EXP3: submission.
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
Overall screen captures of the Headquarters for Coca Cola and Facebook situated in a bridge spanning across a valley.
Coca Cola Headquarters:
The inspiration of coca cola headquarters was focused upon the company's extensive use of marketing to advertise and raise awareness of their product. It is this marketing strategy which has allowed coca cola to become popular with consumers and gain an edge over it's competitors and causing it become one of the most powerful companies in the soft drink industry. This particular focus on the company's use of advertising is highlighted in the design through the purposeful blatant "C"s of the headquarters. In addition, the use of the colours red and white parallel the Coca Cola logo.
Facebook Headquarters:
The inspiration of the Facebook headquarters is focused upon two key aspects: the lack of privacy/personal user information, and connectivity of it's users. Facebook is a social networking site and as discussed in the word mash up is extending into every corner of the internet, targeting to control and dominate consumer confidence with a cavalier disregard to privacy. This aspect of its powerful nature is emphasized through the wide open spaces of the headquarters and glass exterior walls so that nothing is hidden. The second aspect of "connectivity" is what attracts consumers to Facebook, forming an interconnected web of internet users. Starting from just one person and expanding to 900 million users, this potential to grow exponentially is what makes Facebook so powerful. This concept is underlined through the shape of the headquarters as the building starts at a single point but its surface area and levels grow as you go upwards. In addition, the use of the colors blue and white parallel the Facebook logo.
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EXP3: elevator for coca cola.
position of the coca cola elevator: outside the entrance of the coca cola hq.
on the elevator perspective: top
on the elevator perspective: bottom
outside the elevator perspective when it is at the top
outside the elevator perspective when it is midway down.
outside the elevator perspective when it is near the bottom.
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EXP3: elevator for facebook.
position of the fb elevator: very tip of the fb hq.
inside the elevator perspective: top
inside the elevator perspective: bottom
outside the elevator perspective when it is at the top
outside the elevator perspective when it is at the bottom
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EXP3: drafts and planning.
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EXP3: 36 "movement" textures.
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
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EXP3: Tiger Leaping Gorge and Draft crysis enviro.
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Tiger Leaping Gorge is a scenic canyon on the Jinsha River , a primary tributary of the upper Yangtze River. It is located 60 kilometres north of Lijiang City, Yunnan in southwestern China.
http://pictures.traveladventures.org/images/tiger-leaping-gorge08
http://www.yunnanadventure.com/Yunnan-Tours/Lijiang-Tiger-Leaping-Gorge-and-Shangrila-Shudu-Lake-Trekking-Tour.html
http://www.kumuka.com/Yunnan-and-Tiger-Leaping-Gorge.aspx
Draft Crysis Environment
without river and vegetation:
with river and vegetation:
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EXP3: 18 twopoint perspectives.
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EXP3: word mashup.
Facebook's
power should worry us all, extending
to every corner of the internet, targeting to control and dominate consumer confidence with a cavalier disregard to privacy. Coca Cola and Take-Two also before comparatively simple largely redundant with
limited powers and resources have
reaped the benefit of higher consumer confidence, inflating
their value providing the
platform to improve their profitability and market position in each of their
territories. The government has abdicated
its responsibilities to maintain proper control and regulatory investigation over these
businesses’ continued benefit and growing power; accountable to no one operating with apparent
immunity from the law.
Coca Cola:
http://www.smh.com.au/business/cocacola-amatil-beats-profit-estimates-as-prices-rise-20100812-1206v.html
Facebook:
http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/facebooks-power-should-worry-us-all-20111009-1lfu0.html
Take-Two:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/23/business/23options.html?ref=taketwointeractivesoftwareinc
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EXP3: 18 one perspectives.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
and one which took three drafts to get right as it's really hard to get the intersection, lengths and size of the squares right as they get smaller in the distance.
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EXP2: submission.
Sunday, May 6, 2012
TADAO ANDO:
The use of light is evident in Ando's architecture, creating a sense of exterior light penetrating the interior.
For Tadao Ando's monument (the use of light is evident in Ando's architecture, creating a sense of exterior light penetrating the interior), I wanted emphasize the different perspectives of light from different angles especially focusing upon the light filtering and penetrating through the dense forest into the clearing by the beach where the monument is.
WALTER BURLEY GRIFFIN:
Group of buildings which faced one another to give that sense of separation and administrative zones.
"I am what
may be termed a naturalist in architecture. I do not believe in any school of
architecture. I believe in architecture that is the logical outgrowth of the
environment in which the building in mind is to be located"
In contrast to this, the environment for Walter Burley Griffin's monument, (group of buildings which faced one another to give that sense of separation and administrative zones), I wanted to create a strong sense of separation and thus a canyon rock face separated completed by a river seemed a suitable option, allowing the monument which is essentially "group of buildings which face one another" to be the sole connected link bridging the gap.
MEETING PLACE/SPACE IN BETWEEN:
TEXTURES USED:
light
medium
dark
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Layout by Navy with Inspirations & Icon from Ettudis.
Some of the codes (+ colors) are from chocolettha and BG from ixora.
Blogging the life of a second year architectural studies student at unsw.
