Week 4 - Discipline

Discipline

In the first week of our collaboration course we all as a class group had to drop down our skills. Each one of us presented our skills to the class. Most of us had similar skills, computer based skills. After this we were split into a group of 5 where we went into more depth of what our skills are. These skills included computer based, leadership, creativity..ect. Thought listening to each other we decided on our team Captain/Leader to be Simon Mollica. This was decided though his confident perception of tasks at hand & the skills he developed through his past leadership experiences in different fields. That was one of our first major decisions as a group.
In the most architectural firms looking from experience & talking to other group member the most important disciplines would have to be architectural knowledge (to produce well/clear presented drawing), engineering (Landscape, Electrical, Drainage) & construction.

To successfully produce the High court of Australia by Harry Seidler in its final form in UT3 we had to decide on our first major list of disciplines. This is just the start of the list as I am sure it will increase as we get more into our project. The disciplines that we have decided on are:

Texture mapping of building
Texture mapping interior/objects
Texture mapping of surrounding landscape
Video presentation
Modelling external
Modelling interior
Lighting
Animation
Building/surroundings research
Image manipulation (Photoshop)
Sound

After looking at our own strengths & weaknesses, though use of email we have decided what each one of us will do from the above list. Knowing that this is a group project & we will assist each other in whatever way needed to get the best result at the end.

The disciplines that I will take on in the major project are: Texture mapping of building & Texture mapping interior/objects.I came to this decision as I have done a lot of Texture mapping of building & Texture mapping interior/objects in the first semester of my Computer Architecture degree, though use of 3D studio max and other well supported programs like Photoshop. With the model that Vivian is in process of making, I will be applying my textures based upon images I found and created as it is my job to ensure that the building looks realistic. I will also go into more research of the Seidler’s buildings & see the similarities which we can use in our project. Matt has given us examples of few Seidler’s building within Sydney area which I plan to visit.

We are very lucky, with the technology on offer in present society & the use of collaboration amongst our group tasks. This will allow us to focus more on our task as there will be less need for face to face meetings. The meetings will be done though use of MSN, emails which is a great advantage to all of us.