Draft #1 (Sketchup and UT)

Below: Sketchup captures





Whole Environment


Dining Table



Meeting Space


Madonna Elevator



Madonna Space



Prada Elevator



Prada Space

Below: UT captures

Meeting Space and Dining Table


Madonna's space


Madonna's Elevator



Prada's space (Looking in and out)

*Prada's elevator was not imported into the UT draft as it contained 128580 faces, and it kept on crashing while i was waiting for it to import*

Rapidshare Download link:
http://rapidshare.com/files/247215670/Draft2.ut2

18 Two Point Perspectives

1

Authority, Subordination, Savage

2

Reliable, Dictatorship, Force

3

Submission, Strength, Challenge

4

Aggressive, Cooperation, Patriarchal

5

Dominant, Determination, Commanding

6

Ambition, Wrath, Fear

Mashup of 3 Articles

Obama became the 44th president of the United States on Tuesday before a massive crowd reveling in a moment of historical significance, and called on Americans to confront together an economic crisis that he said was caused by "our collective failure to make hard choices."
Nothing holds back Madonna. Not love, not pop expectations, not tastefulness, not religion, not the laws of physics. Prada has distinguished herself with her eccentric and unconventional use of pattern and shape.
We would engage in a level of aggressive personal diplomacy in which a whole host of issues are on the table. We're not looking at Iraq, just in isolation. The way I view my role is to look at the broader strategic concerns, focusing on them, and understanding that I'm going to be in constant consultation with the military in terms of how we tactically execute a strategy. Prada is all about bringing fashion back down to earth. A surprise in Prada products is to see the use of a specific material in an unusual context and in consequence, the astonishment how good it fits the purpose.
Madonna's Drowned World Tour, a 105 pop spectacle as performance art, was devoted to the idea that Madonna can do what she wants.
"music makes the people come together," she sang in the finale - together, that is, if Madonna is clearly in charge. As her career approaches its third decade, Madonna represents the triumph of willfulness.
Prada has continued to bewitch fashion insiders and the public through aggressive aesthetic experimentation. Her style is marked by a reflexive urge to defy the status quo.

Referencing:

Michael R. Gordon, Jeff Zeleny, "Obama Envisions New Iran Approach", http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/us/politics/02obama.html?scp=15&sq=barack%20obama&st=cse
Date accessed: 11/5/09

Transcript of Interview with Barack Obama, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/us/politics/02obama-transcript.html?scp=14&sq=barack%20obama%20execute&st=cse
Date accessed: 11/5/09

Jon Pareles, "POP REVIEW; Sea of Self-Love, but Who's Drowning?", http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/27/movies/pop-review-sea-of-self-love-but-who-s-drowning.html
Date accessed: 11/5/09

Guy Trebay, "Miuccia Prada", http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/p/miuccia_prada/index.html
Date accessed: 11/5/09

UT Draft Model #1

Model of img 5 from previous post

18 One Point Perspectives

1

Reliable, Submission, Dominant

2

Strength, Subordination, Patriarchal

3

Force, Commanding, Dictatorship

4

Aggressive, Savage, Challenge

5

Cooperation, Ambition, Determination

6

Authority, Fear, Wrath

Explosion + Falling apart of Cousteau's Lab/Ramp

The explosion and sinking of Cousteau's lab symbolises the freedom man has once they 'sink beneath the surface'. The weight they once carried sinks to the bottom of the sea and disappears. Their memories of this heaviness on their back is forgotten, and he is free.

Filefront

Link to map:
http://files.filefront.com/13696395

The Ramp

The ramp is divided into 2 parts. A zig-zagged part that's on the wall connected to Nobel's lab, and a 2nd part which extends to Cousteau's lab.


Once the viewer steps out of Nobel's lab, they realise that the division from the lab is continued onto the zig-zagged part of the ramp. The different materials on each side of the division relates back to the duality of the quote.

The materials that make up the turning part in the ramp becomes darker as u go up (as shown in the image above). It also gets heavier in a sense, and builds up towards the explosion towards the end.

An overall look of the material applied to the other side of the ramp


The idea of the ramp was to incorporate the ideas of the 2 quotes. In the post on 'Electroliquid aggregation', i have identified the main concepts behind the design of the ramp - the main idea being division. With that in mind, i combined he idea of explosion from Nobel's quote and the weight of gravity from Cousteau's quote while creating the ramp. The materiality of the ramp becomes darker and heavier as u go up, and it gets to the point where it cant support itself and falls apart [gravity] in an explosive way. The red lighting is used here once again to highlight the division (also used in Nobel's lab space and the other division part of the ramp on the wall).


Close-ups of the explosion from below.


Entrance to Cousteau's lab. The walls slanting in allude to the heaviness of the lab.


Looking back out onto the wall from the inside of the ramp connecting Cousteau's lab.


Another view of the ramp - looking from the water.

Note: Quite a few of the screenshots (like the close-ups of the explosion from below) and the last 2 posts were taken standing on the broken pieces of the ramp

Jacques-Yves Cousteau's Lab [Addition Space]

"From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free." - Jacques-Yves Cousteau



Interior of the lab. You have to crouch down (hold down shift) to enter it. The converging walls (shown in the image above) and the dark texture that's applied on the interior further emphasises on the weight that the viewer is carrying on their shoulders.

Looking through the opening which the viewer drops through and 'sinks' into water. (screenshot taken while falling)

Looking up after the viewer is submerged in water. They can clearly feel the weight that was pressing on them while they were within the lab and now they are 'free'.