Sketches and ideas (pencil, ink and ink wash) - Versace

Client Two: Donatella Versace

A building that screams extravagance.

- Contrasting to Job's 'office', Donatella's office will be far more extravagant, or at least

not as subtle.

- Instead of looking into boxy shapes I studied some rocks and material to generate this

angular sketch.

Elevator One - the blob

T shaped two point perspectives

Pathway

Plus sign shaped one point perspectives

MashUp

White: Steve Jobs
Red: Donatella Versace
Green: Zhang Yin

From the day he was born on February 24, 1955, Ms. Versace has been blazing his own path. Having been the proud owner of a vast set of matched pink leather luggage,
Ms. Versace is today recognized as one of the top leaders and visionaries.

But being the world's richest woman has not dampened his ambitions. With roughly a dozen purple cases in tow — one bag each for dresses, shoes and accessories — he can think of nothing grander than traveling with it. “All these people, they have a designer handbag, and I think: ‘So what? You have Eastpak luggage. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.”

Working with intense, solid swaths of color, he has concocted a new sex-symbol vocabulary with a bracing, modern edge, Ms. Versace is lauded as an example to young Chinese girls of their unlimited potential and ability.

Filefront - Unreal Ed Map

NIghtingale final

While both Nightingale and Goodall have achieved much 'good' in the world (as the electroliquid quote attempted to convey), their views or focus on achieving peace are very different. Nightingale's space is a complete contrast to the airiness of Goodall's space to reflect her achievements on the more service-orientated and systematic side of humanity, a compassion for order in human activities rather than on the curious relationship between chimpanzees and man. Here is an empty, contemplative almost temple like space aimed at 'creating' Nightingale's determined and almost stoic character. This would be the kind of space where someone could wonder about humanity and its achievements.

The darkness of Nightingale's space is aimed at generating an existential and lonely experience (that surely must have been felt by Nightingale during her services which never ceased until her death), giving only glimpses of certain textures and shapes; hopefully in entering this space, one could grow lost in the enormity of the nothingness.

Goodall final

The whole space is a continuation of the fragmented ramp to produce a 'walkway', like an indefinite path through a forest floor.

The first half of the 'Electoliquid Aggregation' quote revealed Goodall's passion for chimpanzees and life, this space aims to achieve the airy almost wall-less space of a forest that would have certainly inspired Goodall's passion and dedication.

Meeting space final

Goodall's fragmented floating ramp meeting with Nightingale's orderly ramp.

The "Electroliquid Aggregation" quote explored one thing common between Nightingale and Goodall, and that is a will to change existing problems that are often difficult to 'understand'. As a meeting place of ideas, the space crosses, through lighting, the worlds of both. Half of the space glows only slightly to reveal the stoic-ness, and systematic view of Nightingales while the other lighter 'side' of Goodall is covered with different shaded shadows (like the random silhouttes on a forest floor).

36 custom textures [plus four]

18 Sketch Axonometrics PLUS some extra sketchy sketches

Combined axomonometrics:

18 Axonometrics with additional experimental sketches