Exp 2: Week 3 - Download Links to CryEngine 3 and Sketchup Model

CryEngine 3 Download link on a public dropbox folder
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/84606789/Levels.zip

Google Warehouse Final Model Link
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=36f82ace25f342b7f957bcc94a4f05db

Exp 2: Week 3 - Real Time Shots & Five Images

Real Time Shots of Model

12am

6am

12pm

7pm

10pm

Five Images

Aerial View of the building

View from stairs to balcony

View from stairs to Seijima monument

Both monuments have a small monolith with a lighting effect on them because as the night comes, the environment and landscape become extremely dark. Thus the lighting places a greater emphasis on the monument as well as lighting up the entire space.

Staircase to Tange's monument

The stairs created to circulate between both monuments was also given thought and consideration. The stairs leading to Tange's monument are much more narrow and rigid leading downwards, accentuating the confining atmosphere of the monument, which is in stark contrast to the openness and exposed nature of Seijima's staircase.

View from balcony to monument

The balcony and viewing area were added to meld the ideas of danger and safety within the building. The people can view the landscape from the safety of the building through the glass or they can experience it outside on the balcony.

Selection of Landscape

I chose this landscape as I believed it shared an affinity with the connection between both architects and their characteristics. This cliff side landscape connects both the solidarity, rigidity and confined nature of the land and cliff sides with the free-flowing vast open and exposed ocean. This type of landscape suited the architects as its characteristics matched the qualities of the buildings designed by the architects, with examples including Tange's Yoyogi Gymnasium and Hiroshima Peace Museum as well as Seijima's Rolex Learning Centre and Shibaura House.

Exp 2: Week 3 - 36 Textures A transition from "Light to Dark" & Smaller Elements

36 Textures

Inspired by Glass

Inspired by Cubes

Inspired by Circulation

Inspired by 'Complexity within Simplicity'

Inspired by 'Increasing Interactions and Socialisation"

Inspired by Nature

Chosen Textures

Dark

Medium

Light

Light

The light texture has been applied to Seijima's monument as it mainly consists of a large open space and in an interview Seijima mentioned focusing on fluiditiy and non-linear pathways within designing circulation within their building. So I believed a more curved less linear texture was fitting.

Medium

The medium texture was applied to the transition meeting space between both monuments combining both the 'dark' and 'light' concepts of Seijima and Tange providing a transition between both areas

Dark

The dark texture was used to cover Tange's monument as it seemed fitting that his 'bunker style' monument would fit the dark texture in which the black almost encases and devours the white, similar to how the monument encases the people within.

Smaller Detailed Elements

Sketchup

Within Model

Exp 2: Week 2 - Parallel Projections

Projection 1

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Projection 2

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Projection 3

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Cryengine 3 Model

These combinations were based off a few of the week 1 concepts such as complexity and simplicity, but focused on Seijima's concept of transparency within the building and a blending of the exterior and interior while drawing on Tange's brutalist architecture reactions to the imminent dangers of World War 2.

Electroliquid Aggregation concept:

"A clear transition between the safety of the interior to the vulnerability of the exterior."

Exp 2: Week 1 - Exporting Developed Model to CryEngine 3

Two Images  from CryEngine 3

Axonometric sketch the model is based on