EXP 3: CryEngine Landscape

After choosing a landscape from my country of origin, I had to recreate this valley onto CryEngine. My impression of Hong Kong are seeing those huge skyscrapers everywhere I go and when I went to the Peak, it was as if the skyscrapers have created their own concrete hill. This is why i exaggerated the tall buildings, forming a valley in between the man made towers and the natural hills of Hong Kong.

To create my cityscape, i used this software CityEngine to create most of the smaller buildings.

Then I exported it onto SketchUp to add my own textures onto the buildings. I also added some of Hong Kong's known buildings to the landscape.

My first draft of landscape on CryEngine.

EXP3: One Point Perspectives

EXP 3: Mash Up

Article Mash Up

C. Molloy , Jonathan. "Can Architecture Make Us More Creative? Part III: Academic Environments" 17 May 2013. ArchDaily. Accessed 21 May 2013. <http://www.archdaily.com/370486>

Rackard , Nicky. "Cities Without Ground: A Hong Kong Guidebook" 28 Mar 2013. ArchDaily. Accessed 21 May 2013. <http://www.archdaily.com/352543>

Rosenfield , Karissa. "How Santiago Calatrava blurred the lines between architecture and engineering to make buildings move" 20 Jan 2013. ArchDaily. Accessed 21 May 2013.< http://www.archdaily.com/321403>

EXP3: The Bridge

Experiment Three: The Bridge

Landscape

If I was the Dean of an Architectural Engineering school, I would design it across the landscape of Hong Kong's natural and concrete valleys. Having visited Hong Kong multiple times, there is a clear contrast between the city buildings and the natural environment. If i were to design a school, I would create a bridge that connected the city and the nature.

EXP 2: Final Submission

Experiment Two: The Space Between

A monument was to be created for two architects: Frank Lloyd Wright and Aires Mateus. However, both architect's buildings have contrasting styles.Wright's architecture tries to merge into the environment, whereas Aires Matues's buildings appear alien to the environment. With two very different styles of architecture, one monument is to be created and placed within a suitable environment.

ElectroLiquid Aggregation

Based on each architect's buildings, concepts were transformed into axonometric sketches made up of 5 building blocks. Two concepts from each architect were then combined, resulting in a monument that reflects the Electroliquid Aggregation: Voids and negative spacing can be created within natural forms that "grow right out of the soil." This concept tries to encapsulate how voids and negative spacing can also "grow" from the natural environment.

 

Textures

Textures varying from light to dark were painted on the surface of the monument. The lightest texture was painted on the upper wall of the monument to mimic sun rays and the shadows of tree branches on the wall. The medium shade texture imitates the graininess of rocks, which was then painted on the plane that is hidden inside the cave. This allowed the monument to extend to the cave as if both forms are connected. The darkest texture reflects the patterns found in sections of sedimentary, which is why it is painted on the main vertical component that is connected to the soil.

 

Monument within the Landform

Based on the Electroliquid Aggregation: Voids and negative spacing can be created within natural forms that "grow right out of the soil." The monument is placed within an environment where the form of the architecture mimics the environment, but also appears "alien" in the environment.

To reflect Wright's architecture, the form must "grow right out of the soil, wherever sand and ground around." The monument's main vertical component "grows" from the ground and branches out horizontal components like trees.

Caves are ultimately nature's voids and negative spacing. By placing part of the monument inside the cave, it highlights Aires Mateus' concept of secrecy. However the use of negative spacing can also reflect Wright's architecture, where the hole in the main horizontal component allows water to run through without obstructing the nature of its flow.

 CryEngine Landscape

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/niwkrmfqxx0pazi/QINV86Mi-b

 

SketchUp Model

EXP 2: 36 Textures

Light to Dark Textures

By using different thickness and hatching of texture, it created a range of light to dark designs which were to be added onto the monument surface. 

EXP 2: Digital Monument Draft 2

 SketchUp and CryEngine Monument

 Further developing the monument, it was exported into the CryEngine terrain. With the vertical component holding up the monument, it acts like the trunk of a tree and "grow right out of the soil." In addition, voids and negative spacing are used to provide shelter from the waterfall. However the negative spacing within the major horizontal component allows water to run through without obstructing the nature of its flow.

EXP 2: Combined Axonometric Sketches

Combined Axonometric Sketches

Two 'ElectroLiquid Aggregation' quotes were combined together to create a monument that encapsulated both aspects of Aires Mateus and Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture.