Week10-Progress Work

                                                  Finalized internal framing-Nogging

Week9-Progress Work

In this week, I've almost done the internal stud wall in first floor. This is third time I was doing this because first time I drag the wrong scale first floor plan into Sketchup and began a wrong scale one. Second one couldn't export to Cryengine because mine one was messy, there were so much unnecessary lines and faces. So I did it again. This time I export the plan from Revit to Sketchup and I was very careful about the units and scales. I also export the all internal walls in first floor to let the stud walls fit in and be accurate. I still got little things to finish.
And I also started to do some research about flowgraph. But in this week, we still stay on modelling stage because we got some problems to fix and therefore can export to Cryengine successfully.



Wrong example:

I tried to figure out doing beam and joist on the floor, then I realized that not part of my job. There was another team member doing this.

This was second try but with too much unnecessary lines and faces because I did import the internal walls from Revit but I explode it remissly during I was modelling, so I was keeping deleting the needless walls and creating my timber framing walls. Obviously, the result was unexpected. It was failed to export to Cryengine and I had to do it again. I found that a good and accurate start is really matter to things!!

Week8-Critical Reflection-Intellectual Property

GROUP:GEriAmbience
GRADE:C

CLARITY OF THE ORAL PRESENTATION _ Does the oral presentation communicate a clear, concise and appropriately delivered Group Theoretical Position? 

Generally they presented well and concise to the point. However, someone in the team obviously did not prepare that much but just read through the documents. And eye contact and body language help with emphasising key points and able to communicate with audience.

CLARITY OF THE WRITTEN PRESENTATION_ Does the written presentation communicate a clear, concise and appropriately delivered Group Theoretical Position?


Writing was concise and clear, the keyword as outlining points is a good way to show the important issues in the reading.

DISTINCTIVEBNESS AND SPECIFICITY OF THE EXAMPLES_ Are the examples used to elaborate the particular theme of collaboration distinctive and specific? 


Provided good examples, most of it based on their project.

REFERENCING _ Are all sources of content properly referenced? 


Referencing of facts, elements and images are evident in the presentation.

THE CONCEPTUAL CONTEXT_ Is it clear that the students have a strong grasp of the conceptual context of their theme of collaboration?


Yes; They connect the issues to their own project, this creates a strong sense of understanding of IP. 

THE STILL IMAGES_ Do the still images support and extend our understanding of the Group Theoretical Position the students are presenting?

No; Unfortunately, I could not even see one image so support their reading. 

Week7-Critical Reflection-Communication

GROUP: SHADE OF BLACK
GRADE: D


CLARITY OF THE ORAL PRESENTATION _ Does the oral presentation communicate a clear, concise and appropriately delivered Group Theoretical Position? 


This team was well prepared with oral presentation. They all presented well however someone read on notes  a bit much. The information was clarified but some extent of information made me confused in the mix. 

CLARITY OF THE WRITTEN PRESENTATION_ Does the written presentation communicate a clear, concise and appropriately delivered Group Theoretical Position?


Yes; The context was really simple but ascensive. I personally liked their clear and simple  phrases and sentences to communicate with audience well. And the overall context was logic and reasonable.

DISTINCTIVEBNESS AND SPECIFICITY OF THE EXAMPLES_ Are the examples used to elaborate the particular theme of collaboration distinctive and specific? 


Related examples given and video of progress with all team members participated in. 

REFERENCING _ Are all sources of content properly referenced? 


No; I recommend to put all the resources in one single slide to make a reference list.

THE CONCEPTUAL CONTEXT_ Is it clear that the students have a strong grasp of the conceptual context of their theme of collaboration?


Good conceptual context; They did effectively communication between audience and themselves. Besides, their collaboration was good as a team.

THE STILL IMAGES_ Do the still images support and extend our understanding of the Group Theoretical Position the students are presenting?

Images linked to each part of the presentation was very minimal. I was confused on how that reflected or helped at all with any part to the presentation. I would recommend images that are direct and clear with text in their representation, as what may seem clear for one person may not be the same for another.

Week6-Critical Reflection-Planning

GROUP: 3RD CONSTRUCT
GRADE: CR

CLARITY OF THE ORAL PRESENTATION _ 

Does the oral presentation communicate a clear, concise and appropriately delivered Group Theoretical Position? 

They separated the content as content and content communication. Every team members talked and very clear, concise and appropriately information given.

CLARITY OF THE WRITTEN PRESENTATION_ 
Does the written presentation communicate a clear, concise and appropriately delivered Group Theoretical Position?

They provided excellent context in both quality and quantity. Font and format of the texts presented very appropriately. However, the context need to be more concise and clear. Sometimes, watching too much text  as long as listening to the speaker was getting confused. 

DISTINCTIVEBNESS AND SPECIFICITY OF THE EXAMPLES_ 
Are the examples used to elaborate the particular theme of collaboration distinctive and specific? 

