Alpha Channel Sandwich with Scripting sauce.

The white looked a bit boring, so I created an alpha channel. Creating my own texture on photoshop, I imported it into SL, and attached it with the texture to emphasize a more digital moving texture on the upper level of the office.

Also added in a rezzer that welcomes and gives people notecards as they approach the welcome sign. Screens have also been completed with respective links and journal covers!



Looks quite nice at night I think...



And at sunset...

"A design will never be finished."

Starting to work on seats and big screen on the ground floor. Trying to incorporate the general theme of the building throughout even the seats and screen supports. I've decided to also add a sliding script within the seats and big screen so they can be separated into two separate meeting places, as well as the option of merging both into a communal area. This connection along with the other display screens adds a link to the office, showing how things work together and apart, similar to relationships between housing and different areas of human interaction shown in the housing studies journal.

Popcorn.

The screens are going up!

After creating a facade which leaves a opening for the seaside view, I decided to create display screens for showing the journals that we are meant to display. I worked out that I could probably work in a sliding script into the rods so that the screens are able to be moved along the facade and creates an interesting interactive aspect with the viewers. Again, the actual movement of screens along with the facade show a sense of movement illustrated throughout the structure.

R is also for Roof.

I decided to separate the office into two elements, showing the interaction between new and old, future and historical. Its also a chance for me to exploit the virtual world of second life and add digital elements to my work.

R is for Renovation

Build Build Build

Looking through the magazines I liked the arkk magazine best because it introduced a lot of new architecture, and displayed interesting contemporary technologies. I noticed Ra : revista de arquitectura contained a lot of historical views and cultural views on architecure, and I quite like the whole idea of how all the magazines conveyed a sense of movement through time, and decided to use this as inspiration for my office.

So I started over again, and just played with a few simple shapes that could convey a sense of movement through the structure.

Back for more

Its been a while since second life, but exams are finally done and now all my concentration is on this virtual office. I decided to look into each journal we were asked to study more and actually work out what kinda of office I'm building.



Ark - ARKKITEHTI • FINSK ARKITEKTURTIDSKRIFT • THE FINNISH ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW

The Finnish Architectural Review presents and reviews the most interesting architecture in Finland, from new buildings and urban planning to restoration and interior design. Each edition of the journal has an overall theme, accompanied by topical articles. The Arena section of the journal presents recent trends in both Finnish and international architecture, industrial design and the arts, as well as research and book reviews.



Housing Studies

The leading housing journal and has played a major role in theoretical and analytical developments within this area of study.

The journal has explored a range of academic and policy concerns including the following:

- linkages between housing and other areas of social and economic policy
- the role of housing in everyday life and in gender, class and age relationships
- the economics of housing expenditure and housing finance
- international comparisons and developments
- issues of sustainability and housing development
- demographic and social trends and the changing role of housing tenures
- theoretical and conceptual frameworks for housing studies
- Housing Studies is not limited in its geographical scope and welcomes contributions - on housing and housing related issues in any national or cross-national context. - - The journal also features contributions from many different disciplines including economics, political science, urban studies, history, social administration, sociology, geography, law and planning.



Ra : revista de arquitectura

Revista de Arquitectura was born as a supplement to Re (Revista de Edificación), a publication that is regularly published by the Higher School of Architecture of the University of Navarre.

Ra is a forum that is suitable for the expression of the results of the study and the academic debate with regard to the diverse dimensions of the interest in architecture and the city that is fitting to the university vision: understanding them to be cultural realities of unarguable importance and impact and as objects of careful attention, study and investigation. It seeks to feed the perception of architecture that allows one not to lose sight of its dimension as a cultural discipline, in the broadest sense of the word, imposing as its only limitation.



Seems like just a lot of blah blah blah. But kinda points me in a direction. Emphasis on kinda.