Rotation 3: workshop 6

Below: first hand in exercise, storyboarding journey through the main corridor of my house.

Below: final assignment, storyboarding movement through a bakery proposal I designed.

Workshop 3 rotation 2

Final model assignment finished in class

Model it Fisher House detail exercise + final assignment

In class detail exercise:

Final Fisher House model:

Model it Church of Light

Model it rough models

Instructions for lifts

Kerr (circular flower looking one) moving from office to meeting space.
1. Acess lift from Kerr's white office.
2. Press: f-->g-->h-->j-->k-->l.

NOTE: FOR BOTH LIFTS WAIT FOR LIFT TO STOP MOVING COMPLETELY BEFORE PRESSING NEXT KEY.

Keller (rope spiral one) moving from office to meeting space.
1. Access lift in centre of Keller's office.
2. Optional: Press 1 to go to Keller's second level and e to go back to first level.
3. Press: e-->r-->t-->y-->u-->o-->p-->[-->]

Additional images of terrain since terrain never works when reopened

Keller's lift above river to meeting space.
The dining table.

The environment

Links to Crysis files and Google Warehouse

Crysis files both objects and levels
http://www.filefront.com/16770515/z3331384_exp3.zip


Google Warehouse:
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=bb59cdf2a5a2281aacb4db2b0045eeb2

Final Crysis Wars environment and architecture

Below: Miranda Kerr on left and Helen Keller on right. The two offices contrast in shape- showing their contrasting types of power.

Below: Helen Kellers side. I wanted her office to be very original, symbolising how she created her own life and made the best out of what she had despite all the challenges she faced. Her bridge and the texture and the organic green colour also reflects her 'life journey'- the hills= challenges. The unconventional shapes that make up Kellers side show how she wasn't really part of society due to her disability.

Miranda Kerr's side. All the elements are based on the rectangle or golden section, representing in a very literal way aesthetic perfection. The roof structure is very similar to the walls on Kellers side, but while on Kellers side it is very functional and acts as a safety barrier, it is not so functional on Kerr's side and mainly there for aesthetics.

Kerr's bridge is like a catwalk and the walls are glass to reiterate the purely aesthetics side. Miranda's whole office is white again symbolising aesthetic perfection.

Detail on Helen Kellers side. The rope is practical as she is both deaf and blind so she can follow it, and also symbolises her life and how she has had to create everything and make everything for herself. The texture was also from my word: 'life' collection and is aesthetically interesting, in contrast to Kerr's side.

The shape of Kellers office is very organic and original and made of glass (doesn't show in this screenshot but in the uploaded Crysis environment). I hoped that Keller would be able to maybe feel the environment- perhaps the air moving in a different way as it would in conventional shaped buildings.

Elevators and dining table

Map of crysis environment showing paths of Kerr (white) and Keller (pink)

Elevators:
Miranda Kerr: looks like a flower. This representation of Kerr is very literal, much like what the fashion/modelling world is like sometimes. In this world beauty does not extend beyond appearances, and this is certaintly evident in the flower inspired, red/pink/white elevator. The path of the lift is like a catwalk, ending in a platform like rock form just before reaching the dining table. Again, this is a very literal interpretation of Kerr.

Helen Keller: Made of rope. Rope is a recurring image throughout my exp3 design, symbolising her life journey and how she had to create opportunities by herself drawing on her own characteristics/qualities. Rope was also used for practical reasons- Kerr is both blind and deaf, but she is still able to feel the water moving around her as she drifts above the river in the lift. The path of the lift follows part of the river and is winding, symbolising the twists and turns- the challenges she had to face. 'Hills' are repeated in Helen Kellers bridge.


Dining table:
The shape of Miranda's side (the pink side) is quite conventional- simply based on a star. However the intricate pattern suggests that although she is a supermodel and valued for her looks it shouldn't be assumed that there isn't more to her.
Keller's side of the table is more original and complex to symbolise all she had to do to earn her power.

Concept of power: Helen Keller and Miranda Kerr

Helen Keller and Miranda Kerr. One is a woman admired and 'powerful' for her appearance and superficial characteristics. The other is the complete antithesis: disconnected from society rather than made for society, who holds power and authority from the amazing feats and challenges she overcame during her lifetime.
Both however are models: Kerr a supermodel and Keller a role model.


Kerr has obtained power through using what she was born with- her beauty. I tried to convey this idea of using what is available for Kerr in my designs.


Keller on the other hand endured disconnection from the world. The reason she is a model is because she made her own experiences and dictated her own life despite the incredible hardships faced. I tried to represent this through the idea of originality in my designs as well as the key idea of life's journey.

Crysis landscape development

After playing around with colour and texture on crysis- both for the terrain and water I managed to create a similar looking environment to my previous post.

36 textures

1 and 2 point perspectives= 18 sketches

Valley in America v2.

After thinking about which clients I want to use for this exp (Helen Keller and Miranda Kerr) I decided to change my landform. Below is part of the Glen Canyon in Utah, US that was carved by the Colorado River.

