Experiment 3

Draft model



Looking up from the valley floor.
The ring is about 200 metres in diametre and bridges two sides of the valley. The ring is the space for Facebook, which connects (two sides of the valley) people together despite physical distances. The under-texture reflects the circular motion to move in that space.
The part hanging in the middle represents Coca-Cola. Coca-Cola loves having it's logo everywhere, so stretched across a 100 metre long surface seems befitting.




The space for Facebook starts thin then gets thicker as it goes around, mimicking how users meet other users through other uses. Most of the walls and the ceiling is glass, representing how open Facebook is. They invite users to hack their system so uncover bugs. Facebook is powerful in that it relates to the people, and people have the power to make changes. Although it is not the first online social network, it is successful and powerful as it changes the way people interact with each other.

Coca-Cola on the other hand is essentially a business. Coca-cola dominates the beverage industry ("with more than 43 percent of the soft drink market [in USA]" http://www.answers.com/topic/soft-drink-industry#ixzz1wvIBCD3D ), which I tried to show in the building's centralisation in the architecture. If Coca-Cola collapses, so many beverages and snacks would disappear. If the Coca-Cola office here collapses, the building would not only plummet and become toothpicks, but it would also break the Facebook office, emphasising the dominance and significance Coca-Cola has world wide.



For the Facebook lift, I want two small platforms on the valley floor. When the input key is pressed, the platforms rise to level with other platforms hovering above in the air, then these combine with other platforms. I think this accurately represents how people connect through Facebook and show the power of numbers.

Experiment 3

Textures

Movement

For this task, we were to draw textures to do with movement. When thinking of 3 other words related to movement, I thought of the performing arts, namely music and dance.

linear

rotational

 


scalar





aggressive





fluid







staccato

 Experiment 3

Playing with the Elevator 

Here I experimented with moving entities and flow charts for a simple platform. I considered lighting when taking the screenshots. I wanted to show the ruggedness of the valley and the bright red effect the sun has on the rocks



halfway up the elevator trip




at the top of the elevator trip





Experiment 3

Two Point Perspectives

Power Words



foundation | strength | decentralised




competition | inequality | rejection




hierarchy | co-command | unscrupulous




stages | obstacle | perseverence




success | grounding | usurp




support | figurehead | rule



Experiment 3

Power Mash-Up

Power is the ability to make change, whether through exerted force, or influencing opinions. Power is gained after success, where the 6 ingredients to success are Ambition, Vision, Determination, Execution, Luck and Timing. For each of these we often need to venture into uncharted territory with unflagging confidence, and simultaneously be tentative. Rivals can place us into a position of jeopardy, however, we may pursue other means to achieve end results. Those in power can control some aspects of what they are doing, accepting and  declining offers and ideas to generate results, yet often there are externalities that you cannot be controlled.

Coca-Cola Amatil
Patricia Sellers, "Muhtar Kent's new Coke" Fortune CNN, May 10, 2012, accessed May 18, 2012
http://postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/05/10/500-coca-cola-muhtar-kent/?iid


Facebook Inc
Ashkan Karbasfrooshan, "Mark Zuckerberg's 6 Ingredients for Success" Techcrunch, February 14 2012, acessed May 18, 2012
http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/04/mark-zuckerbergs-6-ingredients-for-success/


Take2 Interactive Games
Brenden Sinclair, "EA Proposes Take-Two Takeover" Gamespot AU, February 24, 2008, accessed May 18, 2012
http://au.gamespot.com/news/ea-proposes-take-two-takeover-6186637

Experiment 3

One Point Perspectives

Power keywords



usurp | competition | success




perseverence | rule | decentralised




stages | co-command | heirarchy




grounding | support | foundation




unscrupulous | strength | inequality



obstacle | rejection | figurehead

 

Grose Valley
Blackheath, Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia


http://www.genkin.org/gallery/landscapes/alpine-mountains/hanging-rock-blue-mountains-nsw/hanging-rock-blue-mountains-0004.jpg


http://www.genkin.org/gallery/landscapes/alpine-mountains/hanging-rock-blue-mountains-nsw/hanging-rock-blue-mountains-0002.jpg



http://ih0.redbubble.net/image.8151553.6443/flat,550x550,075,f.jpg

cryengine

Experiment 2

Final Submission

Interdependence

The end is never the resulting effort of a single person or a single group. It is the collaboration of many people and many groups.

At first, my model was massive as I thought that it was supposed to be a building, but my tutor sugessted that I scale it down by a lot. The brief also does not suggest that the monument itself is a building. In accodrance with my previous idea of equality between the lanscape and architecture, I chose to to scale down my model so that it would not seem more significant than the lanscape. However the rigidity and artificiality separates the two clearly. The 'space for the students' exists both on the architecture, and the surrounding terrain.



The transparent box on the left represents one group of people, in my case, the architects who form the conceptual ideas. A bridge from the block, passes through the void of the central block, representing engineers. Architectural ideas must pass by the engineers. The monument bridges a ditch and the surrounding flat terrain loops around, representing how Visualisation Artists interact with both parties.

I used textures to symbolise concepts for different parts of the architecture.


3 chosen textures

At first, ideas are light and conceptual...

... We consider different perspectives...

... As the ideas develop, they gain more detail and substance...

... Until we reach what we think is the goal and wonder where to stop tweaking... 

Google Sketch Up Model

Tag: "Claire Wu ARCH1101 2012 EXP2" (all one phrase)

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?q=Claire+Wu+ARCH1101+2012+EXP2&styp=m&scoring=t&btnG=Search

CryEngine 3 level

The original Folder in Levels had 6 versions, but because it was too big to download, I deleted an internal folder and its contents, but the levels should still open.

http://www.mediafire.com/?bvp4c5etftaqxod



Experiment 2

36 gradient textures

I hoped to create relationships between each square through similar shapes, techniques or continuity

 

36 gradient textures




Top left




Centre



Bottom right

Centre right




3 chosen textures

 

Reasoning for my choices will be evident in my next post.

Experiment 2
Electroliquid Aggregation


Interdependence
The end is never the resulting effort of a single person or a single group. It is the collaboration of many people and many groups.

Wholistic and dispersed elements compliment each other in fusing the building and landscape creating a sense of equality

After posting my electroliquid aggregation, the class was told to 'make the aggregation like a piece of literature' and 'think about the landscape not just the geometrical properties of the models' which was what I had done in my previous aggregation.


So, in class I combined my two concepts


"Wholistic use of a singular material heightens a sense of monumentality"
+
""Dispersion and fragmentation results in the landscape enveloping the building"
=
"Wholistic and dispersed elements complement each other in fusing the building and landscape thus creating a sense of equality"


I then considered the clients - Architecture students, Architectural Computing students, and Civil Engineering students.


"Architects and Civil Engineers both deal with the everyday built environment, yet both contribute differently to different aspects to create a complete structure. Without engineers, architectural ideas remain as just ideas. Without architects, a design may lack some creative flair. Visualisation Artists enable others to gain a better understanding of the structure."


 Then stripping this from its direct relation to this course and this experiment, I formed my final aggregation.