Experiment 3: The Bridge

Mashup Draft 1

The Power of Communication

 Communication is one of the world's most well known sources of power recognizable throughout the world. It provides a model of marketing power and has transcended national borders and cultural barriers to reach almost everyone on earth.  This omnipresent image of socialising and continuing to stay in touch with the world through social media has  continued to penetrate further around the world; expanding into other territories and increasing its world dominance with over a century of history behind it.

 Although communication through the use of technology has helped progress our current world we must be aware that technological creation has a power that should concern all of us; a source of power that as undisputed as it would be frightening that should worry us all. There are sources of power in the world that are accountable to no one operating with apparent immunity from the law and with their power continually growing the only real alternative left open to us is to either beat a retreat into a self-imposed disconnected world or total surrender entering into a self-imposed exile as to step in would be a futile exercise. The hyperbolic pace at which technology moves is no match for reason and therefore as the price we pay the rest of the moral world has limited powers and resources to pursue force to fight for the rest of us that have surrendered our identity.

 In the future socialising must be a powerful leader in its field of communication. Its global reach which has established a presence in the world we know promises to be a future in the highly competitive world which believes “'We're going to get killed here unless we get bigger”. Through the power of communication businesses have continued to grow within this world of hit or miss existence therefore extending their reach. By utilising the power of communication as a way to gain more leverage socialising businesses have appeared destined to remain a major force in an area that holds great promise for the future.

For this first mashup draft i focussed on the power of connecting people through communication. I explored how communicating is a powerful tool within the world while also speaking of the worrying concerns associated with the power of words and the technological future future of communicating we face. The mashup is quite long and needs to be cut down dramatically. The three different articles used within the mashup must also be intergrated within each other to provide a distinct and significant approach to power instead of 3 separate distinct paragraphs.

Sources

The Power of a Brand

Bob Zurn

http://www.experience.com/alumnus/article?channel_id=advertising_marketing_pr&source_page=additional_articles&article_id=article_1172770548217

Facebook's power should worry us all

Julian Lee

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/facebooks-power-should-worry-us-all-20111009-1lfu0.html

Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc.

Funding Universe

http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/TakeTwo-Interactive-Software-Inc-company-History.html

Chosen Australian Valley

The valley i chose was the Twin Falls Valley; located in Kakadu Wildlife Park, Australia due to its unique flow of greenery, rock and water.

-I chose this valley as it was a unique mixture of rock, water and greenery.

http://www.australiantraveller.com/other/kakadu-or-kaka-don-t

One Point Perspectives

 Power words and sketch perspectives correspond from left to right.

Model 1: Middle, Solid, Muscular

Model 2: Guarding, Protecting, Dominating

Model 3: Controlled, Vulnerable, Weak

Model 4: Compelling, Coercive, Empowered

Model 5: Monumental, Great, Influential

Model 6: Directing, Ruling, Controlling

Further work is needed on my crysis environment to further encapsulate the experience of being within Twin Falls Valley, Kakadu.

Uploading Crysis Environment

If the link to my crysis environment supplied on my previous post did not work hopefully this link will work.

http://www.gamefront.com/files/user/brandonpearce

When contemporary ideas are fragmented and dispersed upon concepts of the past the result is a meeting place for tomorrow's inspiration.

 My final submission, consisting of an Alvar Aalto monument, Kengo Kuma monument and a meeting place for studying students of architecture explores and delivers the inspiring result when modern day architecture including that of Kengo Kuma is applied to reknowned architectural concepts of the past and past architects including Alvar Aalto. It symbolises that the architecture of tomorrow, reflected through the meeting place, must be composed of both past and present architectural thinking to ensure its success and inspirational place in history.

 As shown within the image above my combined piece of architecure protrudes out of the cliff face; supported out of the water below by monumental solid columns which are ground into the landscape and the base of the lake. Throughout the day light is fragmented and dispersed by the transparent thin planes of the Kuma monument onto the inspiring hovering meeting place of semi-transparency and the solid climatic step-like structure of the Aalto monument below. 

 The elevated meeting place of my design consists of an inspiring combination of Aalto and Kuma archtecture. The meeting place is wrapped around a vertical Aalto solid brick supporting column which places it within the climatic climb and approach of the architecture. Thin, semi-transparent Kengo boundaries further encourage the dispersion and fragmentation of filtered light from the thin Kengo planes above onto the dense Aalto model below.

 Entry points for the various students to this piece of inspirational architecture consist of a sandy path of vegetation connected to the step-like solid Aalto column at the base of the cliff, a rocky dirt path through a small gorge joint to the Kengo monument and a small climatic drop down from the grassy plateau located directly above the top of the architecture. Through these three different entry points one experiences a climatic ascent through the monumental architecture as well as a scenic descent through which one experiences the fragmenting and dispersion of light in its many forms.

