EXP 2 Week 4

3 Sketches of Failure:

3 Images of Reference:

Images of Pripyat

Progress: 

Destruction Test

Interior With soon to be prop

 Overview of building with location. Note how the right side is facing the ocean similarly to the building facing the river

Direction:
The way im going to go with this project regarding disaster will involve nuclear radiation taking inspiration from the pripyat photos. Im going to be shooting this video and constantly going back from 100 years to past to juxtapose the two atmospheres. Im also going to show how nuclear radiation has affect the house, having clumps of structure failing, trees growing out and coloumns slowly degrading.

Reflection:
What I took back from the lecture was how decay can show so many pieces from the decay as they were the individual pieces that made up the structure. Alot of structures are either completely leveled or partially falling and collasping down.

EXP 2 Week 3

Sketch of Timber Roof- Consists of 3 layers= planks/boarding that contain the rafters. the rafters then support the tiles

 Construction sketch of brick pier,

 Construction sketch of section of wall.

detailed roof:

Brick pier:

Reflection:

What I found interesting about the lecture was the way things broke down. I had to think logically and to detail of structures. I also had to consider which way things would fall with my building. Guessing from the buildings exposure to the open environment, the planks would fail, then rafters and then the tile roof. 

EXP 2 Week 2

 Before

After: When bump map and specs added

Progress

3 Materials:
Brick- Made out of clay that is treated, heated and pressed together. Brick walls are made with brick and bonded by mortar. They are sustain for a good amount of time and strong against weather. Durable and structurally sound. As time passes, mortar will fail and brick will fall off and overtime crumble.

 Concrete-Made out of cement and water. Will begin to crumble as exposed to water. Cracks form and pieces fall off. as cement and water mix, gives off heat while moulded. Structurally sound but if there is no shear plane to brace, lateral forces such as wind can damage the concrete slab.

 Timber- Made out of cell structure that is similar to a bundle of straws bounded by a rubber band. Timber divides between either soft or hard type. Will rot and decay over time especially if exposed. Structurally sound but can fail when force is against grain. 

Reflection:

This lecture made me think of how substances worked and then how they would break down. I also had to consider how nature had an impact. For example termites acting on timber, and rocks slowly crumbling from erosion. My building consists of various substances and i will have to think about how they will break down.

EXP 2 Week 1

 A Brick Coloumn

A Concrete wall

Chosen Architecture: Sabramati Ashram

 This building gave accommodation to Ghandi and has many portraits of him. Very open, and consists of a series of repeated brick coloumns and concrete walls and roofs.

There are small details such as the tile roofs, the metal window frames, the concrete top, the tiled floor.

As said before, this building is very open and has many small courtyards that have vegetation growing in them.

Reflection:

What I found  very interesting was the amount of vegetation that grew in the Chernobyl despite the radiation that affected the building giving a very distinct look of derelict house but growing plants that  gave the impression of an area that is humanless.  

Final Submission Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OGvR4BccKI

Download File : https://www.dropbox.com/sh/p3af14e6ayqiekb/AAD33h46F4glhTrSgWZLW6OUa?dl=0

(Note: Only required level folders are available to download. To transfer simply download, locate to project folders and replace with the level folder and its textures

Notes: I had problems with Premiere for the frame size. This will be addressed for the next submission

Week 6

 Reflection

Reflection:
The use of flow graphs was very interesting and how interactive environments can be toward the persons experience. Had I have the extra time I would have explore this in incorporating a proximity sensor for the Rice field where as the person walks towards the house, it gets more foggy to invoke a sense of mysteriousness and danger

Week 5

Subliminal Letters: 8 and M

Macro To Micro Exploration:

Carving out of Mountain

 Walkway around cliff

Ruin Entrance

Rice Field

M in the Beware

Other instances of subliminal messages:

8 Spiky Pillars

 Jagged M cliff walkway

 Rocks to form 8 in waterfall

 Lakes in form of 8

Strategy:

In implementing these subliminal messages, I wanted to incorporate them heavily into the landscape and terrain to get a balance of how casual it could be but also make it look too unnatural to provoke thought of larger forces at play on this mysterious island. I aimed to make it casual in a way that at one angle you can see the letter quite obvious but not so much so in another perspective. This was so I could make the trailer more interesting from use of other camera angles. 

Because my number was 8, I wanted to express it more as a letter than in quantity as having more of an object resulted in it being overlooked as too casual and having then aligned would make the object look too unnatural. I wanted to avoid for the audience to count rapidly the number of objects in the subliminal messages.


Reflection:
In seeing the subliminal messages, I notice how some things were only visible for a second however it was placed in such a way that it stuck in the mind. I also notice how it could be incorporated into things that had another function to be almost overlooked