EXP3 Complete

From top to bottom:

1) View of Carlos Slim's space. The lighting deliberately creates a space that is ambiguous, treacherous and navigable only on speculation and assumption.

2) View of Ratan Tata's space.

3) With this space I intended to demonstrate the alienating effect power can have. This is expressed through the monolithic and solitary presence of the structure.

4) This space expresses the ambiguity of power: it is both protective and oppressive. It also has a martial, feudal quality to it that I feel characterises large scale enterprise.

5) The meeting area and dining table.

6) The dining table is constructed so that the clients don't directly face each other when seated. Each half of the table is self-contained and lends itself to secrecy, self-absorption, innuendo and miscommunication.

7) The textures impart a feudal quality to the architecture and spaces, suggesting rivalry, tribal-group mentalities and stealth.

Filefront

My Unreal map for EXP3 can be found by following this link.

Fine Dining

A short animation detailing the table Ratan Tata and Carlos Slim will be dining at together.

Second Draft

The first image details the dining area along with the lift that will transport Ratan Tata.

The second image details Tata's working space, with custom textures.

The remaining images detail Carlos Slim's working space. I intended Slim's space to suggest the alienating effect of power: the more power an individual has, the more likely they are to be regarded as remote and inaccessible. This is communicated through the monolithic presence of the shelter structure, as well as its situation as the dominant form in the environment.

Draft Unreal Environment

Images 1 through to 3 detail the meeting area where the clients will have lunch. Image 3 also details the elevator that will bring Carlos Slim to the meeting space.

Images 4 through to 7 detail the working space for Ratan Tata. This space attempts to suggest the ambivalence of power. A powerful figure is often both a protector and an oppressor at once. This aspect of power is explored through the concentric, embracing wave forms. The form of the shelters are also intended to recall maritime structures and martial culture; this was to suggest something feudal about big enterprise.

Textured Elevators

Textured Life

Byzantine Movements

Elevatrix

From top to bottom:

Images 1 through to 4 detail different views of the elevator that will bring Ratan Tata from his office space to the central dining area. The dynamism of the twisting support structure is a visual nod to Tata's business strategy of re-invigorating management with youthful staff and contemporary practices. The space is large, generous and open, and its circular shape encourages discussion. The form is derived from a simple, primary shape, and in this fashion it is a respectful nod to archetypes inherited from folk traditions. The form is also intended to reflect an unostentatious and refined sensibility that I perceive in Tata as an individual.

Images 5 through to 8 detail the elevator that will bring Carlos Slim Helú to the lunchroom. It is more flamboyant than Tata's, and this is intended to demonstrate what I saw as the highly dramatic nature of Slim's business practice: the bloody-minded monopoly he wields over the Mexican economy, the dynastic involvement of his sons in running the businesses, and the inter-continental drift of Slim's mixed heritage and palimpsest cultural identities.

Keywords for Tata: Transparent, Open, Legible, Self-effacing.
Words describing/synonymous with movement: Locomotion, Metabolism, Generation.

Keywords for Slim: Occulted, Opaque, Cryptic, Baroque.
Words describing/synonymous with movement: Inertia, Stampede, Exponential.