Travis Jones ENDS 170 Project 3

Here is my third and final project: Making our houses presentable. We imported our previous projects into Autodesk VIZ, a powerful 3d graphics program, where we added material texture maps, lighting, and backgrounds to our projects, and we made photorealistic renderings of our houses: 2 still images- 1 aerial and one eye level, and 2 video- 1 10 second fly-around and 1 30 second walkthrough. It really surprised me that 30 seconds of 320 x 240 video would take 12+ hours to render, and that was after simplifying the shadows and advanced lighting calculations. After all was said and done, though, I can gladly say I learned a lot from all this work, and I thank God for giving me the strength and energy to do it.

P.S. Whoop! The Corps is dead! Congratulations 2011!

Fly Around:




Walk Through:

This is a test of how to post high quality movies on a blog. I did not make this movie, though. How sad.

Sample movie:

Travis Jones ENDS 170 Project 2

This Project gave us a way to utilize our newly created behavioral setting by showing how it would be used by occupants. It also tested our ability to use Potoshop, a very versatile program that I have never had the privilege of using before.

First off, we created a section perspective view of our house in Revit. We then imported it into Photoshop. The next phase was to find residents for our space. I scoured Google for pictures of people sitting on couches, working in kitchens, standing, or any other positions that would seem likely for may particular home, but they also had to be photographed at an angle that would not clash with the angle of the house. After finding a good number of people, each figure was cropped and superimposed on the house rendering after being properly scaled. A setting was also included, in the form of a brush desert landscape with a beautiful blue sky. Finally, I cropped the entire image to fit the 800 x 600 requirement.

ENDS 170-201 Project 1 Travis Jones

This is my first project, a house plan emphasizing sustainability and circulation to exterior spaces. This was an experiment in using the Revit Program, and testing the limits of my own creativity in home design suitable for ADA-accomodated living.

Upon entering the home, you see the lovely dining room set behind a row of timber columns, leading to the spacious kitchen. The kitchen is designed to be navigable by large amounts of people and to be a comfortable behavioral setting with a view of the external spaces. circulation then takes you into the living room with seating for 6 and two of my sculptures on display. You can continue into the den, which is a slightly more private space (Note the lower ceiling and that the behavioral setting is slightly turned away from the path of circulation). All three of these areas offer access into the back yard/porch area. set off beyond the den is the Master Bedroom, complete with private bath and deck with a view of the lake. Backtracking to the opposite side of the house, you can cross a breezeway into the guest house, with two rooms, and a bathroom for guests. This is meant to provide adequate privacy away from the bustling to the owners.