#skeleton!axo

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My beloved friend and their outfit of epicness

[cherrie-garden]

mhm!!!! nugget!! and lotl!! nuggets a seal, an he looks like a chicken nugget!! and lotl is an axolotl!! she's purple

-sharkie

nugget!! i love the name nugget so much, i wanna get a duck plushie and name them nugget <3

we have an axolotl plushie too! hes a skeleton axolotl and hes a long boy hehehe, we got him for clay, axo adores axolotls! i think we named him Axel Skellington? yeah i think thats it

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The discord server voted for meet the stuffed animal(kind of, it was a big tie) so here we are! In trying to take pictures for this I ended up with three separate days worth of material, so there'll be more stuff from this photo session next week and the week after!

Meeting Exxa! My crocheted Centaur stuffed animal. She has 1 white foot because I wanted to give her one white foot. Her tail is also white and brown streaked! Kitsune, Cosmic, Isolotl, Axo, Ace, and Squishy had to stack up high just to try and get vaguely level with her. Too bad they're so smol. (They had to be stabbed onto toothpicks to get them to balance like that, trying to stack small not at all flat things is hard without internal support. Don't worry, they're all okay, they don't have internal organs)

Whoops they fell over, oh no.

Meeting my look-alike doll Alexis and my mom's doll Clara! Aren't their couches cute? Both of them have numerous clothing choices, but aren't their current outfits adorable?

Kitsune over here getting awfully close to Clara's face, Squishy intruding on her lap, Axo on the back of the sofa, and Ace sitting like a reasonable isopod. Cosmic's investigating the books on the table, and Isolotl is happily sitting in Alexis' lap.

A lil close up shot of Isolotl and Alexis! (Note on this one, I had to basically tie Alexis to the chair so she'd stay sitting like that and not straighten out like she wanted to. Clara didn't have this problem because she has a wire skeleton)

Closer up shot on Clara and the other lil isopods. Note the detail that's nigh impossible to see on the books and just pretend they look really cool, because they do. They're home-made tiny books too, mind you.

Clara was trying to put the blanket *on* one of them, but it seems Axo and Ace have misunderstood and now Axo is ontop of the blanket, and Ace has moved to ontop of the couch.

This is Kaiju! He's a close cousin of these little tiny isopods. I do have another couple isopod sizes, but this is the most dramatic size difference. Kitsune and Squishy of course have no fear and have hopped up ontop, while the others look on in some worry. (Fun fact here is that Kaiju isn't for sale because of his size! Big yarn comes in large skeins, yes, but there's a lot less yarn in those skeins. So while he doesn't use much more yarn then the lil guys, compared to how much yarn is in a skein, he does use more. Also trying to make him made my hands hurt, so that's also no bueno)

Another friend! This is a seal I got from a zoo gift shop. Isn't it cute? It's a very good cuddle buddy as demonstrated by Axo and Isolotl under its fins, and Kitsune and Squishy balanced precariously on its head. Ace and Cosmic are reasonably a bit more cautious.

Having fun using the seal's back as a slide! Who knew seals made such good slides? First picture has Isolotl at the seal's head while Kitsune is at the bottom fins, second pic has Isolotl in the process of going down the back, while the third and fourth pictures have Ace on the head and Isolotl getting to the bottom.

Also from zoo gift shops, although from different ones, we have Emperor and CT! Emperor is an emperor penguin chick, and CT is a black-footed penguin by design but is named after a humboldt penguin in the zoo I got him from, also named CT. The penguin he was named after was such a hoot to watch and really enjoyed the tassle on the end of my pen. It was really funny and adorable.

Finally, we have my Waddles family! Yes I have three Waddles, all in different sizes. No regrets. The smallest Waddles in the middle is actually well over a decade old, I got em back when I was very little while I was taking piano lessons. The clip on its head has long since broken off, but that's alright. If you'll note the eyes aren't sparkly, that really notes how old these beanie boos are lol. First picture is the three isopods lined up in front of the three Waddles, the largest one on the right, medium on the left, and the smallest one in front. Second picture has Squishy ontop of the medium one's head, Kitsune on the biggest one's head, and the other four in a row on the bottom going Axo, Cosmic, Ace, and Isolotl.

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Three of the timber models made today. The experiment was about using the tension between natural wood. The members are laser cut for convenience, and they are slotted together.

Stairs and platforms have been added to the tower. The exterior will be wrapped with  fabric, and some the extended parts will be used as platforms for viewing. It is difficult to optimie the arrangement of members of the skeleton structure.

Section drawing of the last itertion. The spaces will need to be rearranged - interactive spaces like the workshop and cafe will be bigger, and the roof will not be a space-frame strutcure.

Next step: 1. iteration of GA plan, section & axo. 2. how does the workshop space work? (detailed plan of arrangement, circulation & facilities). 3. drawing of three views: entrance, from corridor to exhibition space, from the tower towards outside.

[a-voyage-of-intellect]

16-01-19 Pin-up

Use the point cloud for the background/context of plan/section drawings. Adds more richness.

Organise a master and referencing file system. Will help with the heaviness of the model.

Draw and diagram the façade system

Explore more scales of art and anatomy to help break up the boxy and stacked elements of the project.

Work on developing a section axo to show the building alive

Develop the skeleton and supportive armatures of the building

Express the living and dead circulation routes more.

Think about bring hygiene into the design. Some spaces will need cleaning at different rates and frequency then others. Make this a design element.

Make the building accommodating to different scales of users.

A clear GA set of drawings is a priority for next weeks DR tutorial. Develop a quick and efficient workflow to extract and translate information from the model to sheets.

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Tutorial: 6th February ‘19

Abstract

The Ludgate endeavors to become a water catchment tower cum explorative centre for the public at the flood prone Ludgate Circus as well as a contemporary gateway to the City of London, resuscitating the fallen Ludgate in the 18th century. The Ludgate will be collecting and storing surface water and rainwater temporarily during critical times of heavy rain. The main spaces include rainwater collection vessels and its harvesting system, a filtrate garden and an underground storm water storage system. Part of the stored water will be filtered and channeled through living walls in my tower and the excess will be released back into the sewer when the rain has subsided. The Ludgate will also be a key site office for Thames Water, situated at the west entrance of City of London as an experimental prototype in hopes of producing more of these towers at flood risk areas in the urban context. Thames Water will be monitoring the water overflows along the Fleet sewer. The Ludgate will be an interactive public building, different from all the other Thames Water sites. It is accessible by the public, who are potential clients, to understand the necessary steps to obtain clean water and to promote Thames Water as United Kingdom’s largest water and wastewater services provider. The architecture of The Ludgate comprises of a skeleton framework with water vessels and gutter pipes spilling in and out of the structure of the building. These materials are delicately composed to create a contrasting arrangement by enhancing the flow of water around the building.

Direction

Identify types of plants - make sunlight study to decide plants’ location Environmental analysis show roof catchment in axo 3D skins on building - other prototype

Precedence

The London Fountain Co Gardens by the Bay Sloane Square / Trafalgar Square / Bedford Square / Picadilly Circus Public Call Box by Western Electrics King Lud Pub interior

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A quick practice sketch as I plot out my skeleton friend. Had to remember how human skulls work haha

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I am enjoying making this style of photograph way too much

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Quick sketch of a possible full armor design. Primarily used a suit of Italian(?) plate as a ref.

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Axo would join a topic thread by posting a single period. I thought it was really cute, and this was kind of the visual it started giving me.

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Dungeon monster friends.....

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I've remembered that I can't freeball armor. It has to make sense. No floating tit plates or I will scream.