Week2: Final chosen creatures

Giant:

Optimus Prime:

3 developed creatures

Sam

Sam is famous for its speed. An incredible runner, Sam can run so quick due to its strong legs and light body. Sam can also jump long distance, he likes to climbing and resting in his cave.

Giant

Giant is a quiet and shy creature. He would like to avoid confrontation. Sleeping more than 20 hours every day, the only thing Giant does when he leaves his bed is finding for food.

Optimus Prime

Optimus Prime is known for its incredible height and gentle character. First look, Optimus Prime is a broad, bandy-legged large creature, with muscled palms. Exercise is the most essential thing for Optimus to do every day and that is the reason why his body is so well-built.

3 works of chosen designer

Millennium Tower, Tokyo

At 840m, the proposed Millennium Tower will be almost twice the height of Sears Tower, currently the world's tallest building. It will resemble a small township, with a resident population of 50000 and the mixture of work and leisure activities.

Third London Airport, Stansted

Foster Associates were first commissioned in 1981, but their brief grew steadily to encompass a British Rail station, stations for the tracked transit system, two satellites and ancillary buildings as well as the terminal itself and the masterplan for the terminal zone. This is important, because modern air journeys do not begin or end with terminals, even though the Stansted building is one of Foster Associates' most elegant and convincing structures.

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Headquarters

On a site of nearly 5000 square metres strategically located at the head of Statue Square in the Central District, this tower rises to a total height of 178.8 meters, with forty-sven stories above the ground plaza and four levels below ground.

3 random creatures

Folded paper&Sketchup Models

My First Model:

 My Second Model:

My Friend's Model:

Week 1 Task

Norman Robert Foster

Norman Robert Foster is a British architect and his company maintains an international design practice. He is Britain's most prolific builder of landmark office buildings. He is awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1999 and awarded the Stirling Prize for two times.

He was born in Reddish, Stockport, England in 1935. He set up an architectural practice in 1963 as Team 4 with Rogers and the sisters Georgie and Wendy Cheesman. Team 4 earned a reputation for high-tech industrial design. After Team 4 went their separate ways, Foster and Wendy Cheesman founded Foster Associates in 1967 which later became Foster and Partners.

Reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Foster,_Baron_Foster_of_Thames_Bank

Image credits:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Norman_Foster_dresden_061110.jpg

Designer's work:

Reichstag Dome, Berlin

The Swiss Re Building, London, 2003

Image Credits:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Germany_berlin_reichstag-1.jpg

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:30_St_Mary_Axe,_%27Gherkin%27.JPG