Item Overload

This is what happens when you have too many items, people! Your house will explode and fly off into space. True story.

Purple Render

Digital Manipulation

Model Manipulation

Drawing manipulation

All the spaces

Model Photos

Presentation is key

This is how I will be presenting some of my drawings. We need to show 3 A1 pages (this is one of them, the strange Madelon-inspired axonometric I posted below is another) as well as have a portfolio. So I have two out of three A1s done and am editing my portfolio... the main problem I have right now is that I have no idea what to put on my final A1! I had better decide soon however, since I need to factor in printing time... I've had a lot of late nights this week, but at least this project is fun. I'm very glad that I actually showed up to class and worked on it during semester... so many people didn't, and I don't even want to imagine how pressured they must feel right now..!

Colourful spaces

You may remember grayscale(ish) versions of the individual images from earlier in the semester... well, I've jazzed them up with lots of colour and mixed in some stock imagery and some of my line work :)

Drawing updates

Here are the final versions of my freehand exploded axonometric and my 1:50 section.

Madelon inspired axonometric

Freehand exploded axonometric

Here is my current version of the freehand exploded axonometric of my design for Madelon's studio. For both these sections, I still need to add figures and objects to the drawings.

Section 1:50

Here is a 1:50 section of my design for Madelon Vriesendorp's studio on the café site. It sits between two buildings, shown with the gridded bulk. I did this first on ArchiCAD, then illustrator, and finally Photoshop, with some hand drawn elements.

Madelon studio render

I did another render using Artlantis today. This time I concentrated more on material and also played with the lighting settings a bit. Hopefully I can improve!

Artlantis renders

Today I downloaded Artlantis for ArchiCAD and started playing with rendering settings. I'm just a beginner obviously, but here's what I've managed to produce so far.

Conceptual plans

These are the 'plans' (not yet final, still conceptual) that I generated off the initial drawings in media. I am finally learning how to use Illustrator!

Initial drawings

These were the initial drawings I did for media (yes, I am very bad at updating my blog in order this year... let's just blame it on the workload, and the fact that blogging isn't actually part of design this year, I'm just doing it now for a personal record! And yes, it will annoy me later that things are out of order, but oh well haha). At the end of the lecture, we had a few minutes to look at some existing drawings, then had to draw them ourselves from memory in our tutorial. Needless to say, they turned out completely different!

Site sketches

These are the site sketches I did when we visited our sites, all in Ponsonby, a few weeks ago for media. I think for my project I will choose the one that is between two existing buildings, as working with such a gap could pose interesting.

At home with Madelon

Some more images of Madelon Vriesendorf at home in her unit for media. These are possibly not entirely finished, I still need to consult with my tutor. 

The lady in the Red CoAt

One of my finished renders  from media this year. We're designing for Madelon Vriesendorf, the wife of Rem Koolhaas, who collected many items. Each week we get a new image from her collection to add to our work, and this week it was the lady in the coat.

Also, I have quite a lot of work, particularly from this class, to upload but I've been very busy lately... I'll get to it eventually.