Peer Review for Expt.3_Bridge





 

 

The peer review sheets completed by Edward Hung and Sarita Tam for this experiment 3.

Final Photos of The Brigde and Folly in Cryengine Environment for Expt. 3_Bridge

The final images of the bridge and folly for this experiment 3 are captured from Cryengine as mentioned in the last post. These photos are basically classified into nighttime and daytime. For nighttime images, they are separated into distance views and close views. For daytime, images are grouped into different time of the day from sunrise to afternoon and from afternoon to sunset.

Hope u guys will like the moments of various periods of a day I capture:>

• Final Images Captured in Cryengine Environment

 

Nighttime

~Distance Views~

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nighttime with moon

 

 

 ~Close Views~

 

 

 

Daytime

Sunrise

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sunny day in the afternoon

 

 

Sunset

 

 

• Concepts and Theories Behind the Design

 In designing and creating the bridge and architectural folly, I tried to present the sense of simplicity, openness, weightlessness and transformation. To achieve simplicity, I first make the shape and material of bridge and folly to be as plain and basic as possible by creating only simple clear-cut lines on surfaces of skin and not overdoing the addition of textures on them. In addition, the openness in space is brought by widely using the glass on the bridge facades and open roof in folly. What's more, weightlessness is created via the paper-like skin and narrow shape of bridge to give the illusion of bridge floating on top of the lake in the valley. Last, transformation is generated through the varying shapes of sections in bridge to give freshness to students and staff in the faculty of architecture wherever they travel along the changing size of space in bridge.

• Cryengine Environment in Dropbox

The Cryengine environment created above for the bridge and architectural folly is upload in Dropbox now. Please check the link below to access it. The cry. file type is the one which can access it by copying it to your own Cryengine/Game/Level fold. If version 3 cry.file cannot be accessed, please try opening version 2 instead. Thanks!

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zbgvc9ok240i671/0P2izBWuqS

 

 

Finalised Sketchup Models of the Bridge and Architectural Folly for Expt. 3_Bridge

Hi, the photos of finalized Sketchup models of bridge and architectural folly are posted as follow with 3 chosen custom textures from 36 textures as created before in the previous post.

Hope this will give you guys the general view of them before further importing to the Cryengine environment. Also, the photos of the bridge and architectural folly in Cryengine environment will be shown later on in the next post.

Enjoy:>

• The Photos of Bridge and Architectural Folly in Sketchup

 

The Bridge

 

 

Side view

 

Iso view

 

 

The Architectural folly

 

 

Front view

 

•  The Models of Bridge and Architectural Folly in 3D Warehouse

The link directly going to my Sketchup models of bridge and folly in 3D Warehouse  is as follows:

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=434e968c458b7fe3974dfbb3a9d514a9&result=4

• The 3 Chosen Textures of Motion Used in the Models

 

Texture 1

 

Type: linear

Brightness: Dark

Places applied in the models:

Mainly on the exterior facades of bridge in the entrance part and central part as well as on the F-shaped facades of folly.

Reasons:

To emphasize the strong linear lines on the facades of bridge and the sharp F-shaped facades of folly.

 

 Texture 2

 

Type: Rotational

Brightness: Medium

Places applied in models: The two elevators in the bridge only.

 Reasons: To strengthen the rotating property of the elevators while going down to the folly.

 

Texture 3

 

 

Type: Scalar

Brightness: Light

Places applied in the models:

Mainly on the exterior facades of bridge in the entrance part and central part as well as on the F-shaped facades of folly

Reasons:

To emphasize the strong linear lines on the facades of bridge and the sharp F-shaped facades of folly.

Elevator for Dean and Students of Architecture in Expt. 3_Bridge

The following photos are the elevator created for both the Dean and students of architecture travelling along my bridge in this experiment 3. It will bring the Dean and students to the architectural folly located on the valley ground starting from the entrances on both sides of bridge.

To do so, the elevators will travel to the center part of the bridge and then descend to the valley ground via the large opening on the bottom of bridge connecting to the interior elevator tunnel. This gives the overall pathway of elevators.

Apart from this, custom texture chosen from the 36 textures I created before in the previous post is applied on the elevator surfaces to express the sense of motion of the elevators.

• Elevators for the Dean of Architecture

 

Side view

 

 

Iso view

 

Top view

 

 Elevator below eye level tilted  at an angle

 

 

Front view

 

• Elevators for the Students of Architecture 

 

Side view

 

Iso view

 

Top view

 

 Elevator below eye level tilted  at an angle

 

 

Front view

 

• Comparison of these two elevators

 

Side view

Elevator for students (left) is larger then that for Dean (right).

Besides, the one for Dean is colored in orange for recognition.

 

 

Top view

Elevator for students (left) is in kite shape whereas that for Dean (right) is in V-shape.

 

Top view

The shape of these two elevators are just fit to each other and there is a cushion at the front of each elevator, so that this can avoid collision in case of accidents when travelling along the same tunnel within the bridge. 

 

• Elevators for Dean and Students in 3D Warehouse

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=202c0024fe1fdda0974dfbb3a9d514a9

 

Plan-to-Section (90 degrees Conversion) for Expt.3_Bridge

• Idea of Plan-to-Section

To construct a bridge spanning over the valley chosen in the previous post, its sections have to relate to the concept and design of certain buildings' plans as provided in the lecture slides. Therefore, this comes the 90 degree conversion to turn the horizontal plans of given buildings into the vertical sections of my bridge in this experiment 3.

• Design Direction

Talking about my design direction, I have seclected a plan with many layers of concentric rectangles as my basic design concept (As shown below). Then, I tried to make each rectangle into different sizes of quadrilateral by rotating it to certain angle. The major idea is that I want to creat many sections of varying shapes of quadrilateral in layers throughout the bridge so as to generate a sense of transformation or twist although the bridge still looks spanning over the valley in one directions without bending. As such, there are several sections in the first half part of bridge showing the changing sizes of the quadrilaterals as follows to creat various dimension of spaces for different purpose of activities in the faculty of architecture. Finally, the another half part of bridge will be the reflection of first half part to give the whole structure.

• Plan chosen from lecture

 The plan with many concentric rectangles giving layer structure concept with different shapes of quadrilateral in my sections of bridge.

 

Indian ruin plan

• Varying sections created via given plan

 

The longtitudinal section of the whole bridge with alphabet sectional cuts and annotations showing different usages of space for the Faculty of Architecture.  

 

 

The entrance elevation of both sides of bridge_a

 

 

The entrance lontitudinal section showing the stairs connected between the ground floor and first floor as well as the rhombus elevator on the right side for travelling along the bridge.

The space near entrances on both sides are mainly used for library and gallery. 

 

 

Cross-section b

The space here is mainly used as gallery and library on two different sides of bridge respectively.

 

Cross-section c

This is the conjection between gallery and meeting rooms as well as between library and computer laboratory on two different sides of bridge respectively.

Cross-section d

The space here is mainly used as meeting rooms and computer laboratory on two different sides of bridge respectively.

 

Cross-section e

This is the conjection between meeting rooms and offices as well as between computer lab and studio spaces.

 

Cross-section f

The space here is mainly used as offices, studio spaces and workshop for staff, students and non-staff members.

Cross-section g

This is the conjection between offices and central lecture hall as well as between studio spaces with workshop and central lecture hall too on two different sides of bridge respectively.

 Cross-section h

The space here is mainly used as the central lecture hall on the lower floor level while space on upper floor level is a common space for students,staff and non-staff members to have a rest. There is also a large shade above this space for avoiding excess sunlight entering the large space.