Discipline

Disciplines within a group collaborative project are good indications of who is suited to what task within a project.

One of Discipline's definitions in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English language is:
A branch of knowledge or teaching.

The implications of this being that each discipine offers different expertise and skill to the greater collaborative group. In an architectural project, there are many disciplines that are involved, depending on the scale of the project. Some of these disciplines include architecture, civil/mechanical/structural engineering, planning, surveying and landscape architecture, but also other disciplines such as project management, law and Information technology.

It is evident that pretty much no matter what project you take on, you will need to collaborate with others.

For our Collaborative Studio project, we have established that there are the following tasks:

-> Texture mapping of building
-> Texture mapping interior/objects
-> Texture mapping of surrounding landscape
-> Video presentation
-> Modelling external
-> Modelling interior
-> Lighting
-> Animation
-> Building/sourroundings research
-> Image manipulation
-> Sound

And my tasks are animation and image manipulation.

Animation in a general sense can be anything from cartoon animation to textual scrolling. Basically anything that changes shape, size, form, etc. In the context of this project, animation could be trees swaying, fireplaces burning, doors opening, in fact the animation aspect comes down to however far we want to go with it. These animations can then me imported into UT3 to really add atmosphere to the overall project.

The Image manipulation task really applies to textures, sprites, everything that turns the 3d model into an inhabitable space. Using photoshop and various other tools, I can create textures that can then be imported to revit, 3ds max and UT3, and applied to the 3d models that my colleagues will be creating.

My skills, along with the others, form a collaborative group, as we all possess different skills, and we can all learn to specialize in our discipline to contribute more fully to the group.


The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Retrieved April 08, 2008