Video- Unconventional Staircase

A video showing the unconventional set of stairs. It serves also as an optical illusion, but still manages to provide easy access/mobility through the whole set of the stairs.

Sketchup Stair Sections

Stair set 1

 Stair set 2

36 Textures

Here are my 36 Textures. 

Above

·  Weathered

·  Aged

·  Porous

·  Opaque

·  Rusty

·  Dented

·  Spongy

·  Etched

·  Malleable

    ·  gridlike

In Between

·  Organic

·  Manipulated

·  Engineered

·  Eroding

·  Abrasive

·  Grainy

·  Malleable

·  Yielding

·  Fibrous

·  Flowing

·  Refined

·  Tessellation

·  Mosaic

·  Mouldable

·  pixelated

Below

·  Mechanical

·  Dense

·  Raw

·  Solid

·  Layered

·  Crystalline

·  Natural

·  Heavy

·  Reticulation

·  Rigid

·  Richness

·  disturbed

Stair Sketches

SketchUp Draft

Interesting Section Sketch

Interesting Section Sketch

Some random section sketches I did.

Left Page; Loudspeaker, train track rail, coffee mug

Right Page; Abstract section

I think its hard to see the sketch on the right but I find it very interesting  and cool to look at. It took me quite a while actually, because it was difficult to cross-etch the top layer. I need to improve my cross-etching as well as developing other methods to show different layers and textures.

Artist-Section Sketches

 I like the top right sketch. It combines Disturbed above the datum and Earth below it. The contrast between the materials and textures develop a great concept and grasp on sections and the datum.

 Also in my favourites are the bottom right one, which has Introvert above the datum and Nurturing below. The combination seems to create a factory/industry-looking section.

A brief sketch on the train sectioning a seat on the platform.


Thoughts
I found this exercise in the studio to be quite challenging at first. It is hard to envisage a word as a physical object/shape. On top of that, processing this in your mind to make a section makes a challenging exercise. After a few sketches I managed to produce a few satisfactory sections which use the datum as either a grounds for contrast or similarity between the two chosen words. Next step is to develop these into 3D models using Google SketchUp.