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Initial Section of Outpost for Model Visualization

Close Up Interior of Detail Model

Prep for the final. This is what i presented at today's crit. I an going to clean up my plan, add a new close up section and an elevation. In addition, here is my render progress, i need to play around with the colour and will probably do another render from a new angle that shows more of the outpost

BOTTOM: Site Plan of OUTPOST and RUINS with call out showing interaction between the two.

Finished OUTPOST hanging on my #ruins from a structural cable

Progress; Making my OUTPOST

My land after 25 years and 100 years abandonment

New/Updated Renders in Vray (with sun, sky and new ruins showing material) and screenshots of the Vray settings.

AutoCAD Elevation Drawings in paper space (with and without critical red)

Tracings oriented in model space

In terms of the chosen material for my model, i may find that choosing a thicker material (in the case of laser cutting) would create less work and need less material (less $) since my topography is really tall although i know that it would look a lot better if i did an more incremental step with a thinner material. I will further explore which option best suits my model and will adapt based on the upcoming tasks.

These screenshots show the process of setting up my model for laser cutting. As you can see, i created a minimal amount of contour lines, i did this because i wanted to make sure i understood how to do it properly before challenging myself (although if i choose to laser cut for the final, i will do smaller intervals to get a smoother stepped look for my topo). These screenshots show that i contoured my model, spread out the individual curves and projected them to the C plane. Finally i set them in a box with the proper dimensions for laser cutting and imported it into illustrator (note the red test square in the top left).

Before scaling my model down to the proper size of a 3D print model (75mm x 75mm x 75mm), I needed to make some changes. These changes involved deleting some of the structures that i had made or increasing their size (seen in photo 3). I did this because they were way to small, it wouldnt be worth 3D printing. On top of this i also decreased the base depth of the model to prevent using excess material when printing. Finally, as seen in the first photo, when the model was scaled down, it became distorted which i believe is due to the programs processing capabilities at that size.

Task 4 was fun as it introduced the challenge of incorporating elements from my Drawing Exercise 1. I believe that i was successful in translating the ideas from my drawing titled “submerged” into my actual project. This involved the exploration of using a high elevation for the location of my outpost. My topography suited the idea as it is primarily made up two steeply pitched mountains. In addition, to follow the theme of a climate catastrophe, I incorporated cracks running through the town to represent a snowy/icy terrain. The difficulty that i faced constantly was being aware of the scale of each element as it was easy to forget that the terrain is 1kmx1km despite it looking smaller than that.

I will most likely need to get rid of some detail in order to be able produce it.

Img3 --> Screenshot of Named Views