Review - Week 3 - Rosa Song

Name: Rosa Song

Student ID: 5753213

Group No: 3

Unfortunately upon starting my review and trying to get into Rosa's blog address at srs9292@blogspot.com, the block address did not let me enter due to "phishing" error. However I will do my best in reviewing her work without additional pictures and illustrations due to this problem. Rosa as part of the augmented reality group taken by Padma and Dermott were to create a number of drawing with a use of applied paper media on top to illustrate their office spaces in regards to other buildings within the greater triangle for this semester and a 1:1 scale model of a building detail.

Rosa decided to create sculptural seat installation within some modern courtyard space near Britomart (the precise location wasn't totally understood) but used the idea of a wavy almost infinity type bench form to create a seat that dealt with the idea of round curved shape punctuated my smooth empty seating spaces.

The idea as Rosa portrayed it is the idea of simple benches creating fun exciting spaces, giving passerbys somewhere to sit. What I was most impressed with was the 1:1 models produced not just by Rosa but the entire Augmented Reality group this week, with the impact of 2 extra weeks worth of work being clear. Rosa's project consisted of a smaller 1:5 model made from cardboard and covered with wood tape, making it look convincingly like a solid cross section of the wooden bench section without it being made from the actual material. Her 1:1 model was equally impressive showing of definite craft skill with model that utilised a curved shape created through the joining of different wooden slats glued along a central curved wooden backbone. Additional material and structural integrations was the use of bolts to hold the wooden slats on the backbone with the addition of a plexiglass window type hole, surrounded by silicon to not let water finished off the model with a degree of class and functionality.

Otherwise a job well done.