Axonometrics In Unreal Tournament 2004

JACQUES-YVES COUSTEAU - "The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it."




















































































































KEITH CAMPBELL - "I just want to know how everything works."

18 Sketch Axonometrics

Jacques-Yves Cousteau - "The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it."








































Keith Campbell - "I just want to know how everything works."

Client's Quotes

Alfred Nobel - "If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, i am satisfied."
(2007) Welcome to UBR, Inc. Retrieved 6 April, 2009 from http://www.people.ubr.com/education/by-first-name/a/alfred-nobel/alfred-nobel-quotes/if-i-have-a-thousand.aspx


Jacques-Yves Cousteau - "The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it."
(2009) BrainyQuote. Retrieved 6 April, 2009 from http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/j/jacques_yves_cousteau.html


Keith Campbell - "I just want to know how everything works."
(2006) The MBLWHOI (Maribne Biological Laboratory Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) Library. Retrieved 6 April, 2009 from http://www.mblwhoilibrary.org/services/lecture_series/campbell/about.html

The Journey

SketchUp Animations

Studios and Exhibition Space

Rosalie Gascoigne's artworks seem as though there are many parts to it. Her collage is made of many pieces which have been carefully placed together to create her magnificent artworks.
I have decided to design cantilevered stairs for her studio as each tread is an individual piece and without every piece, the staircase would not be complete. Each tread is carefully placed into the wall so it can withstand a human standing on it. The same can be said for Gascoigne's work. Each piece has been thought about and if there was a piece missing for the collage then the artwork would look out of place; unfinished.
The inspiration of the glass floor also came from her artwork. Her collages appear very intricate and also delicate. The glass floor looks like an elaborate design, yet at the same time appears brittle. The supporting steel frame below the glass is very durable and strong which is able to support the glass efficiently enough to hold people.




Section of Gascoigne's studio.









For Tracy Moffatt's studio her photography studio needs to be a dark and quiet place to work in. This is why her studio is below ground and made of thick concrete slabs to ensure that minimal noise can enter her studio while she is working. A dark studio is also necessary for something as simple as developing photographs or she may need a studio where she can block out natural light from the sun to take photographs without the interference of the natural light hitting the camera and ruining photo shots.
Her collection of photographs from the cellection "Up In The Sky" created an eerie mood when i first saw the photographs. This is why the studio is seen as a "dark" place to be as it reflects the mood of the photographs.






The exhibition space has two entry/exit points. This was done so tha the stairs had something to do in terms with the word "detour". If Moffatt wanted to she didn't have to exit her studio via Gascoigne's studio, she could take a detour and go around to another set of stairs and exit directly outside.

Stairs and Balustrades

Above - Rosalie Gascoigne
Below - Tracy Moffatt













Final SketchUp Model









Above Ground Studio Stairs - Rosalie Gascoigne

Cantilevered staircase.









I have decided not to put in balustrades in this particular set of stairs. As this studio was designed based upon the word "care", I believe that Gascoigne or anybody else wanted to go from the exhibition space to her studio would need to take care while walking up these stairs. The highest tread is 954mm wide which is wide enough for somebody to safely walk up stairs without balustrades.


Section, Front View of cantilevered staircase.


















Below Ground Studio Stairs - Tracy Moffatt
Constructing stairs in SketchUp










I decided to incorporate the stairs as part of the architecture of the studio. I wanted to give a sense that these stairs were heavy. I achieved this by make the studio and the staircase out of concrete slabs. The balustrades are made of steel to allow the staircase to maintain its "heaviness". At first I didn't want to add any railings as I believed the staircase would lose its heavy image but I looked up many concrete staircases and found that the majority of them had some sort of metal balustrades.

Section of heavy stairs















As Moffatt's studio was based on the word "detour" I decided to add another set of heavy stairs on the other side of the studio to allow another pathway out of her studio to get into the exhibiton space; hence the word detour. I only incorporated one balustrade on the left side of this staircase and not a pair. This is because this particular staircase is not as wide as the one above and it seemed a bit cramped to place one on either side.

As you can see there is a platform at the end of this set of stairs and as you walk along you will find yourself at another set of cantilevered stairs which looks very similar to the ones in Gascoigne's studio. I wanted to add this set of stairs here so that when a person is leaving Moffatt's studio, they would recognise that they are making the transition from Moffatt's studio into the exhibition space.
Constructing the cantilevered stairs.










The balustrades made of glass reinforces that you must begin to take "care".
















Leads straight into exhibition space