ARCH1101 - Yen Nhien Nguyen: March 2012

Thursday, 29 March 2012

Sunday, 25 March 2012

SUBMISSION EXPERIMENT 1

SECTION USED

Top
Artist - Louise Bourgeois
Artwork: Sainte Sebastienne
Keyword: Standing

Bottom
Artist - Ai Wei Wei
Artwork: Rooted Upon
Keyword: Strange

FINAL MODEL DESIGN

Birds eye view of model. Image shows the gallery space featuring Ai Wei Wei 's artwork, Rooted Upon. Also visible in the image is the above ground studio of Artist 1 - Louise Bourgeois.

Image above shows a cross section of the below ground studio of artist 2 - Ai Wei Wei. It also shows a spiral staircase and its relation to the studio.

The third image shows a cross section of a staircase. This staircase allows the artist to travel from the gallery space or ground level to their studio above.

TEXTURES USED

Texure: Lustrous

To make the above ground studio stand out from its surrounding, i decided to use loustrous texture its surfaces. Another reason i used the loutrous texture is because the studio surfaces are flat. The work flat reminds me of smooth and the word smooth them reminds me of something shiny and therefore lustrous is used.

Texture: Grainy

The texture grainy is used on the exterior of one of the gallery spaces. The gallery space is placed on ground level. From the word ground, the word gravel comes in mind and so the grainy texture is for the gallery space.

Texture: Irregular

I used the irregular texture to the spiral staircase in the below ground studio. The keywork for the studio is strange. The design of the studio is also strange by itself due it its unique design and irregular walls, so to make the staircase fit in with the theme of 'strange' I desided to use the irregular texture.

ANIMATIONS

Camera orbits around the model showing the gallery space and above ground studio and also the textures used in the model.

Video shows cross sections of model (gallery space, above ground studio and below ground studio)

Video Shows cases. First staircaise is the spiral staircase from the below ground studio going up to ground level. The second staircase in the video is from ground level going up to the above ground studio.

3D WAREHOUSE - SKETCHUP MODEL (links)
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?q=YenNhienNguye+sketchup+model&styp=m&scoring=t&btnG=Search

Developed sketchup model

Image1: shows gallery space, studio for artist 1 and studio for artist 2.

image2: shows artwork by artist 1 (LOUISE BOURGEOIS - Sainte Sebastienne (1992))

image3: shows artwork of artist 2 (Ai Wei Wei -Rooted Upon)

Video

The Interlace - Singapore

Stairs

Stairs for Section 1

There are 2 rooms for S.1 studio
After dicussing with my tutor I decided to do a little bridge connecting the 2 studio rooms but after experimenting i noticed that the bridge seemed too steep. I then changed the bridge into a small staircase (shown in the sketch above) because i think it will be safer and earsier to travel between those rooms.

The image above shows a staircase from ground level (gallery) to the S.1 studio of Artist 1.
After creating the models for the gallery space and the studio, I designed a staircase that would fit into and around the design. The image above shows the final design of the stair. It's almost like a spiral staircase going up, around, up and around again. The staircase goes through one of the studio rooms from the bottom.
The material used for both staircase should be something hard and solid to keep its form and structure.

Stairs for section 2

The image above shows the design of the bottom level staircase and its connection to the studio of section 2.
Section 2 studio has 2 levels. The design for both levels are irregular.
I wanted something simple. I thought of a straight line, then a tube and then in the end i decided on a spiral staircase.
The height of both levels is quite high so if did an ordinary staircase, it would be too steep or too wide/big.