Week Eight

Materials (Fusion 360)

The shades of blue represent my love for and constant desire to be in the ocean, or river, or pool ... On top of curves that mimic the motion of waves already, I used a white colour for the waves crashing.

This is just a selection of colours that I really feel express me as a person. I'd say I'm somewhat this loud - as in I can talk quite a bit to anyone but I also love to dress in bright colours and use clothes as a way to express myself. They're a little reminiscent of the 80-90s period, which I am heavily influenced by in many aspects of my life.

Glass (window) with dry lake bed environment

I chose this dry lake bed environment as it reminded me of the Uyuni Salt Flat in Bolivia, a truly beautiful place (as I have seen only in photos...) But during the rainy seasons, the world's largest salt bed turns into a huge mirror, creating some pretty cool reflection photos. That's why I chose to use glass as the material, glass also being quite reflective as shown in the image above; the light bouncing off the model. 

Yellow plastics with field environment - turned upwards for the sky background

I played around with some different shades of yellow as yellow is my favourite colour. I decided to put it into the sky to imitate the sun. This is quite a boring render ... 

Revising model making

These pages summarised my experiences using paper and card for model making saying that although they were easy to work with and very easily accessible, they should really only be used for initial models as they can look quite unclean. This is due to them being easily ripped and creased, and obvious glue marks if not careful (or visible through paper if using a liquid glue which is stronger than normal glue sticks).

I looked at other materials that could possibly be used for my model by looking over the video on material selection (Moodle), weighing pros and cons for each and seeing if they were accessible.

I also had a look at different ways of adding more light into my room. I was really intrigued by the individuality and playfulness of Carlo Scarpa's designs and how they cast interesting shapes of light into a room. This inspired me to add protruding windows to my room which allowed light to refract in at all light times of the day, and also created a little bit of shelf space for my random collectables and figurines. 

                                                     

Museum Gipsoteca Antonio Canova, Italy                                                   Sede BPV, Verona

New plan for the protruding windows

With all these thoughts in mind, I just did some quick drawings of what I wanted my model to look like, keeping the floor plan design the same as my previous model. I added in the two protruded glass windows (above my table and above my bed) and a skylight over the walk-in wardrobe to allow natural light in without an invasion of privacy as neighbouring houses are lower and cannot possibly look down into the window. 

New model

After managing to get my hands on some balsa wood, I constructed the new model. However, I was unable to find any hard plastics that I could use for the glass windows so I will have to find and experiment with other materials around the house. A plastic sleeve seemed to be the best option, though I could not find a suitable method to connect them together without it looking messy. 
I also need to find a way to create the balcony's fencing and I was thinking to use card for this. I have just not gotten around to this yet. More experimentation will be needed...

Protruding windows yet to be put into place.. suitable material must be found

Top view of the model, light coming in from the east (morning)

Playing with light. Figure 1.7m real life height

Photoshopping materials

I just used my incomplete model for the material photoshopping as it was the model I was currently happiest with. 

My saved Instagram posts for inspiration ...

 


I chose some sandstone, plaster wall and stone textures to apply to my model as I have a love for more natural and earthy materials and colours.

Sandstone, stone, white plaster, timber

Concrete, white plaster concrete, white bricks, terracotta

Red concrete, white plaster, timber

These photoshopped background images are quite weak. I can add an image into another image but blend the two together well. To do so, I need to work on lighting, perspective and just overall scenery; being interweaved together rather than just two separate images.