Assignment 1 Submission

For assignment 1 we had to design and model a private residence using 3 geometric primitives. At first I chose a wedge, box and cone but I had a lot of difficulties making these 3 primitives connect in a way to make it look like one shape. This was due to the curved surfaces of the cones, as it did not connect well with the straight/ sharp edges of the box and wedge. I ended up swapping the cone to a truncated pyramid. These 3 primitives worked very well together as they all had straight and sharp edges that connected easily to create a merged design/ shape.

All along I decided to have the truncated pyramid as the base of the design. At first I had the box coming out of one side and the wedge sticking out of the other side but this looked extremely odd so I decided to have a taller structure which I felt worked better.

My design is quite a large structure, with 7 floors however I felt this was necessary because I wanted to spread out each area that we were required to include in our design. As I am aware most residential homes are not high and large I felt that with my design I was willing to break the boundaries of what is considered the standard.

The lower floors are the more public areas, for example, the kitchen, dining and living room and as you descend up the building more private areas are allocated there, for example, the bedrooms, quite areas such as the reading rooms etc.

The first few floors (3 floors) have stairs to move up and down levels. Originally I only had stairs as a means of moving up and down the whole building, but after my interim it was made evident that walking from the ground floor to the top floor is not practical and it was suggested to me to put in an elevator. From the fourth floor to the top floor the only means of moving up and down those levels is by using an elevator. This is much more practical as the top levels are storage areas and it would make it easier for the residents to transport items. The first 3 floors are left with stairs because it more reasonable to move up and down 3 levels.

My final submission for Assignment 1 (Poster board version) can be viewed below (click to enlarge and download):

I have also created a separate PDF file that gives larger copies of the material provided above, for ease of reading instead of zooming in and out.
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[Note: The video (and all the the other outputs) are on the poster pdf not the compiled one.]

Overall, this assignment 1 was quite challenging as there were a lot of boundaries such as the limits of floor space and volume. However this has increased my skills and knowledge in using Google Sketch Up, Photoshop and presentation boards (embedding videos into a PDF document).

Animation

Sketch up model download link
Sketch up model

PDF download link
PDF (Poster) 
PDF (Compiled)


(Note: On my poster board I used a 'Free License' graphic taken from http://dryicons.com. All other graphics are created by me.)