Monday, May 31, 2010

5 Image Captures of Developed Environment

Elevator to OfficeOne

OfficeOne view

Elevator to OfficeTwo



View from OfficeTwo




View from Elevator to hidden meeting point



Draft of Final Environment with buildings and Elevators



The images above show the two offices in their positions in the valley. The valley created is in the shape of a swirl, with the offices added into one of the them. The meeting point is hidden in one of the mountains in the valley, keeping it secretive.


4 Image Captures of Draft environments

EnvironmentOne


EnvironmentTwo

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Mashup of articles

3 Articles on Clients.

ANGELA MERKEL
The New York Times. 'Angela Merkel' (April 29, 2010). Accessed 9 May, 2010. http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/angela_merkel/index.html

MIRANDA KERR
The Sydney Morning Herald. 'Miranda Kerr: the new face of fun' (August 14, 2008). Accessed 9 May, 2010. http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/fashion/miranda-kerr-the-new-face-of-fun-20090403-9n1y.html

HELEN KELLER
The New Yorker. 'What Helen Keller Saw' by Cynthia Ozick (June 16, 2003). Accessed 9 May, 2010. http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/06/16/030616crat_atlarge


Mashup.

The dominant new
spokeswoman said there would not be any public follow-up reelections freed from the coalition. The issue in the first six months shows suspicion asked about the intense public interest in the formed coalition with the pro-business Free Democrats, which in theory gave the chance to enact a reelection.

Substituting parroted words, the alliance did not mean smooth sailing. The seasons firsthand perception turned out to be the debt crisis, and the threat it posed to the reelection. Because of this commitment to refurbishment with more left learning Social Democrats, the kind of liberalizing economic plans came about because they were at once liberated by language and in bondage to it.

In a way few human beings can fathom, it was proposed when it stalked fame in its catwalk in maturity of "verbalism". Committed to teaching debut, it should have been a simple formality that had blocked many of the more ambitious ideas for economic restructuring.

Monument Valley, Arizona (United States)

"Goosenecks" of the San Juan River - Monument Valley, Arizona (United States).

Dan Heller Photography. Unknown date. "'Goosenecks' of the San Juan River". Accessed 9 May 2010. http://www.danheller.com/images/UnitedStates/Arizona/MonumentValley/Gods/img7.html#img11

Belonging to the Navajo Indians, Monument Valley is known for its natural 'monument' mountains made throughout its existence by nature. By re creating this for the clients work and meeting space is a challenge because the area is in the middle of nowhere with no vegetation surrounding it. I think this would give a different feel to the clients space and allow them different experiences.

Inspired Crysis environment.



Sunday, May 2, 2010

3 Textures used

Light


Medium


Dark


Three textures above are the ones I used in my final model.

Link to Levels and Objects folder

http://www.filefront.com/16339547/z3334826.zip

Saturday, May 1, 2010

5 Crysis Images


I designed the two labs for Hawking and Darwin, Darwin being a lover of nature and Hawking being physically handicapped.


The labs for both clients are open to nature to represent their passion and represent themselves. I think it's important for a person to be represented through their building, and where they discover and create their ideas.


The light, medium and dark textures I added to the model are all geometry based and square to suit the labs themselves. The dark texture I used for the meeting area represents the secretive room, contradicting the fact that it's open and has no closure.


The meeting point is simple and to the point. It is open to the environment due to both of their occupations as scientists and their relationship to nature.


The ramp I designed for the two labs are apart of the land form (as asked through the brief). I thought this would be a great reflection on Darwin's love for nature, and a great experience for Hawking to enter the lab through the grass ramp other then a concrete one.


Relation to my Electroliquid Aggregation

'One really appreciates a man's subsistence when reduced to zero, but one's expectation tends to increase at a greater rate than one's means.'

My model relates to the electroliquid quote in some way. It speaks of great expectations and subsistence, which I think people greatly rely on when it comes to scientists. Although my model isn't so complex or way out there, it's simple and straight forward and goes by the function of a lab (being surrounded by your passion, which in this case Darwin is surrounded by nature through his open labs). This also comments that one's expectation of a scientist is greater then what they are, and much greater on what they intend.

Final Sketchup Model vs Original Sketchup Model


I first designed the above axonometric drawings in Sketch-up which reflected my combined drawings. Throughout its development, I ended up changing it dramatically to create the two labs and meeting area, and to follow the brief of having 9 rectangular prisms. This led to the design below.


36 Custom Textures