A03 Modifications, Pt. 1

After seeing the other students' work yesterday, I found a lot of the pieces really great and wanted to try out some things that I saw in their work. Tonight, I spent a couple hours working on making a panel out of the top face instead of one of the side faces. I was also considering also making part of one of the adjacent faces a screen as though the bubbles were edging down the the side of the box but decided to pass on it tonight. I also crucially included the structural screen this time, which, although I felt was a good decision to forgo in yesterday's project, gave the space a whole new impression of layering and transparency, emphasizing the bubble concept.

Surrounding box removed and replaced with four poles to see the full extent of the shadows and to make the whole thing less bulky-looking.

This one was done last and is the same view as the one before, but I messed around with other renderings and settings before going back to change the screen pattern and remove some of the bubbles so I couldn't figure out how to get the sun and shadows back to the previous one. It was a little frustrating but I decided to make the best of it and explore how changing the azimuth/angle of the sun and time of day would affect the darkness and clarity of the shadows.

Clarity and distortion of the shadows explored by changing the sun settings.

I also want to try modding and screening the three exposed long faces of the box, like NL did on his tunnel-like screen, and changing the shape of the prism by curving or rounding one side like AB did to emphasize a flowing motion. Some other time!