Exp 2: Final Submission + FileFront link

This last 2 images show the 'ramp'-like landform which joins the two labs, the platform near the water and the block on the right hand side (the last image being the view of the water/landscape from the 'ramp'). The one on the right belongs to Charles Darwin and is sitting within the mountains, reflecting his work on evolution, fossils and wildlife. Stephen Hawking's lab, on the other hand, is more isolated, open to the sky, linking to his theories on cosmology and quantum gravity.

While the labs don't specifically reflect the quote, the overall structure shows the way in which it is not placed in an 'arbitrary manner' but rather wedged strategically within the landform.



Note: I had an issue importing the textures into Crysis, and as a result the colours showed up inverted. Therefore the final result wasn't quite what I intended.

Google 3d Warehouse Link:

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=93a044ab7729e72a1587cf123ef3643d&prevstart=0

FileFront Link:

http://www.filefront.com/user/saskiadehaan

Exp 2: 36 Textures

Exp 2: Erika Kruger - Black Box

An aspect of Erika Kruger's work that I found particularly interesting was the concept of the shadow as threshold. The idea that there is a space, in shadow, that "negates the difference between front and back...bodies and intervening space ('empty space')" is something which I would like to further focus on in the meeting area of my design. Having two distinct spaces that each transform into a common area, is something which I imagine may emphasise a sense of the unknown and mystery, “obscuring what is to come and what has been”. While this idea currently isn’t linked that closely to my model, I’m interested in applying certain aspects of it to my design, particularly in the areas between each laboratory and the meeting space.

(Source: "The Black Box: The Concealed Room", Erika Kruger (2004), Submission for Degree of Master of Design)

Exp 2: Draft Model Crysis Screenshots

Here are 2 screenshots of my draft Crysis Model:

The model was based on the following sketch:

3 Combined Axonometrics

Here are my 3 combined axonometrics:

Electroliquid Aggregation

The whole history of science more frequently begets ignorance, than does the gradual realization that those who know little, positively assert underlying order. Confidence, which may or may not be divinely inspired, will never be solved by science, a certain problem. Events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, and those who know much, reflect that this knowledge is so.

(Charles Darwin and Stephen Hawking)

Exp 2 Client Quotes

Nicole Kuepper:

"What started off as a brainstorming session has resulted in the iJET cell concept that uses low-cost and low-temperature processes, such as ink-jet printing and pizza ovens, to manufacture solar cells."

("Thinking outside the square finds light in oven", Sydney Morning Herald, Deborah Smith, 20 Aug 2008, [Accessed online: 20/4/10])

Stephen Hawking:

“The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired.”

(http://thinkexist.com/quotes/stephen_hawking/ [Accessed: 20/4/10])

Charles Darwin:

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science."

(http://thinkexist.com/quotes/charles_darwin/ [Accessed: 20/4/10])