File Front

Google 3D warehouse: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=6d4398488bf46b2090434d8892c3df2f

Cryengine Enviroment: http://www.gamefront.com/files/21910906/XiaohanGao-arch1101-2012-exp3.zip

Final video

this experient took me lots of time and energy and numbers of sleepless nights, but im pretty happy with my model and video clip. background music matching the movement.please watch it in HD, and enjoy it.
background music: theme music of Halo

flow graph

cryengine environment with elevators and dinning table

overview

since we are designing headquarters, the first thing comes to my mind is the size of my model has to be big, big enough to give people a sense of pressure, to make people feel the power.



this is my favorite image captured on a bridge

image taken from elevator

                                                      T2 interactive software headquarter

this is the headquarter i designed for take two interactive software,and i got my inspiration from games, i tended to design something more unrealistic more futuristic. and by my understanding of the power of T2 is how their games can shape people's thoughts, the shape of my bridge also reflect their own design concept.

looking  from this angle, the headquarter of facebook looks like a giant spider crawling towards to T2 headquarter spining.

facebook headquarter

facebook is one of the biggest social network community, the power of facebook is connection, is how it can connect every corner of internet, how it can drag everyone closer, how it can gather everything together. as such, the idea of "interconnectedness"is the concept of my model.

 the headquarter of facebook looks like a giant spider, reflecting the power of connection, implying facebook spreading web all over the internet.

dinning table

the dinning table is placed in the middle of the two buildings, is designed in a furturastic shape, their huge headquarters hanging up at the back, implying their powers

SKETCHUP MODEL THAT INCLUDES THE TWO ELEVATORS AND DINING TABLE

This is my previous google sketchup models, but i could not export them into my Cryengine environment, and the file has crashed which means that i could not export models from it.which left me no choice but redo a new one.

The image above is my design process sketch.

The developed models

Take two interactive software headquarter

 Facebook Headquarter

Dinning Table

facebook elevator





T2 elevator

T2 elevator

Draft Cryengine environment

Peer Review

2 points and 1 point perspective drawings

Two Points Perspective Drawings

One Point Perspective Drawings

exp3 36 textures

Mesh up

facebook

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

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/business/2012/05/facebook-eats-itself

coca cola

http://www.smh.com.au/business/cocacola-amatil-beats-profit-estimates-as-prices-rise-20100812-1206v.html

take two interactive
http://thestockmarketwatch.com/stock-market-news/take-two-interactive-software-shares-rise-after-company-reports-q3-results-ttwo/20190

exp3,Valley in China

 

This is Jingtai Huanghe Stone Forest located in Gansu province.

File Front

cryengine model: http://www.gamefront.com/files/21675264/cryengine+upload.zip

google sketchup model: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=de298b9732064caec6edf2627cda3f1b&prevstart=0

exp2: cryengine environment (final)

this monument can be used as a design studio or an office. it is located on the top of a cliff, next to a waterfall. the idea of the design is to make this piece of architecture a part of landscape. this monument is facing the ocean, and balustrades are made in glass. on the back of the monument, there is a staircase goes under to access the lake, for people to take a swim.

there are 5 images of my monument taken from a distance.

the groups of architectural computing students, engineering students and architectural studies student will meet up on the coast, they will be able to see the monument stands on the cliff not far away.

the image above was the back view of the monunment, which was shot on the cliff,the monunent was designed to be a part of landscape. 

it is the side view, the monument was located next to a lake.

this is the night view, couples of blue lights have been set up under the water and  the floor of the monument.

here are some closer views:

exp2: 36 textures

exp2: cryengine envirnoment week 2(draft)

google sketch up model

exp2: ELECTRO LIQUID AGGREGATION

here is my chosen model, and developed in google sketchup.

i combined the two monuments above together.

the original two concepts of Walter Burley Grinffin's design are:

1.Geometry—making use of the natural environments geometry in designing the planning of both Canberra and Castlecrag.

2.Group of buildings faced one another to give that sense of separation and administrative zones.
and according to Walter Burley Grinffin's quote:
Griffin predicted the need for urban planning to be flexible to meet the demands of growth and changing needs over time. Griffin said that:

‘Any arrangement looking forward one hundred years has to be elastic, permitting street improvements and construction to proceed little by little, no faster than the city growth demands, but at the same time in a way that will be adequate ultimately without the constant shifting of site uses in the various sections, which has led to terrific waste through destruction of property in all our cities heretofore.’ (Birrell, 1964, p.75)

 i came up a new concept:

"exploring the relationship between nature environment and city function by create the sence of seperation and corporated to landscape."                                                                                               

exp2:3 axonometrics projections

group of building facing each other + design with landscape










                                                       

rectangular geometrical properties + the use of light

privacy + open to the nature