Good Grief

Last night I was pretty excited to post some pictures up on here...until I accidently clicked the "don't save" button instead of the "save" button.  The utter frustration caused me to step away from the computer immediately, and try to calm down.  So I played Uncharted on PS3.  Upon which I started dying, increasing frustration.  So I finished reading The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles.  Not a bright warm fuzzy feeling book, but an amazing and incredibly well written.  The imagery the author uses is amazing and inspired a sketch which I have not yet finished, and thus not yet posted.

Now that I have had a good 18 hours after my clumsy, data-erasing, life-wasting mistake, I can post pictures up.

The Cedar House

 Yes, the tree is finally inside the house.  And as basic as it is, it serves it's purpose.  Clean air for everyone that is rich and wants to feel environmentally better about themselves.

The walkway is a whole separate issue, and I need a landscaper to add flowers/gardens/etc.

 To give you an idea of how the tree gets light, and how the house saves energy, I put a hole on the roof.  Well, it's not a hole, it is a glass/plastic substitute.  Just like Cowboy Stadium, God can look down and watch his favorite football...err family.




Now for my favorite wasted effort:

The Kitchen/Pantry

This kitchen took me awhile to figure out.  I even made that oven, and the pantry in the back, the countertops...sigh.  I think I'll be able to do those pretty quickly though.  Plus, I still haven't decided on a color scheme for any of the furniture/paint/everything, as you can see by the stairs and rest of the inside of the first level of the house.

Tonight I will try to replace all these elements and more, and thanks to God, the NFL lockout ended, and the Cowboys are on Monday Night Football, so I can sketchup and watch football simultaneously.  Hopefully I'll be able to post the replacement pictures up tonight, but we'll see how far I manage to get.

Until next time,

Robert

Project: The Globe Theater

When I studied abroad in London, I had the fortune of going to the Globe Theater three times.  Twice to see a play (The Comedy of Errors and Antony and Cleopatra), and once to have a behind the scenes look at the theater.  Although the behind the scenes tour was amazing to see, it also killed the sense of magic the Globe Theater has on its own.  While they told us a lot about how they mimicked the construction of the first Globe, they also showed us the high tech features built in and around the theater, which deprives the structure of its identity:  A building that defies time, as ageless as the stories that are told inside of it.

A Midsummer's Night Dream in 1599

For my project, I looked at tons of pictures of the new Globe Theater, the Old Globe Theater (in San Diego), and sketches and ideas of what the first Globe Theater may have looked like.  There is very little evidence or reports of the theater's specifications, so fortunately, a lot of elements were able to be smudged, such as the number of exits, or the height of the stage.

I started a basic globe theater a couple of months ago, but it is very sloppy, and I am restarting it from the ground up, knowing much more about BIM drawing than I did at the outset.  This is what I have for my first Globe:

My original Globe Theater (First Floor Only)

However, I think it is time for a restart, to create a more unified and cleaner Globe, and give it the dues it deserves in a BIM model.  It will also allow me to provide a step by step process on how I came about designing the structure.  

The first thing I did was make a blueprint similar to an A-sheet.  This picture isn't rotated to the traditional x-y axis, but it symmetric nonetheless.  The diameter of this theater is 100', and the stage is 40' x 20'.  I took the following steps to make this layout:

• The outside walls are 1' thick
• The distance from the back of the outside wall to the interior is 15'4".
• The fence of the first floor compartments is 4" thick.
• The exits are in the form of a pentagon, and measure 6' wide, with the remainder of the section used as stairs.
• The center of the circle is the front and middle of the stage.

First Floor Plan (rotated)

Tomorrow I will add the benches to the layout, and add some more details to the floor plan.  Even though it's tempting to drag the whole floor plan up to make it 3D, it is really important NOT TO DO IT.  It will make things MUCH more complicated than they need to be.  Until tomorrow,

Robert.