EXP3 Overview

Operating the Elevators

For Miranda Kerr:
'p' - move up
'l' - move down

For Helen Keller:
'j' - move up
'k' - move down

There are also other doors which operate automatically when within range.

EXP3: Objects Link

http://www.mediafire.com/file/zcewimtqmnf/EXP3%20Objects.zip

All the files including Objects, Levels and Materials have been uploaded to MediaFire.

EXP3: Levels Link

http://www.mediafire.com/file/2y5zwjt2tum/EXP3%20Levels.zip

EXP: Materials Link

http://www.mediafire.com/file/izlftx2uzmo/EXP3%20materials.zip

Student Review

EXP3: Link To 3D Google Warehouse

http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=395710745d97d757c247a680bad93262

5 Images of Final Developed Environment

1. This is a shot of Helen's working space(Left: Writing Room; Middle: Library, Right: Sullivan Room). The roof seems like bird's wings, this create an uplifting feeling, highlights the achievement of both Helen Keller and Miranda Kerr. Helen's working space is moveable. When walking from one side to the other, the facing room will move up telling Helen that she will approach the end very soon.

2. Client's movement is unavoidable. For Helen Keller who cannot see and hear, feeling becomes the crucial sense. This path which emerges on top of the floor allows Helen to feel her way through space when walking on it. Bar shape means movement along the direction of flow while circular shape means approaching an end and/or reached another room.

3. This is a view of Miranda Kerr's working space (Left: Office; Right: Cat-Walk/Shooting Studio; Below: Chillout Room). The artificial light shines through the cavities of the piers and light up the Studio with different colours. Both the grand staircase and her Chillout Room suggest her wealthiness.

4. This is a shot into the 2 clients' Dining Room through the arch and cables act as stabilising agents to prevent the bridge deck from side movements. In addition the K-Truss in the distance holding up Miranda's Chillout Room, the letter "k" was chosen due to the initials of both client's last name: Keller & Kerr.

5. This is a shot of the Dining Room with Miranda's elevator in sight. At the foot of the pier shown in this image is where Helen's elevator arrives, and the movement of both clients towards the dining table will be directed (but not dictated) by the vegetation.

Approaching Final

The red dots are the lights from the beacons.

The piers and roof are all made of reinforced concrete, which is a material superior in compression, while the cables are made of steel which is superior in tension.

The elevator designed for Helen Keller. At top level, also known as her personal library.

As the elevator goes down there are more book shelf which Helen Keller can get books while she is moving up or coming down.

Miranda Kerr's elevator, made of transparent glass.

4 Images of 2 Draft Environment

The deck of the bridge is the result of experimentation with the intersecting E's, which the difference levels also follow the levels of the landform.


This is the developed (but not final) bridge and the environment. The shape of the piers is deliberate, there are two main reasons behind it: firstly these piers act like a symbol of a suspension bridge, adding beauty and complexity to the architecture; secondly the shapes are derived from a feminine body, standing tall amongst the landform, representing the success and achievement of both Helen Keller and Miranda Kerr, an architecture marking the changing status of women in today's society.

This is the initial proposal of the bridge and landform.

Draft of Elevator Experience

At ground level. When approaching the elevator the walls rise and the elevator appears.


At top level. The most noticeable change in experience is that you feel you are on top of the world.

18 Chosen Finest Perspectives

18 One-Point & 18 Two-Points Perspectives

EXP3: 36 Textures

Valley Inspired By Horizona, USA

This is the initial landform I have developed according to the Horizona in USA. What I am trying to achieve is a sense of levels, so that when the elevator moves up and down the view would be in some way different to the view previously.

Mash Up

Discovered in 1997, she had mastered the manual alphabet and manual lip-reading and the typewriter and several forms of Braille, in which she read Greek and Latin and French and German when she won a Dolly Magazine model search at age 13. People felt they want a serious leader whom they can trust. Merkel knows what she's doing. Idolised, she hailed from Heaven for her angelic temperament, her courage and joy and generosity, she has had to steer Germany through some difficult times, where she was introduced as the new face of retailer David Jones (and) met with the cream of Australia's fashion designers at a special dinner who inspires confidence and remains a popular pragmatic politician. Keller's inner visions were more beautiful than reality, she played unwittingly into the hand of those who would sentimentalise all women as better than men, many thought the coalition would break apart, but Mrs Merkel managed to hold it together (by dealing) with David Jones rumoured to be worth a six-figure sum.

Red - Helen Keller

Green - Miranda Kerr

Yellow - Angela Merkel

White - Linking Words

Reference

Red: Mary J. Salter, "The Achiever," The New York Times Magazine, (1996), http://deafness.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?once=true&site=http://www.nytimes.com/specials/magazine4/articles/keller.html.

Green: "Mirranda Kerr Dines With Cream of Design," Sydney Morning Herald, (April 25, 2008), http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/fashion/miranda-kerr-dines-with-cream-of-design-20090403-9nv2.html.

Yellow: "Profile: Angela Merkel," BBC News, (September 27, 2009), http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4572387.stm.

Australia: Blue Mountain (Miranda Kerr)

USA Arizona Sedona (Helen Keller)

Developed Structure

This is the development on the initial structure.

Further Development

The idea of directing light from the cavity between the roof and the wall began here.


This is the proposed way of connecting the ramp to the structure.

An overall shot with lighting effect.