Independent Study for Week 6

• Post to your blog at least two images from your gathered documentation, highlighting the style that you will mimic for your chosen building.


• Make a rough mock-up of what your 3 page site will look like, using an application like Photoshop or Indesign.


• Consider the display styles used for your chosen building when laying out your esquisse for your webpages, working with your idea of what the architect's vision may have been.


• Post 3 images (one image for each page of your website pages) to your blog.

Week 5 Studio Tasks

• From the Documentation you have gathered over the past week, start modelling your building in a chosen application.


• If you have managed to obtain a 3D model of your building, check its accuracy, and start applying materials and setting up camera angles for renderings.


• Consider the structure of the building when you are modelling, you may want to show your building constructing itself in an animation.


• Suggestions for modelling software, either Sketchup, 3Ds Max or Revit Architecture


• Extract from your model, plans and sections that you can work with in a graphics program like Photoshop.

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Independent Study for Week 5

• Gather information about your building. This will include, sketches, plans, sections, elevations, photographs, literature, and anything else you feel is relevant.


• Use the library, and other sources. Don't limit yourself to the internet!


• Post to your blog a selection of the information you have gathered. Showing documentation, photos, references to books or articles, quotes from the architect, or others relating to your building, etc.


• Write 250 words about your chosen building, and post to your blog, highlighting the process you will take to visualise the building.


• In your writing, reflect on the difficulties and opportunities that your particular building will create for you.


• Reference everything! Creating a bibliography of sources. This will be an on-going process throughout this assignment. As you find information, add the reference to your bibliography.


• Even if you don't post an image that you have gathered, reference where you obtained the image from, and likewise for any other material you gather.

Week 4 Studio Task

• For those of you who haven't posted your three buildings for Assignment 2, you can go find them during studio, and post them to your blog.


• Come back and discuss your choices with your tutor once you are up to date.


• Show your buildings to your group, discussing why you made your particular choices, and highlighting points of interest about the architecture.


• With your tutor's help, decide on one of your three buildings to model and visualise.

Independent Study for Week 4

• Hand in Assignment 1: Due 9am Wednesday 20th August


• Find three built architectures that you would like to represent for your Second Assignment. Try to find examples that it will be easy for you to gather information on(plans, elevations, images, etc). One of these will be chosen for further research.


• Post to your blog images of your three buildings of interest along with a paragraph for each describing why you are interested in re-presenting the design.

Week 3 Studio Task

• Todays studio is about knowledge sharing, and practicing applications.


• Consider the elements that you will use in your final PDF, and sketch out a layout, showing placement of images, videos, graphic elements and text.


• Re-familiarise yourself with tools in the range of applications that will be used to complete this assignment.


• Share your knowledge and discoveries with your calssmates.


• Read through the "Animations_in_PDF" tutorial in:
  \\emustore\Resources\samples\Arch\ARCH1390 Representation Studio - Harkins\Tutorials
  ...practice making buttons and creating different actions to interact with your media using Acrobat Pro.


• Start laying out your PDF's in a layout program like Indesign, or any other piece of software that you may like to explore.


• Consult with your tutor about the design of your layout.

Independent Study for Week 3

• Take your chosen dwelling to a high level of resolution, including materials. Thinking about your creature's personality, and where they might like to live.


• Think about both interior and exterior of the building, and the landscape surrounding the dwelling. Also consider the habits of your creature, eating, sleeping, recreation (dancing), and any other behaviours you may envision.


• Take at least 5 image captures of your building, and post them to your blog. Consider, perspectives, plans, elevations and sections, as well as opacity.


• Capture a minimum of 2 videos of your dwelling. Length should be no longer than 15 seconds each. Upload them to Youtube, and post on your blog.


• You may also want to capture more footage of your chosen creature.


• Consider the images and video you are capturing carefully, as the content you are producing now will be used for the final output of 'Assignment 1', which is 2 A3 pdf's.

Week 2 Studio Task

• Give your blog address to your tutor.


• With the help of your tutor, pick your three most interesting creatures.


• On a single sheet for each, do a quick sketch of a dwelling for each of your three chosen creatures, using a drawing implement and paper. Think of your creatures as your clients, creating a space which captures the personality of your creation.


• Transfer your sketched ideas to Sketchup as rough 3D sketches, creating a 3D dwelling for each of your 3 creatures.


• In consultation with your tutor, choose one of these Sketchup files to develop outside of class.

Independent Study for Week 2

• Get Spore creature Creator from the Saturday Telegraph (Sat 2nd August)
  ...or if you miss the paper, purchase it online for $14.95 from EA Games.



• Install it, and sign-up to the Spore Website



• Create another Blog for Representation Studio. Use your name and the Course Code ARCH1390 to title your blog.
  E.g: yournameARCH1390.blogspot.com
  Install Spore Creature Creator on your own computer



• Create 10 Creatures using Spore Creature Creator, giving them names and descriptions, and post them to the Spore Website.



• Take image captures, and animations of 3 of your creatures interacting with their environment.



• Upload 3 images and 1 video (no longer than 10 seconds) for each creature to your blog, including the Creature Descriptions. (Total output 9 images and 3 videos)



• Bring a sketch book, and some type of sketching implement to the next studio, and each successive studio

Week 1 Studio Tasks

To be completed during Studio

• Install and Play with Spore Creature Creator, getting a feel for the interface


• Each student should create A couple creatures during Studio, and use each other to help discover tools


• You will find this extremely easy and fun


• Install Spore Creature Creator on your own laptop


• Begin Independent Study for Week 2

If you still want something else to do

Create a blog for this course (see Independent Study for Week 2 post, on the course blog).

• Use Sketchup to sketch out rough designs for 3 of your creatures to live in.


• Think about both interior and exterior spaces. Save the files and upload any images to your blog.



• These should be very quick, no more than 15 minutes spent on each dwelling.

Course Resources

All Resources for this course can be found at:

\\emustore\Resources\samples\Arch\ARCH1390 Representation Studio - Harkins


You can "ftp" to emustore at:

ftp://emustore.fbe.unsw.edu.au

then follow the path to the course folder.

Welcome to ARCH1390 - Digital Representation Studio

Welcome to the first Architectural Computing Studio for stage one students, Digital Representation Studio.

The main ideas running through this studio will be dissecting design representation, re-displaying traditional methods and creating new representational
techniques.

Use the right hand menu bar to navigate between other tutorial groups and Student Blogs.

Check this page regularly for course information.

Jeremy Harkins
Course Convener