Design Studio4 (Year2) Portfolio

Here is the link to lower-resolution preview of my portfolio from this term, feel free to have a look at it, any feedback is more than appreciated:


Portfolio





And few selected pages down here:

Half the world away

This is a quick preview of a short project. The aim was to design disaster-relief  shelter for Indonesia which would fit in 1m3 cube.
After site analysis, group decided to focus on floods and landslides caused by monsoon rains, as they happen annually and cause a lot of damages, but they are often overlooked by international aid organisations, as they donate majority of money to fight with earthquakes and tsunamis.

We decided to focus on design for small separated villages. Social aspects were the most important factors driving the design decisions- aim was to help society to rebuild and attain a proper sense of place and local pride.

This was a concept montage showing the scheme- where boxes were delivered by helicopters. Parachute and boxes sides would be used to for the shelters too.


Designed shelters are easy to build so that local people could participate in erecting them. They can be easily connect together to expand the accommodation volume.

Entire shelter would evolve as time goes by to create better living environment:
1st Phase:



2nd Phase:


And in 3rd phase, which is already a permanent one, people would adjust the shelter structure to their needs, examples:

Concept sketches

And some fantasy sketches:

Firstly four experimental drawings:









One black and white sketch:


And here is a quick ranger sketch, which then resulted in more careful head design of a Dúnadan:




And the head:

Trip Sketches

I've got quite a busy time in Uni right now, so it was quite difficult to upload anything, but here are some sketches from my trip to Italy:

Here are some rough sketches drawn in car:


And two really quick from Milano:



And two from Alps:

Thumbnails1

Last night I practised thumbnailing.
I think it is my first attempt to do so- I decided to go for black and white, but at the end I added some colour accents.
I turned off the transfer and used only the standard brushes ( with different settings) and one self made custom brush. Majority of them started as scribbles and I just waited till something emerge from the 'random' lines.


Here are two smaller ones:

Firstly..... a flower!


Then a bird:






Two environments:

Battlefield:


Mountains:




And finally some characters:


Hunter:



Bard:



Witch Hunter



Sailor/Pirate:



Battlemage:




And finally an assassin:



I am quite happy with them, especially that they are just sketches and their creation process is really quick.
Moreover they introduce something fresh and new to my works.This 'style' just emerged from my random scribbles, although I am quite sure there are lots of people who already work in this style.

Environment Concept1

Here is another concept image. This digital painting show my concept of a town localised by an underground lake.

Here is a link to full- size image: Underground Laketown

This is a small scale version:


And some WIP's:

Camera Obscure

This project was called 'Camera Obscura' - as its aim was to design a refurbished gallery for old photos showing history of Manchester. Moreover, as a second task we had to design digital museum presenting possible parallel futures for Manchester.

Here are two sheets (A1 originally) that I presented on the final crit:

I was mainly interested in sense of place, hierarchy and relations between buildings and this inspired my design. I was playing with different concepts that incorporate hierarchy but I decided to go on with Fibonacci's sequence.
L.Krier and J. LaGro were probably most influential writters that influenced my approach to design.


Here are some close ups of the drawings:

Promarkers and felt-tip pens:



again




And two versions of digital painting over 3d model:
I decided to chose the second one:








This project is not finished yet, so there will be some more updates about it.