CONTEXT

CONTEXT

Definition of context:
The word context can be seen as the part of a written or spoken statement that precede or follow a specific word or passage, usually influencing its meaning or effect. Also the meaning of context could be the set of circumstances or facts that surrounds a particular event and/or situation etc. (1)

Simulation of context in architecture, the environment that surrounds both building and observer, is an essential but problematic feature of realistic imagery. The complexity and detail of typical environments/models pose serious difficulties for computer modelling and photomontage techniques. The results are often simplistic, potentially misleading and incapable of representing many of the physical and perceptual relationships involved. The goal of our project is to create a realistic model of an unbuilt project, then take it into UT3 environment. This is where we play with the surrounding, textures; environment etc.UT3 gives us a different way of presenting a design & its context.

The design process reflects the nature of the architectural experience itself where the material surfaces of the project are observed in the context of perceptual links to the environment. Architectural designs deal with a creative synthesis of project objectives and requirements, combined with specific site and cultural conditions, to reach some optimal solution. In our case to reach our goals we have to follow past work of the architect to get the best result at the end. We are lucky in some ways that Harry Seidler is repetitive in most of his design, through the use of materials, features, detail. This enables us to go out and visit Harry Seidler’s built work, compare & contrast things that are similar in context that we could relate to our project.

Every architectural design has to have a context in order to be relevant to its surrounding environment. A good example of this would be if there was no council regulations everything would be built without context which would destroy our streetscape.

For an unbuilt project that we are modelling up, the context could change from the original. We could either go with the original look by following architects design or go with our own context and make it different & unique in UT3.


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