Final Checklist for Assignment 3

Due Date: Thursday 30th October, Midnight
DO NOT PRINT YOUR PDF's!

Final Submission Requirements!

As well as having links to your interactive PDF on your website, please submit your final PDF, with your student number and name (eg.1234567FirstnameLastname.pdf) to:
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• 3xA1 Display Panels in an interactive PDF format (all in one PDF file)


• Minimum of two embedded animations


• Optional: embedded digital models (one of these can replace an animation)


• Minimum of 1 plan, 1 elevation, 1 section


• Minimum of 3 renders showing interesting aspects of your redesign


• An image showing site context


• Any supporting material that helps to convey your ideas, this could be research, writing, comparison studies between the original building and your redesign, history, etc.


• Minimum 1 page website, in a similar style to your posters, highlighting main themes, a few thumbnail images (links to larger versions) extra info that you may want to add (concept sketches, extra research that didn't fit on your posters, etc.) and a link to your 3xA1 PDF file.


• JPG images of each page of your PDF posted to your blog, with a short description about your project.

Most important is the strong layout of your posters, and the interactivity of the PDF, there is a lot of space to cover, so you will need to think about how your content fills this space effectively, without overwhelming the viewer, and how you can lead a person around your design interactively to help convey your ideas.


Blog Requirements (stuff that should be on your blog!)

• All research gathered about Jorn Utzon's Silkeborg Museum


• 2 x 250 words, one lot a descriptive text with your feelings about the building, one lot discussing your proposed changes, all in descriptive language.


• 10 words chosen from your research and writing that relate to your proposed redesign.


• 10 materials for texturing your building, relating to your concepts, converted to tileable textures to use in Max or another 3D application


• 3 images of your group model


• Minimum of 3 physical sketches of your design.


• 3 images of your redesigned model


• Images of a rough layout design for your final PDF


• 1 Peer review of Assignment 2

Good Luck, email me with any issues!

Embedding a 3D model into a PDF

I have had a couple queries about this, so thought I would just add a quick post.

There are numerous applications out there that will convert your models into ".u3d" files that can be embedded in PDF's, there may even be a Sketchup plugin to export to ".u3d", though I haven't found one yet (if you find one, let me know). There are also other ways to embed 3D models, though you will have to research these alternatives for yourself.

The easiest way I found to do this was to import your model into Microstation, and export from there into ".u3d" file format. Microstation is in the labs, in the "Start" menu under "Microstation", and you can export straight to ".u3d".

You can then embed it in a PDF using the "Advanced Tools" toolbar.

Final Due Date for Assignment 3

Due Date: Thursday 30th October, Midnight

Week 12 Studio Task

• Get final feedback on your concepts for the re-interpretation of the Silkeborg Museum.


• Show your tutor your rough layout, and A1 PDF mockup. This will be your last chance for a face-to-face with your tutor, so use the time wisely.


• Continue working on updating your blog, working on your models and visualisation, and refining your layout.

Independant Study for Week 12

• Sketch out a rough layout for how your final PDF's will look like, post your sketches to your blog.


• Do the interactive PDF tutorial, and read through the tips document.


• Mock-up a quick set of A1 panels in Indesign, based on your rough layout, and export to PDF, testing the tools and techniques available when creating an interactive PDF.


• Continue to refine your ideas in your model and visualisations, taking your redesign to a high level of resolution.

Week 11 Studio Task

• Peer Review: Use the Assignment 2 Marking Schedule at:
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  to review another students Assignment 2 work.


• When writing comments, I would like you to concentrate on the the blog of the student you are reviewing. How informative is the blog? Is it interesting? Is there a good amount of information?


• Post the review that someone else has done of your Assignment 2 to your blog.


• Get your tutors comments on your re-design of the Silkeborg Museum.


• Continue modelling your ideas in your chosen 3D application. Use your materials to start texturing your building, and creating interesting scenes for your visualisations, and any animations you are going to produce.


• You can find tips and tutorials for creating interactive PDF's at:
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Independant Study for Week 11

• For Thursday's class, provide 3 initial sketches of your reinterpretation of the Silkeborg.


• The Sketches should show a rough idea of any modifications you will be affecting on the building, and put your building into an environmental (site) context.


• The sketches should be thought out, and be "beautiful" within their own right, and each show something specific about your site and building.


• Post your sketches to your blog.

Week 10 Studio Task

A lot of you are not up to date with the weekly tasks, you will spend today and the following week getting your blogs up to date with all of the required content. I have listed below what you should have on your blog by now.

• Complete the week 9 studio tasks, as well as what was required for this weeks class!

This includes:

• Forming a group and posting your group members to your blog.


• Writing your 250 words highlighting your feelings about the building, post them on your blog.


• Choosing 10 emotive words from your research, post them to your blog.


• Choosing 3 of these words, which will become the basis of your re-representation of the Silkeborg.


• Modelling the building faithfully, in your groups, as you believe Jorn Utzon imagined it, and individually posting three images of your group model to your blog. These images should be different image captures than the rest of your group.


• Writing another 250 words, this time detailing your concept and direction for redesigning the Museum, post to your blog.


• Gather 10 textures that relate to your ideas, and that you would like to use as materials in your redesign, using the three words that you have chosen to help define the direction of your re-interpretation, and your 250 words of your concept as a basis.


• Prepare the materials into usable tiles for texturing your building (this can be done in Photoshop), and post the tiles to your blog.