I think there could be more example about planning would be better to communicate with audience. 

REFERENCING _ 
Are all sources of content properly referenced? 

A clear reference were expected.

THE CONCEPTUAL CONTEXT_ 
Is it clear that the students have a strong grasp of the conceptual context of their theme of collaboration?

Basically yes, overall the content was the strong positive out of the project, it was thorough and discussed everything that was required. The whole presentation has shown their understanding of project planning. However, the way the content was displayed and spoken about could of been improved. 

THE STILL IMAGES_ 
Do the still images support and extend our understanding of the Group Theoretical Position the students are presenting?

Yes, images support he issues they were talking about. 

Week5-Progress Work

Original Situation Engine Model in Revit:

3D view

1st Floor Plan

Section

North Elevation

Re-modelling in Sketchup:
Above images shows my modelling progress. They were in very early stages.

Finish up the 1st floor:

Top View

Front View

Left Side View

Right Side View

Back View

Perspective View

Approaching the final stage:

Left: Original Model
Right: Re-constructing Model(1st floor internal stud wall)

Re-Modeling Model

Week5-Progress Work

In this week, I began to edit the model in sketchup. After finished editing in sketchup, I will export it to Cryengine to test it in the Situation Engine environment. Before start modelling, I searched a lot data between Australin Standard and BCV as I can use the accuracy and reasonable data for constructing. Generally, this week I did a lot research and calculation. Some related information found below:

They help me know the structure of timber wall framing, where and how can I build them, really useful.

As Jessica and me all doing the internal stud walls, we share the selected data refer to the Australian Standard and BCA. I'm doing the first floor stud walls and Jessica takes charge of  second floor's. Finally, we will combine all together.

Data will be using during modelling:

Wall stud: 45*90mm
Top Plates: 45*90mm
Bottom Plates:45*90mm
Lintels: 45*90mm
Spacing between the beams are 450mm
Height of door frame: 2100mm

Week4-Progress Work

At moment we have settled down the stage one and start stage two. As taking charge of making internal stud walls. Not only being technical on the computer software, we also need to find and explore that how does it work in the reality world. So at the beginning, I begin to search some relative resources to help me understand well how does internal stud wall works. Following are some useful videos and links to show the procedures of making a timber frame stud wall. 

This video is about a non-load bearing wall being constucted. ( from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2_A1GCHKds)


This link  shows you how with a simple step by step tutorial-http://www.videojug.com/film/how-to-build-a-stud-wall-2

This two videos show that how to build the wood framing stud wall in sketchup. They are really helpful.
(from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4hhK9y2qpo;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzq6yBoO2ok)

Week3-Goup Project Back Brief

• Group Project: Situation Engine
• Group Name-Interactive Architect
• Group Member- Fei Feng (Leader); Lilian Li; Matthew Cowle; Jessica Liao; Ashley Zheng

Project Brief

• Situation engine is designed for testing student technical competencies by using advanced digital technology.
• Domestic housing construction process is the major component to access student's compentencies on this project.
• Adding detailed structural elements on the existing model ( in BIM environment) for enhancing the knowledge of building construction.
• Applying a variety of textures on all of the building elements for simulation reality.
• Representing the construction process by creating flowgraphs on CryEngine.

Project Interactivity

• Highlight same structure elements
• Measure certain kinds of structural elements
• Emphasise dimension of selected structural elements
• Alble to move or unistall structural elements that the avatar selects

Project Proposal

In this project, we supposed to re-construct a architectual building with terrain and add more details in it and imported into CryEngine 3 to fulfill a video game. This video game will demonstrate the installed building and environment and how people work around the site. 

Project Roles

• Matthew: Adding structural elements; Sorting all the files
• Ashley: Applying the texture on building elements
• Jessica: Setting up the initial crysis environments
• Fei&Lilian: Installing the building on crysis and create flowgraphs

Basically we divide the task into three stages. At first stage, we need to prepare some stuffs to set up a architect collaboration team. For instance, create team's name and logo; create the communication platforms like wiki, blog, even facebook to make our communication promptly and effective, and dropbox will help us share the each's works in order to combine all parts at the end. At second stage, we will focus our own parts which is to re-construct the building model. First, we start to edit the terrain, alter terrain to include slope landscaping. We set up the foundation ready, eg, slab, footings. Second, we need to make the timber stud walls, timber flooring and roof structure. And brick veneer. This progress like a re-constructive progress. This is very important procedure in this project. Thirdly, we need to finish the insulation floor, roof &walls. Cladding work like glazing, rails doors and windows. Lastly, we will add more details into it, eg. ornamentations. We divide the model into several parts, each team member take charge of one part of construction. This construction stage will be progressive work and we will keep update each week. At third stage, we will combine with all the re-constructed parts to form our own unique, complete and more detailed building model. Then export it to CryEngine3. Set up the environments and fulfill the game.