Week 4 - Final Sketchup File:

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Thumbnail: 

3D Viewer:

Week 4 - Final Design: 

Materiality: 

Initial Design Stages:

Concept Section:

Early Drawings:

Sketchup Models: 

7 Selected Images: 

Draft 1:

Draft 2: 

Final Design: 

Exterior

Interior -  Ground Exhibition Space

Interior - Ground Exhibition Space towards Indoor Gardens

Upper Level Platforms - Workshop of Issey Miyake 

Basement Level - Workshop of Louise Bourgeois 

Animation: 

Plans for Animation Sections:

Animation Video Compilation: 

Week 3 - Youtube Video:

This video contains inspiration for one of my stairs, and I was influenced by the use of a steel framed glass staircase supported by steel rods from the level above. Instead of a circular staircase however, I decided to use hexagonal plates to create a more random and erratic appearance. 

Influence in my design: 

Week 3 - Textures:

Representative Volumes for Artworks:

"Maman" - Louise Bourgeois

"Billowing Pleats" - Issey Miyake

Artwork Volumes in the Sketchup Model:

36 Words and Textures:

Key Words:

Self Healing Plastics:

• Growing
• Organic
• Natural 
• Squishy
• Gelatinous 
• Movement 

Aerogels:

• Cloud
• Floating
• Weightless
• Transparent
• Light
• Soft

Stanene: 

• Connecting
• Directional
• Strong
• Layers
• Powerful
• Light

Metamaterials: 

• Repetition
• Catalyst
• Light
• Waves
• Bending
• Flexible 
• Invisible 
• Distorting

Pervoskites: 

• Pattern
• Crystalline 
• Geometric
• Square
• Energy
• Silvery 

Thermoelectric Materials: 

• Shiny
• Thick
• Blocks
• Dense
• Hard
• Strong 

Draft Textures: 

Finished Textures:

Three Selected Textures:

Group 1, Perovskites - "Crystalline":

Group 2, Aerogels - "Light":

Group 3, Stanene - "Layers": 

Three Selected Textures Applied to Sketchup Model:

Texture 1:

Texture 2:

Texture 3: 

Week 3 - Developed Sketchup Model:

The Building:

Representative Volumes for Artworks:

Week 2 - Stairs:

Stair Section Drawings:

Stair 1:

Stair 2:

Stair 4:

Stair 5:

Sketchup Models of Stairs:

Stair 1:

Stair 2:

Stair 3:

Stair 4:

My intention for stair 4 is that it will be able to raise and lower each set of 

steps, so as to form both a suspended bridge, and also a descending staircase.

Stair 5: