Elevators And Dining Table

My thoughts on power were of balance and equality. This is the elevator I designed for Obama. As you can see it reflects balance by itslef being balanced and one side being mirrored over onto the other side.





This is the elevator I designed for Prada.
This time when I was thinking of balance
of power I was reminded of an old scale
where there are two gold plates to the
same rod that totters on a middle rod. And
I tried to translate that idea of to make things
equal you need to know how to balance yourself.

The dining table I designed also reflects balance and equality. In my table there can be up to 4 heads of the table as to promote that in fact no one is really the head of the table and that everyone is equal.

Textures

Here are the textures that I have completed as well as the ones that I am going to be using in my model. I chose to use the one from each of linear, rotational and scalar, not because those are the words we were told to do but because I like them the best!

Elevator

Here are my three elevator shots in UT. It is still a work in progress. I am liking the shape of it considering the pathways it is to travel along. But I still need to add to it I feel and make it better. I am considering making it a little larger, and altering the shape slightly so maybe it doesn't look like your average run of the mill elevator. I also included a couple of outside shots of what my spaces are shaping up to be. I just like the look of it right now and wanted to share it before it undoubtly changes to suit my needs.

Draft Model

3 Article Mashup

Instead of posting all the articles here and having the page be about a billion lightyears long here are the links to them instead:
Obama: http://uk.reuters.com/article/motoringAutoNews/idUKTRE5406CF20090501
Madonna: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/6611/madonnas_impact_on_society.html
Prada: http://articles.latimes.com/2008/feb/19/image/igw-fashion19

Mash Up Power- Women:

If you percieved someone as powerful, they would become powerful. With the ability to push through ambitious plans and American's giving him leeway Barrack Obama as the president of the United States has never had more influence. A Clinton White House is engaged in an internal struggle over how to recover from devastating election losses and would be in disarray. Or would they? What if Hilary Clinton had incorporated Madonna's attitude into her own persona, such as a strong belief that women should be as powerful and domineering as men and that a woman should be free to express her opinions and sexual desires as a man does, without the fear of a backlash? Mirroring this opinion is Prada. A woman's sexuality is part of her power. Woman who look powerful are always on top. Bodies have the potential for exerting power and can be propelled to demonstrate this power through the institutions that are perceived by the public to be knowledgeable. This means that the society implicitly submits power and knowledge to institutions, in this case, the entertainment industry, and allows those involved in the business to inform the popular culture of their judgments (perceived by the public as knowledge) of what type of body is beautiful and what is fashionable. If Clinton had the magic of Miuccia Prada during the election last year perhaps the Republicans would not be reduced in numbers and engaged in an internal struggle. And be revelling in presidential power and influence unseen in Washington for decades. Not because of Obama but because of a powerful woman president.

Final Submission EXP2.

My laboratories for both Alfred Nobel and Jacques-Yves Cousteau were inspired from quotes that dealt with in my mind the search for normal space. This concept has influenced my work in both the laboratories but in the meeting space. The meeting space is what you would consider a normal room, however, this is because this is the space that Nobel and Cousteau have been searching for. In Cousteau's case the laboratory space is not normal. The waterwall is to create the atmosphere of a tank or marine land and ramp beside it descends into a space with no consistency in its walls. Ascending back up into the meeting space Cousteau is being 'set free' from the marine land into normality. In Nobel's case the laboratory space is golden as knowledge is gold. Here the walls are only two colours to contrast against each other for similarites and differences. Using the ramp to get to the meeting space Nobel would notice the differences between the strength and power of the spaces compared to the delicateness of the ramp, and the difference between the spaces being inside and the ramp being outside. He would search for similarities in the normality of the meeting space. Together they both signify the normality of the search for human knowledge.

Meeting Space- Alfred Nobel And Jacques-Yves Cousteau






The meeting space if you are entering from Cousteau's laboratory and heading out towards Alfred Nobel's lab.






This is the meeting space if you are entering it from Alfred Nobel's lab and heading in towards Costeau's lab.







This is an overall view of the meeting space and it's connection the Cousteau's laboratory.






Jacques-Yves Cousteau Laboratory






Ascending down the ramp into Cousteau's laboratory next to a wall of water and heading towards the laboratory space.






A close-up showing the wall of water and the wall that features an interesting concept of what would be considered a normal wall. It both protudes out and continues inwards creating the question where is the wall actually placed.






I chose to place my medium texture here as it seems to draw in eye inwards. I thought that fit nicely in with this area as the surrounding blocks are placed to question the placement of the wall. It is searching for the similarities and differences in both inside and outside space.



Corridor- Second Meeting Space




My light texture has been applied to the floor of the second meeting place as it helps draw the eye towards the magnificently tall opening in the cliff face that is so powerful and creates the feeling of infinite spacious space which stirs an inferior feeling.





Alfred Nobel Laboratory




The corridor heading into Nobel's laboratory from inside the cliff face. Again it creates the feeling drawing in for the search of space.























Outside Images




Outside looking into Alfred Nobel's laboratory.











Overall view of ramp and Nobel laboratory and meeting spaces.







Delicate Ramp going from Nobel lab to meeting space.







Looking back from ramp into meeting space onto
Nobel's laboratory. Note that I have used my dark texture on both Nobel's lab and the outside of the meeting place to link together and make them similar yet different.




Link to Filefront Model

The link to my model on filefront is: http://files.filefront.com/DM+ARCH1101+Nissa+Bettessut2/;13698994;/fileinfo.html

36 Textures