Image source: http://forum.xcitefun.net/glen-canyon-carved-by-the-colorado-river-t34408.html

Accessed 6 June 2010

Below: the landform in development

News article mash up

The comparisons between the two formidable female leaders are almost too obvious to draw. But is Angela Merkel turning into Europe's new antidote to winter's ills?

The face - and body for that matter of one whose life of amazing courage and superb optimism in the face of enormous handicaps, Helen Keller, shines like a beacon of aspirational perfection. A leader once referred to as "Ms Europe" – is nowadays being dubbed "Frau Germania", and "Iron Lady". She was a perfectly normal child, but when she was 19 months old she was deprived at a single stroke, by a severe illness, of A black and silver beaded bodice and bolero jacket teamed with a white lace tutu by Alannah Hill.

In Germany, Merkel has succeeded in selling her tough – and uncharacteristically robust – stance on the Greek debt problem as a major political victory.

Yet dressed in a Thatcher-blue jacket she posed smiling in front of the cameras in Brussels alongside France's President Kerr's tiny curves and golden-brown tan are accentuated to perfection.

Her world would have always been walled around with darkness and silence but

For most of the world outside however, Merkel still reigns supreme as a sort of uncrowned queen of Europe. As leader of the most powerful nation on the continent, she has been in power longer than most of her European counterparts. Picture, if you can, a little girl who, although unable to hear a sound, has grown into a woman who makes speeches to vast audiences. She has contributed articles to magazines all" over America, and has written several books-books that, because of their authoress's brilliant gifts and her greatness of soul, have cheered and illuminated the lives of countless unfortunate beings. Nobody should underestimate Angela Merkel's desire to hang on to power for Kerr's back-swept and decidedly blonder 'do smack of sun-kissed tresses and a rosy glow on the horizon.

Miranda Kerr dazzles at DJs' spring-summer launch Nicole Bittar, August 13 2009.http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/fashion/miranda-kerr-dazzles-at-djs-springsummer-launch-20090813-ejbm.html

Helen Keller The Argus Week-end Magazine, August 25 1945. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article964240

The iron Frau: Angela Merkel Tony Paterson, The Independant April 12 2010.http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-iron-frau-angela-merkel-1941814.html

Valley in America

A valley in Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, US. Image source: http://adventure.howstuffworks.com/black-canyon-national-park-ga.htm/printable

Slope on one side, on the opposite side sharp cliff faces and beyond that a plateau.

18 Perspective sketches

Links

Google warehouse: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=785cdd559fd1265a6b392a871e5a120a

Crysis levels: http://www.filefront.com/16339953/z3331384-levels.cry/

UPDATED: Objects folder: http://www.filefront.com/16414081/3331384_objects.zip

Darwin and Hawking's labs

Hawking's lab hangs over a bottomless pit of water, representing his quest to understand the universe and his interest and research into black holes and the unknown. The shape of his lab is based on squares, symbolising his holistic view of the world. The overall shape of his lab is simple, yet complex, with a small square cutting through all 3 levels, much like his quest to discover why "we and the universe exist." The connection between Hawkings and the universe is enhanced by the positioning of the lab- it looks out onto the horizon, an open and quite bare landscape, and faces the direction of the rising sun.

In contrast, Darwins lab is nestled in the terrain, surrounded by the earth and suitable for a naturalist.
The shape of the lab however deviates subtly from the terrain, with its triangular form and sharp angles. This represents his theory of natural selection and the importance of variation which enables life to evolve and progress. Like his ideas, Darwin's lab is immersed in the terrain but in many places rises above it to define itself.
His lab consists basically of two floor levels- the lowest of which can be reached by stepping off the top level. This step down is much like his theory of evolution, that things happen a step at a time.

5 image captures

The electroliquid quote again: If we do discover a complete variation throughout the world, even the slightest; then we ordinary people, silently and insensibly working, wherever and whenever opportunity offers, would know the mind of God in relation to the organic and inorganic conditions of life.

Hawking's lab in foreground. Darwin's in background. Meeting place is between the two labs, in a valley. The two labs contrast from each other but finely balance each other across the terrain- representing the relationship between "we ordinary people" and "the mind of God" which may or may not govern "the conditions of life".

Below: opposite view

Below: the meeting place from Darwin's side of the landscape- in the background is Hawking's.

Below: standing in the meeting place, which takes advantage of lighting to create an inspiring and other-wordly atmosphere and emphasise the idea that humans are governed by the rules of the universe.

Below: View of Hawkings lab from the meeting place/valley way. The terrain beyond Hawkings lab contrasts to that on Darwin's side- it is relatively flat and open, like the universe. To reach Hawking's lab from here you must jump, as if you were leaping into another world and beyond our everyday physical environment.

Combined axos

Two combined axos, from 2 different views. Each consists of a total of 9 prisms.

36 custom textures

First axo in Crysis