Behavioral setting 2nd sketch

Pictures of my second model. One reminds me of a building that would be at the renaissance festival which probably isn't a good thing haha

Modeling Domestic Architecture

      Today I attended the lecture for Modeling Domestic Architecture by Kevin Glowaki. I honestly had no idea what this lecture was going to be about, but it ended up being pretty interesting. In this lecture Glowaki explained the process that architects from the Archaeological Institute of America went through in order to model what Crete consisted of before its abandonment.
      It is somewhat amazing all the information that these architects recovered from studying the grounds and by using other resources. They were able to discover that at the time of the abandonment in eastern Crete there were 15-20 houses on the site and a large room with storerooms for the ruler's dwelling. In order to reconstruct the missing elements the architects used the topography, remains, comparisons with other sites, and venacular building traditions during that period. Because much of the remains had decayed they used "interpretive leaps" to make decisions on the design of the sites.
     In reconstructing this abandoned site the architects had several goals. First they developed a digital reconstruction based on data recorded at the time of the excavation. Also they had to figure out the "kinks" in their models and decide what worked and what didn't work. Finally the architects explored the contributions of the models for an understanding of the architecture of ancient crete.
      With their resulting model the architects hoped to present effective visualization. Effective visualization helps them promote several things such as cognition of large amounts of data, perception of unanticipated properties, recognition of problems in data quality, clarification of relationships, and lastly forming a hypothesis.
    Although the lectures from today were very short I was still able to understand the main points in each lecture. In my opinion it is very impressive that the architects on this project were able to recover so much material and data in order to basically reconstruct the ancient site. It just goes to show what technology can really do these days.

Where Dreams Come True

The other day after class I was talking to Emily about how I LOVE Disney World. It is seriously my favorite place ever and probably always will be. Anyways I went to Disney World on vacation this spring break with my drill team. My friend and I were talking about how it would be so awesome to work there. At the time she thought she had wanted  to be an engineer so we were like "wouldnt it be awesome if we could join up as an engineer and architect and design rides for Disney?!" So basically that would be my dream job, although chances of me getting to that point are very slim. But still, it would be awesome.. Here is a webpage with a list of disney architects that I found while looking up some information: http://architecture.about.com/cs/greatarchitects/a/disney.htm

What to do with the porch?

So for my behavioral setting I have been trying to figure out how to put a porch on it in order to block sun. Basically the only way i have come up with is to have a slanted roof with a flat porch extended off from it. I've been looking for examples on line with homes like that and havent found very many. However these homes I either liked the way the porch was or found them interesting:

I'm really hoping the flat roof idea works or else I'll have to redesign half my walls. Oh well we'll see!

Behavorial Setting continued..

So today I spent five hours trying to put a roof on my house. The sad thing is it didn't even turn out that amazing. I can't figure out how to create the victorian feel with my roofs so I definitely need to play around with it a little more. I tried to make my home look somewhat victorian but with my own twist. It ended up looking like it was from Aladdin.. great! I haven't taken any pictures yet of it but I will take a few tomorrow and post them. It was definitely an experience working with cad and I dreaded it but in the end it saves you so much time.. Hopefully for my final model i'll have figured out how I want the windows, doors, and roof so that I don't have to spend time cutting those out. Well class is postponed until 9 tomorrow. Yay!

One project down, three more to go

So I always have a hard time in the beginnings of these projects. The whole brainstorming thing takes me forever and I feel like my ideas are not original. I first started designing this house and I realized that it was boring. Nothing stuck out that made it architectural and I had had no "theme" for my home except that I started drawing shapes and it turned into a house. After thinking a little bit I finally came up with a better idea. I tend to like victorian style buildings and homes much better than modern buildings. Therefore I decided to center my whole house around the victorian style. When you walk in you walk into this "grand entrance" that makes the house feel very victorian (or at least I think so). I managed to find energy sources like windmills, solar energy, and a sterling engine that will help my house green.

Micro Dwelling

After 14 long hours building my model I finally finished! I imagine everyone else worked just as long if not longer on theirs too. Definitely a good starter project though. I feel like creative ideas are coming to me easier now.

Here are some pictures of the finished model. I'm going to look forward to using the lazer cutter for the next model haha