The 36 words i based my materials on were:

porous, woven, scaly, grainy, checked, flexible, malleable, coarse, bumpy, angular, brittle, crystalline, tessellated, graphic, sparse, sharp, reinforced, rusted, dense, abrasive, stable, rough, pixellated, silky, shiny, slippery, opaque, jagged, hardness, waxy, smooth, heavy, powdery, spongy, twisted and hardness.

These are the three of my material designs that I decided to use on my model. The first image shows a design for stonework, the second image shows wooden floorboards and the third image shows rendered concrete stairs.

This is a close up view of Rosalie Gascoigne's studio, including one of her artworks "Magpie".

This is a close up view of Tracy Moffat's studio, including one of her artworks "Up In The Sky".

This is my developed model, which is heavily based on my first model. I chose to develop my first model because it is a more realistic gallery building than my second model.

This YouTube video i found relates to 'stairs'. I also think it is very humourous and proves that no matter how good technology is, there are just some things humans will always be able to do better.

The two sketches i decided to base my model on had, on top, reconstruct as its inspiration, and below, confrontation as its inspiration. The model above ground has brick walls and big glass windows, as well as steel structures out the side. The stairs and door have also been made from steel to give the building a sense of continuity. The model below ground has concrete walls to reinforce the walls from the surrounding ground, wooden floors and stairs and steel shells to create the "rooms". The steel is the same as above ground, again to create a sense of continuity throughout the building.

These are my stair sketches and 3D models for my sketchup model this week. This set of stairs was inspired by Carlo Scarpa, and is ribbons of steel wrapping around themselves to create a tube-like stairway.

This set of stairs is made out of one piece of wood, carved away to create the treads and rises, so there are no joining marks.

 

These are my stair sketches and 3D models of them for last weeks model. This set of stairs is slabs of stone cantilevered out of the wall. I wanted it to look as though they were floating, but added the glass balustrade as a safety measure.

This set of stairs was originally meant to be made from rendered concrete, but i think the wooden floorboards blend in better with the floors from both the ground and below-ground level. I like the heaviness of the block of the stairs, but it may be more space efficient to create a room underneath in future.

Fiona Hall, Nelumbo Nucifere; Araliya (Sinhala); Malliya Poo (Tamil); Frangipani/Temple Tree "Paradisus Terrestrist" Sri Lankin Series, 1999

Aluminium, Tin

26 x 18 x 4 cm

Fiona Hall has many differing art making practices, ranging from photography to sculpture, however for her series "Paradisus Terrestrist," she has sculpted discarded golden sardine tin cans, "embellished with meticulous carving and engraving."1 By taking the ordinariness of everyday materials and transforming them, Hall is able to create artworks, which serve as metaphors for the messages she explores.2 In "Paradisus Terrestrist," Hall has filigreed intricate sacred plant on top of the partially opened cans, which have embossed naked body parts on them3 in order to comment upon mankind's relationship with nature and how they are co-dependant. Hall has said of her work in "Paradisus Terrestrist," "you can make something look very delicate and extremely rich out of what otherwise would be a discarded item."4

filigreed - a form of ornamentation, usually formed by gold or silver twisted wire.

1

http://qag.clients.squiz.net/__data/assests/pdf_file/0015/13452/Fiona_Hall_EdKit.pdf

2

http://www.artlink.com.au/articles.cfm?id=2280

3

http://qag.clients.squiz.net/__data/assests/pdf_file/00015/13452/Fiona_Hall_EdKit.pdf
4

"Visual Instincts: Contemporary Australia Photography", Fiona Hall, in Max Pam (ed.), AGPS Press, Canberra, ACT, 1989, p. 13

Rosalie Gascoigne, Magpie, 1998

Sawn wood on wood

55 x 54 cm

Rosalie Gascoigne had no formal art training, but was however schooled in the Japanese flower arranging tradition of Ikebana1, with the techniques she learnt greatly influencing her later assemblage work. She would create small assemblages of objects she found while on scavenging expeditions in the Canberra hinterland2 out of her "deep desire to surround herself with beauty."3 By taking these old wooden packing crates and weathered scraps of timber and ordering them in a carefully thought out and proportionate way, Gascoigne was able to simultaneously bring out the history in these items while still allow the audience to see them in a new light. Gascoigne said of her art making practice that she would "combine things until they (had) a presence."4

1

http://media.australianbiography.gov.au/study/8113_ausbiogascoigne.pdf

2

"Rosalie Gascoigne", Vici MacDonald, edoted by Steve Bush. Regaro, Sydney, New South Wales, 1998

3 

http://www.australianbiography.gov.au/subjects/gascoigne/bio.html

4

"Artwise Visual Arts 7 - 10", Glennis Israel, Jacaranda, Milton, Queensland, 1997, p. 79

villa vpro, mvrdv

The two sketches I decided to base my 3D models on both had the word 'assemblage' as their inspiration. The model above ground uses two different types of stone for the exterior, lots of glass, wooden floors and a wooden door as its materials, while the model below ground uses concrete walls to reinforce the walls from the pressure of the earth and wooden floors as its materials.