Disciplines

Architectural disciplines are ever so growing; a building is designed by an architect and then it’s built…right? No not that easy, consider that an architect will need others to collaborate with the design for example an interior designer or structural engineer, and a builder will need trade specialists in specific parts of the building process for example a concreter, or a bricklayer.

With all these disciplines in an architectural sense, what are our disciplines in context to our project? And how do we all collaborate to complete our group task?

As the week went on we wrote out a list of jobs/tasks and added to it, until we found all the specific elements needed and covering the main aspects of the task. This list is made on the basis of what we know about the task and with certain disciplines unknown the following list will grow as we continue on in the weeks;

• Exterior modelling
• Interior modelling
• Internal texture mapping
• External texture mapping
• Surrounding landscape mapping
• Building/landscape research
• Video presentation
• Lighting
• Animation
• Image manipulation

We then established what our disciplines are and how we can contribute our training to the list of tasks at hand. I was interested in internal modelling as I am trained in 3Ds Max and enjoy using the program. But it turns out that someone else is also trained and may be more advanced in this area. So I decided to changed to building landscape and all the needed research involved in this field. The task can involve using a CAD program to outlay the terrain, but I will also look into UT3 editor. My other task is to edit all the lighting in the model; this will mean learning lighting in the UT3 editor.

With all disciplines delegated amongst the group we then need to establish a work flow of the task. A simple diagram can illustrate what processes I think we need to follow.
For the following work flow diagram to work, the tasks will need to be managed. In a large architectural project a separate manager is used to manage the work set out, but in our case Simon our group leader will take on this role. All correspondence regarding our project will be done via email, or a forum/message board can also be set up.