Hao Jiang_Wall

Articulated cloud by Ned Kahn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvkNdlKVP2Y

This wall is from The Children's Museum of Pittsburgh and composed of thousands of translucent white and plastic squares that moves in wind. It will reflect the light from the cloud in the sky and convert the could to a digital one surrounding the children inside. The wall is changeable and  can never be the same one because the organic way it moves with the wind and the different light and shadow from surroundings. It can also connect the children with the nature through the sounds of flipping of the squares and stimulate their interest and enthusiasm towards the nature.

Hao Jiang_Animation and Motion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv6dya2iwtY
Video by Luca Rechsteiner



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWXBAVFnurI
Video by Peodro Kok

This two videos are about the same architecture which is Rolex Learning Center by SANAA but from different ways of filming still architecture. We can see different animation qualities from these two videos.

In the first video, the filmmaker walks around the building and moves the camera with him. The perspective moves with the orientation of the curves of the building and also the fluctuating slabs which makes me feeling like I was the filmmaker and lived in that building. It gives us the most real experience of how it feels like living in that building. The second video is result of the opposite way of filming which is setting the camera still in one place. The only motion in the scene is the walking of people which gives us a sense of time passing by. It lets me appreciate the architecture as an outsider and think more about the flow of light and shade and the relationship of the exterior and interior space in that building.

Sophie Huan Ni_Research Presentations I

Big Fish & Chinese Flowering Crabapple.


This animation is describing a mythic land where no outsider has ever set foot. The spirit-like dwellers there, however, know us mortals well. They are responsible for human emotions and desires, for seasons, weather, the elapsing of time...

From the video, it shows the architecture both comprehensively and specifically; from bird view to human view; under bright light and shades of night. It shows how the architecture looks like and shows the how the main circulation operates in the building through the movement of characters.

Ruolan Tong_Research Presentations I

Final Fantasy XIV developed and published by Square Enix.
Final Fantasy XIV is a massively multiplayer online role-playing game.

The story is about the heroes allied together to protect their island and against the invading armies from the other empires.

The animation shows the relationship between the environment and the architectural elements and provides more perspectives to view and understand architecture.

The movements in the animation show the qualities of surrounding environment, and the elements, composition, configuration, and the spatial transformation of the architecture.

In the film, the continuity of lighting, the fire, and the fog illustrates the architectural elements in hierarchy. From small to large, one unit to the whole system, a transformation process of architecture can be understood though the views of animation, which creates a connection between two different units and highlight the most important parts.