Reflection on this project

For this assignment, we are asked to develop an environment which should be inspired by the architectures designed by a contemporary architect. The paper folding from week 1 were inspired by Norman Foster. I found his architecture works are famous around the world. Two buildings I was interested and they are Swiss Re building and Reichstag dome.

After folding paper, I worked on developing creatures which should also be related to the architectures designed by Norman Foster. The Spore Creature Creator is a impressive program which allows us to design everything we could think of. Therefore, we can not only make creatures with heads or legs, but also some objects like chairs and desks.

The first environment was inspired by the Reichstag dome and the second environment was inspired by the Swiss Re building. However, I found that the second one would be too simple and less stuff can be done. Therefore, I chose the first one and keep editing it. The outside design was pretty hard for me at the beginning of the development. I tried to explore some more structures design by Norman Foster. As a result, the outside view of the building was like Reichstag dome in some extent. After discussing with my tutor, I thought more details need to be added into the model. The feature of my model is repetition which I think this can be also found from some of the buildings designed by Norman Foster such as the texture on Swiss Re building. The interior design of the building was also inspired by the structures designed by Norman Foster. Almost every furniture in the building repeated more than once.

The final step was to place 6 different angles of the design on to the box. On the box, there are 6 markers and these designs related to my building design. I tried to use 6 most expressive faces displaying on the box.