Team Meeting & Project Update

We managed to gather together in Studio Class for a much needed team meeting. As many us, are unable to get together face to face during the week. A group meeting was a great time for to us to outline some very important project issues. We’re lagging behind schedule because of some significant changes to the design and the environment. The team debated and discussed the issue of the design location. The process of using Google earth maps and height maps to model a life like environment in London’s central business district is coming along but after much discussion and research. We’ve decided as a group to relocate the design from Hyde Park to Regents Park. Only a few kilometers away, but a more meaningful and defining landscape in highlighting our design.

Fig 1.) Regents Park map obtained from Google Earth

The surrounding landscape elements in Regents Park suit the Cenotaph more appropriately and certain concepts such as:

• A specified circular, flat plane already exists in the centre of Regents park fro the placement of our building
• This circular space is conveniently large enough to fit our model. We’ve measured an estimated the size using Google earth and our floor plans
• A lake contours around the west side of the building, accentuating a visual landscape at the top platforms of the Cenotaph. A much more defining water feature to our previous site
• The natural plant life around the site/park contrast with the large scale Cenotaph and outer cityscape
• The surrounding perimeter of buildings allows for a more urban look and also permits the viewing of these buildings inside of the Crysis skybox. The Hyde park buildings were so far and expanse that it was unable for viewing at the top of the Cenotaph
• The roads surrounding the park outline the boundaries of our site and accentuate the difference contrast from cityscape to parkland and memorial

All these factors pushed us to progress working on the new site. Gordon and Michael discussed what sort of changes had to be made and Gordon explained that the process would be an easy transition as we already know what to do. It’s just a matter of repeating the things we’ve learnt to this new site. We’ve got an existing map of the new park and the site is smaller to work with, hopefully enabling us to further detail and push for greater design.What need’s to be done now is researching natural environment models, completing the site, modeling the surrounding building and roads, finding tutorials to create lights inside of crisis and implementing our finished model into the environment inside of Crysis.