German landscape

Experiment 3 - One perspective sketches

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The 3D link above can clicked to see the 3D view of the model.
Click on the Google 3D warehouse logo to link to my model uploaded on Google warehouse.

This is all the models I used in my final crysis uploads, this is not fully structured as I put them together inside crysis to try to include the landform into the structures.
(click on the picture will link to google warehouse for the 3d model)
The models are also in different components to apply different textures to the them.

Crysis files:
Levels: (A) (B)
Objects

There are two level files as I used different levels in my first draft and final draft. File A is my first draft level and file B is my final draft level.

Crysis - Final

In my screenshots, I used a picturesque quality to the pictures to give them a painting-like quality to them.

This is a view of the environment, I attempted to merge the landforms together with the structures, by using the landforms to connect the ramps to the meeting place. This screenshot captures the basic landforms of our world, our most basic habitat, as Stephen Hawking said, "For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals."

This is Stephen Hawking's lab, one of the most brilliant mind in the history of mankind. Bounded by his physical disability, his mind is completely free and unrestricted, thus able to see past normal boundaries of science and physics. This is symbolised by the boundless ocean.

This is the Charles Darwin lab, I used a more mass based structure for his lab. I chose a higher altitude for his lab to reflect on his most famed theory, "let the strongest live and the weakest die"

This is the meeting place of the two labs. As seen in the electroliquid aggregation, they have both theorised in the evolution of mankind. This structure symbolises the beacon of light and pinnacle of knowledge that guides the evolution of humans.

This is the ramp that leads up to Charles Darwin's lab, as Shaowen said, ramp represents a journey. I used this ramp to represent the harsh but natural law that Charles Darwin theories in his book "origin of species", the source of my quote for Charles Darwin, the law of natural selection. Only the strongest can survive and be selected by nature, while the weakest will be extinct by the harshness of their habitat.

Draft of models

Overall structure

Meeting Place

Hawking's lab

Darwin's lab

Custom texture

These are the textures I'm going to use in my structres. I used photoshop to later the tone, contrast and brightness of the images and removed the grid lines from the scans to make it more realistic.

2nd draft for the two labs

The lab on the left is for Stephen Hawking

On the right is the lab for Charles Darwin, I counted the prism that went through the main structure as one prism, therefore will be 9 prism along with a negative prism on the back of the structure.

1st lab draft

(This has been edited down to 9 rectangular prism only)

36 custom textures

These are the scans for the textures, I plan to photoshop a few of them to add colour onto the texture as well. I will upload them in my next post.

The Disconnected Shadow

This slide inspired me to consider the shadow used in designing for experiment 2. In my design process, I understood that you cannot build a construct without shadows, you cannot separate shadows from the design process, especially in a environment where lighting is extremely important. The position and shape of the shadow can deliver meaning and is essential to the beauty of the design, if not most important. The most beautiful building is not just the structure, but if the structure cast a shadow that is as beautiful as the structure itself.