Progression:

The Mediatheque project has taken some fairly serious re-shaping over the last week. Working back-and-forth between ArchiCAD and C4D is not a pleasant as Maxon Corp. would have you think. Frankly, ArchiCAD shits its self with high-poly GDLs - should be interesting 'documenting' in C4D:

Here is the revised Plinth:

Site Review

I'll be taking a good hard look at removing the building at the corner of Ranwell Ln and Gipps St. Obviously, any design proposal will be less claustrophobic. And a neat little twist is the resumption of Mead Ln and placing the access on the next block -Take that powerless small business! Ha!

Procrastination

Well, to celebrate reducing the polygons in the roof models from an staggeringly inefficient 300,000+ down to a more frugal 5,000, I've celebrated with a little procrastination aimed at developing for the final crit, some delightful animations; colourful marbles spilling down stairs, grass swaying lazily on the 'green roof' as the camera dollys along - that kind of thing.

Interim Crit - 1B

The following are the slides from the presentation for the interim critique:

Inspiration - the background

Gallery Space

Initial modeling for the gallery space.
The aim is to provide an undulating ceiling (can you spot the sin curve?) that is coffered for texture, and punctured to allow the ingress of (reflected) natural light and the concealment of luminaires.

The column structures are indicative and will be revised.

I'm endeavoring to apply much of what I'm learning through PCN122 to this design. I'm creating this building from the inside-out, concentrating on the play of light and using form to manipulate light.

Inbetween the gasps...

If only I could spend all day fooling around with 3d...sigh...having massive boolean problems which are preventing me from posting the first solid usable piece in my site jigsaw. Boolean functions under Mograph cloner objects anyone?