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final library and conference room renderings in podium

Library and Conference Room Sketchup Views

 

Bird's eye view.

  

Parallel isometric view.

Perspective isometric view.

 

Section cut view.

 

Top view.

 

View to render 1.

 

View to render 2.

 

View to render 3.

Sketchup Animation

Design Autobiography 2: Manifesting God

           For my map of my object, I chose God to be the "founding father" or the starting point. From God, both light and color were created. As an act of trying to control color and light, humans created the prism, where light is shown through an object and shows color. The prism then became a gem once humans realized that it is beautiful without having to tranform anything. This map shows how humans try to manifest God and rationalize things he has created.

Design Autobiography 1

As a designer, I am bright, purposeful, and colorful.

Alone, the gem is attractive, but when paired with light, the gem becomes something much more magnificent. Knowledge is my light, and when armed with it, I know that I can be outstanding.

Each cut in the gem is meaningful and joined to make a larger picture that is brilliant. In 1919, Marcel Tolkowsky created a mathematical formula for cutting round gems to maximize their brilliance. When refracting light, the top of the gem will create an arrow pattern and when viewed from the bottom, a heart pattern is formed. When designing, I want each aspect of my work to be purposeful and when combined, to create something worthwhile.

I believe that color has the ability to control a person’s mood. For example, when in a bright yellow room, one might feel happier and joyful, whereas in a monochromatic dark blue room, one might feel melancholy or depressed. I would love for my work to be able to have that big of an impact on someone. I want to surround my peers, clients, professors, and family with the colors and feelings of happiness.

For the main culture, the gem would symbolize power, wealth, status, class, and beauty. For the subculture that mined the gem, it would symbolize slavery, death, repression, and poverty.

St. Mary's house Writers' Retreat

          The first picture is of my parti. I cut a board into the shape of the plan of St. Mary's House and planned out where I would want my different rooms to be, and along with those rooms, the colors that they will be are represented. I wanted the study to gray to have the room be formal, but the living room would be inviting, warm, and dramatic, while having the gray incorporated throughout. The kitchen is yellow because it points towards the east, where the sun rises, which would light up the entire kitchen. The next picture is of the furniture plan at a 1/4th scale. The living/ reading room would contain enough seating for 20 people, with extra chairs in storage. I put a desk and computer in the bedroom so that the writer would be able to get up during the night or in the morning to jot down any thoughts. The dining room is located where the alter is, keeping to the fact that dining would be ritualistic since our last project was about dining. The third page is of all the sections. I have two transverse and one longitudinal. The fourth page has two perspectives, the top one is standing in the dining room, with the wall ghosted, looking into the kitchen. The second is of the dining room while standing in the living/reading area. On the final page is the living/reading room. The fireplace is kept in the same place as it was originally and the reading space is located right next to it with a foot step up.