Week 1

As part of the second experiment for this semester, we were required to install the required plugin to be able to export our model from 3ds max to cryengine. After following the tutorial I managed to export a sample model that I created using 3ds max to my cryengine scene which I created in the first experiment. 

I then re-exported another model which I created inside of 3ds max to ensure that I had adequately learned the process involved to be able to export from 3ds max to cryengine.

The next part of this week's individual study was to talk about each of the three houses in terms of their materials, design and history.

The Barcelona pavilion was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The design of this house is influenced by the l style of modernism. The main materials and structural elements that make up the Barcelona pavilion are steel frames with glass and polished stone.

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The house in Bordeaux was designed by Rem Koolhaas in 1998 in Bordeaux, France. The main concept behind the house in Bordeaux is laying three floors that are different in nature over each other to create a contrast between spaces. The main materials used are concrete, steel and glass which create and overall nice contrast between the materials throughout the house.

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The Rudin House designed by Architects Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron in 1996 is rather a standard looking house that is shaped using four main external walls with a gable roof and chimneys. This house almost blends in with the surrounding environment and context but includes a touch of modernism by using large openings in the shape of windows and doors. 

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This week's lecture was an introduction to experiment two which is about life after people. This lecture also included a few examples of structures that have been abandoned by humans for many years which showed how the different materials and structural elements in each of those buildings behaved over that particular period since they were abandoned by humans.