Following on from our initial research, discussion and feedback from our research display, our focus became finding, exploring and
using appropriate visual languages to make our 3D visualisation of our subject.
The work had to occupy a table top and so we made the considered decision to build our own space station/control panel. Implementing our research into the space elevator and referencing the example control panels seen in the sort of retro sci-fi films we had been looking at, we considered what visual languages of the subject already existed.
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| Still from 'Battle Beyond The Sun', 1962 |
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| Still from 'Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet', 1965 |
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| Still from 'Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet', 1965 |
In places such as TIGER, Wilko, Poundland, and the Market the group kept an eye out for materials to use to re-imagine the interior of a space craft. Silver, metallic, tubing, buttons and textures became specific areas of interest.
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| Tubing on the Market |
In response to the '3D visualisation' of our subject area, one member of our group had access to a 3D printer and used the opportunity to create a relevant object. At the small scale of a few inches long, it was initially seen as just an ornament, a small element to include in some way for our task...
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| 3D Printed Spaceship! |
A significant moment for the materials collection occured when I came across a toy woodpecker on a stick in TIGER. The stick and the raising and lowering movement along it was reminiscent of the space elevator. I had the idea to adapt and reconstruct the model using the 3D printed spaceship as a replacement of the woodpecker. This perfectly illustrated the concept in a physical and intereactive form.
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| Other materials gathered as a group |
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