 The voids through the vertical solid column of Aalto provide a calming illumnation of the architecture throughout the night. The open ends of the Aalto columns allow light to illuminate the water below and escape from the top of the architecture therefore giving it a glowing effect from the night sky. The reflected light off the shining water surface further reinforces the monumentality of the structure from its base and the transparent planes of the meeting place and Kengu monument absorb the flowing light from voids in the Aalto column therefore giving them the light appearance of floating and being disconnected from the rest of the architecture.



 The positioning of the architecture enables one to experience the breathtaking views of the surrounding landscape and open sea. The addition of selected light, medium and dark custom textures on various surfaces reinforces the monumentality and solidness of the Aalto monument, the lightweight freedom feel of the Kengo monument and the coming together of two distinctly different pieces of architecture to create a new piece of architecture which flows as one. A piece of architecture in which two extreme concepts from different time periods are still readily evident but compromised in such a way that enables the successful creation of new inspiring architecture; the architecture of tomorrow.

Google Sketchup Final Submission

Tag for model: 3374762brandonpearceexperiment2:thespacebetween

Link To Google Sketchup Model:

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Filefront Link to Crysis Environment

Title: ARCH1101-3374762-BrandonPearce_v18.cry

 http://www.gamefront.com/files/21661699/ARCH1101-3374762-BrandonPearce_v18.cry

Final Google Sketchup Model with Custom Textures

 My final google sketchup model of both Alvar Aalto and Kengo Kuma monuments as well as a meeting place for various students studying architecture reflect further changes from my first alterated model previously blogged and  added detail to reinforce the conceptual meaning of this structure. As shown in the image above the model consists of solid structured base symbolising concepts of Aalto which columns through the centre of the structure therefore supporting the semi-transparent meeting place located within the centre of the model and the thin transparent planes of my Kuma monument. The central idea behind this model is that the Aalto monument provides a climatic step-like approach to the meeting place perched above it as well as the feather-light transparent planes of the Kuma monument which filter, disperse and fragment light on both the meeting place and Aalto monument below.

 My final changes representing concepts of Aalto architecture consisted of altering my corner base column block to emphasise a step-like approach to the model and including small voids cuts within thick solid surfaces of the model therefore providing direct entry points for light. Two cable-thin columns connecting the planes of the Kuma monument were also added to further trait and reflect the architecture of Kuma himself.

 To further emphasise this train of thought throughout my model I applied textures which reflect the architecture it is placed on. On Aalto's monument i used solid brick-like textures to emphasise styles of his own architecture. My 'dark' custom texture located on the base and column structure of the model reinforces the solidness of the structure through a block on block stacked pattern while also exploring climatic build within the model between monuments the model virtually a climatic build of blocks itself.

 My 'medium' custom texture of flow located in the meeting place further explores the connectivity of two distinctly different pieces of architecture through a ying-yang like pattern which symbolises the interconnectivity and inter-weaving of the two distinct monuments into an abstract and completely new piece of architecture. Accompanied with further transparent textures such as glass my meeting place connected to my Kuma monument which holds my 'light' texture of bubbles. Just as bubbles are transparent and light so is my Kuma monument; therefore acting as a method of light diffusion, dispersion and fragmentation onto the climatic model below.

Experimenting From Light to Dark

36 Custom Textures

Experiment 1: Light to Dark through Zooming

Experiment 2: Light to Dark through Line Thickness

Experiment 3: Light to Dark through Flow

Experiment 4: Light to Dark through Density

Experiment 5: Light to Dark through Hierarchy of Prescense

Experiment 6: Light to Dark through Size

Selected Textures for Submission

Light Texture: Experimenting from Light to Dark through Density

Medium Texture: Experimenting from Light to Dark through Flow

Dark Texture: Experimenting from Light to Dark through Hierarchy of Prescense

A Change of Thought

 Deciding that aggregation two limited my options for fulfiling this task I decided to change direction and work with aggregation 3 which seemed more flexible with alterations which must still be made. My first set of alterations are shown within the first set of images and my second set of alterations the second set of images. I'm sure i can stretch the model vertically a bit to fulfill the depth of the cliff created in my crysis environment but i am not sure whether to horizontally stretch my model, space it out and snake it around my environment like past students as i feel it might compromise conceptual ideas.

First Alterations

2nd Alterations

 Through discussion with my tutor I have come to the decision to continue working with my first set of alterations as it provided me with the most options moving forward regarding ways to define two monuments and a meeting place instead of one big 'sandwich' as it may appear in the images of my 2nd alterations above.