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Final submission below as of Friday, 28th of June. Submitted as Engineering and Architecture Student with extended deadline till Saturday, 29th of June.

EXP 3 The Bridge: FINAL SUBMISSION

Contemporary schools of architecture should reflect the avant-garde notion of combining evolutionary form-finding with rational optimization of space. By implementing a gradual transition from public to private - from cultural to civic - the experience of the school can be transformed into one of continuous variation, harnessing the essence of striking yet deliberate architecture.

Mashup

18 Sketch Perspectives

36 Custom Textures

5 Image Captures

Elevator Animation

Link to Cryengine

Folly

more additions [image intensive]

Finally able to get my model into sketchup !! after a few days of trial and error... it's coming along

lit-up main walkway at night 

path to viewing spot

2 viewing platforms of landscape/folly/university

view of university from folly

elevator landing spot/path to folly

view of landscape from teacher's meeting space

Hero shot??

path from entrance to viewing platform

Hero Shot??

More Landscape and Sketchup additions

Bird's eye view

Right elevation

Left elevation

Second entrance

Student's meeting space

One elevator

View from first entrance up Main walkway

Circulation X-ray's

Circulation X-ray of Gallery down to Library and Academic offices

X-ray of Top-two floor Library and Academic offices below

X-ray of Lecture hall and circulation down to Academic research centre

News Article Mash-up re-worked

News Article Mash-up

The built environment is a conceptual playground where the imagination roams free. More and more there are landmarks bursting from within the confines of their rectilinear and physical law-abiding realities. Contemporary schools of Architecture should reflect this avant-garde notion that there is no fixed form in the ever-developing world. Buildings that examine critical architectural issues like our current interest in biological processes of constant change create an intimate / couple / between / evolutionary form-finding and optimization. My proposal for the design of this school should include a gradual transition from public to private - from cultural to civic - from conference to residential, a plan that turns a stroll around the block into an experience of continuous variation. Interweaving the mutability and mechanical beauty of construction sites with top-down organisation and bottom-up complexity harnesses the essence of striking yet rational architecture, a poignant vision with akaleidoscopic inventory.

"One way to be an architect is to believe that the voluntary constraints of good design transform the involuntary imprisonments imposed, unseen, by everything else."

                                                                            

Personal additions.

Surreal 3D Architecture mods, http://blog.ponoko.com/2011/07/29/surreal-3d-architecture-mods/ (May. 15, 2013).

Kriston Capps, “Big Proposal Brings the Heat in Miami,” Architect, May. 15, 2013 (http://www.architectmagazine.com/commercial-projects/big-proposes-miami-beach-square-convention-center.aspx).

Thomas de Monchaux, “Back to the Future,” Architect, May. 15, 2013 (http://www.architectmagazine.com/books/back-to-the-future.aspx).

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Contemporary schools of architecture should reflect the avant-garde notion of combining evolutionary form-finding with rational optimization of space. By implementing a gradual transition from public to private - from cultural to civic - the experience of the school can be transformed into one of continuous variation, harnessing the essence of striking yet deliberate architecture.

Preliminary marking critique

Making spaces/some detailing

yo

lecture hall with seats

architectural support/folly/contrasts with blocky school and looks semi dece.

Gallery which runs down to big library on top 3 levels, then modulated academic offices below

Student meeting space - outside, open, and protected from the rest of school. A chance to get away. View of the valley

Holistic

Gallery space from outside/entrance 2 and architectural support

support for entryway

36 Textures

Trouble importing sketchup model

Whenever i try to import my new sketchup model draft, Cryengine does not recognise.

The .cgf file is missing, when i try and import. My play up settings and filepath is correct.

found this troubleshooting page which helped guide through certain issues that would potentially stop cryengine from importing model.
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/arch1101-2012/ryUcUrefVHo
After going through everything, I still cannot import.

Component name: bridge

the component was originally created with groups to keep things organised and then nested that within a component and exported. did not work. 
also tried exploding groups, then make whole structure component and export. did not work.

This is component statistics

I don't think there is any bad geometry. I checked normals on the playup toolbar. here are some screenshots of model. (no bad geometry)

Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated.