This Video relates to my model because of its futuristic, dynamic, and elegant features. The use of line, repetition and modern materials displayed are some aspects that I try to convey in my building combined with the charisma of my clients Stradivari and Kimura. To top it up, the sensational Japanese music (like the ones Kurosawa uses in some of his movies), is a tribute to Shinya Kimura.

If the video do not play try the youtube version at:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMBoD_TEIL8#!

Spiral stairs -  goes from the showroom (ground floor) to the studio (second floor)
In addition there is texture applied to the floor.

Those are nine of the 36 textures I created...more will follow.

This is the first rough model of my Studio/Showroom with one of the 36 textures applied to it as a test.
I am still struggling quite a lot with sketchup as well as some of my colleagues. Even though I have had issues and my stairs have been compromised, it should be coming up soon together with some textures of my selection

Stone stairs; One of the four stairs done this week. This one connects a underground studio to a ground level showroom.
More stairs and sections will follow...

3 Sections

These are my three "best" drafts of the eighteen sections we did in class, inspired by the mixing of noun, verb and adjectives from the previous post exercise:

JIRO ONO: FOOD, ENHANCE, STARVING

ANTONIO STRADIVARI: RESOURCE, FORM, ELEGANT

SHINYA KIMURA: ALL-STAR, CREATE, INOVATIVE

Good company in the Peruvian Andes

A path of any sort contains features that contribute to compose the humor and identity of a journey. One such as this shown throughout the heights of the Peruvian Andes mountain range is very likely to be breath taking, not only on the physical sense of suffocating on thin air but also due to the peculiar vegetation, the impressive steep mountains and the yet fresh clean air. Those features that compose this unique landscape can make even a hike through a narrow passage seem quite pleasant and effort-rewarding. Note that every passage, either from a story or from a real path, can shrink narrow and tight to the point of causing distress, but only to wide itself again later ahead where the horizon seems great and new discoveries are to be made. In conclusion, the intriguing here is that one can never predict what lies ahead but only keep on the path (on track of its destiny) to have it revealed, and luckily a good company for the mean while.

The City of Arts and Sciences

The City of Arts and Sciences, a Santiago Calatrava and Félix Candela project in the city of Valencia, Spain. A set of six great buildings dedicated to promoting culture and science. Here is only displayed the "L'Hemisfèric" (The Hemispheric) on the front/right and the "Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia" (The Queen Sofy’s Arts Palace) on second plan (left). The first is a Planetarium (hence the eye shape) and an IMAX cinema, it is the main piece of the City and it is known also as "the eye of knowledge". The second is an arts performing centre and an opera house which by itself or with the other futuristic building of its surroundings plays a strong attraction/entertainment and tourism role. In that context it can be compared to the Sydney Opera House that as an icon changed the identity of a whole city. Therefore exposing the power and responsibility of good architecture...

Seed burst/Flower birth.

From the core to the crust of everything, there are many layers such as in the structure of a long stalk "built" or in a spiral magnetic field. Coming and going, layers blend, layers twist and bend; it can be thin as hair, layers spread everywhere. What is this picture if not an abstract and poetic layers representation of something subtle as a flower? Where through all its atmosphere and power, there is color, virtue of valor, motion, sent and emotion. Thus, depending on context, the physical and the esoteric representation may touch just as the cultural and the philosophical have some relation. These are perspectives of one seed from birth till dust, in multiple versions of this universal burst.