Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Controls For Elevators
Meeting Table Elevator:
k - DOWN
i - UP
Helen Keller Elevator:
l - Ground Floor
o - 1st Floor
p - 2nd Floor
Meeting Table
I stuck to my original table idea because i think it's simple elegant and effective. The table site in the middle of the structure on the grass immediately surrounded by the elevator platforms. I wanted the table to represent equality in power and the freedom gained by it. Their power branches from will power, self motivation, education, and was exaggerated by the media. The open floor space is very elemental - no covers, guides, or restrictions - just the freedom to commune on an equal level.
I purposely made the elevators move together/simultaneously to reinforce that equality. they each have their own office space to work and both are far enough from each other. When and if they decide to meet, they will meet together!! and respect each other by approaching the table equally.
Helen Keller's Office Space
The above image shows the entrance corridor. I wanted it to be completely covered in brick, filling in the gaps of oppression and disability. although that fullness expressed by the wall creates a dark passage for the majority of others. I wanted this to express that we will never really understand Helen's view of the world as she experiences it through a different mid set. 
(above) side courtyard(below) roof top courtyard
The branches engulfing Helen's office have a dual purpose. Firstly to represent the different connections she made during her education, ( almost representative of the brains path n thought patterns); and secondly for practicality.
each wall is textured differently, providing a physical map of the different rooms, providing a physical/textural map of the spaces. The only smooth wall is the elevator platform running right through the building.
Miranda Kerr's Office Space
Miranda Kerr's office space was a result and continuation of Helen's office building - the leaves supported by solid branches and a solid past. I also wanted to represent the fragility of Miranda's industry, and how easily her actions and her image influence other teenagers - a common issue in the field of modelling. This resulted in a very organic design scheme.
Monday, June 14, 2010
2nd Crysis Landscape
it was too hard to import the actual contour map so This is just based on my playing around with the height of the land form. It's also edgier which is good, showing off the cliffs a bit more.
Cysis landscape
This is nothing special, just playing around with begin able to paint vegetation and textures (which are giving me HELLLL) .... but I need to change the smooth hills to be slightly more edgy
Landscape
I decided to place the offices in the Blue Mountains in NSW. I remember trips to katoomba with the family and the scenery there was awesome - but the valleys are HUGE!!!! so i decided to pick a smaller valley a little further north i remember from Hartley Vale.
Friday, June 11, 2010
Potential Table Design - 2
This table is just another version - a slight alteration giving it a slightly more formal appearance - resembling that of a conference room. (not sure i like it though)
Potential Table Design
My two clients are very power influential women. influencing academics and the youth alike with their actions, what they do and say. I want the table to be unique and different, to reflect flight and freedom of expression. Miranda Kerr expressed herself through her fashion and uses her status to influence young women around the country and the world.
Helen Keller took flight when she found her teacher Anne Sullivan who taught her about the world and her horizons opened up and expanded in every direction. Both women inspire and therefore i want the table to represent wings - flight.
I also want to integrate a way for them to sit side by side rather than opposite to each other - they work together as influential women.
Heatherwick Studio
This is one twisted bridge idea by Heatherwick studio!!! this and another new design consisting of nothing but glass - vertical glass sheets compressed together to form one whole.
Both are unique and WOW ideas.
Designer Bridge
This is another attempt at designing a bridge inspired by Miranda's fashion industry. I played around with repetitive units and basic intersections. I want the brides to remain pedestrian and be generally light weight (no major rooms or structures inside them).
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Web Bridge
I wanted to experiment with construction methods in sketchup using splines, follow me, and intersecting a massive amount of parallel vertical planes. i wanted it to seem slightly more organic so I curves the tubular structure.
I'm not sure how to integrate it with my design or if it fits :S buuut it was a good experiment with what I could do.
Other Innovative Bridge Designs
(Above) Bernard Tschumi Architects and Hugh Dutton Associates, pedestrian bridge in La Roche-sur-Yon, France, similar to Caltrava in the idea of a tubular structure, resembling a web or a weaving structure. although it has a more clinical look.
Another very organic and effective design is a pedestrian bridge by Miro Rivera Architects at Lake Austin.
Links to more interesting bridges:
Peace Bridge / Santiago Calatrava
This pedestrian bridge seems to blend innovative design with practicality. It's stylish and elegant and reflects the fashion industry and Miranda Kerr quite well.
2 Point Perspectives
Power is:
- Strengthening
- Convoluted
- Impenetrable
- Revolutionary
- Consoling
- Forceful
- Authoritative
- Honorable
- Trustworthy
Possible Landscapes
Above - Alabama - It seems very similar to the Blue Mountains (below images), simple hills and mountains rolling over one another. I'm not too sure whether or not I want to keep it simple or take advantage of the cliff edges and the deeper valleys. I like the idea of using the cliff's texture to help distinguish between different rooms or floors in Helen Keller's office space.
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