Project 1b | Lights Moving

Since I am interested in the effect that the construct is fading into the white background, I make an extended version of the animation to show how it is emerging from the white.

Fix camera, fix model, moving lights.

Project 1b | Framed Views

Since the video is fail...The images here are not captured from the video. It seems to me that the images are more successful in expressing the surfaces and void.

Project 1b | Compositional Frames

This video has 3 parts:

1. Following an EDGE; the frame expands and contracts in responding to the profile of the surface that attached with the edge.
2. Pan viewing a SURFACE; the original intention is to capture the light / shadow movements along the surface as the light source moves.
3. Flying through the SPACE; the lighted outer surfaces contrast with the shadowed inner surfaces give interesting figure / ground shapes.

However, it was over-exposed...light intensity was too high and I have no time to redo that yet.

Architectural Animation?

"Is there a danger that the medium has become the message? Is the employment of animatory techniques a triumph of style over substance?"

Neil Spiller raises his concern that "an all-too-eager appropriation of animation software ... is leading architects to abandon a rigorous approach to architectural space in favour of a fetishisation of surface imagery". He argues that architectural animations often divert their creator from creating architectural space. And the process of creating animations is actually static comparing to the moving pencil. It also limited the possibilities for imagination that sketches and drawings can provide, as everything has to be know in detail in order to put into the virtual. He suggests that the technology of the virtual and its applications must be woven into actual architecture, which is where the anima in animation should reside.

He may be overstated the situation, in fact, a skillful use of animation can do much more than just spinning around the exterior of forms. It can be more than just the representation of the final design. Woven the technology with the process of developing concept, finding form, creating space etc., is exactly what we are trying to do in our class.


OMA | REX - Museum Plaza, Louisville


Peter Eisenman - Casa Guardiola


Zaha Hadid - Parametric Urbanism

It's about...

Ok...now I know it's about form finding by utilizing the computational power of these softwares. For the two versions of model I have, I like the spatial construct model more than the temporal one. So I can probably further manipulate my loft surfaces, and adding thickness to it before starting the animation/framing exercise...

The problem is loft surfaces in Autocad2007 cannot be imported to FormZ directly... and thus can't be exported to FACT... I will need an intermediate step - 3DS. Anyway, may be I should practice more on FormZ.

Animation

still using autocad...
hopefully will try something on formz later on