Individual Assessment - Rachel Ju Wei, Lee (3106059)

INDIVIDUAL ASSESSMENT

Job and Responsibilities

Initial Job and Responsibilities

2. Interior Designer (1 Leader, 1 Helper)
- To work on the materials, furnishing, lighting, decoration etc...
- Internal and aesthetic issues.

5. Presentation Artist (2D - 1 Leader, 1 Helper)
- To work on 2D drawings, Photoshop editing and analogue design (presentation).

My initial job responsibilities were as the Interior Designer leader and as the helper for the 2D Presentation Artist. When we presented this to during out progress plan presentation, we realized that this wasn’t an effective and detailed enough system to follow. We also came to a conclusion towards changing the roles and tasks of a few of the group members.

Justin Lee used to be the Project Architect but because of certain preferences, we’ve decided to split up different responsibilities amongst the both of us.

I took on the role of the Leader in Management and Justin as the Leader in the Creative department of this project from Week 9 onwards:

My new responsibilities include:
1. Blog overseer
-Keeping up to date with updates
-Compiling ideas, documentation
-Keeping blog neat

2. Communicating with group members
-For group meetings (SMS, calling, e-mail, blog)
-Communication in general (Updating group members with latest ideas and discussions)

3. Keeping track of Timeline
-Making sure they produce consistent work throughout assignment period
-Always referring back to Timeline to keep group members on track

My Weekly Progress and Contributions

Week 8

1)Group formation

2)Attended group meetings, lectures and tutorials regarding said project

3)Participated in the selection of model for the group to work on

4)Formation of group Blog at Blogger.com

5)Participated in editing and amending selected design model

University Break

1)Worked on updating the blog

-Publishing Job Allocations and Roles

-Informing on Timeline and updated amendments

2)Decided on meeting times for group during the coming weeks

Week 9

1)Assigning meeting time (SMS-ing, blogging, and e-mailing)

2)Structured and coordinated the PowerPoint slides for Project Plan Presentation

-Coordinated job responsibilities for each member and group timeline for completion of assignment

-Compiled all ideas and information for presentation

3)out e-mails to group members with attached updated PowerPoint Presentation

4)Attending group meetings

Week 10

1)Assigning meeting time (SMS-ing , blogging, and e-mailing)

2)Updating blog with new information of model

3)Sending out information on expected job completion before meeting

4)Publishing direction of task and roles expected from each group member (including myself) for the end of Week 10

Task and Roles for myself for Week 10:

-Overseeing group members in the completion of task and helping whoever, wherever needed.
-Overlooking works by Presentation Artist, Interior Designer and Landscape Architect to ensure highest quality of work.

-Constantly and continuously checking ArchiCAD server for Group amended updates and compiling progress/updates.
-Making sure there's clear communication amongst group members regarding decisions, problems, solutions and discussions.
-Making sure group members are up to date with task that is needed to be completed.
-Organizing communication strategies and ways to communicate effectively (Group meetings, blog, group e-mails.)

5)Ensuring everyone knows the timeline and keeping group members updated with expectancy of timeline.

6)7)Attending group meetings

Week 11

1)Discussions with Justin Lee on extra amendments to beautify the model

2)Compiling ideas and amendment possibilities and posting it on the blog

3)Coordinating amendments and passing of information

4)Coordinating discussions regarding said needed amendments

5)Completing PowerPoint Presentation for Project Progress Presentation

6)E-mailing PowerPoint Presentation from Project Progress Presentation to group members and Ning Gu as form of update

7)Contacting Ning Gu with problems and confusions with ArchiCAD modelling and submission requirements

8)Updating group with progress of model and completed tasks

9)Posting Plan of Completion to ensure group members are aware of timeline

10)Publishing direction of task and roles expected from each group member (including myself) for the end of Week 11

Task and Roles for myself for Week 11:

-Overseeing group members in the completion of task and helping whoever, wherever needed.
-Overlooking works and assisting Presentation Artist, Interior Designer and Landscape Architect to ensure highest quality of work.

