Portfolio as 12/13.

These are only a few pages from my portfolio.

3 and 1 exercises

Logos

I have created a couple of versions of my logo. It is an abstraction of the initials M H for Margaret Henderson. I was not as successful creating a logo out of P H for Peggy Henderson. Since most people know me as Peggy, I felt it ok to go with an abstracted version as it would not be recognizable anyway.

The versions are black, colored, and with a gradient background. The one shown here is for my portfolio with the gradient background.

Combined adobe photoshop and sketchup for boards

These are the 3 boards created for our third project in design class.

Board 1 (far right): utilizes adobe lines to create a site plan. The basic plan was first created in sketchup. I wanted to remove the tan background but
I could not find the method in sketchup which forced me to put a
brown/gray background on the other boards as well.


Board 2 (see below, right) used elliptical shape tool and gradients
to create the bubble diagram. I now see I have a title block
problem. In one case it came in as separate elements just like the source
file, in another case it comes in as a combined shape and I don't know why.
I don't think I combined into one layer but maybe I did.


Board 3 (immediate right) is the grand finale where I created the model in sketchup, rotated views and saved output for the perspective and elevation. The cross section was then created by chopping the model in half. I could not get the cross section tool in sketchup to work and cutting the original apart was very difficult.

TMCC 3D model

The south side of Sierra Building at Truckee Meadows. I am having trouble will filling in surfaces of irregular shapes such as the triangular roof.

Modular apartment component

This apartment is designed to attached to a vertical cylinder of a diameter of 40 feet. Individuals can have architects design their own unique apartment that can be 'plugged in' to the cylinder which provides utilities and elevator transport to their private domain. It's a way to build up, not out, but still have a home designed for the individual family.

New ideas for concrete

graphicconcrete.com may be the answer for the exterior for our next project. We must design a house in a neighborhood zoned for both residential and commercial. Wood houses, brick warehouses, cement apartment buildings create an ecclectic neighborhood. Because of this I did not want to add to the situation but perhaps pull from the surrounding buildings. The site also has an historical marker for the railroad that can perhaps serve as a starting point. At any rate, I liked the following design from www.graphicconcrete.com.