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Posted by arch1392monica on June 17, 2009
Final map fabrication
The building becomes the Chinese sign for ‘The People’, and a recognizable landmark for the World Expo in China.
The REN Building is a proposal for a hotel, sports and conference center for the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai.The building takes its form from the Chinese character for person and combines two buildings (one symbolic of mind and the other symbolic of body). The shape of the building reflects on the yin yang -natural elements water,earth etc and the Chinese symbol for people, all the information has been put together to create the ending finish.
Working from our previous map fabrication there were some issues that needed to be address before final fabrication. We continued straight from our previous work and discussed our key problems.
Recap on what needed to be addressed-
Not enough people in and surrounding the building
Needed more surrounding buildings
Fixing elevator access to floors
Texture of surrounding buildings
Not enough interior in Ren building (not enough furniture)
Texture of furniture and floor/walls
Lightening inside building
Flight of Stairs needed to second floor
We as a team believe we have addressed all these issues, we tried to create the surrounding environment which was urban and lively as we did not have enough information on how exactly the surrounding environment would look like but believe we’ve managed to portray an urban feel quite well.
Our main focus was getting in more AI into building and other imported city objects. Once this was done we worked on the texturing of the surrounding buildings and interior. We found it was important since the size of our building to get a full view you need to view from long distance therefore needed a more dramatic city life surrounding, we concluded to add more buildings. Our end result a more dense looking city which is closer to the Ren building- which now does not look out of place.
We concentrated on fixing small errors of the Ren building which had gaps in between walls, the elevator was another main issue which was a time consuming effort. As we needed the elevator to stop at different floors and has the option to up or down to any floor.
We incorporated our specializations as much as we could as well as other group member’s topics. Our final video will show all our efforts and corrections we have made.
The Ren building has a unique design and as a team we believe overall it was great to research and model this design it has been interesting and was a great challenge.