-Constantly and continuously checking ArchiCAD server for Group amended updates and compiling progress/updates.
-Making sure there's clear communication amongst group members regarding decisions, problems, solutions and discussions.
-Making sure group members are up to date with task that is needed to be completed.
-Organizing communication strategies and ways to communicated effectively (Group meetings, blog, group e-mails.)

11)Helping Justin Lee in completing first floor model structure amendments:

12)Attending group meetings

Week 12

1)Updating blog with progress of models in every category that has been amended and updated

2)Publishing direction of task and roles expected from each group member (including myself) for the end of Week 12

Task and Roles for myself for Week 12:

-Overseeing group members in the completion of task and helping whoever, wherever needed.
-Overlooking works and assisting Presentation Artist, Interior Designer and Landscape Architect to ensure highest quality of work.

-Constantly and continuously checking ArchiCAD server for Group amended updates and compiling progress/updates.
-Making sure there's clear communication amongst group members regarding decisions, problems, solutions and discussions.
-Making sure group members are up to date with task that is needed to be completed.
-Organizing communication strategies and ways to communicated effectively (Group meetings, blog, group e-mails.)

3)Updating on Plan of Completion to keep group in check of timeline.

4)Coordinating group meetings and sending out reminders of group meeting through SMS, calling, e-mails and by blog post

5)Attending group meetings

Week 13

1)Updating blog with progress of model and compilation of information

2)Publishing overall direction of task and roles

3)Publishing a plan of completion for submission on Friday

4)Informing and reminder for group meetings through SMS and blog

5)Ensuring everyone has completed their own tasks

6)Ensuring group is in par with timeline and plan of completion for early submission

Self-reflection

I have found that working with a group of pro-active members makes things a lot easier especially as the management leader. Being the management leader, I had to coordinate the communication, documentation, decision making and a bit of the designing in this project. Without this in a group, it would be much harder to function as there would be loose ends everywhere and a lot of issues with miscommunications. Meetings were organized by me at least once a week and group members were encouraged to post on the blog as a form of mutual communication. A lot of problems were dodged because of the constant meeting. Efficiency also comes hand in hand with meeting up constantly and the updating of blog. Group members were aware of time constraints and the need of completion of certain tasks at a certain time. Most of my proof, examples and show of effectiveness can be seen through my blog posts.

Coming out to the increasingly more complex and collaborative professional architectural practice, the skills that have been adapted onto me through this assignment would be of much help although it might be tiresome. It may not seem to be at all in parallel to architectural design but it is the core to any group needing to function properly. Miscommunication and the messiness of documentation is one that gives most people in practice these days the huge amount of frustration, wastage of time and money.

This group has really been a joy to work with and have been extremely positive and time effective with work and progress. They have made my job much easier than it could have been.

Renderings

Beautiful renders Chi Yun!
great work!
I understand you have already done more than 10 renders from many spectacular views.
And we may consider submitting in more than those that are required
for the sake of our passion in this project.
Can't help it, the model is beautiful and so are the renders
Every member of the architectural architects should give themselves a big pat
on their backs for all their hard work put into this project
___________________________________________________
Just additional comments and advice for further improvements, chi yun


1. Variation of sky and sun light colours

Yeah, so the renders you have produced have very similar atmosphere. We want our renders to express a variation of environments and emotions. So, you could perhaps change the time of day, angle of sun.
I usually tend to use a low angle sun, shining a little at a tangent to where your camera is facing. Creating a dramatic contrast of shadow and light. You could experiment to get the best effects! You could also change the colour of the sun. Purple pink skys for sun sets. Play around with both sky light and sun light in Artlantis for better effects.

