Draft Design Models

Draft Design Model 1

 My first draft model of my bridge and two headquarters tried to encapsulate the idea of dominant power and decaying power. The dominant power being the headquarters of cocacola would be large, dominating and overseeing all; therefore placed above the bridge on a ledge symbolising increased power. The bridge would extend over the valley above a waterfall and lake below replicating that of The Twin Falls Kakadu. The bridge would gradually decay in form until one reached the facebook headquarters which appears to be falling apart and ready to collapse, therefore symbolising decayed order and a loss of power. I did not put the water beds or waterfall into the environement yet as i was more concerned with the placement of the overall model in the environment as opposed to environment details.

                                                           

 The whole structure would hang off the edge of the cliff as would the meeting place to reinterate the fear of power and the need for control to prevent one falling off the cliff edge and therefer losing all power. The left perspective above was my inspiration for my cocacola headquarters as it gave the concept of seclusion and confined safety. The right perspective encouraged the design of my facebook headquarters as it apeared to be a sprawling structure of chaos representing the chaos of facebook's decayed power.

 Draft Design Model 2

 Moving on from my first draft i tried to make the headquarters look more abstract and interesting while still converying the notion of structured and decayed power i am trying to get across. For both headquarters i tried to create a series of spaces which reflect their power instead of just geometrical shapes. For the cocacola headquarters i created a gradual climatic progression to the empowering headquarters above and for the facebook headquarters i attempted to creat a set of spaces through use of interlocking planes to give the impression of an unsafe, exposed decaying structure. I will next try and incorporate shapes and structures which reflect the two chosen companies of cocacola and facebook for a more abstract effect and greater understanding.