EXP 3: One Point Perspectives, Power Words & SU Model

Below are 9 of my 18 assessable perspective drawings (the rest are found in my two-point perspective post). Each shape is drawn from an eye level, above and below in one-point perspective with their respective power words displayed. Each H-shape persceptive is accompanied with a SU version highlighting the three different views requested.

 

COUNSELED, MONITORED, ACCOMPANIED

INTEGRATED, AFFECTED, BOOSTED

CHALLENGED, REDUCED, SUPPORTED

EXP 3: Power Article Mash-Up

Facebook sees politics as a two-way street. It has hosted congressional leaders and their aides at its Washington office and its Menlo Park, Calif., headquarters. In the same year, it hosted so-called Young Guns from House GOP leadership as well as President Barack Obama, and streamed the events live on its site. “We’re committed to explaining how our service works, the important actions we take to protect the more than 900 million people who use our service and the value of innovation to our economy,” said Joel Kaplan, the head of Facebook’s Washington office. “We’ve made it one of our priorities to ensure that resources are in place to demonstrate our leadership on these issues.” In the run up to the 2004 election, the George W. Bush presidential campaign received more than $380,000 from the Coca-Cola company and its affiliates. That "investment" of influence seems to be paying off nicely for Coca-Cola today as the Bush Administration is going to bat for the American company which is under fire in India for the pesticide content of its products. In this campaign, the goal of U.S. trade authorities under the Bush Administration is to force India to reinstate the selling of Coca-Cola products to its people, regardless of the pesticide content. The basis for this demand is not founded in science, but rather politics: The products are safe because we say they are! 

EXP 3: Company Choices

As part of EXP:3 I have decided that the two companies I have chosen to base my model on are Facebook and Coca-Cola.

Coke is one of the most recognisable countries worldwide

Facebook continues to breakdown communication barriers around the world

Experiment II - The Necessary Links

Below are my links to my Sketch Up model as well as my zipped Levels folder for the CryEngine aspect of the task. Enjoy!

Sketch Up: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=52d61a9d5b1ce7f78ac83bd7c7febc

CryEngine: http://www.gamefront.com/files/21661969/ARCH1101_MPORTOKALLI_LEVELS.zip

Experiment II - The Final 5... Well, 7!

In reaching the final stages we have been asked to present five images with our textures in our custom made environment. I couldn't pick five but promise there won't be too much writing! Enjoy!

 

For my first image I wanted to set the monument in the theme, space! It is surrounded by a steep valley, mountains, tall and short trees as well as cliff like ridges and grassy knolls with a lake to boot!

Sneaking up on the monument we can see how it sits, entrenched in the valley surrounded by woodlands as sits in its space waiting for people to see what it beholds.

This is the view from the gathering space after one would walk up the valley from the lake and too the monument. This related to my concept of SPACE by allowing a focus on the monument with a drab platform. It also shows how the monument relates to the SPACE around it by expressing shadows from both nature on the monument and the monument onto nature!

This image highlights the porous and weightless nature of the monument which combine to make my Electroliquid Aggregation concept of SPACE come to life. The height and the porous nature of the building allow for attention to be turned to the environment filling structural frames with external SPACE!

The image presented highlights the connection of the monument with its surrounds and how it sits in the valley and ridges that surround it. You will notice how the cliffs and grass butt up against the architecture, invading the monuments personal SPACE while the building becomes one with the nature in which its sit, filling the SPACE nature provided.

This image also provides images of the destruction of SPACE and the connection made with nature and the monument. By having an open floor plan and denying the monument of striking features one is forced to look out and beyond the architecture to find a new SPACE. A place where light and dark, dry and wet, early and late, soft and hard, tall and short become the focus point through the constant frames provided.

With the rising of the moon and the display of more subtle shadow lines the monument changes again for people to enjoy a new SPACE to sit in and contemplate. I chose not to light the monument because I believed the moon and the stars would present enough to invite people to frame a new SPACE.

Experiment II - Sketch Up Model With Textures

I have decided on my texture plan for my model after taking the environment, the model and external research into consideration. The model and reasonings in terms of my Electroliquid Aggregation concept can be found below.

Medium: I chose the medium texture for my floor and staircase as I believe in terms of space in this piece it is the median between open and closed environments as well as areas of viewing in the monument. It is also an area heavily influenced by light and shadow and acts as a balance for the elements to dance upon.

Light: The light portions of the monument were faces visible from ground level while walking around the monument. I chose this because it is an element of space that is most commonly seen and too easily recognised. As a result these areas fail to exercise the mind resulting in people looking beyond it to spaces outside, spaces framed by the monument.

Dark: These areas of the monument highlight the dark spaces surrounding the building and areas unseen from ground level. I chose to do this because it is space that is unknown or unseen with light and different views only shining light on it. This aspect in particular is influenced by the video I posted previously with new spaces available to see if you're willing to look!

Experiment II - The Run Home

In my first year uni I studied Plato's "Allegory of the Cave" as part of a philosophy subject. On viewing Russell's lecture my memory was jolted with images of a video I watched on it. I remembered the importance of space and the perception of light having a subtle undertone in the philosophy and although not parmamount I decided to put this link up for something nice while also guiding me in my final stretch in the assessment, choosing my shades and applying them with meaning. Enjoy!