Some Thoughts on Week01 Exercise for EXP 2

Let the following advice guide your approach to translating concepts into 3 dimensional relationships:

1) Distill your concepts into digestible parts, or rewrite a more condensed version of a concept on our list: Some of the sentences today are quite long winded and yes, ive taken the greens and reds out so as to avoid confusion. The key is to be selective in reinterpreting these concepts into forms - there will be another task where you'll go deeper into these. For now, as an example, if you are looking at a loaded sentence such as:

 "The geometric and angular exist in contrast to the monochromatic and monolithic, this disorientation revealed by precis openings and skewed paths of light," 

you might want to focus on how geometric and tilted rectangles can come together to create light openings, or you might want to look at how - thru texture - you might be able to isolate a continuous shape or surface from a combination of disjointed rectangles. If you are rewriting a concept on the list, i will still reserve the right to review it!

2) Dont double up!: For example, "The geometric and angular exist in contrast to the momochromatic and monolothic, this disorientation revealed by precis openings and skewed paths of light," is very similar to "Architectural originality and futurism can be achieved by breaking rectilinear and euclidean rules of geometry, creating a creative adventure between function and experience." Refer to point 1 above:- a smart student will start to break these two apart and recombine them into new sentences if he/she sees the value in sketching both of these concepts. 

3) Refer back to the architecture and architect that the concepts are drawn from: Retrace the steps. Re-identify how that concept have been interpreted. Go back from the general (the sentence) to the specific (the architectural precedent). As the saying goes, take a step back in order to leap forward!

4) DO THE CRYENGINE TASK: A part of self-teaching on new software is to iron out the issues and familiarise yourself with it, early on. Do what you have to do to get your model into cryengine (ie come use the labs in uni late at night) and remember to keep a blog record of what went wrong as well as what went right. Last minute consequences are too familiar and unforgiving. See below: