After creating the two separate environments and discussing the possibilities with my tutor it was decided that I would develop the environment for my Spore creature, Diamond Lion.
Diamond Lion has a very strong personality that greatly reflects the characteristics of Zaha Hadid. It was these characteristics that greatly influenced the beginning of my design. Because I was going off the architect’s personality rather than her actual work, my design became very literal.
My next step was to re-visit the diamond object that had a heavy influence in my model and look at it from a metaphorical way and think about how else it could be represented. This is the way that Zaha Hadid approaches her work, through abstract ideas and connecting them with nature, bold lines and fluidity.
I kept thinking of caves and rocky earth as this is where a diamond comes from and it is very unassuming of such a beautiful rock. I wanted to keep the cavernous structure as I thought that this would create an intimate sense of space but I was having trouble with making the form more abstract.
I decided to go back to my paper model and build on that which has helped me as a guide to the form of the model. I have also looked at textures that Zaha Hadid uses which are very detailed and cutting edge. I would like to try and use the lines that make up the diamond cut as a structural grid surrounding the form that is a very smooth and sleek texture with the inside looking like rocky earth.
From here I need to refine the interior so that I have an interesting section and work on the textures so that they will show up on my BuildAR model.
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