Hmmm...here is a challenge..could we make moon light via Atlantis without using photoshop.Montage on a moon on to photoshop?...we can already make such a beautiful sea via artlantis, we would want the out existing sea to be bathe in moon light...Montages of mixing the reality and the unreality together wouldn't be a very aesthetic symmetry, compared to making it purely in a single program. We dun have to make a moon...its just a question.




2.Anti aliasing

I've just discovered that anti aliasing tampers with the texture of our materials. Anti aliasing, i think, is only good happy shinny interiors of all these perfect minimalist things. The right images show the comparison of the anti aliasing effect. Without anti-aliasing while rendering your image, you can see that the texture of the cliff is clearer because the noise and sharpness levels are quite high.



With anit-aliasing in your rendered images(which is usually recomended for a higher quality image) will have a sort of a more fine but blurry effect. Textures are no longer obvious.

Hence, to get the best of both worlds, we could use photoshop to merge the two images. A fine image with the textures still visible. Merge the two images by putting one layer over the other and reduce the capacity of the upper layer to 50%.



3. Do we need to do a major site montage?

a Major site montage? Maybe.The model already looks good on its own, right?.. but we do still need to add people...animals...goats sheeps, beggars, mermaids.

Individual Assessment (TINA XIONG)

Individual Assessment

TianTian Xiong

3086898

As a role of Interior Designer in the teamwork, my job includes and not limit to the list below:

Stylish Furniture

Justin (creative leader) takes lots of attentions in designing furniture. I corporate with him in realizing those design ideas in Archicad by using complex design tool and so on.

Here are some images to explain how I work with him.

He found some image from internet an also did some hand draft to decorate bath house.The final bath house image come out.

Internal Garden

He designed a floating staircase for planting a internal garden below. This brings a fresh view from entrance and also improves interior air quality. By the way, I change the wall around staircase from solid concrete wall into transparent curtain wall. In this way, light can come into the kitchen and blur the line between interior and exterior.

Reform the floor plan
Rather than a boring three door pathway in original cad model, I delete one of the walls to make a semi-open common area for people chatting.

In addition, I change the shape of door and the surface of floor to indicate difference function of each room.

General Lighting

Basically, I put light sources in model from Archicad library, and Yoon (Presentation Artist) import the model into Artlantis to rend image.











Interior and Exterior Decoration

All above documentations can prove my attribution to the teamwork as a interior designer.
Moreover, I attended every group meeting, discussed problems with team members and sticked to the time schedule to complete the work. In this teamwork project, I learn a lot from others. Everyone has advantages and disadvantages. We learn from others advantages to improve our skills. At same time, we learn the importance of cooperation, the spirit of teamwork. Sometime, when considering someone else also take effort into this project, we work harder than before to make this project as perfect as possible. I valued my contribution to this project. And also i am doing well in this work.

Updates, Distrubution of Task for Week 13, Final Thoughts

PRINTSCREEN FINAL UPDATES

Ground Floor

First Floor

Roof


AHD, Site Plan

View from Ocean, Emphasis - Landscape and Stones

Cliff

Aerial view

View 1

View 2

View 3

View 4

Hey all, this is a follow up from the post "Distribution of Task for Week 12 (+ some model updates and the plan of completion)".

.

So as you all know, submission is tomorrow! Our progress has been excellent so good on you! two weeks ago, we:

1) Finished overall landscaping (AHD, site relocation, site construction etc.)
2) Finished all model structure (model amendments, extentions, new additions etc.)
3) Finished overall interior and exterior detailing (material, element attributes for different parts of house, new additions etc.)
.
Last week we finished up and perfected everything that needed perfecting and changing. We completed all the modelling criterias and amendments and did all the material changes and landscape finishups. Chze Yoon started with the renderings and preperation and layout of the analogue presentation so that was a great headstart.

.

The Distribution of Task for Week 13, this week, is much more relaxed compared to the previous weeks seeing that we have succeded in keeping to the timeline. Tina and Citra would be able to take a breather, and Chze Yoon would need to step in with working on the Analogue and Digital presentations.

