idea about the overall structure of stakeholders in an organisation or a project. In any projects, it generally involves clients, managers, architects, general contract, and sub contract. As there are a number of people working in the same project, it is hard to avoid conflict. Michael presented us to various causes of conflict and suggested a number of resolutions. The major causes that he stated include mutually inconsistent goals, lack of trust, authority relationships, too much emphasis on price, low capital backing, risk transference, lack of participation, and subcontracting outsourcing. Another important dispute is about payment. 70% of payment claim dispute is between a contractor and a subcontractor. This can cause a significant impact on collaboration and an overall project. He suggested that the best way of resolution is by negotiation. Negotiation does not only direct to the end result but it is also the best way to keep a good relationship between team members.

After the lecture, we had our team draft presentation. Our team was the 4^th team in the class. We were all quite excited as we prepared our presentation slightly different from other teams. Our presentation was focused on the progress of our project, the problems and resolutions that we encountered, whereas other teams emphasised the details and concept of their buildings. However, we had tried our best to give as much as information to the class. At the end, we gathered a lot of great feedback and interesting ideas and perspectives from the class.

E-volve Draft Fabrication

Strengths
- Good connection between the building on the site and landscape
- Good portrayal of desert environment on the theme of survival

Weaknesses
- Access to the building within Crysis needs to be considered.
- The structure detail of the building (exterior and interior) needs to be further analysed.

Other teams’ draft fabrications

Strengths
- Omega – Good deep analysis and portrayal of the building related to the surrounding landscape, urban and harbour
- Atlar – Great realistic underwater environment by creating sea lives, reefs, rocks, random and uneven looking terrain

Weaknesses
- Orange - The disproportionate scale and size of building
- Digilism – Unrealistic size of terrain

Assignment 01 - Video Capture

2009-04-02T00:30:00.003+11:00

We decided to use one 2minute video rather than two 1minute video to keep a general flow of imagery.

Assignment 01 - Image Captures

2009-04-01T18:22:00.012+11:00

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=0e4a282696329119a0f2f20c509059d9c3e78c7d0b3038705be6ba49b5870170

1. The Overall Building

2. The Open Windows

3. The Water in the well

4. The Water in the well

5. The Well

6. The Exterior of the well

7. The Terrain

8. The Interior
9. The Interior Windows

10. Texture in 3ds Max

11. Model in Revit

Assignment 01 - Environment and Technology evaluation

2009-04-01T17:27:00.005+11:00

The environment that we wanted to create was something that could be placed anywhere and be adaptable to its surroundings and still depict the nature of its original design. Well city was inspired by S. Patrizio's sink, which was characterised by a flight of steps, that turns into a central space that contains water, and that has many openings, where is possible to observe a central space. It is based on a semi-hipogen space; a visible level that contains a living room, a kitchen with spaces.

Well City provided a some major hurdles which also turned into learning experiences for some, the first step in reproducing this unbuilt architecture in Crysis was its scale, now because all that was provided for us were the early design concepts, we were not given dimensions of the building. So we dissected the plans and the given sections, created a 1:100 scale. We thought this would be suited best as it was very conventional and easily adapted to our building.

We then built our terrain, because well city is based on being able to survive in the desert, the naturally suited environment was sand and dunes, with a flat plateau for the site of the building. One of our hurdles was the positioning of our site and its orientation, as we were playing with the natural light of the real time environment.

The next step was re-modelling the building in Revit architecture, we had to break down the individual spaces and then create a relationship within each space. The basic functions that were used were the wall tools, setting different heights on floors and placement of stairs.

