Wednesday 3 August 2011
Thursday 16 June 2011
Three Journals
1) Architecture New Zealand.
Generally, journals containing information about 'Architecture New Zealand' educate people about various buildings, monuments, homes, etc, that have become very significant to New Zealand. Some of those buildings include:
The journals contain information dating back to as early as 1997. Over the years also, there has been a list of information about Architects who have practiced within a certain period, as well as projects which have gained significant reputation in the world of architecture based in New Zealand.
Useful sites :
Generally, journals containing information about 'Architecture New Zealand' educate people about various buildings, monuments, homes, etc, that have become very significant to New Zealand. Some of those buildings include:
- Aorangi House, Wellington - designed by Studio Pacific Architecture.
- Voyager Marine-time Museum Extension, Auckland - designed by Pete Boosley Architects.
- Supreme Court, Wellington - designed by Warren and Mahoney, Chris Cochran.
- Deloitte Building, Auckland - designed by Woods Bagot in association with Warren and Mahoney.
- Sylvia Park, Auckland - designed by Jasmax.
The journals contain information dating back to as early as 1997. Over the years also, there has been a list of information about Architects who have practiced within a certain period, as well as projects which have gained significant reputation in the world of architecture based in New Zealand.
Useful sites :
- http://librarysearch.auckland.ac.nz/primo_library/libweb/action/basket.do?fn=display&doc=uoa_voyager787308&vid=UOA2_A
Where Journals can be found, Architecture Library, University of Auckland. - http://www.nzrab.org.nz/
2) Ecotech: Sustainable Architecture Today.
Journals containing information on this topic generally speak of ways to improve our lifestyle, as well as our environment, through the incorporation of 'GREENERY' into design. The journals contain tips and guides on how to incorporate designs to make a building more energy sufficient (I.e. by incorporating skylights for natural lighting which would help reduce the rate of fossil fuel combustion, and eventually, electricity costs), including other information vital to achieving environmental sustainability, improving social interactions and relationships, etc.
Journals containing information on this topic generally speak of ways to improve our lifestyle, as well as our environment, through the incorporation of 'GREENERY' into design. The journals contain tips and guides on how to incorporate designs to make a building more energy sufficient (I.e. by incorporating skylights for natural lighting which would help reduce the rate of fossil fuel combustion, and eventually, electricity costs), including other information vital to achieving environmental sustainability, improving social interactions and relationships, etc.
The Journals also address issues such as sustainable building materials, the need to incorporate vegetation into design to help improve surrounding and indoor air quality, as well as the need to design with, rather than against, the surrounding landscape.
Useful sites :
- http://librarysearch.auckland.ac.nz/primo_library/libweb/action/basket.do?fn=display&doc=uoa_voyager1024457&vid=UOA2_A
Where Journals can be found, Architecture Library, University of Auckland. - http://welcome2green.com/national-green-news/green-living/ecotech-sustainable-architecture-today-green-living-guide
3) The Owner Builder Magazine.
These magazines generally contain information about a number of cost efficient homes being built today. It contains tips and guides on how to construct cost and energy efficient homes, as well as advice on healthy, durable and low-cost or natural materials. Two of the most common types of homes addressed in the magazines are 'straw bale homes' and 'earth wall construction.' Both are built from natural materials such as mud, clay, and straw, but incorporate a small amount of conventional materials for more durability and strength. Both have qualities of any typical conventional design such as insulation, strength, durability, etc.
The main focus of the magazines is to provide healthy alternatives towards constructing functional, low-cost buildings that will generate ongoing benefits.
The main focus of the magazines is to provide healthy alternatives towards constructing functional, low-cost buildings that will generate ongoing benefits.
Useful sites :
- http://librarysearch.auckland.ac.nz/primo_library/libweb/action/basket.do?fn=display&doc=uoa_voyager1053693&vid=UOA2_A
Where Journals can be found, Architecture Library, University of Auckland. - http://www.theownerbuilder.com.au/
Wednesday 8 June 2011
Helpful websites...
What are PARTICLES?
How to Script a light for Second Life:
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Fred_Gandt/Scripts
How to make sculpties in Second Life:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCJlE7Vagt0
Scripting in Second Life:
How to Script a light for Second Life:
http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/User:Fred_Gandt/Scripts
How to make sculpties in Second Life:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCJlE7Vagt0
Tuesday 7 June 2011
Our Library in construction...
Built on Architecture 1, New Zealand Virtual World Grid.