.

As you can see from the previous post, renderings are looking good and by today, during our group meeting, we should be able to complete all analogue and digital aspects of this assignment.

.

Plan of Completion:
Week 11

-Continuation of work from Week 10
-Finalising model (3D, 2D)

Week 12
-Rendering and photo editing
-Enhancement of Analogue Presentation

.

Week 13

-Compilation of Digital and Analogue Presentation

-Final check of work and completion of assignment

.

So the aim is to finish up everything by today (Thursday, 4/11/2010) and submit it tomorrow :) If we can't finish it by today, there'll be another meeting tomorrow at 10am. Hope this assignment has been as fun to me as it has been to you!

Rendered images

i rendered more images this afternoon, here are some of them.

please comment so that i can make it better.

the images below are same angle as the one i posted last week. but i amended the texture of the sea. does this look more realistic?

Experiment on Artlantis

Testing on the texture and materials in Artlantis.

Distribution of Task for Week 12 (+ some model updates and the plan of completion)

Hey everyone! This is just a post to show the model updates and more importantly, our distribution of tasks and plan of completion for the coming days.

So far, we've been really good with time planning and accomplishments so kudos to you guys for that! Thanks for all your hard works!

Model progress up till now (5pm, 21/10/2010):
1) Finished overall landscaping (AHD, site relocation, site construction etc.)
2) Finished all model structure (model amendments, extentions, new additions etc.)
3) Finished overall interior and exterior detailing (material, element attributes for different parts of house, new additions etc.)


(Distribution of Task for Week 11 is on the Progress Submission PowerPoint Slideshow presentation.)
Distribution of Task for Week 12:
Rachel Lee & Justin Lee
-Overseeing group members in the completion of task and helping whoever, wherever needed.
-Overlooking works and assisting Presentation Artist, Interior Designer and Landscape Architect to ensure highest quality of work.

Rachel Lee
-Constantly and continuously checking ArchiCAD server for Group amended updates and compiling progress/updates.
-Making sure there's clear communication amongst group members regarding decisions, problems, solutions and discussions.
-Making sure group members are up to date with task that is needed to be completed.
-Organizing communication strategies and ways to communicated effectively (Group meetings, blog, group e-mails.)

Justin Lee
-Helping in solving problems and overcoming discussion issues amongst members.
-Making final decisions regarding technical and creative aspects of discussions and suggetions.
-Overlooking works and assisting Presentation Artist, Interior Designer and Landscape Architect to ensure highest quality of work.

Citra Fila Telis
-To finish all landscaping. (Detailed - with accurate "feel" - of trees, gardens, natural landscape forms - blending grass, cliff, rocks, sand, ocean, horizon and sky naturally)
-Helping Chze Yoon in preparing design for analogue presentation.

Tina Xiong
-To finish completion for all Interior and Exterior in detail.
-To finish completion for all furnishing and decoration in detail.
-Helping Citra in accomplishing task in regards to landscaping and overcoming possible problems.

Chze Yoon
-To work on general layout, colour scheme and concept for the Analogue Presentation sheet.
-Helping Tina in completing responsibilities in regards to Interior and Exterior detailing towards determining material attributes, furnishing and decoration.


Plan of Completion:
Week 10
-Interior and exterior detailing (Materials)
-Gathering information to produce analogue presentation
-Designing layout sheet for analogue presentation
-Furnishing and decorations

Week 11 (Present)
-Continuation of work from Week 10
-Finalising model (3D, 2D)

Week 12
-Rendering and photo editing
-Enhancement of Analogue Presentation


We'll be continuing with doing work together after studio at the studio computer lab on Thursdays at 1.30pm - 6pm as it has been very productive and effective. Thanks for being so pro-active and progressive :)

Hopefully by the end of Week 12, we'll have most things ready for rendering! Chze Yoon is itching to start :) Take care and see you all in class!