The fourth Step was the textures, now the first task we had was the selection of the textures, we choose the textures so it can evoke a sense of mystery and anticipation as “ Well City “ is underground. The standard materials that were chosen was the Stone, wood, water and glass. This would prove to be our biggest challenge yet. We encountered major problems in importing the materials into crysis. The texture was put in sketch up first, then exported to Crysis, but at first it seemed it worked, but after the second time it was attempted, the textures were no longer there. The way that we tried solving this was by using an alternative of 3ds max, now once again we had problems as 3ds max 2009 is not supported by Crysis. So then 3ds max 9 was used and we installed SDK plug in. Unfortunately the end result was it has not been resolved to date, it is still being vigilantly actioned.

The next step was the lighting, we thought this would be the easiest of all the tasks to be actioned, the only hurdle was the intensity of the light, which proved to be frustrating as we would be placed 20 entities in the same location. So the way we solved the problem was that we realised the display quality had to be changed.

The next step was the sound, we thought would test it out, just so we could play around with it in the draft stages instead of doing it very last minute. We did all the correct steps, but choosing the sound was difficult as no sounds were loaded on our crysis editor, so we once again were confused in what went funny.

So, overall we believe that we have overcome a lot of difficulties that were faced with this particular un built architecture, we believe that we have completed a lot of ground work for this difficult concept, and believe that we can reproduce it on crysis if not the same, even better than its original design.

Week 03 - Team Journal

2009-03-26T16:14:00.006+11:00

During the lecture today Jeremy talked to us about whats happening in the week to come. We discussed the class wiki and how to use it, and how it should be used. Our draft model is due next week which Jeremy talked us through what is required. Each team then had to present their progress and their contribution to the team, our group discussed the problems we had and the steps we will take to resolve them.

During the tutorial we assigned individual tasks to one another and what date they should be completed by, as everything is linked together so it is important that each person gets their tasks done by the date given. We couldn't get much work done as the XPS laptop we had did not have sandbox 2 installed., we had a copy of Crysis which we were going to install on the XPS but then another problem occured, the DVD-ROM drive wasn't working.Wirada created a timetable for our group members which gives us deadlines of when we should finish our assigned tasks by.

Week 02 - Team Journal

2009-03-19T15:30:00.006+11:00

In studio class, we had a keep internet connection problem, but that was overcome shortly. We discussed the various unbuilt architecture researches amongst each other, but it had already been settled, last week, that our chosen architectural is eVolo's Well City (or else see Swati's blog).

The Chosen One

Even though there were potential buildings to choose from, we agreed to keep the selection simple and allow us to be open with terrain and surroundings. The Well City offers unlimited opportunities to the potential setting and although it is numerous, the simplicity of the design and ability to clone objects allow this project to be effectively fabricated and processed.

The Unchosen One

The building that wasn't chosen was eVolo's skyscraper. This descision was made solely because it does not offer an open mind for terrain and environment and thusly, the setting has already been defined by the original architect.

8 Potential Problems
And then we went on to discuss potential challenges that we would encounter along the way. As of now, the challenges are:

Creating water within the buildings
Drilling a perfect rectangular hole
Lighting of the rooms
Importing materials to Crysis
Importing miscellaneous objects to Crysis
Creating the cave for the well
Recreating the space (scale) with the information available
Correct flow of water (well to pool)

And these potential problems are to be encountered within the weeks to come.

Week 01 - Team Journal

2009-03-18T19:59:00.003+11:00

In our first studio class for the year, we formed our first collaborative groups.
Our Team consists of Wirada, Jackey, Wilson and I (Swati).
One of the first topics we talked about were the actual tasks that are going to be presented on a weekly basis and what sort of building and form we are interested in creating as a team.
We decided to divide the tasks and agreed that each team member will each take on a work load that we can complete to the best of our abilities.

In the aspect of choosing buildings, we wanted to narrow down the search of a building, so we decided on certain forms and styles that we would be looking for. Our group was interested in more organic forms and building that is easily able to adapt to its surrounding environment.

We Also came up with our Team Name, Evolve we thought this name would be suitable for our group as we are"evolving our concepts and ideas".

The last thing we did was have a go at cry engine 2, just navigated and experimented with the program.