Final Submission

Mash-up of 3 News Articles

Blue Font Article: http://www.archdaily.com/298112/frontier-learning-the-future-of-architectural-education-stanislav-roudavski/

Red Font Article: http://www.archdaily.com/304460/miami-americas-next-great-architectural-city/

Green Font Article: http://www.archdaily.com/366660/yes-is-more-the-big-philosophy/

Those who look to the future understand architecture as a dynamic system of relationships booming with new architectural projects. These relationships that are the most adaptable to change that survives satisfies a necessity while also providing a rich, cultural gathering space, blur the distinctions between digital and physical, natural and artificial, simulated and observable. The architecture breaks out from the anticipated form of the “concrete box for cars”. Such an interpretation calls for broader collaborations and a commitment to explorations, not just beautiful buildings but a key driver in the evolutionary process of society outside established “comfort zones.” But the life outside disciplinary comforts can be harsh and are some of the negative characteristics. With old certainties left behind and new potentials not yet discovered, one should say yes to oneself instead of no to something else. One can feel overwhelmed by the richness and complexity of available information and practicesbut has opportunity to reinvent itself with a contemporary architecture, a refined sense of culture and community. In the contemporary condition of constant and accelerating change, about finding new ways of ecological and economical development , using instead of reducing and maximizing rather than minimizing. What should an architect know and be able to do? From where should this knowledge be acquired and updated, from whom and in which way?  

Overall Concept:

Architecture in the future is the dynamic relationship between timelessness and the breaking of the mold.

18 Sketch Perspectives

Left to Right:
Less is More
Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication
Machine for Living
Mess is More
Form Ever Follows Function
Space is the Breathe of Art

36 Custom Textures

Categorized in Columns from Left to Right: Scalar, Rotational, Linear, Harmonious, Chaotic, Controlled

From Left to Right:
Folly and Meeting Space
Dean's Elevator
Within the School
Student's Elevator

1 Sketchup Model With 2 Elevators and a Folly

Sketchup Model of the School

Sketchup Model of the Folly and the Meeting Space.
The meeting space is an extension of the Folly and is simple and open to allow the occupants to be exposed to the environment as much as possible. 

The Dean's elevator moving from the school to the folly.

The students elevator. This elevator is all glass and has a hollow space in the centre. The experience of the students is similar to a reverse fish tank.

4 Real Time Images of 2 Draft CryEngine Environments

Draft #1

Draft #1

Draft #2

Draft #2

5 Real Time Images of Developed CryEngine Environment

1 x Fully Developed Cry-Engine Environment

Floor Plans

Links to Sketchup and CryEngine

CryEngine File: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rtg5cwcl5z5ewfv/aCAQqlT0UR

Sketchup File: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=eb21d3ed26a17d8b6b8f8603a59f5fdc

Marking Sheet for Participation

New Valley

I decided to change my valley. The inspiration for my valley is a place in Vietnam called Halong Bay. Below are a few images I found on the internet.

Here are a few pictures of my draft landscape

Valley

The inspiration for my valley is a place in Northern Vietnam called Sapa. 

"Sapa, is a frontier town and capital of Sa Pa District in the Lao Cai province in northwest Vietnam. It was first inhabited by people we know nothing about. " Wiki

Here are some images of Sapa that I found on the internet:

This is the main inspiration for my valley created on CryEngine

CryEngine Valley

One-Point Perspectives

MashUp

Blue Font Article: http://www.archdaily.com/298112/frontier-learning-the-future-of-architectural-education-stanislav-roudavski/

Red Font Article: http://www.archdaily.com/304460/miami-americas-next-great-architectural-city/

Green Font Article: http://www.archdaily.com/366660/yes-is-more-the-big-philosophy/

Those who look to the future understand architecture as a dynamic system of relationships booming with new architectural projects. These relationships that are the most adaptable to change that survives satisfies a necessity while also providing a rich, cultural gathering space, blur the distinctions between digital and physical, natural and artificial, simulated and observable. The architecture breaks out from the anticipated form of the “concrete box for cars”. Such an interpretation calls for broader collaborations and a commitment to explorations, not just beautiful buildings but a key driver in the evolutionary process of society outside established “comfort zones.” But the life outside disciplinary comforts can be harsh and are some of the negative characteristics. With old certainties left behind and new potentials not yet discovered, one should say yes to oneself instead of no to something else. One can feel overwhelmed by the richness and complexity of available information and practices but has opportunity to reinvent itself with a contemporary architecture, a refined sense of culture and community. In the contemporary condition of constant and accelerating change, about finding new ways of ecological and economical development , using instead of reducing and maximizing rather than minimizing. What should an architect know and be able to do? From where should this knowledge be acquired and updated, from whom and in which way?  


Overall Concept:
Architecture in the future is the dynamic relationship between timelessness and the breaking of the mold.

Architectural Theories

1. "Machine for Living in" - Le Corbusier

2. "Form ever Follows Function" - Louis Kahn

3. " Mess is more" - Hayden Woolridge

4. "Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication" - unknown

5. "Space is the breath of art" - unknown"

6. "Less is More" - Mies Van der Rohe