Remuneration..

Wikipedia defines the Remuneration, is a pay or salary, typically monetary payment for services rendered, as in an employment. Usage is considered formal.
Generally, remuneration can include:

• Commission
• Compensation methods (in online advertising and internet marketing)
• Compensation - executive and deferred compensation
• Employee stock option
• Fringe benefit
• Salary
• Wage

It is important that whether the clients agrees with the value of its product which we've designed and whether the product is worth to be paid.

The value of our fabrication or any other similar types of works varies in a marketplace. The amount of payments can be depended on many factors:

1. How you have utilised the engine - the new experiment/ idea of the levels designed in a map which hasn't been introduced previously could cost more for development.
2. Hiring people - Even at this point, there are a huge range of professionals in this type of gaming industry which that could be a competitors, therefore it is also important of hiring right, suitable people.
3. Etc.

There are many aspects are involved to vary the costs.

As a group, we have discussed the potential value of our model in its present state and we have determined it to be worth a couple of thousand dollars in terms of selling it to a clients. However, the end value of the model may rise more due to our average of working hours.

As we are not yet professional at using the unreal engine and that may explains with the techniques and skills, we might get payed less than the professionals at this stage. However, the hours of work and an lot of effort would make ourselves better.

Reference used: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remuneration

Conflict

Conflict is a state of discord caused by the actual or perceived opposition of needs, values and interests. A conflict can be internal (within oneself) or external (between two or more individuals/themes or concepts). Conflict as a concept can help explain many aspects of social life such as social disagreement, conflicts of interests, and fights between individuals, groups, or organizations.

1.What opportunities are created by the conflicts in your proposal? Should these conflicts be 'resolved' or 'maintained'? Why?

Project’s proposal was to create an unbuilt architecture that matches our theme of conflict which was enclosed, exposed, hard/soft, public/private, affordable and unaffordable. Although it conflicted or was against the word “visually pleasing”, it created opportunities and clarified our intent. These conflicts should be both maintained and resolved accordingly.

2. What imagery would you use to display your conflict?

What is a conflict cycle?

A conflict cycle is based on our negative ideas and views of other people, so if we have been told something bad about them or have not had a good experience when we meet them we react towards that person in a bad way when we next meet them.

However if we have a positive experience when we meet someone then most likely we will react kindly to them next time.

Week 10 - Planning

The Planning explained from the wikipedia as in organizations and public policy is both the organizational process of creating and maintaining a plan. The psychological process of thinking about the activities required to create a desired future on some scale.
It is a fundamental property of intelligent behaviour. This thought process is essential to the creation and refinement of a plan, or integration of it with other plans, that it combines forecasting of developments with the prepararation of scenarios of how to react to them.
The term is also used to describe the formal procedures used in such an endeavor, such as the creation of documents, diagrams, or meetings to discuss the important issues to be addressed, the objectives to be met and the strategy to be followed.
A plan should be a realistic view of the expectations.
The purpose of plan - It is important to prepare a plan keeping in view the necessities of the enterprise. A plan is important aspect of business and also for making up to due dates for assessments, etc.

Planning for whatever work that you are going to work helps managing time limits and it keeps you up on your work.
It also reflects to our group assessment. We had to plan first for how we'll going to collaborate this work.

Week 9 - Context

What is the context of your work?

Time and spatial..

History of the site
There is a history of conflict within Green point, between the first Dutch settlers and the native Indians. Such as in 1638, Dutch West Indian Company negotiated the purchase of Greenpoint from the Indians.
In 1790, Ferry service has established. Greenpoint was dominated by the two competing ferry operators that carried farm products to markets in Lower Manhattan. Each ferry operated established an independent series of gated roads leading to their ferries.
The majority of transport was by boat and most of the settlement was involved with the water.

- In the 19th century, the area became industries and specialised in shipbuilding.
- Towards the end of the 20th century, residential areas were starting to be created from the old industrial buildings.
- Creative arts was becoming recognised in the area around the same time
- This increased the rent to make in one of Brooklyn’s highest rental areas
- Recent years have brought about a building proposition to introduce around 16,700 new residents with cheaper market rate housing

20th-century to present:
After a long history as a stable, working-class neighborhood and immigrant haven, Greenpoint began to see some of the effects of gentrification by the 1980s. The New York Times noted extraordinary rent increases and displacement as early as 1986, mirroring the pattern of residential conversions of industrial buildings seen in nearby Williamsburg, as well as the similar formation of a smaller art community. Today, rents in Greenpoint are among Brooklyn's highest, and new construction is prevalent on streets where most buildings date back up to a century.

Heritage surroundings

• Picture of Greenpoint houses

Greenpoint (pronounced Greenpernt in those gangster movies of the 1930s) is a quiet, ordered, and orderly community of discrete ethnic populations, with a central charming historic district all but unknown to outsiders, even those in neighbouring sectors of Brooklyn.

