Communications In the Built Environment

Remake - Includes Rooftop Garden My fusion 360 model includes a rooftop garden made from Chux Heavy Duty Scourer. Colour is given to the soil using oil pastels and the plants made from the scourer pulled apart. It is easily cut to the shape of the hollow it needs to fit. After discussing and contemplating the aim of my project natural elements are important, therefore I have created another rooftop garden in my week 7 model. This creates a continuity between the models and the connection to nature. It also creates a reason that the other model made in the weeks prior doesn't fit this common theme of light interacting with natural surfaces.  The rooftop garden space now creates shadows that interact with the colourbond roofing. The lighting used to create these shadows are meant to mimic those made by the afternoon sun as the roofline is too high for the morning sun to hit the plants. The roofline also dips down into the centre of the house as this room is lo...

Final Composition of the Spaces within the Environment I put a white low opacity screen over the room to represent the wall that would be there but isn't existent to allow one to see in. Photoshopping in Texture I like the surfaces of natural materials and the way these irregular and polished surfaces interact with the light that enters the window, through the door and produced by the downlights above. Natural materials create this connection between the indoors and outdoors. Though I have used some manufactured textures in the image below most originate from natural materials allowing these textures to take on other forms and textures. House 1 Textures House 2 Textures House 3 These are the original textures I wished to use in my space, it utilises a combination of natural textures and has a white roof which helps to increase albedo meaning that more light is reflected back into the atmosphere rather than being a...

Textures I like the beauty of natural textures and all the different forms they come in, from the wood I have used to the granite. They both have such lovely qualities from the vertical grain of the wood, which are the grows rings laid down every year by the tree and represent the growth in different seasons, to the visible crystals that form as the igneous rock, from a volcano cools beneath the surface. I also have a deep interest in earth science and the different processes that naturally occur in the environment.  I have also utilised a burgundy fabric texture at the front and back of my initials as this represents my love for art and textiles. I have always enjoyed creating things with my hands from sewing to sculpture. For the lighting, I used the snowfield as I also enjoy adventure and the outdoors, so it was important to complement the natural materials with natural lighting. Initials have been put into these environments as they...

The original idea for how light travels through the space I wanted to look at how light interacts with the staircase that descends into the room below, however, by photographing it I established that the ability light has to travel down the staircase it very low. I made these models using cardboard and at a scale of 1:25 (because I only had enough material to do it at this scale). It was easier to work with cardboard and particularly to this scale as it helped with making details. Light from Large Vertical Window This image really highlights the surfaces that are illuminated and the shadows that are cast from the other aspects of the room. This image in particular looks at how light from the vertical window works its way down the staircase to the room below. Light Cast from Downlights that would exist in the Ceiling The images above and below show how the light looks to bend in the same form as the staircase bend, which allows it to t...

Measurements for the Fusion 360 model  Physical model made from Fusion 360 measurements Within this transitional space, I wanted to capture the importance of the rooftop garden that lowers the ceiling within the broader part of the hallway and creates a rectangular prism within a larger one. Plants and soil made from Chux Scourer sponges. The black paint covering the space helps capture the form of the structure.  There are three doorways along the side of the space that would lead to other separate rooms or hallways. The large opening at the back of this space is meant to indicate the connection this space has to a hallway that would extend from this space and separate into two rooms at the end. The doorway at the front of the space would be the front door to the building. This physical model for some reason turned out opposite to the physical model. Noticed when looking at the doorways. I made another one prior to this to thi...