(extra) a few examples of parallel projections.

These were meant to give an idea of how our 2 axiometric drawings would intergrate into a UT model. Here are a few examples with a different viewpoint. The differing views were to help us come to grips with the spatial awareness that was required to effectively use the UT editor programme. These were free hand and no sketch up/ pencil lines were used to assist in this coming to grips.

Custom Texture Intergration

This is the main floor of the meeting place/ pit entry. It is important beacuse it is the focus of the entire project.


This is the bottom of the pit. The dark texture here is used to furthen the feeling of wastefulness.



This is where the medium texture is used. It is used to portray the feeling of ' longing' for knowledge that the two plateaus attempt to create. A great view of the outside can also be seen here.

The filefront download link to my model:

http://files.filefront.com/architecture+finalut2/;13706570;/fileinfo.html

Electroagregation quotes:

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

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.- Cousteau.



If I have a thousand ideas and only Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, turn out to be good I am satisfied.

Final submission images (without textures) and there explanations.

This is The ramp system leading to Nobels 2 main workshops. It conveys my elec. quotation in that the striving for the ideas is ultimately meaningless, shown by the isolation of the workshops.



Note the intricate ramp system here leading to the pit , Cousteaus workshop can be seen after the ramp, it is the top right 'negative' in the wall. This relates to Cousteaus quote in 'the wastefulness', the transition from an unworried green to a deeply troubled red is reminiscint of the finality and impact of pollution. The pit being deep also symbolises how it is meaningless; a relation to my electro agregation quote. Also i made Cousteaus workshop quite tricky to get to (the entry is not obvious) to highlight his frustration at mans wasteful nature.



This is Nobels 'underground' workshop; it tries to convey the mass amounts of thought going through ones head before the idea finally rises, hence its location at the bottom. It is also somewhat larger than his other workshops to indicate the 'mass' of thinking. The windows represent an exit of ideas, the large one being the 'big' idea. Its relation to the electroaggregation quote is that it is structurally level with the pit; this whole process is a farce, non more so that at the industrious and difficult brainstorm beginning.




This is the pit in full flow, all the ramps leading down to it are shown, its depth highlighted by the transition of colour ( which are explained earlier). The use of shadow and non light is also in effect here, giving more depth again to the pit. The greens illusion of safety combined with the real danger of the red give this whole structure meaning.






This is the whole view of Nobels area, topped by the meeting place with its two private rooms and large space in the cliff surrounded by a natural green light, giving it electrofluid meaning.
The two floating workshops and the bottom one can be seen interacting. The use of multiple workshops alludes to the idea of the many ideas that are the theme to Nobels quote. The use of blue light also highlights wisdom and calm; essential to intelligence. The metallic rustic surfaces also represent wisdom combined with clinical thinking.

36 custom textures

In these 3 the lightest is in the top right, darkest bottom right.

In these 2, lightest is top left, darkest bottom right.

UT 2K4 drafts 1+2

This was my first draft in Unreal, it is simple; but it gets the ideas of sprawling ideas (1) to suit Nobel and a wasteful pit of nothingness (2) for Cousteau. Also note the use of ramps to further the theme and the establishment of a central meeting place at the top of image 1.



This is my second and much more developed draft in UT 2k4. In image 1 there are workshops; and if you look closely, more techniques to convey the infinte use of ideas (the one big window being the 1 in a thousand against the lesser ideas, the smaller windows.) Also the meeting place is more developed, the use of ramps furthened to connect the workshops in image 1 to the meeting place. Also more heavy and creative use of ramps in image 2 further increase the feeling of depth and wastefulness.

EXP 2: the quotes plus the 18 axiometric drawings.

These first 9 are based upon Nobels Quote, not the prevailing theme of heavy negatives, implying a 'sprawling of ideas'.

These last 9 are meant to give a feeling of wastefulness and harshness. Thus the prevailing theme is pits and interjoining rectangles.

THE QUOTES:

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

Found on: www.firstscience.com/home/poems-and-quotes/quotes/alfred-nobel-quote_2251.html accessed 28/03/09

Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans. - Jaqcues Cousteau

Found on: www.firstyearbook.umd.edu/theravagingtide/impact_foodwater.html - accessed 28/03/09