Pen, Paper, Toilet?

Oh my gosh two posts in one day. I must be going great.

On the contray I'm not. I started with some sketching on a sheet of paper - yea so old fashioned but I cant think in secondlife and it takes too long to do things. So yea put some ideas, text and image on this page:



Then I decided I needed to stop procrastinating and actually work in secondlife. Thats where things go wrong. Part of my design ended up looking like a public toilet (this is the only bit i actually worked on too. Plus I'm considering whether my design will spatially work and have some architectural merit. Furthermore I have no concrete idea of what I want only partials that don't seem to be working out too well.

So the glorified toilet:

So there has been an obvious long period of absence from my blog (and also secondlife) with final crit for Design, an essay due for European Studies and studying for Architectural Technology this projet somewhat stupidly got put on the back burner. Apologies to the two people I know check this in hopes of some form of an update. Though honestly I think the main person I've let down is myself :(.

On the plus side I have researched and gone through my journals. They seem in many respects worlds apart and I'm stuggling to know where to even start designing. Contridictions between the texts are rife so its partially a case of what to include and what to ignore. Furthermore two of my journals are very academic and almost inaccessible to a fresher architecture student. They aren't particularly inspiring either as there is a lot of text and little of anything else. I'll be creating a seperate post for each of the journals which I will hopefully linked to or displayed within Secondlife. At the moment really i just need to figure out what to do. I'm even considering starting with a pen and paper even though the emphasis of this project is what you can achieve on the computer.

Over and out

Starting to Build

So I've started building on Secondlife.

I've got to say that while it might not be the most difficult thing in the world it is fairly challenging (for me at least). Its also really time consuming and I've come to the conclusion that you can easily spend a lot of time messing with small and insignificant things.

As well as starting building I've taken some photo graphs (snapshots) of what I've been building. It's not too flash and I've since realized that there are better ways to do things. There are definitely things I'm going to be changing. Furthermore I think I need to have a better grasp of my journals so that what I'm designing is more informed by the journals.

So the photos:



My first prim! Complete with the standard plywood finish - lovely!! I was actually quite interested in looking at cantilevering systems. (A symptom of my last project [based on Icarus and Daedalus] I think)



Starting to build and combine prims



Basically how far I got working on this particular design



Attempting to show scale



So what's with this last one?? Looks a bit different and is really glowy. Was this intentional? No. Why has this occurred? Well I'm not entirely sure I thought that maybe it occurred due to a difference in the version of SecondLife i was running but after talking to one of the Tutors/CAS guys we came to the conclusion it was more likely a product of different operating system speeds - with home being REALLY slow and uni being significantly faster.

This image here definitely makes me want to start over with things more in relation to my actual journals.

Also I might post some other photos I took - very similar ones admittedly that I have crudely (with Microsoft paint) drawn on to illustrate what I was trying to do. Alternatively I may not as, as I have said, may be starting over.

The Beginning

This is my first post on my new blog. Yay.

It's also my first compulsory blog.

Compulsory? - Yes it is complusory.

See I'm a first year architecture Student at the University of Auckland (yay for being a fresher). Part of one of our paper's require's us to create a blog to document what we do in both that class and other classes as well. (it can also play host to things that interest us.)

In saying this is a complusory blog hopefully it will eventually become something I enjoy doing and updating rather than a chore. Either that or this becomes a habit would be good.

So far in architecture I've done a couple of projects for all 3 of my architecture papers (I also have one general education paper this semester) - photographs of which might appear on here sometime later.

The main use of this blog will be to document the creation of an office space in Secondlife. I'm definately a newbie at secondlife and have to admit I find the whole thing somewhat daunting but I'm going to try my best to get it to work. That said if anyone has any advice about building in secondlife or architecture in general dont hesitate to contact me - I need as much help as I can get in this.

For now I don't really have much to upload - this is it really.

Tegan