UT04 - Draft Map 2

Here is the second draft map, with the axonometric below.

UT04 - Draft Map 1

Below is the first draft map in Unreal Tournament 2004, a 3D model of an earlier axonometric seen below.

Week 1 Axonometrics

Our first task for Experiment 2 was a series of axonometric drawings, using three rectangular prisms to construct a space representing our client's ideas.

The first set of axonometrics (above) were designed for Keith Campbell. I aimed to express the ideas of knowledge and investigation in his quote by creating regimented, geometric 'building blocks', which represent learning and logical, scientific inquiry.

The second set of axonometrics were designed for Jacques-Yves Cousteau. His quote expressed ideas of flight and freedom. I used different angles and intersections of the rectangles so they would differ from the logical geometries of the first set, and thus represent unrestrained freedom and, like an archangel, qualities beyond the logical world.

Three clients, three quotes...

"...The whole of my realizable estate shall be dealt with in the following way: The capital shall be invested... the interest on which shall be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who.. shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind.."

- Alfred Nobel

Lindsten, J.; Ringertz, N. (2001). The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In The Nobel Prize: The First 100 Years; Levinovitz, A. W.; Ringertz, N., Eds.; Imperial College Press: London; World Scientific Publishing Co.: Singapore; River Edge, NJ.

"Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction - up, down, sideways - by merely flipping his hand. Underwater, man becomes an archangel."

- Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Quotesea.com. (2009). Jacques Cousteau Quotes. [Internet]. Viewed April 5, 2009. Available at: <http://www.quotesea.com/Quotes.aspx?by=Jacques+Cousteau>

"I just want to know how everything works."

- Keith Campbell

The Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Library, (2006). Cloning Dolly, How and Why? [Internet] Viewed April 6, 2009. Available at <http://www.mblwhoilibrary.org/services/lecture_series/campbell/about.html>

FINAL MODEL IMAGES!

FINAL MODEL LINK!

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=1eb6ca775d7c65d0dd76869eab469995

Animation 3

Animation 2

Animation 1

Short video - Materiality

This is a short video of a demonstration of glass sculpting, in which an Italian glass blower creates a horse modelled on the Ferrari company logo.

It doesn't seem like much, and you wouldn't relate this small artistic piece to the architectural schemes we've been creating, but I find it simply amazing. I've always had a fascination with glass, as a material with distinct functional and aesthetic properties, as well as with its production, from sand or quartz to bottle or window. As you can see, I've featured it liberally in my section drawings, and it comprises the entire structure of my SketchUp model's upper and ground levels, so the video relates to the materiality of my scheme. I looked around for videos with interesting insights into glass processes, properties and unique uses, but ended up choosing this one, partly because most of the videos about glass processes were made in the 80's and featured 10+ minutes of factory footage and cheesy music, but mostly because it just made me think "wow that's cool."

It amazes me that in one or so minutes, this man turns a ball of molten glass into such a delicate sculpture, using a pipe and one tool. But more so, that the techniques and material of what would be considered industry produce a piece of art and beauty.

Developed artists' studios - textures and artworks!

Textures

Custom textures

Second SketchUp Model

Here is the second studio and gallery design modelled in SketchUp. Below are the above and below ground levels, close-ups of each stair and the original section drawing the model is based on.

Second stairs

The stairs designed for the second SketchUp model, featured above in 3D.

First stairs

The above and below ground stairs designed for the first model.

Blog Comment

My comment on a fellow ARCH1101 student's blog, at:
http://jason-jasonjiang.blogspot.com/
(bottom of the page)

First SketchUp Model

The result of my first 3-dimensional SketchUp model. We were tasked to create one artist's upper-level studio and another artist's below-ground studio.

The top level corresponds to "industrialised" and the lower level to "ethereal", based on these pictures:

Sections

Conceptual sections for Experiment 1, Design Studio 1.

Three Artists...

Below are images of artworks by three artists, and a NOUN, VERB and ADJECTIVE that describes them underneath each.

FIONA HALL

Medicine Bundles for the non-born child, 1993.

Consumption, Invert, Industrialised.

TRACEY MOFFAT

Invocations #5, 2000.

Illusion, Suffocate, Ethereal.

ROSALIE GASCOIGNE

Full Stretch, 1991.

Disorder, Confuse, Rebellious.