Close to Finishing of the Main Structure

With most of my main structural office elements being completed, I just wanted to put emphasis on a few things I discussed with Judy and Ian this morning at our Wednesday studio time. The first was Judy's questioning of a few of my spaces, the use of too many prims (which I have in the meantime aimed to reduce) and the general inclusion of more self-initiation form and use of alpha particle.

In the second picture down I would just like to address the last space within the office which is the carpenter's. The space is located at the back of the building (the area the photo is showing) with the office space being situated on the bottom floor on the right behind a billboard and stretching right across to the gap in the picture where the access doors will be for trucks to come and drop off their goods and take things away. The facade of the building on this side has been split up thus:

1. The top mezzanine office space used by the artist is covered by the light chimneys.
2. The middle space used by the architect incorporates a rhythmical use of faux-supports in front of a curtain glass window to allow maximum light to enter the area to be used for drawing and computer work as well as offering views of buildings and industrial construction areas around it.
3. The bottom Carpenter facade utilizes similar but vertical light chimney sort of boxes to emphasize and allow for directed views out of the space and orientated northwards towards the path of the winter sun but oppositely during summer soaking up the unwanted heat in its reinforced concrete construction. Further more with the interior areas of the hollowed spaces, the interior voids can be used as display areas showing off the crafts and wares of the carpenter for sale, thus serving both to let in light and as a form of showing of the products in 'specially' designed windows.

In pictures 3 and 4 down I managed to create a script in Scratch for Second Life allowing the slats at the Parnell Rise side of the office building to turn to point the closest avatar within a 20m radius. In real life this could be achieved using motion sensing cameras that would aim to provide maximum light and views for the people within the dentist clinic space that are sitting waiting to go in.

Finally in the bottom picture, talking to Judy this morning she emphasized to me that she would be eager to see some interesting for of interaction between the building to the back of mine with my own office space, while also that I should aim to create interesting doors and thresholds and not provide a status quo door or something similar, thresholds that will aim to inspire and reflect the people that will be in the space and their professions. (The picture shows my back carpenter shop access door to trucks).