Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Sketchup Model of Elevator

My Elevator design was based on the client Steve Jobs and hes remarkable career in Apple, the elevator obviously represents an apple, however it also has alot of holes in it, these holes represent windows, for there were many windows of opportunities that Steve had chosen during his success. My elevator's interior also captures one of my two point perspectives, that is described as the word connected, the object itself is connected in an abstract manner however, in relation to the apple the object also plays a major role in connecting the interior and exterior of the elevator give us a more architectural space to play around with, the apple on its on would be empty, whereas my elevator is now considered a habitable space on its own.The first image that i have saved from the elevator design is:


18 Two-Point Perspectives






Saturday, May 10, 2008

Mashup of 3 Clients articles - Redone

Born in the Italian town of Reggio di Calabria in 1955, the daughter of a businessman and a dressmaker to the aristocracy. Jobs’s passion for personal computing comes through when he talks about the years he spent working on computers. Zhang Yin began waste-paper trading in Hong Kong in 1985, adopted by Paul and Clara Jobs, Donatella who came up with the idea of using well-known models for the catwalk shows, knowing it would generate more press coverage for the Versace label, Zhang continued shipping waste paper to mainland China to make the cardboard, After graduating from high school in 1972, Gianni's murder changed Donatella's life forever, Jobs began attending Wozniak’s computer hobbyist club, the Homebrew Computer Club, Her company, Nine Dragons Paper Holdings, now China's largest packaging maker.

He then
began working as a technician for Atari, a company that manufactured popular video games, So she did her first collection, attended by a host of celebrities, was a triumph, There is no immediate risk of Zhang's wealth shrinking, as China registered 10.7% growth in 2006, the fastest since 1995, Working at Atari allowed Jobs the chance to save enough money for a spiritual retreat to India. Her companies take heaps of waste paper from the United States and Europe, ship it to China and recycle it into corrugated cardboard, Donatella brought a new sensibility to the house of Versace. These days, the label is more in tune with the modern career woman. Zhang jumped to No. 5 this year in the Forbes ranking of the wealthiest people in China, from No. 107 last year, largely because of the huge public stock listing. Jobs set out to modernize the company's computers, With profits looking good and rave reviews in the fashion press, Donatella is riding high.

Sources:

http://www.hellomagazine.com/profiles/donatellaversace/
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/j/steven_p_jobs/index.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/15/business/trash.php?page=2

Images From Model 1



This model really relates to the clients by how there are levels in moving up to the top,
it illustrates how there is a relationship to power and how everyone must move
throughout a series of levels to move to the top just as jobs, yin and versace have done.


Shows interior space of One point

Unreal Ed Space for one point




This image shows how we can capture spaces by simply
intersecting come basic shapes.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

EXP3 Introduction: Mashup of Client News Articles


Donatella Versace
Published: November 23, 2007

Donatella Versace was born in Reggio Calabria, Italy.

While completing her degree in languages at the University of Florence, she started assisting her brother Gianni in his work by supervising the photographic campaigns that contributed so greatly to the unique advertising style of Versace.

As Gianni Versace's right hand, Donatella became an integral part of the business. She started with the design of accessories, and went on to create a children's line, Young Versace, in 1993.

In 1994, she became Head Designer for Versus, a brand aimed at younger fashion enthusiasts.

Versace is today owner of 20 percent of Gianni Versace S.p.A. and holds the position of Creative Director and Vice President of the board.

She has two children, Allegra, 21, and Daniel, 16. Allegra is owner of 50 percent of Gianni Versace S.p.A.

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/20/properties/web-1120-luxversace.php



Zhang Yin
Woman tops China's new rich list
Yuan notes
China's rampant economy is creating a widening income gap
Paper-recycling tycoon Zhang Yin has become the first woman to top the list of China's richest people, with a fortune of $3.4bn (£1.8bn).

Ms Zhang is the 49-year-old founder of Nine Dragons Paper, which buys scrap paper from the US for use in China.

Her wealth rose from $375m last year, when she was 36th in the annual China Rich List, compiled by Hurun Report.

Nine Dragons' shares have almost tripled in value since they were listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange.

Ms Zhang is now the richest self-made woman in the world, ahead of US TV celebrity Oprah Winfrey and Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling.

She takes over the top position from retail magnate Huang Guangyu of Gome Electrical Appliances.

There are 35 women on the 500-strong Hurun list, which contains 15 billionaires, double the number from 2005.

In July, Chinese president Hu Jintao called for greater measures to tackle the wealth gap.

The divide has accelerated as market forces exert a greater control over the economy, which grew at 11.3% in the second quarter of 2006.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6039296.stm



Steve Jobs
By Barbara Kiviat

Steve Jobs is great at playing the countercultural icon. He's a college dropout who once backpacked around India looking for spiritual enlightenment, and he takes only $1 a year in salary. There are righteous battles to fight, and with Macs and iTunes and iPhones, Jobs fights them, taking on the entrenched megaliths that try to dictate our tastes in computers and music and mobile phones.

But don't let the black mock turtleneck and denim trousers fool you. More than anything else, Jobs is a canny CEO who knows how to sell product. Steve Wozniak was the technical genius behind the first Apple computer; Jobs saw the marketability. He now presides over a company with $24 billion in annual sales and 22,000 employees. Jobs, 53, is revered by tech and design geeks, but the world's business-school students may have the most to learn from him. Apple's stock has shot up more than 70% over the past year, thanks to Jobs' strategy of focusing on his most profitable customers and coming up with new things to sell them—the ultra-thin MacBook Air most recently—rather than just chasing more market share.

Jobs may be a celebrity CEO, but he doesn't jump out of airplanes or traipse around Africa with bundles of cash. He is always in character and always on message, so much so that when late-night TV parodies him, he's invariably rolling out some new iProduct . Jobs gets called mercurial, egomaniacal, a micromanager. If that sounds a little like a CEO doing his job, maybe that's because he is—and a mighty fine one.

http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1733748_1733758_1736089,00.html

Saturday, May 3, 2008

UT2004 map uploaded to FileFront

DM-ARCH1101_Chris_Taji.ut2

Images of Model with custom textures



Relation to Electro Aggregation: This image relates the the EA quote by how we can say that this space now has the ability to be a habitat and that the space was created on proability and trial and error.










Relation to Electro Aggregation: When we begin to add water to a space and relate it to the architecture around it, it becomes a habitat, created on purpose to give that effect.



Relation to Electro Aggregation: Shows the combining of creation of space by chance that leads to the creation of a space that hase become inhabitable.

Images of Early Model without Custom Textures





36 Custom Textures - Light and Dark all over the place



Friday, May 2, 2008

Electroliquid Aggregation

"My mission is to create a world where we can live in harmony with nature, All the evidence shows that God was actually quite a gambler, and the universe is a great casino, where dice are thrown, and roulette wheels spin on every occasion”

Themes and Concepts from combined quotes: Nature can be created by chance, living by chance, space and probability are related

A similar project that relates to aspects of my third model

Thermal Baths, Vals by Peter Zumthor