I made my own metal grate sort of material on photoshop since the one in sl has already been used so many times by other students. Since this material felt very cage lik, i added anouther aspect to it which is wood - 2nd picture
All the images below are of my final design. The interior twisted rectangular form falls and gets pushed back up by sculpty post prims i made. This reapeats and creates movement and vibration to the prim. This links to sustinance as people need to be healthy and like to have a good figure so the prim becomes like one of those vibrating machines that people stand on to burn and demolish calories. The rectangular bars are for people to hold onto during the process. The jostling of the area also creates excitement and adreniline which is also something we need to sustain ourselves.
At first i thought the white texture i chose was old weathered wood but after talking to the tutors and hearing what they thought, the material caoul actually be concrete like the collumns in our sudio. I think this would be much more appropriate and gives more weight to the design. I wanted to have quite a bit of contrast in the final design to show that demolision changes something to the complete opposite. Some ways i have done this is the choice of textures and the thickness of the main elements. This links to sustinance because we need demolision to sustain us like food going into our bodies in their real form and coming out in a complete differen way or like excersice where we can change our own size and appearance.
I reviewed Nicole's design for the 'sustenance' brief. As is explained above, her design explores the idea of demolition, which while somewhat contrasting to the idea of sustenance really made her building very interesting. The sculpted prim shape she made was utilised really well in her design and I thought the application of it was really dynamic. The idea was that when an avatar approached the building, and hence went inside it, the prim would move sporadically and in a random way and effect the above grate. The concept here was keeping our bodies sustained and healthy, and also, as I saw it, linked back to the idea of demolition, and demolishing what has been consumed. I thought there was a nice juxtaposition of stability and the apparent instability of the grate. The chosen materials used further reinforced this idea. Overall I liked Nicole's idea and I feel she really achieved what she set out to do. Perhaps development could involve experimenting more with the shape of the structure and or the frame.
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