Week 3

For this week's tasks we were required to do 3 sketches of our chosen house and show how the structural elements of the house will fail after a certain period of years and after being affected by natural disasters.  

This is my first sketch of the rudin house. This sketch shows how the concrete walls have collapsed in certain areas thus revealing the timber frames, how the glass has cracked due to high winds and water and how also the metal elements have stained due to moisture. 

This sketch is a close up of a window and wall. It shows the cracked internal gyprock revealing the timber frame and also shows the cracked flooring revealing the floor boards.

The above sketch is of the roof. It shows the structure underneath the cladding as well as how the concrete has cracked due to the weather conditions.

I then continued working on my rudin house model and continued adding details to it to show the state of decay after 100 years of no human existence. I took the model that we were given and retraced it by ensuring that I kept 4 sided polygon surfaces where ever I could so that the texture will apply more efficiently to the object. Some of the surfaces on the initial model did not join to other surfaces so I spent the time to ensure that my model contain cleans surfaces to make modelling the decay an easier and cleaner process.

This week's lecture was rather informative of how different structures look like once they have been abandoned. We were also made aware of the various tools and plugins that we have at our disposal when working on our buildings inside of 3ds max to create a realistic affect of the state of decay that our buildings will have faced after 100 years. All in all this week's lecture was informative and has enabled me to gain a better idea of the characteristics of an abandoned building.