Architecture Stuff: Second Life Project

The Design process

Because of the way I designed my gathering office in the last project, I found trying to build it with similair shape on second life was just extremely difficult and unpurposeful. As a substitute I used interlinking twisting spiral pieces to build up form for my building. This gave a very eye catching, dynamic/fluid like asthetic as well as saving alot of stress overall.

I changed the positions of the glass overhangs to the outside edges of the middle and top levels. I also fully removed the middle exhibition building as it was unnecessary and over the top. In a way I made my previous design simpler but more effective.

Originally I did have a "trunk like" spiral going from the top level to below floor level. The idea was to ensure the flow continues right to the ground, as shown in my last gathering project. However I felt the effect of this idea on second life was much less as I could not get it to look exactly correct, so I removed it completely. Even though looking through the spiral was very attractive and I had planned to put an elevator going up through the centre of it.

When I had completed one layer of twisting pieces to create the form of my office I realised that it was very open. I still required some sort of roofing system to provide closure from the elements. The solution I found was to have three layers of twisting sections, that were all twisted differently from one another, had different sizes and textures, so that the the gaps in the first layer would be covered by its two inner layers. This also had a dramatic effect on the internal view of the space inside these twisted sections. As you can see from the photos below, the internal view is just as amazing as the external. The walls and roof are all one plane that link with the floor.

Final tectures chosen. Only three textures have been used to show the subtle change from twisting layer to twisting layer. Keeping this simple so nothing goes over the top.