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Final Assingment Two Video
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Our enemies have made the mistake that America’s enemies always make. They saw liberty and thought they saw weakness. And now, they see defeat. (George W. Bush, President of the United States)
The statement above is al powerful, spiritual and meaningful to the average individual not only in America but throughout the world. We feel for our chosen un built building which is the 2nd place competition winner for the well known World Trade Centre, which if this project would have won would have been world known as ‘The World Cultural Centre’ stays true to the statement a picture is worth a thousand words.
The name? Cultural, is the term that raises the meaning of this proposed building. When the old Twin towers were destroyed, thousands of people from different cultural backgrounds died. When this new building was re developed as part of the competition the redesign resembled everything that was lost in September 2001. The newly designed building incorporates a Performing Arts Academy, 911 Memorial Museum and meditation Sky Gardens.
Upon modeling this building the program 3ds Studio Max was used. It was evident upon the modeling of the building that a lot of effort and passion was used within the initial basis of the design. The most astonishing factor that was found was the stairs around the exterior of the building; although they were extremely difficult to model they are the main feature of the building. Although these stairs will never be used they were a memorabilia for the amount of people who died. With these stairs rapping around the building it shows that the building is built around all these memories and that no one will ever forget the horrific happenings in 2001.
Within our environment we focused upon the building as being the most important element and that is due to its size. Although we focused upon things in a smaller scale such as trees, people and cars, we wanted to focus in a lot of detail upon the materials of our surrounding buildings. To see our building in full it has to be viewed from a fair distance away, within that distance surrounding buildings are the only objects that are possible. After seeing many images from both maps and video shots from movies we had a detailed vision of what we wanted the material of our surrounding buildings to be, and this is effectively shown within the map.
Its one thing to have materials on buildings, but it is also very important to have these building at a correct scale and in the correct position, this is evidently shown within our map and has been possible due to various maps and tracing and building them within Sketch up.
A critical part of our map was to create a busy Manhattan situation. We discussed that this would be most evident and possible through the surrounding buildings and things from a larger scale but we also thought it would be important to create this Manhattan lifestyle from a smaller scale as well. In saying this we had great levels of difficulty but managed to import cars and have people to help accommodate with the city scope that we were trying to create.
The world Cultural Centre, was a perfect building for this assignment and as an overall summary for our team, it was great to build and great to create the world but it was interesting in the sense that the research we had to complete was very relevant to us all as it was a real topic that we all were passionate about. As mentioned throughout the whole research process this topic was a powerful one to complete and hopefully we portrayed the building in a world that the designing Architects would have envisioned the building to be.
Strategic Plan
As shown in the plan above it seems that we have everything worked out according to plan. As usual with any group project a time line that is made 2 weeks before an assignment is due, is always going to change. Our plan did not change that much, the only really problem we had was the fact that our main building model which was built in 3d Max, did not export very easily into crysis. Well that is an understatement it was so frustratingly difficult to export the model into crysis. This process held up the entire works. Although the model was completed a week before due date it wasn’t until the night, this process held up other processes such as the environment e.g. the sky gardens were rushed due to know time, we were also unable to get people walking around the stairs of the building and most importantly we were unable to test the transporters on the building as we simply ran out of time. In saying that we all communicated well and did try our best, its sad that some circumstances out of control effect the final submission.
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