3D Printing

I thought that 3D print would be the best output for my object because I wanted to retain all the little caves and nooks that the circles created in the shape to be maintained and if i used something like 123D make it might not retain these characteristics of the shape.

Here are some pictures of the 3D printed form.

After having the object printed and being able to touch and interact with it I started to think what the contextualization of this could be. Because I used spheres to carve out shapes in the object it has left craters all over the surface and I thought that maybe this craters could house something. I remember watching a documentary a while ago about mega structures, this particular episode was on the giant tower that someone had designed that would be a colony in itself, like an archology, meaning you could live in this tower and never have to leave it. A self sustaining "hyper structure" that would be designed for a very dense population. I thought what if my object could one of these "hyper structures" where each crater would be filled with a glass pod that would house a certain purpose.

I wanted to illustrate this idea so firstly I mocked up a sketchup file to create a large city and then rendered that in indigo rendered so it would look alot better. I then took a photo of my object and put that in Photoshop and drew over both of the pictures to create my final illustration.

Here is my contextualization for my object.