Modified Textures:

I modified these textures in order to increase and intensify their desired effect. I took a different approach with each one in order to experiment with the lighting and shadows.

Eliminated hatching to intensify the pattern.

Here I used an ocean filter to haze the drawn lines, this increased the shadow effect of the texture.

By inverting the colours I made the light to dark effect become dark to light. I also used a shadow effect to make the pattern seem to glow. After modifying this texture I think this one best shows the experimentation of light and shadow.

I attempted to filter these textures with a brown haze and add a blurring effect.

36 Custom Textures:

The Black Box:

The reason that I chose this picture from "The Black Box" lecture relates mainly to the Jacques Cousteau section of my design. In his quote that I have chosen, he says that man must only sink below the surface and he is free. This image gives me the impression that I am looking down into a tunnel that is burying deep below the surface. To many, walking down this tunnel would be an intimidating, almost claustrophobic experience. However it is Cousteau's reasoning that makes us think otherwise. When most people are content living on the land, he chooses the ocean. Its like he chooses the road less travelled in order to experience things that everyone else will miss out on.
In relation to my design I am trying to emphasise the "road less travelled" theme. This, incorporated with the idea of travelling below the surface are both very suited to the theme I want to use for Cousteau's laboratory. Not only will this mesh in with the quote I have chosen, and many of the sketches I have produced, but will hopefully make for an intersting laboratory design.

Below are some images, whilst very similar to the image I have chosen from the lecture, help reinforce the idea I am trying to portray. These images are also beneficial as they have really interesting textures. This rough, rocky texture is something I would like to utilise in my design.

Electroliquid Aggregation:

Quotes taken from my two chosen clients (Campbell and Cousteau) combined to enforce each other.

"From birth man's pursuit to understand how everything works is like the weight of gravity on his shoulders."

Initial Meeting Point Development (2nd Draft)

Chosen Sketch:

Screenshots from Unreal Tournament:

9 Interconnected Parallel Projections:

Inspirational Images:

UT Environment (1st Draft)

Chosen Axonometric Sketch:


Screenshots from Unreal Tournament:

18 Axonometirc Sketches:

Jacques Yves Cousteau:

Keith Campbell:

Three Client Quotes:

JACQUES YVES COUSTEAU

"From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free."

Reference

ALFRED NOBEL

"If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied."

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KEITH CAMPBELL

"I just want to know how everything works."

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Experiment 1: Datum

This model consists of an above ground studio for Fiona Hall and her "Paradisus Terrestris" collection. A below ground studio for Rosalie Gascoigne and her "Foreign Affairs" collection. As well as an exhibition space between the two studios.

Link to Google 3D Warehouse Model:

Week 4 - SketchUp Animations

Week 4 - Independent Study

Three images of my developed SketchUp model.

Rear View:

Here you can see the back wall of the exhibition space and the upper studio.

Front View:

Lower View:

This view is from the front and focuses on the lower studio, but you can also see the exhibition space.

Sections of my stairs in SketchUp.