Assignment 4

Oh, yeah? Well James BOND visits MY spa...!
(Just kidding I'll share)

Boy jumping (into pool, potentially?) I think he has sand on his butt.


Two girls playing.

A nice, big tree.


I don't even know.

Assignment 3; Hybrid Design

Distributed

This one I completed last. I learned from the centralized version that the more axes of symmetry there are about the center, the more centrally focused it becomes. So for this one, I avoided symmetry or any sort of central emphasis. I aimed to create movement that pulled your vision past the center without much pause.

Hybrid

For this composition I aimed to create emphasis about the center without much overt symmetry. I worked with radial symmetry and mirroring themes to strengthen the center but not allow it to take over.

Centralized

I did the centralized scheme first. As mentioned in the distributed explanation, I aimed for axes of symmetry through the center. The best way to do this was to center the unique pieces in the composition, and arrange the multiple cubes about that center.

Subtractive Approach

Both approaches had their tradeoffs. Subtractive was difficult to "reach into" the voids to manipulate them, while the additive method initially proved tricky using groups and having work with each block individually. I will definitely use a combination in the future. For both posts I used perspective elevations for better understanding of the depth.

ISOMETRIC; horizontal void and edge of vertical void are visible.


ELEVATION [1]; the horizontal void begins wide and narrows down. This view shows the wide "entrance."


ELEVATION [2]; showing the vertical void and the narrow end of the horizontal void.


IMMERSIVE shot looking into the horizontal void (from the same direction as the first elevation).


IMMERSIVE shot looking up the vertical void.

Additive Approach

For the additive approach, I made an abundance of 8'x8' blocks and played with them to infer both voids. I learned how to make groups (each block) and how to choose one "group" to work with at a time. By working with each block individually, I push/pulled patterns within the smaller 4'x4' grid.




ISOMETRIC



ELEVATION [1]; view of horizontal void



ELEVATION [2]; view of vertical void



IMMERSIVE shot within horizontal void



IMMERSIVE shot within vertical void

Subtractive

working on it.