Week 3

In last week’s studio we started by discussing who could provide help regarding our project. Some of them were:

Engineers
Colour theorists
Architects
Interior designers
Product designers
Animators and so on.

Then we continued our meeting talking about how objects used will affect our projects theme. e.g rocks: stubborn and spring: aggressive. Some useful ideas came from the following:

Jan Svankmajer – dimension of dialogue

“Portraits of human faces made of fruits and vegetables. This segment has the feel of a relief painting in motion... the plane of existence is flat, but all objects are 3-dimensional.”

“Constructed of mechanical drafting products, the two attack each other, until one has been "eaten" by the other. After "eating", the winning head vomits up the loser, who takes on a look which is a rough hybrid of the two. Of course, the two heads attack each other again.”

Salvador Dali – Juxtaposition
Cybernetic Lobster Telephone

“In two exhibits with vastly different messages, the artist infuses common objects with surrealistic whimsy and delves into the psychic ties uniting love and death.”

In addition, materials that will be used could also give a different effect even with the same objects whereas timber could represent Sauna and steel for prison bars.

We also came up with some words that might help with our theme: Conflict

Hybridization
Synergy
Aggression
Confusion
Competition
Problem & solution
Resolution
Opportunity

This week I actually managed to buy a copy of the software. I have not yet tried the game itself but went over some of the UT3 tutorials that were provided with the software.

Discipline

There were so many meanings for this word that were directly or indirectly related to fields in architectural collaboration. Each team member has their own unique skills and knowledge about the project and it’s time to start making decisions. Many students in my group have mentioned their computing skills instead of other typical group work skills such as leadership and research. It could be said that some people with leadership are more logical and makes decisions whereas people with computing or design skills are more creative. Every project has to be planned for it to be perfect, especially when it comes to group projects and therefore I came up with some of the roles that could be divided during the studio for the final project.

Research of the building
Precedent studies of a similar project
Modeling
Texturing
Lighting
Time based environment
Sounds
Contradictions
Programming
Finalising
Problem solving

Reference
http://www.awn.com/heaven_and_hell/svank/svank7.htm
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