Team Project - Geomancy Cliff Dwellers

Geomancy Cliff Dwellers:

This past Fall semester included many team projects, based on the construction of an enormous site for our cliff dwelling tribes. This site was assigned on the very first day of class and we only had 7 days to complete it. It had to measure 7 ft. tall and 15 ft. long, and it was a full class project... of 62 students. On the first day we established a miniature government. There was a leader for each section of the site, one for the north cliff face, for the south cliff face, and for the hoodoos (the weather-eroded structures free standing in the middle). I was the leader of the Hoodoos, and as such, I oversaw the design, structure, materials, texture, and colors of the hoodoos, as well as being in charge of the 20 other people who worked on the hoodoos. Not only did I lead the section and meet with the other leaders, I was also the designer for the structure of the hoodoos. The hoodoos (and cliff faces) had to be lightweight and strong. They had to stand for a long time and be easy to move around the Architecture building complex for display.


The following projects were all built on the site. Project number 2 was a 3 person group project where a house had to be built ONTO the site, and it had to have a design meeting many specifications, as well as being able to stand on its own for months. The third project had a steampunk theme to it, where we were assigned the task of creating a useful steampunk machine for our tribes-people. Lastly we were assigned a month long project where we had to animate our steampunk machines in a 30 second long animation, including image mapping and inclusion of the actual cliffs and hoodoos themselves. This was our first ever attempt at making an animation.