Bus|Shelter construction

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shelter bus!!

My idea for a shelter bus--enjoy :)

bus shelter!

Hello all! Our assignment this time around was to individually create a bus shelter. Mine is located on Tate street in Greensboro. It is right next to a brick and marble art museum and across from a church. It is on the edge of UNCG, which has predominately brick buildings.


^I played with different forms and came up with the above one. It had lots of traits that the buildings around it have. It seemed like a little much, though, so I simplified it to the design below.

The two pictures below are my Material Investigation for my shelter. I decided to name my design the Vernacular Umbrella. Vernacular means I am taking materials from the structures and environment around me and incorporating them into my design. That is what I decided to do with my bus shelter in order to make it cohesive with its surroundings. Since UNCG and the buildings surrounding the shelter site are mainly brick, I decided to make the shelter brick. Also, there is marble in part ofthe design of the museum next to the site. It is a beautiful material and I didn't want to turn down the chance to use it. The seats and roof are marble and the rest is brick.



Making models always takes longer than I think. The studio should start charging rent--most of us feel like we live there. No complaints, though. It's a fun experience. Below is the beginning of my model. The part being made now is brick.

The marker on the wood below makes the structure look a little more like brick.

The seats below are marble.

The finished product is below. When veiwed from the side it mimics an umbrella. I thought that was appropriate since it is an immediate protection of the elements, just like an umbrella. Overall, I am proud of my work and the simple yet well thoughtout structure that I have created.

Une Table de Salon using charcoal

Here is a chinese-inspired coffee table that I found online. The reason I decided to draw this one is because the curves would be challenging, yet, if done right, rewarding. I think I shaded them pretty well....but there is always room for improvement!!

Communication

"Communication is about the process in which information is being passed from a sender to a recipient in order to create a shared understanding."

Print Materials: We chose to design a poster to give more information about our program as well as about the Greensboro bus system. Featuring the logo, it would also function as a branding mechanism.

People: We felt that a t-shirt would get the message out if a lot of people wore them on the same day. It would get a question started in peoples' minds. What is this? Why is everyone wearing the same shirt?
Http: The picture below would be an image that would rotate on UNCG's homepage. People may have noticed students walking around in t-shirts with the same logo, as well as the posters. Seeing it on the website, they might think, Oh, I've seen this! What the heck is it? When they click on the logo on the homepage, they will be directed to a series of images like the second one below, which describe out studio and what we are working on.

Products: One product idea we came up with was a series of decorated bus sculptures (similar to the Big Apples in New York or the cows in Kansas City), which would also function as benches at bus stops.

Places: We created a model of a booth that we would have at the Tate Street Festival. It would reinforce the logo, as well as provide seating, like a bus shelter.

For our final advertising technique, we chose to paint the "Rawk" on the UNCG campus. It was yet another form of branding.