2nd Draft

I actually made some changes before the due-date-for-the-2nd-draft, except i didn't upload any screenshots etc. because i didn't think it was actually a requirement! So this is a bit late...

From the 1st draft feedback, i realised i needed to rework Versace's studio to make it more complex and extravagent, and redesign Zhang Yin's elevator. Since that's a lot of work, i decided to leave that aside for the final submission and instead finish off the stuff that was ok ie. Zhang Yin's studio and the dining table.

For the dining table i completed the spirals on Zhang Yin's side, and finally bothered to apply a texture. At that stage i was still clueless about the meeting space design and so unsure about whether to keep the grid platform...

I finished building the 'branches' around Zhang Yin's office:

2 Reviews of First Draft

Donatella Versace's Office

OK i am having a lot of problems with this and need to add more to the design, but this is the rough idea...

The excessive lighting (kind of failed due to the materiality of glass...the surrounding elevator path is supposed to be lit blue, green, red and orange), abundant use of glass and design of the elevator like a stage, reveal how Versace's power is derived from values such as appearance and fashion. As the influential trend setter, she is always on display.

The elevator path which doesn't go directly from the office to meeting space, instead providing a stop in between for comfort (will be made more glamorous later...), is inefficient. The unnecessary extravagence of her pathway mirrors the nature of fashion as excessive.

Finally the 'cushioned' appearance of her studio captures her feminety, and lifestyle of comfort and indulgence.

I also plan to add rings around the elevator path, as embellishment captures the excessive nature of fashion and Versace's over-emphasis on appearance. It will also assist in creating different lighting effects.

Below is a close-up of her office. For some reason the geometry keeps stuffing up and strange triangular forms form in the supposedly, empty space :( GRR!!! It blocks the view of the elevator and ruins the lighting!

I am using the same elevator from my previous EXP3 trial. I have yet to upload textures on it... this is a pretty bad screenshot, but the elevator's too close to the mesh platform and my dining table to take a nicer shot :(

Screenshots from the elevator experience

Dining Table

This dining table celebrates both women's empowerment in a man's world; Zhang Yin dominates the paper industry, while Donatella Versace had to prove her ideas as equivalent or greater than her brother. The contrast of feminiety with masculinity is represented through the curvilinear table top that rises above the angular male foundation below. Women's potential are not restricted, and instead reach new levels of success.

Furthermore the two sides of the table are different, as according to the nature of both women's influence. Zhang's side is the lower, spiralling form, as its' cyclic nature symbolises how her power is derived from recycling paper ie. growing success from waste. It is unfinished, but i plan to have the spirals move downwards rather than being drawn in one flat plane.