Model Construction

Drawings

Detail..

Started making my 1:1 model, good thing my building walls are all plastic. Pouring concrete looks extremely difficult!

Checking measurements however is taking a LONG time.. turning out to be harder than what I had originally thought.

Second Life building on site!

Photoshopped images of my second life building on site with different filters..

Weeks 8-9 Gifting - Augmented Reality

The start of a new project: Gifting

These two weeks my group is doing Augmented Reality, which, by the end of we are to have a 1:1 model showing detail of our building.


Given that my previous project was about a photography studio, I chose to focus on the gift of capturing moments. I have chosen my site to be on The Strand on top of the VTNZ building.

Met with the tutors on wednesday and they gave me some ideas


Taking your car for a Warrant of Fitness is not the most exciting thing. Everyone wants to spend as little time at the mechanics as possible, drop the car off and leave to do something more interesting. This 'moment' is very short and could be seen as a wasted moment in the day. 


Now, I can give this moment more meaning (taking into account my idea), let's say instead of spending a few minutes dropping off your car, you instead take a lift up to the rooftop where there is an art gallery and cafe for you to enjoy while waiting for your car to be repaired. This transition from chore(taking your car to the mechanics) to enjoyment(the art gallery and cafe) is the exact  definition of my idea, capturing this 'moment' within life(going through the motions) and turning it into something worth remembering(as art often does).

Matrix

Finalised!

Unfortunately I kept forgetting to take photos as I was developing my building design so I only have the final product.

BRIEF:
Startup business is a photography studio
4 photographers including myself

 Final building with rooftop opening to natural sunlight

 Back exit

 Entrance

 White and Black cubes/backdrops for taking photographs

 The lift

 Inside the darkroom

 the hidden darkroom in the floor

 Gallery at the entrance to display photographs

 

 

In relation to my previous project about 'social sustenance' there is a room for a computer and wireless internet where the photographers can work on their digital photography as well as have social networking connections.

The darkroom caters to one of the photographers interested in black and white photography and one the photographers is interested in concert photography, thus placing my building near vector arena for easier access.

Change

After discussion with the tutors, they'v agreed that I'm making this building too literal and rather than taking ideas from the building I'm just mimicing the 'style'. So, I've been trying out some there hollow cubes which rotate to create a threshold/transitional space as a part of the 'free-flowing' idea from the Barcelona Pavilion

More Second Life

been working on my building, though at the moment I don't really know where I'm going with this.. it's hardly looking like a building at all

 got the idea to make a platform with pools from my matrix building - the Barcelona Pavilion (the building is linked to the pools through poles/supports)

Floating to create a feeling of peace and freedom..?