The Folie seeks to instil remembrance and provide an experience of the force of nature and the loss thousands of people suffered through-out the years of severe floodings in Brisbane. Below is a link to footage on Youtube demonstrating the horror of Brisbanes 2011 floods.
Video of flood chaos in Australia (2011)
This week we focused on finalising the design concept and perfecting the appearance of the Folie in sketch-up. We wanted to created a literal piece of work that demonstrated the shock and terror that the gushing flood waters brought with them. The final rendered version of the Folie can be seen in the image below:
The Folie incorporated a combination of design qualities as mentioned in the design brief:
- tension and compression (supports)
- heavy and light (material weight, yet floating)
- bright and dark (light access)
- natural (floods destruction) and artificial (materials)
- hard (rough edges)
- disturbing
Group Meeting
On Saturday we had an 8 hour group session to tie together all our components and begin designing our posters. Robert and Joel worked on the model through sketch-up and other various programs to play with lighting and other images, while Carol worked on our 300 words and I began to compile the posters. Below is a diagram of my initial poster design layout and the components I wanted to include on each poster. There is also an image of the layout I originally came up with, with random images inserted into the template to demonstrate the general idea to my group.
 |
| Poster design sketch |
 |
| Initial poster design |
 |
| Hero shot |
