Sketchup Model Draft 1

Mashup of 3 News Articles

Concerned with the latent beauty found in nature, we envision buildings grown from live flesh, fat or coral. The external skin of a building can even be conceived as a giant light filter, guiding you through and immersing you in site. Engage with a wider material palette to uncover what is already there by creating architecture which suggests a sequence of experiences. We may live in a virtual world of bright city lights, but the relationships and processes within nature can be used as inspiration for a future model of existence. Make material states dynamic; open to the nuances of light and subject to time, weathering and use rather than offering the monotonous predictability of engineered systems. 

The theory suggested by this mashup is that architecture should engage harmoniously with and reveal its environment, while also being as diverse, whimsical and beautiful as nature itself.


John de Manincor and Sandra Kaji-O’Grady, “Making, Matter and Meaning,” Architecture Australia, Vol. 102, no. 3 (May/June 2013): 19-22.
Antony Di Mase, “Making more of our relationship to light,” Architecture Australia, Vol. 102 no. 1 (January/February 2013): 74-76.
Sarah Hicks et al., “Natural Artifice – A Powerful Force,” Landscape Architecture Australia 131 (August 2011): 20.

18 Perspective Drawings

Defensible space

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Less is more

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Mass and Void

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Touch the earth lightly

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Ornament is crime

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Whole is greater than the parts

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Images and a Short Video Clip of Valley in NZ

Hooker Valley, Mount Cook National Park

3D View of Sketchup Model

Extra Images

Final Submission for Experiment 2 The Space Between

Link to Dropbox file: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/eg4nng9guh3zlu8/GUNVeTCFou

Link to 3D Warehouse file: http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=7dc02aa8dbccc01afef6c986caa4f45a&result=4

Images of Draft Cryengine Terrain with Sketchup Model

36 Textures (light to dark)

Electroliquid Aggregation of 2 Chosen Concepts

1. Linearity and the collision of axes create a network, which disorientates movement through the internal space.

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2. The proximity of textures and geometry results in a layered effect, which provides a distinction between spatial foreground and background.  

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The collision of lines and the adjacency of different textures gives depth to the form and creates a layered effect.