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| Main entrance... |
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| Adding wooden shelves... |
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| Footpath leading to out door reading space... |
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| Footpath built over water pools... |
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| View from above... |
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| Adding books to the bookshelves... |
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| Another entrance. Handrails provide blue light at night. |
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| Lights and chairs added to main building... |
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| Stairs replaced by a ramp to accommodate the disabled and the elderly... |
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| Roof top added to outdoor reading space to provide shade.. |
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| Outdoor reading space... |
DAY TWO OF CONSTRUCTION...
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| When touched, each picture on the glass shelter provides information about my three journals through a message in chat. |
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| Wall containing images of the three members of our group. Alfred Wigmore, Tania West, and myself. When myself and Tania's photo is touched, a message is prompted asking to upload a URL. That URL will lead to my blog. |
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| The texture of this carpet was generated offset filter created in photoshop. |
Sunday 5 June 2011
Fold Architecture
- Garofalo described Fold Architecture as a series of “undulating surfaces.”
- It provides different ways of perceiving space, and is able to create space because surfaces can twist, bend and fold.
- It unfolds a one point perspective of a space.
- It stimulates creativity and develops different techniques rather than a single form.
Examples of Folds:
Reiser and Umemoto.
West Side Convergence
New York, 1999.
New York, 1999.
"This design competition entry spans a site in Manhattan from the 30th to 34th Streets and from 8th Avenue to the West Side Highway. A vast undulating spaceframe roof covers the Global Parkscape (the top level) and allows for the multiple scales of activities. This roof visually reads as an unfolding landscape in the city." (Joseph Rosa, Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the digital era)
Peter D. Eisenman.
Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences.
Staten Island, New York, 1997.
"The Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences is located in the main hall of a new ferry terminal. The various modes of movement through the building by pedestrians and vehicles generate the design of series of folded spaces. These folds convey the idea of fluidity." (Joseph Rosa, Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the digital era)
Joel Sanders.
Five-Minute Bathroom (prototype)
Project for Wallpaper magazine, 2000.
Five-Minute Bathroom (prototype)
Project for Wallpaper magazine, 2000.
"Sanders designed the freestanding Five-Minute Bathroom with efficiency in mind. The dressing closet, water closet, smart mirror,and bed area blend together, creating a seamless sense of spaces that gently fold into each other. Prefabricated of molded fiberglass, this unit could be installed in existing or new construction." (Joseph Rosa, Folds Blobs + Boxes, Architecture in the digital era)
Tuesday 31 May 2011
ARCHITECTS
(http://transmaterialasia.wordpress.com/2006/08/29/toyo-ito-master-class-architects-who-works-with-innovation-and-design-creativity/)
(http://www.zaha-hadid.com/category/built-works)
Day 3, Wednesday 18th May 2011, LAB SESSION 4.
TASK: Create a tree house.
1) Working in our teams of 3, open Archichad.
Go to: Teamwork >> Project >> Open/Join Teamwork project.
2) Created a slab.
3) Created walls.
4) Created a window in the walls of the tree house.
5)
6) Produced a section as a PDF.
7) Produce a perspective as a PDF.
8) Produced an axonometric as a PDF.
9) Set up an "openingdesign.com" sketchbook for our group of three.
10) Applied the opening design sketchbook as a media texture in SL.
Lecture 4 Worksheet...
*Schoonover, C. Portraits of the mind. Visualizing the Brain from the Antiquity to the 21st Century.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMYJdrLkM6g
1) Working in our teams of 3, open Archichad.
Go to: Teamwork >> Project >> Open/Join Teamwork project.
2) Created a slab.
3) Created walls.
4) Created a window in the walls of the tree house.
5)
6) Produced a section as a PDF.
7) Produce a perspective as a PDF.
8) Produced an axonometric as a PDF.
9) Set up an "openingdesign.com" sketchbook for our group of three.
10) Applied the opening design sketchbook as a media texture in SL.
Lecture 4 Worksheet...
*Schoonover, C. Portraits of the mind. Visualizing the Brain from the Antiquity to the 21st Century.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMYJdrLkM6g
- Decoi Architects:
http://www.architecture-trend-press.net/Data/_archi/Print.php?time=1093863840&year=2004-2005 - NOX - An art and architecture design office based in Rotterdam.
http://www.nox-art-architecture.com/ - Shop Architects:
http://www.shoparc.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHoP_Architects
Tuesday 10 May 2011
Day 2, Wednesday 11th May 2011, LAB SESSION 3.
1) Downloaded Scratch4SL and shared software.
2) Found 3 online resources that explain how to script in SL.
3) Created a sphere and script so that when I am touched, the sphere object moves one meter.
NOTE: Steps to creating a script and loading it in Second Life:
Note for photoshop texture:
2) Found 3 online resources that explain how to script in SL.
