Individual Assessment_Justin Lee_c3116257

Creative leader of the Architectural architects

Chze Yoon's original house model

Transformation of the former model to the new one.
    My role as the creative leader is to decide any general aesthetic improvements and additions to the project. Sometimes, the creation of an intriguingly delightful model would be that of a complex task. Especially, in terms of my desires because my interpretation of an aesthetic design would be one that considers the site apart of its architecture. The site which is an element of nature is one that is hardly taken much priority in computer aided modeling for architecture.

I had intended for a beautiful building to relate to a  magnificent site, to express a spiritual and sensual experience in the model. In which with the power of CAD, designers could to do almost anything in the unreality, from flying slabs and to place a form in any context. However, CAD is often criticized for it disability for expressing character and human personality. Producing repetitive and formatted forms. Perhaps why some architects still prefer to communicate via hand drawings. To me this group project is not just in means of doing what is required and getting the job done. But more to lead the group in a curios exploration in to the capabilities of CAD.

 Besides that, my responsibilities are also to guide the creative team throughout the process of enhancing the model. I have created a number of difficult problems and obstacles that they had faced. Sometimes, one can find that they can't accurately convey a particular a design in CAD because their idea may be too complex to model, eventually abandoning their idea and proceeding with their dreams unfulfilled. However, if one has the enthusiasm there is bound to be a way. Therefore, I have been constantly with the team, one on one, in experimenting and coming up with solutions. Also by the taking advantage of this blog, I too have communicated my ideas by posting them here.

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Structure 

 I am also partially in charge of structural additions in this project. Renovating the building but still keeping the general form and concept of the original building. During the early stages of the model making process, I have modified the interior walls for the upper story.

And the above image shows the other structural additions we made in the later stages. Modifications by me in blue and red by Rachel.

The new bath house, exposed with the removal of some of its walls and the extension of a cantilevered veranda.

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Landscape
from Pokolbin to The Terrace, Can Lis and the 12 Apostles

The original house by Chze Yoon had been located at Pokolbin. However I wanted the to challenge the the landscape architect with a more dramatic site. A cliff by the ocean. Citra had created a gargantuan site of the sea, cliffs and the fields. Later on during the modeling process we felt that the ocean was quite empty and we were itching on having some additions. Hence, inspired by the 12 Apostles in Victoria, we experimented on creating sea stacks which finalized the site.

The cliff was made first. It was first made vertically, using the mesh tool. Then via GDL scripting, we rotated the entire mesh.

Then, Citra created the rest of the landscape. The landscape consists of 5layers of mesh as shown in the image above.

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Interior

As for the interiors, I wanted the interior designer to sway away from the already formulated default objects of the Archicad library. To be creative and creating custom interiors to relate to both building and site.
Also considering now that the building is by the ocean, how can the furniture and interiors live up to the textile experience of its region?

I had given Tina, the interior designer some of my sketches to give a brief idea of how I wanted the interiors to be portrayed. Bath, sink, shower, Fire place, stairs.

 

 An example of textile furniture in our model. The model now shows some vernacular characteristics with its rock table. It matches the rocks outside the house.

One of the challenges for the interior designer was the fire place. As the fire place is unique and composite, Together me and Tina had experimented on making this fireplace via complex profiles.

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Presentation

Chze Yoon, the presentation artist of project, controls the weather, climate and also perhaps the location of the model. I have emphasized that the rendering should be realistic and down to earth. At the same time, she should be hesitate to use dramatic(on earth) backgrounds such as auroras or sun sets. I wanted her to use the renderings to express a variation of emotion that the model can be a subject of.

I had also assisted chze yoon with some of the photo editing. We resourced stock images from Corbis. Then, I showed her how to edit subjects to make them appear more realistic. For example, sometimes, stock images have subjects that have lighting from unpredictable directions. We use the dodge tool and burn tool to re-adjust the subjects lighting.


Other information regarding the Landscape, Interiors and Presentation, I had posted in the previous entries.

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Also, wrapping up my role as the creative leader, I had too designed the blog header.



Self Reflection


I think I had been a valuable member of the group because have lead the creative team into many interesting challenges. With the existence of these challenges, I had always been there to assist them of any problems that they may encounter. I think the group would have learned a lot about CAD through this project. Perhaps also influencing them to self learn and explore deeper into the more complex capabilities of CAD. 


Working in a group had been definitely more effective than being alone. To be able to complete a large amount of work by the distributing the task amongst group members had saved much time and effort. Especially with our model. It is quite complex. I have also learned so much from the other group members. As, i was able to learn some of the things that they discovered in CAD, like the clever ways some tools can be used that was never obvious to me at first. Branching out and discovering things on our own and then reforming to share ideas and discoveries would be a more progressive and efficient way of learning.



In the real world professional architectural practice, buildings are much bigger and complex. It would be absolutely ludicrous for a single architect to draft out an entire mega structure. Collaborations are necessary. In my case, I am very much worthy in undertaking design responsibilities in this field. I am a very good self learner, enthusiastic and always passionately exploring and experimenting CAD, photoshop and other things. As I have initially self explored complex profiles and complex meshes. Being in a collaborative group, one has to be independent and live up to their responsibilities, problems that one encounters would usually have to be independently sorted out because everyone else too have their own problems. One too has to be cooperative and have a listening ear weather it is to leaders or followers.