36 custom textures

Shadow as repetition

This picture shows an impressive shadow effect to me. l was attracted by the colour of this picture in the first sight. It completely showed the form of shadow clearly. In this image, the shadow looks like an extendtion of the object and the shadow becomes a part of it. The shape of shadow was reflected on the object which it just like a kind of a pattern on the object. Like the third one from the left hand side, the cube shadow was projected on the top of the bottom one. The shadow increases the density of the cube in a different way. The dark shadow provided a sense of depth in this work. Those images inspired me to think the use of shadow. What kind of shape can provide an effective shadow shape to link up with my model and environment. l also started to think about the use of shadow. How it can enhance the physically shape of my model. Whether l should use the shadow as a repetition or a pattern of the object.

Sketching - combination of two paris

Picture of my model and environment.

In the open area, I look upward into the sky.

This is the view from the opening area. Referring to the quote of Stephen Hawking. He like to do something else when he gets suck in a problem. This is a nice refreshing space for him to get relax by looking at the beautiful sunset.

Finally, l chose the top one to make a model in Crysis War. Because it creates kind of balance feeling by heavy(right) and light(left) parts. The centre part is the meeting room of two scientists. The two half cube surrounded(laboratory) the meeting room are interlocking to each. The biggest cube is an openg area for connecting the outside and interior part. The left hand side cubes are also a laboratories.

one pair of axonometrics in Crysis War

The laboratory and meeting room are surrounded by high hills which provided s spacious environment for scientists to work on their research.

Axonometrics sketches

Quotes

Nicole Kuepper

“It could enable people to read at night, keep informed about the world through radio and television and refrigerate life-saving vaccines”

Resource: http://www.thecommonwealth.org/news/34580/34581/221132/100310cwweekquotes.htm

Charles Darwin

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”

Resource: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/charles_darwin.html

Stephen Hawking

“It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.”

Resource: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/s/stephenhaw109983.html

Animation

images captures of sketchup

This one shows the connection from the ground floor to the underground floor. The purpose of using glass door in front of the gallery is bringing the internal part of gallery outside. When you are walking in to the gallery, you can also watch the art work before you are in.

This is the first underground floor space. l 'm trying to show the connection between the studio and gallery (the middle space). The decorative wall merges two space in to one.

This view is from the bottom and looks upward . The purpose of this structure is not just for people to look through the glass to the sky, it also brings the light into the bottom part from the top. It just like a spot light projected into the galley space.

This view is from the one side of upper floor. It can be seen that people is able to look from one studio to another studio. The large transparent window is kind of connection between the outside and inside space.

FInal sketchup model

The top view of my model showed that it can be observed through the studio space at the bottom to gallery part till the top part. It created the connection from the bottom (inside)to the sky (outside).

This picture not just shows the whole structure of the model, but also focus on the lighting stair. It is also a large platform for gathering and connects from the ground floor to upper floor.

l can't upload my sketchup to 3D warehouse directly because my model is too big. Therefore l upload it to http://cn.drop.io/3325463_exp1# as Russell said.

Details of Stairs