Saturday, March 26, 2011

Final SketchUp model

concept sketch.
Overall Elevation section.
Stairs leading to Upper Gallery.
elevation section of Stairs and upper gallery.
Upper Gallery section.
More Sections.
Lower Gallery space.
an elevation section showing the spiral stairs desceding into the gallery space.
an isolated view of the lower gallery stairs
a plan view of the lower gallery stairs, showing the spiral layout.

SketchUp Model file:




Section Animations




Elevation animation






Plan section animation






rotating section animation

Lower Gallery + stairs

texture used on the spheres.
texture used on the steps and gallery platform.
Lower gallery. an enclosed space on a platform of spheres, with imposing spheres on the interior surface. the key word being anatomy, the texture makes the surfaces of the spheres look like cells. it may look abit like an actual enlarged living cell? the platform of spheres. the spaces in between allows the person to see through to the bottom. a spiral stairs that descend into the platform. it follows a siral with a falling gradient. a side view to show the slope of the stairs.

Upper gallery + stairs

a texture used for the outer surface.
another texture used for the outer surface. the dotted texture corresponds to the style of art by Australian Aboriginals who makes lines using dots.
Hexagonal studio component space. Upper floor and lower floor. gallery space is primarily upper space.
A component with hexagonal prism stairs to the upperfloor
Ground floor

each wall has hexagonal parts, much like a beehive. some hexagonal parts are raised to give the feeling of being in a beehive. Primary colors are Yellow, Red and Black, which coresponds to the Aboriginal flag colors.


First Floor. The triangular interior "windows" are removed to join spaces with each component.
the stair that connects to the upper studio. it is a wall that is "flipped" down. its hexagonal parts all flipped to the horizontal and raised to make steps. the purpose of this is show the connectivity and system of this design.
a cross section of this hexagonal stairs.

36 textures

Words from left to right.
chain-aluminium-scales-orion-swirl-nova
sharp-jagged-slippery-bubbly-layered-sparkle-vortex-rotate-bumpy-grainy-density-ameobic-brick-spikes-web

planar-reflective-wavy-light-depth-homogenous-metallic-sparkle-gradient-contrast-blotch-fabric-woven-oily-spiral


Monday, March 7, 2011