Short film relating to model

I have chosen the following short film, "Three Cubes Colliding" in relation to the design of my below-ground space. The central concept behind my design is the idea of many shapes, particularly cubes, coming together and combining in a way that creates many small open spaces that combine to form a much larger shape and space. I feel that this movie encompasses those concepts.

Applied textures in SketchUp

Below are three images from my SketchUp model. Each exhibit one of the textures made over the last week applied to a surface of my Experiment 1 SketchUp model. The first shows the texture based from the word "framework", and is used as the flooring of my ground floor space. I like this texture choice as it almost depicts a dark stone with lighter cracks running throughout. I feel this texture would work well as the flooring for the exhibition space in the final model, and I would like to develop this further. The second image shows the texture "dense", and is applied to the upper surface of the gigantic curving blocks which make up the ceiling of my first-floor space. I am unsure about the use of this texture in my final piece, and will evaluate this further. The third image shows the texture "classic", and is used as the flooring for the below-ground space. I am also unsure about the inclusion of this texture in my final piece, but like the idea of contrast between concrete walls and a darker floor, particularly within the below-ground space. This exercise proved valuable in both creating/editing my own textures and in applying them and testing different texture configurations and contrasts. 

                           

Projected texture tool models

Here are my models based off the use of the projected texture feature of SketchUp. The first is one of Shinya Kimura's motorcycles and the second is one of Stradivari's violins. The third image shows them included within the ground-floor exhibition space off my Experiment 1 draft model. This image is an example of the intended use of my staircase leading from ground floor to first floor, in which one half of the staircase is used for transportation and the other half is used for displaying the artists' work, allowing the viewer to move around the objects whilst extending the use of a staircase from typically being a medium for transport to becoming a destination.

Week 3-4 Textures

Below are the 36 textures which I developed in studio and at home over the last week. Each texture is based on one of the 36 words which my group came up with last week. The words have been ordered based upon their position as an above-ground space, ground space, and below-ground space.
The words are as follows:
Above: smooth, streamline, corrugated, disjointed, projected, rough, slanted, fanned, rotated, arched, carved, soft.
Ground: translucent, reflective, rounded, classic, wooden, hollow, moulded, flexible.

Below: segmented, rigid, layered, tessellated, framework, bubbly, dense, shiny, folded, matte, sandy, brittle, crystallised, metallic, condensed. 

Below are the 18 concept sketches from week 1 studio. My clients were Shinya Kimura and Antonio Stradivari. The final sketch was used in making a 3D Google SketchUp model.

Below are 4 images from the Google SketchUp model which I made this week. This was my first time using the program, and as such my work reflects the initial limitations which I faced when encountering the new program. However, this was a valuable exercise and I hope to use the knowledge I have learnt of the program to make future models in studio.

1. "Into the Rose Garden" was my English Extension 2 major work for the 2012 HSC. The piece was a short story with various poems within the narrative. Many hours, late-nights, and all-nighters went into the production of the story. Additionally, the experience of working on a large-scale assignment and developing a creative work was a highly useful and exciting venture.

2. The "JD House" by BAK Architects is an example of sustainable architecture with its materials of local wood and concrete, and its subversion within the surrounding environment - as shown by the undisturbed tree which rises through the floor and roof of the house.

3. This is an original photograph of a quiet beach nearby my home-town on an overcast day. The beach remains relatively untouched and holds a certain solitude and beauty unmatched by most other busy beaches.

Shinya Kimura: Engineer, racing, sleek.

Antonio Stradivari: Creation, concentrating, precise.

Jiro Ono: Palette, entice, delicious.