Filefront Link

Here is the link to my Unreal Tournament EXP3 final model, and two draft models, as well as 3 Google SketchUp models:

http://hosted.filefront.com/PSHEPHARD/

FINAL FIVE IMAGES

The meeting place.

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Obama 1.

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Obama 2.

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Obama 3.

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Prada 1.

Clients' Dining Table and Elevators

These two elevators provide an easy access and a comfortable space within which travel from one place to another is designed. Note the three-dimensionally-curving sculpture on the elevator (top) for Prada, and the two seats on the elevator (bottom) for both Prada and Obama.

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The centrepiece of this mainly rectangular dining table is the middle section, which is comprised of many randomly aligned wooden bars. Their random alignment alludes to the many different and interconnecting relationships between the clients. The elevated top piece gives the table a sense of lightness and honesty.

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Feedback - Review Session 1

36 Textures

H-shaped Architecture - Draft Model no.2

H-shaped perspectival sketches

F-shaped architecture; draft model no.1

F-Shaped Perspectival Sketches

Quote Mash Up

Desperation and luxury are mortal enemies. Fear and power do not peacefully coexist. On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord. Producers of fear are keenly aware of the power they exert over the masses and seek to exploit this knowledge to the fullest extent possible by using pop music to manipulate people’s thoughts. Fear and power do not peacefully coexist. We understand that our power alone cannot protect us, nor does it entitle us to do as we please. What sets producers of fear apart is disregard of the people, so that the people fail to recognize that they are being controlled. Fear achieves and maintains dominance by constantly shifting and expanding it's icy currents, but let us brave once more, with a certain serenity, endure what storms may come. One thing we, the people, are unafraid of, is a good fight.

Madonna: http://dialogues.rutgers.edu/vol_02/pdf_files/d_pham.pdf
Miuccia Prada: http://www.time.com/time/2004/style/020904/power/2.html
Barack Obama: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/20/obama.politics/

Filefront Link

Here is the link to my final model (no.3) in UnrealEd:

http://hosted.filefront.com/PSHPHRD

UT3 Final Model

Image 1: Campbell's Lab.

A series of interconnected rooms within "the wall" allow Campbell the solitude and environmental control he needs to undertake genetic research.

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Image 2: Campbell's Lab.

Prominent in this image is the broad staircase, which provides a greater degree of partitioning between rooms and floors, again providing Campbell with a series of organised spaces.
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Image 3: The Meeting Space.

The meeting space, half enclosed and half exposed, consists of a large, flat, open space that creates a neutral and diplomatic area for the scientists, Campbell and Cousteau, to meet and exchange ideas.

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Image 4: Cousteau's Lab.

Cousteau, an environmentalist and scientist by nature, is provided with a laboratory which actively places nature as a source of inspiration for him.

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Image 5: Cousteau's Lab.

This image focuses on the ramp, dramatic and significant in its construction and positioning, as the access point between Cousteau's lab and the meeting space.

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Comments on Erika Kruger's work

Perhaps the strongest link between these images is the interplay between light and dark, and the shadows that link them. The top image, by Erika Kruger, takes the individual on a visual experience, one which brings about an emotional response to the architecture of the place. One experiences a heightened knowledge of the place, since it's complex composition allows scope for interpretation. Clearly, a strict sense of dimensions and proportion is replaced by distinctive and contrasting tones.

Similarly, the second image, a laboratoy for Jacques Yves Cousteau in UnrealEd, features an intentional and distinctive use of light, dark, and shadow. Although part of the architecture is concealed, the individual is left with an emotional response to the place. The concealment of certain elements, such as the ramp and the ground floor, is of little concern, since the viewer is allowed scope for their own interpretation, influenced by their past experiences and mood.

36 Custom Textures

UT3 Draft Model no.2

Image 1: Campbell's Lab - (Inside the Wall, 1.)

This image, panoramic in orientation, trys to give a wholistic view of the laboratory carved into the wall. This laboratory was developed with Keith Campbel in mind. It features staggered levels and separated rooms, as in my first model, but is an improvement since the use of proportion and lighting is more considered. These features suit Campbell, because, as a genetic scientist, he requires an environment which is stable, controlled and quiet.

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Image 2: Campbell's Lab - (Inside the Wall, 2.)

A reverse angle of this same laboratory, the layout becomes more apparent. There are, however, more corridors and rooms off to the sides of this image, which provides Campbell with additional spaces for research.

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Image 3: The Meeting Place.

This image, taken before the exterior laboratory for Cousteau was developed, features a large open space, which is a diplomatic and neutral place for the scientists to meet and discuss their work. As it is a draft model, I think it can be improved, with additional partitioning and furnishing a possibility.

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Image 4: Cousteau's Lab - (Outside the Wall, 1.)

Perhaps the most noticable feature of Cousteau's laboratory is it's openness and transparency. This obviously suits Cousteau, as he is at home in nature and embraces it in all its fluctuations and manifestations (i.e. weather conditions and locations).

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Image 5: Cousteau's Lab - (Outside the Wall, 2.)

Looking back toward the meeting space, the ramp is quite distinguished in its positioning and construction. It features a two-part incline, bordered by blocks of varying height, which combine to create a significant and suggestive approach to the meeting space.

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Electroliquid Aggregation

"Man has only to have one good idea, and he is Free. Everything works."

-An electroliquid aggregation of quotes from Cousteau, Nobel and Campbell.

UT3 Draft Model no.1

These images show my first attempt at building, rendering and lighting a space within UnrealEd. I have only built into the wall, and tried to gauge a sense of proportion, with respect to the human body. The rooms were constructed with the scientist in mind, seen in the separation of rooms, as well as their simplicity. However, the model is limited in it's use of textures, their orientation, the use of light and dark, as well as the overall layout of the laboratoty. These issues will be addressed in future models. See that the sketch it was based on is posted below.

18 Parallel Projections

This set of 18 sketches is essentially composed of two halves: the first nine,a rectangular volume drawn from one direction, and the second 9, the same volumes from a reverse angle. I have uniquely combined one of the 18 axonometric sketches, as below, with another one, and then redrawn them from the reverse angle.

The shading techniques reflect my quotes.

-The sketches based on Campbell's quote, "I just want to know how everything works", are typically drawn to allow the viewer an x-ray view of the volume. Dotted lines and special shading techniques allow a degree of transparency to the blocks.

-Those sketches based on Cousteau's quote, "From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders...", are typically more solid, intricate, precise, and yet dynamic, reflecting the environmental and scientific works of Jacques Yves Cousteau.

9 Axonometrics - Campbell

9 Axonometrics - Cousteau

ARCH1101 EXP2 - QUOTES

"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." - Jacques Yves Cousteau.

1960, 'Poet of the Depths', Time Magazine, 28th March 1960, accessed 4th April 2009, from http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,826158,00.html?iid=chix-sphere.

“If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.” - Alfred Nobel.

Alfred Bernhard Nobel, accessed 4th April, from http://en.thinkexist.com/quotes/alfred_bernhard_nobel/.

"I just want to know how everything works." - Keith Campbell.

Marine Biological Laboratories 2001, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, accessed 4th April 2009, http://www.mblwhoilibrary.org/services/lecture_series/campbell/about.html