Tuesday 2 August 2011

Week 1-Sections

Week one of a new semester commenced with a new design group, and a first week partner, Amy, to create two sections of desire anywhere with the triangle of Downtown auckland city. 


We were asked to create two sections, a horizontal at 1:500 scale, and a vertical at 1:100. We were concerned with the movement, speed and amount of people within three different areas over two different times-8am and 2pm. The three areas included-Mahuhukiterangi Park, Anzac Ave, and Beach Road. 


We decided to use colours for the different movements; Stationary-Blue, Jogging-, Walking-Purple, Cars-Red, Biking-Green, Bus's-Yellow. Light colours represent 8am, and dark colours 2pm. The height in centimeters of each kebab stick represented how many people were in that given area, e.g. 5cm means between 20 to 25 people (1cm=5people or less). We stuck this on our foam base with correct contours and all the buildings that the 1:500 scale model passes through (only 100mm's wide and 1000mm's long). 


Beach road appeared to be the busiest, with clearly many cars and walkers passing by in a timed interval of 2 minutes for morning and night.


 A Close up view of the sectioned 1:100 vertical cut, it was of an asian supermarket. You can see the small door, desks and shelving units, as well as the coloured kebab sticks.
 Three more doors were made from textured card from Gordan Harris, as well as all the materials used to make this model.
 The Model from a distance, all measurements are very accurate, and the hidden rooms to the best of our knowledge.
 Front view of the model, with a width of 100mm's, and length of 220mm's.
 All the models were placed together, and many needed to be cut up to fit, to the dismay of many people.
 "Intersections' of models criss-cross over each other, some major demolish-ins were underway, me and amy were one of the lucky ones, with only a minor section cut off.
Aerial view, somewhat iconic of american freeways.

 An aerial view of the top half of our 1:500 horizontal section. Beach Rd on the far left, Anzac Ave in the middle (Indicated by the black strips-as the roads-and coloured kebab sticks).

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