Shelter|Bus an Unabridged Legacy

With the conclusion of my presentation of my Star|Network Shelter|Bus project I am over come with joy and even still disapointed. I really feel like I didnt accomplish what I wanted to in my presentation, so much useful information had to be cut in order to squeeze everything into the four minute window established to save time. So tonight I regale you with everything including the left out stuff. After weeks of planning and research into the needs of my various clients I found myself leaning towards a series of devices that would assist communication. With this idea I began looking at networks and one stood out to me. The star network, this network of computers uses a single central node in order to connect all the others to the internet or a large office network. This same principle I decided was what I wanted to include in my Shelter|Bus. I wanted the Bus to become a central point that all the victims of hurricanes could go to, in order to get in touch with family, doctors, etc. and locate missing persons.
I realized that as we advance as a society our dependence on technology increases. So much so that every 2 years the amount of data stored on computers doubles. A frightening statistic, it means that in the near future this dependence will cause the community to deteriorate due to our increased introvertedness.
I decided then that the bus would need to serve as a gathering point while at the same time incorporating advanced technology to aid in the recovery process.
The Lack of light pollution in Eastern NC, provides a unique ability to see stars. When grouped together these stars form constellations. Just as constellations find geographic points within the sky, the facial recognition software within my shelter bus is able to locate missing persons.
Movement is inspired by my precedent the TGV 001 High speed locomotive found in France. In order to ease navigation through the space way finding has been implemented with the use of an LED powered lighting system that transitions from Green to orange as they go from public to private. In order to mark the entry ways to the Communications Kiosks and the Missing Person Location system are marked with a blue LED lights as well as a woven wall.
Along with the aforementioned facial recognition software this public area communication devices allow the user to communicate with family members, doctors, or anyone necessary via webcam, email and phone.

The computer within the private area allows the user to adjust the environment to suit their needs. Whether by making the glass opaque so lynn can pray or transparent so that Chi Chi’s bird Col. Clucker can be seen. Similarly to the contemporary computer photos, videos and music can be uploaded to the computer. By simply touching a photo similarly stored images can be accessed.

What I have just done is walked you through some of the major points of my design from the macro to the micro. This same principle is the over arching idea within my shelter bus where communication occurs on a micro and macro level.

Some Details of various bus features

A bus for relief workers

after 44 hours of being awake continuously to finish I can say that I am satisfied with my design for the bus for relief workers that I have just finished. To aide those who dont know, I am uploading my boards so that you can share this experience. I cant really think of anything to add that isnt on the boards.. but I suppose its okay to just add the drawings were done with markers and colored pencil.

Room Renderings

A Rendering we did in IAR 112 earlier this term

Not bad in my opinion, turned out pretty good and strikes me as being some of my best work this term.

Furniture aka I may as well be a catalog for IKEA

So with our first experiements with assignments in color I must say, I am excited. Despite my little episode about my perspective flat. I am happy to say that I was very happy with the furnishings I drew. especially this first one here, the lovely bed done with water colors. For my first experience with water colors I think it turned out pretty well although I forgot about leaving white space to show where their was a lot of white, sorry susanne.

Next I did 2 chairs, one of which I chose specifically because it was called Patrik and I was reminded of our own professor Patrick, odd that I draw that conclusion. I like this one, done with makers on marker paper. I used warm grays on the shadows and think that it shows really good contrast on the cushions not exposed to a lot of light. And the shadow gradients over time to the full light hitting the seat which I really think makes it all the better.

Below it sits another chair this time a wooden chair done with colored pencil on bond paper. This one I'm not to happy with just because I see how much I do not like colored pencils, while they do show texture well its very difficult to show contrast. Perhaps I should have gone over it with gray scale markers first but again, I'm a forgetful person but now I'll be remembering these errors and correcting them.
On this final page we have a sofa and you guessed it a chair. The sofa is marker on ink paper. I think this is my worst of all 5 drawings because the ink paper did not really absorb the marker as it has no tooth and thusly made it quite difficult to get a nice even coat on, then areas that I went back over to try and make it even appear to contrasted. I do like that the paper is heavy and thick but it lacks the tooth I think it needs for me to find it useful. Further experiments will be required.

My final Drawing is of course the lovely brown leather chair. This was actually the first sketch I did for this assignment hence its very boxy nature. I think it turned out quite good too good contrast, the light I think is very clear, the white colored pencil really worked some kind of magic on it. My only complaint is the shadow underneath which I think I did way to heavy, I accidentally used my warm gray number 3 when I did the follow up to show where it was getting darker, beginners mistake and nothing more.

On a final note, I think they turned out right good for a real first attempt at using color. Can't wait to work with colors more as we advance to the end of the term. Now that I've used them its like a whole new world has been opened up to me.

More Shading Practice

So today I come prepared with more drawings showing off my shading practice for my drawing class. So brace yourselves! I dont know what really to say about these drawings, I dont love them but I dont hate them either, the only thing I really think about them now is simply the fact that now I dont know which style I prefer drawing in, ink or pencils. I do know that I love drawing on the black paper with the colored pencil, I cant get over how cool they look when they're done.