Greenpoint Historical District:
Location - roughly from Java to Calyer Sts., Franklin to Manhattan Aves.
Notes - A rich trove of intact churches with both row and freestanding housing. Pride of ownership here translates into buildings maintained (for the most part) in their original shape.

Greenpoint Home for the Aged:
Architect- Theobald Engeldhardt
Location- 137 Oak St. at the head of Guernsey St. N side.
Date- 1887
Style- Italianate

Notes- An eclectic brick mansion with Italianate massing and Romanesque Revival arches.

Reference: http://www.nyc-architecture.com/GPT/gpt.htm

http://www.nyc-architecture.com/GPT/gpt-history.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenpoint,_Brooklyn

Greenpoint is the northernmost neighborhood in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It is bordered on the southwest by Williamsburg at the Bushwick inlet, on the southeast by the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway and East Williamsburg, on the north by Newtown Creek and Long Island City, Queens at the Pulaski Bridge, and on the west by the East River. Originally farmland (many of the farm owners family names ie; Meserole and Calyer still name the streets), the residential core of Greenpoint was built on parcels divided during the 19th century with rope factories and lumber yards spanning the East River to the west, while the northeastern section along the Newtown Creek through East Williamsburg became an industrial maritime reach.

Where the Greenpoint Historic District roughly bounded by Kent, Calyer, Noble, and Franklin Sts., Clifford Pl. Lorimer St. and Manhattan Ave., the market rate housing maybe suitable to place around this location. It is a historic district and has many interesting architecture. Additionally, it has churches, schools and parks, etc interesting facts within the area.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenpoint,_Brooklyn

• Architectural Heritage Map

http://ragette.org/greenpoint%20architecture/aiamain.htm

Week 8 - Hierarchy

The definition from the wikipedia, there are many types of hierarchy.
A hierarchy is an arrangement of objects, people, elements, values, grades, orders, classes, etc., in a ranked or graduated series. The word can also refer to a series of such items so arranged. Items in a hierarchy are typically thought of as being "above," "below," or "at the same level as" one another.


There are social hierarchy which a multi-tiered pyramid-like social or functional structure having an apex as the centralization of power.
In a social or group environment, a hierarchy is important to establish order and distribute power. Generally, you have a leader or boss at the top of the hierarchy who takes care of a people with different specialisations takes care of the people in that area and so on.

A hierarchy performs well because each area has a focus and a leader to motivate and push to completion.








Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/hierarchy

Week 7 - Intent

Intent is defined as what you plan and desire to perform an act, an aim or purpose. This definition could have relation to an architecture. The architect's intent would be their individual designs, their purpose and aims of building.

Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intent

Intents play an important role in our group project. Design intent is a clear and concise statement that expresses the objectives of the design team relative to a project or a portion a project. No clear direction to design efforts can be made without a clear intent. In relation to our project, intent has played an integral part. We firstly planned to do 2 different style of buildings, which were Market- rate housing and Playa Blanca Wildlife Interpretive Centre. As we've presented last week, we decided to work on Market rate housing later as we had more resource of elevations on that building whereas there was only 1 picture of wildlife interpretive centre.

Intent plays major role in the design of a building as that could be a first plan of its design. It may occur in all industries and try to avoid resulting certain unwanted outcomes.

From the last presentation, there were some issues on:

What is market rate housing? and why it is important?
Why needing this building for?
How it can be played with textured finished map in UT3 environment, etc.

Our group have been discussing about the possible issues and we will be working deeply on our project, getting more ideas from eachother.

Week 6 - Knowledge

In week 6, we will be presenting on the concept of knowledge relating to our project.
The knowledge is defined variously as - expertise and skills acquired by a person through experience or education; the theoretical or practical understanding of a subject.

1. What is known in a particular field or in total; facts and information

2. There is however no single agreed definition of knowledge presently, nor any prospect of one
and there remain numerous competing theory knowledge acquisition involves complex
cognitive processes: perception, learning, communication, association and reasoning.

3. The term knowledge is also used to mean the confident understanding of a subject with the
ability to use it for a specific purpose if appropriate.

In relations of knowledge, there are Research which is a human activity based on intellectual investigation and is aimed at discovering, interpreting and revising human knowledge on different aspects of the world.
The term research is also used to describe an entire collection of information about a particular subject.
Database and archive could also be included in relation of knowledge that are structured collection of records or data that is stored in a computer system. A database relies upon software to organize the storage of data.
An archive refers to a collection of historical records, and also refers to the location in which these records are kept.

These definition can then be integrated with our project of designing a map with UT3 editor. In order to design the map and with ut3, we need to have knowledge and research on how we should work on and also we should have database to record how and where we're upto at each stage.