Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Elevators


Elevator from Versace's offfice to meeting space.

Elevator from Jobs' space to the meeting space.


Extra elevator just incase

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

A good architect's website

Here is a website of an architect that is currently practising and there are hundreds of images of projects he has worked on. This is also a source of inspiration for me as I would like to design casinos and hotels in the future. http://www.paulsteelman.com/

cool elevator

Continuous Elevator at RBB building, Berlin, Germany

Elevator at the Louvre

Coolest Elevator Ever

Monday, May 19, 2008

Table design



Elevator Concepts





Also see animations for how we interact with constantly moving pieces of archtiecture



Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Unreal ED drafts

Draft #2


























Here is draft #1

The Mashup of articles

MASHUP OF ARTICLES

Mr. Jobs did have a compliment for Zhang Yin, who became Microsoft's Windows Mobile software. Late last Ms. Versace year was wealthiest woman in software for cellphones. Zhang sent Steve Jobs a letter saying that "There were too many details" in recent collections, she explained. ''We'll see how” Nine Dragons Designs is suddenly the way of Gianni Versace.

During the Cultural Revolution, which began in 1966, there was too much embellishment. The styling was too extreme. "I felt for a moment lost," "Now I feel I changed," Ms. Yin said.
She said she started her career at a "golden period" in the early 1980s. The company heard a lot of Wonder Woman jibes at the time.

''It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is; the fact is Hong Kong's paper market proved too small people don't want financial hardships, flashy opulence, cheating business partners and intimidation.

Sitting on a plush sofa amid antique statuary Zhang jumped to Google's decision to develop Oprah Winfrey, and iPhone as an open-source smartphone operating system.

Jobs didn't find it difficult ''having created” L'OrĂ©al cosmetics and BMW, nearly $500 million American models have quadrupled.

She started out from a modest background, maybe with a little bit of softness, new shapes, very clear. "She's a visionary." "I cleaned up my style," said Mr. Jobs.

''It's a significant event, and I think he should be honored for the contributions she's made.'' ''Forty percent of the people” got bored with drifty clothes for little ladies, ''Having created an 18th-century palace, fashion and business is a lot harder than the Dolce & Gabbana show and 11 giant paper making machines.

REFERENCES

Steve Jobs- BITS by JOHN MARKOFF Published: January 21, 2008 http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DEED7123CF932A15752C0A96E9C8B63&scp=1&sq=%22the+passion+of+Steve+Jobs%22&st=nyt Viewed on: 10/05/2008

Zhang Yin- China's 'Queen of Trash' finds riches in waste paper http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/15/business/trash.php?page=2 Viewed on 10/05/2008

Donnatella Versace- Why She's the No. 1 Target in the Glamour Business By GUY TREBAY Published: February 27, 2006 http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/27/fashion/shows/27DIARY.html Viewed on: 10/05/2008

Sunday, May 11, 2008

Introduction to the The Clients




Steve Jobs: CEO of Apple




Steve Jobs
By Barbara Kiviat
time:http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1733748_1733758_1736089,00.html






Steve Paul Jobs



Born 1955 Los Altos CA; Evangelic bad boy who, with Steve Wozniak, co-founded Apple Computer Corporation and became a multimillionaire before the age of 30. Subsequently started the NeXT Corporation to provide an educational system at a reasonable price, but found that software was a better seller than hardware. (http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Jobs.html)
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.




Steve also co-founded Pixar Animation Studios, which has created eight of the most successful and beloved animated films of all time: Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Toy Story 2, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars and Ratatouille. Pixar has won 20 Academy Awards and its films have grossed more than $4 billion at the worldwide box office to date. Pixar merged with The Walt Disney Company in 2006 and Steve now serves on Disney's board of directors.
http://www.apple.com/pr/bios/jobs.html

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.

