STEP 1: CREATE YOUR BLOG
STEP 2: IN CONSULTATION WITH YOUR STUDIO SUPERVISOR CHOOSE AN IMPORTANT UNBUILT ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT AND WRITE 350 WORDS DETAILING ITS "IMPORTANCE". YOU SHOULD INCLUDE A QUOTE THAT SUPPORTS YOUR ASSERTION ALONG WITH STILL IMAGES AND/OR VIDEO TO SUIT.
NOTE: EACH STUDENT IN THE GROUP SHOULD RESEARCH AND PRESENT A DIFFERENT ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT. ALL MATERIAL USED SHOULD BE CORRECTLY REFERENCED.
THEMES
The three themes that our Group(C) have chosen to do are as follows:
CONTEXT - Data, Information, Meaning.
CONFLICT - Revolution, Decision, Argument & Solution.
KNOWLEDGE - Information, Library, Database, Books, Archives, Research.
CONTRIBUTION
The CAD programs that I could use to contribute are:
- 3DsMax
- V-ray
- Director
- Photoshop
- Rhino
My specialty would be on 3DsMax, especially on modelling.
SOURCE
Resources could be found from the following:
- Books
- Internet
- Blogs
- Art gallery
- Architectural firm
- Previous student's work
UNBUILT BUILDING
1) Market-Rate Housing in Brooklyn, NY (Lewis Wadsworth, Yale School of Architecture)
These images were produced for Lewis's second-year Master of Architecture studio project. They represented a rather elaborate market-rate housing to be built above reconstructed piers in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.
The designer believes that he uses SketchUp in somewhat unusual ways, especially in creating final renderings. "I like the fact that at least with exterior views I can produce, more or less 'on the fly', images that would require a renderfarm and several hours with less user-friendly and more expensive software."
The design was by Dennis Nikolaev, a third year architecture student at Virginia Tech. Dennis used SketchUp to generate a series of perspective and orthographic drawings for a final image board, which was submitted to a student design competition and took first place in its division in the 2002 CADALYST Image Awards. He states that his concept of his design was "Maximum space with minimum enclosure. The structure creates additional room just by unfolding. The room under the stairs is for findings storage and tool storage."
REFERENCE
1) Google SketchUp, www.sketchup.com/?id=21&csid=110, viewed [18/03/08]
2) Google SketchUp, www.sketchup.com/?id=21&csid=2, [18/03/08]
