Sunday, March 22, 2009

Week 2 Studio - 22/03/09

1:00 pm: In todays studio we started off by having a group discussion about collaboration where we all defined certain topics.

2:00 pm: After our group disscusions we broke off into our own teams. Once we were off into our teams everyone in our group started presenting there 2 unbuilt architectures to the other team members. After discussing the unbuilt architectures amongst ourselves and then with the tutors we were left with 2 designs. One was the Dubai Opera house and the other was the Hydropolis in Dubai. In the end we decided to choose the Hydropolis as it was an underwater hotel that would look good, espeically with the water visuals within crysis. The dubai opera house had a very nice design aspect to it but trying to recreate this in crysis looked quite difficult. And by looking at our given space we decided to go for the Hydropolis. With the hydropolis we hope to create exciting underwater architecture in realtime using the crysis engine. One big element that my team wants to focus on is creating a realistic water environment complete with sealife that will further enhance the ambience of the Hydopolis.

4:00 pm: After deciding on the Hydropolis we then wrote up 8 areas of inquirey that would have to be researched and tested to find out if it was possible within crysis.

The 8 areas of inquiry are:
  1. If design of form and complex structures can be created within crysis.
  2. Test if structures can be placed in the water and to also hold it out.
  3. If we can import models from 3dsmax into crysis and test if model collisions works within sandbox2.
  4. Test the scale size of creating islands in Crysis and the structure.
  5. Test what materials would look authentic within an underwater environment
  6. Test if sealife is creatable.
  7. To test if models can me imported from sketchup.
  8. The tech tasks were divided up into 2 per person with the following people doing these tasks.

Allan- 2, 6
Philip- 1,4
Eva-5,7
Stephen- 3, 8

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