Experiment 2 - Week 5

Strategy statement

I wanted to create an underwater scene and how structures and materials decay by sea water and its mossy and damply environment. I personally think that degradation by salt water distinguishes and out-stands before any other degradation form. The video will take you through the building and a human's interaction to its decay. The location is at a rural site where there are various kinds of vegetation like the real site of the building.

The video will show that the building is taken care of by looking at the material's freshness and pool facility that is being used. However, as time goes by, sea level will suddenly rise abnormally and strong storms came affected by global warming and human race gets washed away. 

The building will remain in the ocean and it will be left untouched for 100 years. This way, the material of the building will get mossy and damply and decayed to its distinctive way. The structure will be broken down due to the pressure of water. As there will be much of degradation by salt water, the building will eventually turn into sea creatures' dwelling.

After the storm

Must watch in HD!!!

Cryengine 3 file

http://www.gamefront.com/files/23857584/z3327916_alan_ex2.zip

3Ds max file

http://www.gamefront.com/files/23857607/z3327916_AlanKim_exp2_3ds.zip

Experiment 2 - Week 4

 i like how scenes are put together in random order but still make sense and it seems better in that order!

   

 Beautiful and subliminal background blew my mind

   

 Showing dramatic scene and direction in the beginning and through out the movie trailer makes me want to keep watching the video

   

 short but the impact the trailer gives is everlasting. it is simple as it shows but strong

   

 it gives me a good understanding of colour tones and atmoshpere of things that are changed after a good period of time 

The 50 word reflection of week4

This week of lecture was mainly talking about how structure falls and breaks and what would happen to them by mother nature. I hoped i could present scenes as real as it gets with the use of blend layers

Experiment 2 - Week 3

Sketches

- crumbled concrete plates and showing reinforcement metals

- stained / cracked marble walls

- plants growing

- cracked and fragmented glasses

- mossed and damaged by sea water

Reference images

The 50 word reflection of week3

I saw many good things in the lecture that give me various inspirations for the assignment. Comparing before and after of its environment was a good way as well and just basically got some important ideas how i will represent.

Experiment 2 - Week 2

Concrete materials on the bump and spec progress. should get better when i am more familiar with the parameters but at the moment this should do.

Concrete

Concrete was used for construction in many ancient structures. Especially during the Roman Empire, it was a key event in the history of architecture.

Nowadays concrete is made mixing together various ingredients - water, aggregate, cement and etc. Ingredients should be properly mixed, placed, shaped, retained within time constraints. It has high compressive strength and low tensile strength. Low coefficient of thermal expansion and shrinks as it matures. It cracks to some extent due to shrinkage and tension. It can be damaged by the expansion of corrosion products of steel reinforcement bars, freezing of trapped water, fire or radiant heat, aggregate expansion, sea water effects, bacterial corrosion, leaching, erosion by fast-flowing water, physical damage and chemical damage from carbonatation, chlorides, sulfates and distillate water

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_degradation

Glass

Glass is hardly changed when it is left undisturbed at room temperature no matter how old it is. Stress and abrasion and affect and degrade glass, as well as water and extreme temperature.

http://engineering.mit.edu/ask/how-does-glass-change-over-time

Marble

Marble such as all calcareous rocks is particularly sensitive to degradation by acid chemicals and weathering. Acid rains are one of the main degradation reasons.

Calcium carbonate the main component of marble is not soluble in water. 

http://www.whatischemistry.unina.it/en/martmarmo.html

The 50 word reflection of week2

Finding materials characteristics and its degradation status was fun. The materials for my chosen building are mainly concrete, marble and glass and a bit of woods. I sort of knew how concrete and woods would decay but it was interesting to see what marble and glass would be like when they degrade.

Experiment 2 - Week 1

Barcelona Pavilion

Designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, German Pavilion for the 1929 Internation Exposition in Barcelona, Spain. Took 1 year to complete.

The boards are piled with the other boards. It looks really modern. It is simple as it is. It is reduced unnecessary decoration on the building optimally yet it is embellished with materialities that embrace richness and luxury. It seems like it will soon to be collapsed, ramshackle. Well carried out the concept "Floating room".

House in Bordeaux

Architect Rem Koolhaas, 1994-1998. Located in Bordeaux, France. 

I do not like the way they use circles on the facade, it would rather look better if there was pattern of straight lines to keep lineal beauty. I like the materials they used but it made me curious what the column-beam looking structure is for, if it was a little out of the blue. However, inside of the building it is absolutely modern and beautiful that satisfies both disable and able persons needs. 

Rudin House

It was designed by Architect Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron, built in 1996-1997. Located in Leymen, High Rhin, France.

It looks like the house is floating. Very typical traditional home, the roof and square windows but modern subverts in terms of materials and style (simplicity, cleanliness in their finishes). Top looks very heavy as the material is concrete.

The 50 word reflection of week1

I get the idea what i should be doing for this assignment. Materiality research should be done quite detailly. I thought it would be fun to know how things decay as well. And most importantly i would know how important it is to know the characteristics of materials im using for my building in the future.

The video trailer

Watch this in HD!!

Cryengine file

http://www.gamefront.com/files/23701447/z3327916_alan_ex1.zip