- http://www.instructables.com/
- http://www.3greeneggs.com/
- http://web.mit.edu/~eric_r/Public/S4SL/ (Scratch for Second Life - MOST USEFUL)
3) Created a sphere and script so that when I am touched, the sphere object moves one meter.
NOTE: Steps to creating a script and loading it in Second Life:
- Open S4SL
- Create script
- Copy linden
- (Second life) BUILD
- Select and object and create it on an empty space (In KAIAKO)
- Click "content" - new script - right click new script and open - select all and delete - then paste script.
- Save
4) When bottom photo is touched, it prompts a message asking the avatar to load a URL. This URL leads to my blog.
5) The glass doors upon entry, and the one leading to the outdoor reading space has been scripted to open and close when touched. Created by Tania West.
6) A computer in the corner upon entry. Created by Tania West.
7) Fill in grades on handouts.
8) Make sure Judy has correct information on excel sheet, and that she knows who our team is. Done.
9) Applied media texture to carpet and skylight.
10) Discovered how to use particles - Snow outside building entry.
5) The glass doors upon entry, and the one leading to the outdoor reading space has been scripted to open and close when touched. Created by Tania West.
6) A computer in the corner upon entry. Created by Tania West.
7) Fill in grades on handouts.
8) Make sure Judy has correct information on excel sheet, and that she knows who our team is. Done.
9) Applied media texture to carpet and skylight.
10) Discovered how to use particles - Snow outside building entry.
Note for photoshop texture:
Save as a "targa" format in photoshop.
Discovered a blog:
-www.curtiscoeur.blogspot.com
Tuesday 3 May 2011
Day 1, Wednesday 4th May 2011, LAB SESSIONS 1 and 2.
1) Applied for an account on the NZVWG (New Zealand Virtual World Grid).
2) Activated an Avatar for myself on Secondlife.com. Learnt to walk, im, fly, camera around.
3) Found allocated journals from the list on the wall. Found them in Library Search and saved them in "saved items" on library account. Three journals include:
SECOND WORKSHEET.
1) Opened photoshop and created an image that was 400x400 pixels. Using the render/filter tool, casted 3 colours of light to generate a white light.
2) Placed an object into second life and cast the 3 coloured lights. The value of those 3 lights were:
2) Activated an Avatar for myself on Secondlife.com. Learnt to walk, im, fly, camera around.
3) Found allocated journals from the list on the wall. Found them in Library Search and saved them in "saved items" on library account. Three journals include:
- Architecture New Zealand.
- Ecotech: Sustainable Architecture today.
- Owner builder magazine.
4) Set up a delicious account. Still need to bookmark three journals because system was down.
5) Raced around Putahi to find blog addresses from last year's students of ARCHRC102. Only blogs I found were:
- chae7595.blog.bom
- http://www.curtiscoeur.blogspot.com/
- roxannebottom.blogspot.com
6) Set up this blog account.
7) IM JudyArcx Scribe so that I may receive a group invititation.
8) Three useful and interesting website/videos/wikis that tell you about Architecture in the Virtual World and/or how to make something in Secondlife.
9) Found Nimbus and the Media Centre.
10) Worked out team of three. Myself, Tania West, and Alfred Wigmore. Chosen tendecy: FOLD.
SECOND WORKSHEET.
1) Opened photoshop and created an image that was 400x400 pixels. Using the render/filter tool, casted 3 colours of light to generate a white light.
2) Placed an object into second life and cast the 3 coloured lights. The value of those 3 lights were:
- Red: ff000
- Green: 0bf00b
- Blue: 010391 (Birthday colour)
3) Birthday colour: 010391.
4) Description of additive colour: When light is added, a brighter light is created.
5) Description for subtractive colour: When more colours are added to create a "darker" colour.
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7) When walking out to the outdoor reading space, the frames holding pictures of the members in our group can be seen. When the bottom picture is touched, a messenger is prompted asking the avatar to load a URL. This URL leads to my blog.
8) Generated a material using an offset filter. Made a carpet in the main building using the generated filter.
STEPS:
- Filter >> Other >> Offset.
- Filter >> Render >> Brighten.
- Channels: Shows where each colour is on the image you've created by giving the option of turning off each light. Each colour is represented by a number.
- Add a new layer. This layer becomes "alpha" which is black, and blocks all colours. The other colours (red, blue and green) only emerge from the area that you rub out.
- Save as PSD. Save a copy of that same image as a "targa" format so that it can be uploaded to second life.
9) Generated a material using alpha channel - the chairs in the study cubical.
10) Played with sculpties.
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