Textures - Light and Dark

Parallel Projection in UT2004

Original parallel projection

The "Stephen Hawkings" area

This is based on the same axonometric as his individual space. The use of the same idea twice (but in different scaling) reinforces the notion of the the 'non-arbitrary' and the 'underlying order'.

The "Florence Nightingale" area

This space's floorplan is loosly based on the shape or a cross, representing Nightingale's contribution to nursing and medical.










The design has been altered numerous times before arriving at the final result, including 'rearranging' and altering the proportion of various prisms, and the way in which the two halves of this space conincided. For example: the Stephen Hawking meeting space has various proportion changes, taking into consideration the dimensions of his personal area, and also avoiding a direct 'replica' of that spatial area; the triangular 'island' has been swapped to the other side so that the upper level floor resembled a paralleogram instead of a rectangle (and then back again).

Parallel Projections - The Meeting Place

Electroliquid Aggregation

Stephen Hawking

"The whole history of science has been the gradual realisation 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."

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Florence Nightingale

"And so is the world put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts (which were meant, not for selfish gratification, but for the improvement of that world) to conventionality."

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"Perhaps our peculiar gifts are 'arbitrarily' sacrificed so that they form the foundation and underlying order of conventionality in our world; and let those of us who are truly considered to be 'divinely' inspired, rise and live on in history."

Axo in UT2004 - Florence Nightingale

Client 2:
Florence Nightingale

"And so is the world put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts (which were meant, not for selfish gratification, but for the improvement of that world) to conventionality."

Original axonometric for Florence Nightingale

This was the original axonometric chosen for Florence Nightingale. However, I felt that it could not communicate the meaning behind her quote when created as a subtracted space within a larger solid space. I continued to develop the idea of subtraction (the "sacrifice" from the individual) and addition (what the world gains - whether it is "improvement" or a failed opportunity), using the original axonometric as a tangential point.

Below are a selection of drawings of this continued development.

Version 2.05


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Axo in UT2004 - Stephen Hawking

Client 1:

Stephen Hawking:

"The whole history of science has been the gradual realisation 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."

Axonometric for Stephen Hawking

This drawing plays on the idea of "arbitrary". The angled section (made from a negative-space rectangular prism) is out of place in comparison to the larger two (positive and negative).

Version 1.01


Middle

Version 2.03

edit: added [Saturday 3 May]

Version 2.03 differs from 1.01 by lowering the "arbitrary" angled negative-space on the vertical axis. This was a mistake I made in Unreal Editor but it became more apparent that there was a rectangle subtracted from this area (c.f. carrying the subtraction through the whole of teh larger rectangle) and was therefore more effective in communicating the idea of it being "arbitrary". This version has also further extended the large negative-space so that there is no back wall; this made it easier to visualise the negative space by being able to see the profile view cut out of the larger rectangle.

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Axonometrics

Client 1:
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."

Axonometric 01 to 04

Axonometric 05 to 08

Axonometric 09 to 11

Client 2:
Florence Nightingale

"And so is the world put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts (which were meant, not for selfish gratification, but for the improvement of that world) to conventionality."

Axonometric 12 to 15

Axonometric 16 to 19

Axonometric 20 to 23

EXP2 - Quotes from the Clients

JANE GOODALL
"Anyone who tries to improve the lives of animals invariably comes in for criticism from those who believe such efforts are misplaced in a world of suffering humanity."

Goodall, J, (with) Berman, P 1999, Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey, Warner Books, New York.





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."

Hawking, S 1988, 'Chapter 6: Black Holes', in A Brief History of Time, Bantam Books, New York.





FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
"And so is the world put back by the death of every one who has to sacrifice the development of his or her peculiar gifts (which were meant, not for selfish gratification, but for the improvement of that world) to conventionality." -[1852]

Lewis, Jone Johnson (ed.) n.d., Florence Nightingale Quotes, About: Women's History, accessed 16 April 2008, <http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/quotes/a/qu_nightingale.htm>.

Additional Images of SketchUp 2

edit: fixed broken image link [Friday 18 April]


Above: Interior

Above: Exterior stairs



Ground: Nolan's stairs (front), Piccinini's stairs (back)

edit: fixed broken image link [Friday 18 April]


Below: Section view

Animations

Animation 1
Above Ground (Nolan - "disarray") to Ground (exhibition space)



Animation 2
Ground (exhibition space)


Animation 3
Below Ground (Piccinini - "membrane")

Storyboard

Below are my storyboard sketches. Storyboard 1 was almost the same frame for frame as "Animation 3". The first scene for Storyboard 2 changed to incorporate some of the above-ground interior space (later becoming "Animation 1"). The original Storyboard 3 was completely scrapped as I changed the exhibition space and felt that this would be better justified through animation (whereas still images could suffice for the above-ground exterior).

Animation - Lecture

An extensive look below ground.

Textures and SketchUp [revised]

Above Ground:
"Disarray"
Textures: Broken (wall), Geometric (floor)
Artist: Sidney Nolan - Death of Constable Scanlon

Ground:
Textures: Woven (floor), Dented (wall - not pictured)




Below Ground:
"Membrane"
Textures: Spongy (wall)
Artist: Patricia Piccinini - The Young Family