Susan Koo

Saturday, April 24, 2010

EXP2 - Screenshots: 9 rectangular prisms

3 Parallel Projections

Chosen Axonometric Combination

(9 rectangular prisms)

- created on Google Sketch Up

- exported to Crysis Sandbox 2 by Play Up plugin

RENDERING LIGHTING EFFECTS:

Friday, April 23, 2010

EXP2 - 6 Combinations: Axonometrics

EXP2 - 2 Screenshots: 5 rectangular prisms

Chosen pair of Axonometrics

(5 Rectangular Prims)

- created on Google Sketch Up

- exported to Crysis Sandbox 2

screenshot: at 12pm

screenshot: at 5pm

Monday, April 19, 2010

EXP2 - 3 Quotes & Electroliquid Aggregation

Client 1) NICOLE KUEPPER

Nicole Kuepper, a 23-year-old PhD student from UNSW's School of Photovoltaic and Renewable Energy Engineering, has developed photovoltaic (solar) technology involving a simple inkjet printing process. The work could bring electricity to 2 billion of the world's poorest people - and has already two prestigious Eureka Prizes for Nicole.

Quote: "And so we started thinking about simple process we can use such as low temperature firing conditions, inkjet printing because they are very simple and easy to understand. And we came up with basically a new way of making solar cells that is cheap, low-tech, low temperature and able to be done in some of the least developed countries."

Source: (accessed 16th April 2010)

Solar Star: Nicole Kuepper, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8eNeReo-hw

Client 2) CHARLES DARWIN

Charles Robert Darwin (12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882) was an English naturalist who showed that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.

Quote: "I love fools' experiments. I am always making them."

Source: (accessed 16th April 2010)

Charles Darwin, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin

Charles Darwin Quotes, http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/charles_darwin.html

Client 3) STEPHEN HAWKING

Sir Stephen William Hawking, (born 8 January 1942) is a British theoretical physicist, whose world-renowned scientific career spans over 40 years. Hawking's key scientific works to date have included providing, with Roger Penrose, theorems regarding singularities in the framework of general relativity, and the theoretical prediction that black holes should emit radiation, which is today known as hawking radiation.

Quote: "I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We're created life in our own image."

Source: (accessed 16th April 2010)
Stephen Hawking,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hawking
Stephen Hawking Quotes, http://thinkexist.com/quotes/stephen_hawking/

ELECTROLIQUID AGGREGATION:

(Darwin & Hawking)

Fools’ experiments are like computer viruses that should count as life, saying something about human nature where the only form of life we have always been making so far is purely destructive.

EXP2 SUBMISSION - 18 Axonometrics

Sunday, April 11, 2010

7 Images for 2 DRAFT and FINAL DEVELOPED

DRAFT#1 SKETCH UP MODEL:

ABOVE: Curious

The emotion of curiosity is visually displayed in this section with the spiral stairs integrated with windows that attracts the person on the stairs to look out from. It poses as a physical manipulation of the spectator (i.e. artist, Goodwin) to be inspired by the Unknown (beyond the window).

materials - transparent glass for ABOVE section, patterned tiles for stairs.

BELOW: Foreigner

This is the attempt to demonstrate the idea of detachment, having separate studio and work rooms spaced out under the ground plane - having Piccinni to feel "foreign" to her surroundings, uncertain of where the other rooms are situated.

materials - patterned tiles for floor

DRAFT#2 SKETCH UP MODEL:

ABOVE: Illuminating

The "illuminating" feature is presented by use of bright yellow and metal - as a reflective source from the sunlight. The shape of the section as pointed star segments contributes to this perspective.

materials: patterned metal

BELOW: Interlocked

The hexagonal shapes connects the whole studio space with bricks used predominating to imply the "strength" of the nature of objects being "interlocked".

materials: striped cladding, bricks

FINAL DEVELOPED SKETCH UP MODEL:

ABOVE: Curious

Developed from DRAFT#1 - modification with studio rooms. The space on the ABOVE section has been extended with curving of the walkways to "manipulate" the artist's mind. The use of wood being distorted in irregular shapes forms the roof and contributes to the "curious" atmosphere, as well as providing a connection to the gallery, also in wood.

materials: cladding, wood, tiles

Gallery - THE DATUM

a walkway has also been constructed to refer to Goodwin's section on the ABOVE plane, i.e. to direct spectators/visitors on only ONE route. The extensive use of wood is to to create a sense of unity between the two sections.

materials: wood

BELOW: Foreigner

The BELOW section has been extended to great lengths to highlight the "foreign" sensation, having tiles lining the surface of walkways and a distorted structure at the centre of the section - this feature is surrounded by a patterned translucent wall - acting as the "barrier" for the artist to see clearly.

CREDITS: Google SketchUp