Steve Jobs
By Barbra Kiviat
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1733748_1733758_1736089,00.html Date acessed 9/05/08














Zhang Yin: CEO and Entrepreneur

Zhang was born in Heilongjiang province in the north east of China, bordering Russia, in 1957. Zhang's father, Zhang Deen was a Lieutenant in the Red Army and she was the eldest of eight children.Though her father was in the army, the family faced some troubled times. Her father was imprisoned during the Cultural Revolution12. Zhang and her mother worked in a textile factory to support the family. As Zhang said, "In those days, we only had meat to eat on holidays. But the lack of material things made me appreciate the value of possessions. My parents always encouraged us to face life and solve our problems independently."13 After leaving the army, Zhang Deen joined a metallurgy firm in Guangdong province. Zhang moved to Shenzhen in the early 1980s, when economic reforms had just begun in China. She started working in a foreign paper products trading company, in its finance department. http://www.icmrindia.org/casestudies/catalogue/Leadership%20and%20Entrepreneurship/Zhang%20Yin-Leading%20Woman%20Entrepreneur-Case%20Study.htm









Donnatella Vesarce: Fasion Designer and Business Woman.



Born in Reggio Calabria, Italy, in 1959, Donatella is 13 years younger than Gianni.
Despite their age difference, the siblings had a very close relationship and Gianni considered Donatella as his muse.
Donatella started as an accessories designer at the House of Versace. Later on, she would start designing the children's line (Versace Young) and then Versus, a fashion-forward line where Donatella was named Head Designer.
After Gianni's death in 1997, Donatella became the Vice Chairman and Style & Image Director of the House of Versace.
On her first runway show, a lot of designers, including Giorgio Armani showed up to show their support.
Although the fashion world accepted her as a full-pledged designer, the House of Versace experienced sagging sales for two years, while the whole world mourned the death of its founder.
In 2000, the Versace Group finally experience a resurgence in their sales as Donatella bloosomed and became known as Donatella, the fashion designer and not just Gianni's younger sister.
The House of Versace shows its menswear and womenswear line in Milan, and shows its haute couture collection in Paris. http://www.fashionwindows.com/fashion_designers/donatella_versace.asp

Sunday, May 4, 2008

The File Front Final Map

Hey here is the the Final Map.
http://hosted.filefront.com/mash89/ (NOT WORKING CORRECTLY)

Hey Matt I tried this top link on at approximatley 7:30 on monday the 5th and i was not working properly so i have added another upload called DM-ARCH1101_Benjamin_Mashfordv2

Here it is.

The Final with no errors.
http://hosted.filefront.com/mash89/

Saturday, May 3, 2008

36 light to dark custom textures




Final image captures of Final map


Inside Jane Goodall's space.




The dark texture on Goodall's ramp






Inside Hawking's space with the medium textures






Outside of Hawking's space on the ramp






Looking up out of the meeting point.
On the ramp looking towards Hawking's' lab









Entrance to Goodall's space.






Goodall's Space






The medium texture on the ramp form Hawking's space.




THE MEETING POINT/SPACE





The Meeting space is a combination of several ideas I conceived whilst drawing the axonometrics and also putting myself in the occupants shoes and seeing what would best suit me. This point is able to bring together the two clients to discuss ideas and concepts at a very high altitude. I tried to focus on the space above them not below them. that is why there is no roof to grasp this concept to let their ideas flow.

In relation to the ElectroLiquid Aggregation quote I believe that this space has been able to capture the idea or concepts of both clients. It is able to gain an understanding of this belief of individual achieve and self belief which can be seen in some of The Goodall work. And Hawking's belief in the beauty of the General Relative theory. This has been captured through aspects of his lab, by enabling him to have a viewing platform at the very top of this lab to gaze out in dark space and search for those ever elusive black holes.


The ElectroLiquid Aggregation quote has I believe been represented through a number of the different shapes and paces some interconnected and some not. Majority of them work together to achieve this cohesion of ideas.