Crunch time: 11.5

With three days left to go, I worked on producing and formatting our entire board.

SITE PLAN

For the site plan, I positioned the follies in its intended location, as well as designing the roof space. The roof garden functions as a sculptural park, introducing elements of the follies as sculptural entities. These sculptural elements function as seating/pavilion/shelters for user's to inhabit or climb onto. The sculptural park draws users through the green space from its original transient nature. The extruded skylights from the library serves as a spatial divider as well as providing opportunities for seating.

(Trees were a pain to fill, done according to vic's tree analysis)

Sculptural elements extracted from the follies - Materiality would reflect the same pink concrete finish.

LONG SECTION

While Ethan was busy working with the plan, I took what he had at the time and drew the long section for it. I extracted the section from the 3D model, but it was too messy to work with so I ended up redrawing it to the plan. I drew the basic outlines for the elevations and added some minor detailing that would be later passed onto Ethan to inhabitate.

After receiving back the inhabitated plan, (I added a few more guys of my own after: hulk, joker, and some other people to make the plan more active and fun) I formatted the line weights (made easier from Ethan's colour coding) and added textures + colours to make it presentable.

INHABITED PLAN - 1 : 50

I worked through a few iterations for the plan graphics before finally settling with the current.

SHORT SECTION

Likewise, while waiting for Ethan to finish the long section, I drew outlines for the short section. Whilst working on it, I had to make a few adjustments while the plan was changing.

Same story with the long section, I took the lines from rhino, exported it into illustrator and finished it on photoshop.

FOLLY MODELS

See post Pink Stuff for folly blog. Essentially, I picked up the skills I learned from making the site model and translated them into our follies. I originally wanted to work with a 1:200 scaled version of our library, but time was short and only managed to produce the follies. I casted two versions, one was sanded finish whilst the other was left raw with blue stained marks from the cast box.

SILICONE MOULD

It was a lengthy process to wait for the prints and then spend a few hours making boxes for moulds and casting. I was hoping the silicone to be softer and easier to play with. However, it's rigidity ended up breaking our third folly.

We could've had the potential to cast a sectional model of our third folly, the silicone managed to capture the stairs and skylight for Contemplation. BUT.... time.

MAKERSPACE MOMENT

Daniel's initial work on the makerspace moment.

I took the moment he worked on, changed the exposures of the people, updated their saturation, brightened the image, texture the walls and people until finally applying a final filter on them in order to match the other moments.

CONSTRUCTIONAL DETAILS BY NOAH.F

Formatted by Author. Noah did a great job with the details, made my life a lot easier with formatting.

1 : 1 COMPONENT DETAILS BY DANIEL. H

I received the illustrator file from Daniel. H and applied textures and colours to the drawing on photoshop. The lineweights that Daniel chose was a bit fine so i had to buff it up on photoshop.

STL MODEL FOR 3D PRINTING

After designing the roofscape on the masterplan, I built the 3D model of the library and the follies on the roofscape to be printed for our site model. The model is not accurate to our other digital library model due to the MDF topography. Likewise, we adjusted the site landscape a little to fit our library, so this model is definitely not 100%.

EXTERIOR MOMENT DRAWING THAT NEVER CAME TO BE

I was about to produce the exterior moment renders (I built the model and started playing around with the views to capture the exterior perspective), but the group was running behind on schedule, so I had to abandon it in order to help with the other drawings. The exterior moment would've been quite time consuming (or it already was, trying to model the landscape), I would've had to set up the interior lightings and furnish it slightly to make it convincing.

I was hoping that the 3d site model was sufficient in showing the building's relationship to the surroundings. I guess it would've been nice if we had more time to accomplish the exterior moment.