Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Draft Submission

My first draft submission post because the images were too big so I had to do it again.

I did take scans of my sketches but I forgot to drop it on to my USB.


Elevator
With my elevator, I want it to be fused between a sphere and the Great Glass Elevator from the latest Charlie & The Chocolate Factory Film. I may need to develop my elevator further so that It'll look similar to my elevator I created.
Ideas for my elevator from Charlie And The Chocolate Factory film (2005- Latest One)





Dining Table


The dining table is going to be located for each of the spaces which will be for Donatella Versace and Steve Jobs. I also may need to consider chairs for the clients or people to sit.




First Draft (Sketchup)


For my first model I want to create two spaces of architecture. The top space is alocated for Versace and the bottom space for Jobs. The model seems to be confused and I may need to think and plan the elements that need to be included in my model.






Second Draft (UT2004)


This is another draft I worked on for Unreal Tournament. The problems I seem to be having was teh elevators, when I go up the elevator and exit, the elevator goes down. Therefore I have to jump from the top and I end up getting injured. I swapped and top and bottom spaces for Versace (top) and Jobs (bottom).




Third Draft (Sketchup)


With my third draft I developed the model from UT2004 further by adding a dining table for each space and three elevators. Two on one end so that people and/or the clients can go up and down easily without any dilemmas. I was going to add logos for each space but this didn't work out.

STEVE JOBS SPACE
DONATELLA VERSACE SPACE

Textures

Draft Sketches and Textures

Draft Sketches- Is it 18 sketches of + shaped or t shaped shapes?

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Tips for inserting and adjusting stairs in UT2004

Hey fellows

Here are tips on how you can install and adjust stairs:
1. Just like creating the box you can adjust to what height,width and breath of the stairs
2. The most annoying part about adjusting stairs is that you have to rotate the stairs to the position you desire. When I first installed stairs I found it hard to rotate objects but I managed to do this trick in top view however can be pain in the neck because the stairs keeps changing it's position.
3.You can get rid of the block space from your staircase so that your structure may not be ugly and boring. This can be done by using a block by whatever size and using a subtract tool to get rid of some of the uneccessary block of the stair.
4. One important tip is definetely test your map with the staircases, because that's the mistake I made when I explored my UT2004 environment. The stairs were to cramped, they were hard to climb on and they were to narrow.

Monday, May 19, 2008

Discovering The Taste of Architecture

Here are some links which I find helpful when it comes to discovering the taste of architecture.

SkyscraperCity- shows news and stories of buildings, developments, infrastructure etc.
www.skyscrapercity.com

SkyscraperPage- shows diagrams and info on skyscrapers been built and proposed in our cities
www.skyscraperpage.com

Emporis- same as Skyscraperpage however doesn't include news and stories of buildings, developments etc.
www.emporis.com

Monday, May 12, 2008

UT2004 Pathways

Here are my pathway images which I did in my UT2004 environment. Please take a look.

Idea

Here is my model I did in UT2004 Environment

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Mashup Article on "Power"

Picture this: Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton in a body-hugging, possibly cleavage-baring, thigh-revealing Versace dress (safety pins optional). Is this an image you have of a women in communism politics or communism power capacity to control number of state-owned companies, jobs, everything? Attending Zhang Yin's Correspondents' dinner in China on Saturday evening, the famed designer said: "Hillary should wear Versace - a dress, not trousers. She doesn't need to wear trousers to show strong corrupt and controlling pathology of communism".Well, whether you agree or not, if Donatella had her way, the former first lady's surprise could very well be wearing one of these floor-skimming frocks instead of the suits she has taken to wearing. "We don't think in terms of power to keep ownership and direction as distant as possible, Steve Jobs says. ”We think about creating new innovative form of hit-and-run guerrilla warfare products that will delight our customers in a constant battle with the world's greediest and most corrupt officialdom. Happy and loyal customers are what give Apple its 'power' survival upon paying tribute. At the heart of it, though, we simply try to make great products that we want for "power", and hope that almost every private businessperson in China will love them as much as ex-communist officials do. And I think after all these years,we have gotten pretty decent at it."

References:

Brent Schlender, Money-CNN, The power of Steve JobsNOVEMBER 27 2007 4:38 AM EST(accessed on 101h May 2008)

http://money.cnn.com/2007/11/21/news/newsmakers/power_jobs.fortune/index.htm

Will Hutton, Guardian, Thanks to Mao, Zhang Yin's a billionaireSunday October 15 2006 (accessed on 11th May 2008)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/oct/15/comment.china

DollyMix, Donatella Versace thinks Hillary Clinton doesn't need to wear trousers to show she's strong, April 29th 2008 (accessed on 11th May, 2008)

http://www.dollymix.tv/2008/04/donatella_versace_thinks_hilla.html

Monday, May 5, 2008

Final Submission for EXP2- Final UT2004

Here is my Final UT2004 Environment

NOTE: Have a look at my ideas in the Final Submission for EXP2 blog

Textures
Dark Texture

Medium Texture
Light Texture


And Here's my Filefront Link-http://files.filefront.com/DM+ARCH1101+Gajan+Punnia+Moor/;10135115;/fileinfo.html

NOTE: With my filefront document, I may have problems with my textures because it seems that it doesn't appear on my model

THREE IMAGES WITH THE QUOTES I CHOOSE FOR E.A.

This also clearly shows a outer space environment by the futuristic windows and the shape of the Star Wars Tie Fighter which is highlighted by Hawking's quote.
This reminds me of being in a battlefield in a typical World War Environment, this relates to Nightingale's Quote of being standing in war.

This reminds me being in outer space by it's futuristic design similar to science fiction video games like Halo and clearly relates to Hawking's comments about space and time warps.