Second Life Suggestions

Eric Hui
Eric –
Your building is extremely impressive and thoroughly puts mine to shame. The arched side of the entrance resembles Sutton Hall wonderfully. The walls are nice and white on the inside while on the outside resemble the building – I’d like to know how to do that! Your think book inside is great. I wish that I could read the print, though! The roof pieces need a little touching up but overall it is much better constructed than my own roof. Again, your arches are brilliant. Keep up the good work, sir. Touch up those floating tile sections for the roof and you have a flawless building.
Garrison
 
Liz Wong
Liz –
I really like your original building. Not that there’s anything wrong with the second one, but I do not see the purpose for it. Is it advocating elements of modernist architecture not expressed in your first one? I like the walking tiles, they add a nice touch. But I feel your think book should be inside that original building; the circular room structure with the columns seems empty. Take advantage of that space! Overall very nice.
Garrison
 
Law Tsai
Law –
I really like the unique shape of your building. It goes beyond the floating box that is the basis for the modernist or postmodernist architecture. I love the use of faux glass, and your 2nd life aligning skills is quite impressive. I wish that my building’s walls and corners were as precise as yours. I also love the UT tower structure forming as the apex of your building below the think book. Hopefully that element was meant to poke at the central feature of our own campus. The clocks are great; the sign is great; your building overall is a tremendous success. I really do not have much to suggest for improvement.
Garrison
 
Mary Dauterman
Mary –
Your building is plain and simple, but that is by no means a bad thing. I think though that you need to enclose it more, perhaps just by extending the wall of the entrance more to the right. On the interior, I love the use of pictures but I think they could use some more organization in how they relate to your project. Outside, consider rotating the images used to wallpaper your building so that they don’t look so crooked – this is a problem I myself have encountered, so I know how frustrating it can be. Your model on the interior of the tower and six-pack is great! Put that more towards the front of your building to highlight it more!
Garrison
 
Brad Barry
Brad –
I agree with Chetna in that your construction is really meaningful once we have read your paper. I suggest building something that demonstrates more the architectural side of this campus project we’re doing as an introduction to your stair-step piece. What you have now emphasizes all the things a university campus should do once it is there, but what we also must focus on is how and in what form the campus gets there. Your construction is really innovative but I feel you need something that will depict your argument for the architectural side of this paper before one actually must download the file.
Garrison
 
Mauro Caffarelli
Mauro –
I REALLY like what you’ve built. It’s hard to imagine everything wrapped into one campus until I saw your 2nd life presentation. The construction is excellent; it has me absolutely baffled on how you accomplished most of it. Furthermore it gets your message across wonderfully. I just feel that since you have more than one building you somehow enclose them all (hedges or a small fence or something). It looks like you haven’t totally completed some of it, but I can’t wait to see what that podium in the center will lead to! I also wish that the pictures inside your three respective buildings lead somewhere, maybe to a different part of your argument in a webpage or word document. Are you using the think book at all anywhere?
Garrison
 
Rachel –
The Greek element of your plan is astounding. It popped up early in this project on the island and amazed me then. I almost wish it was the only style of architecture you were trying to represent because it looks so great standing alone! But alas, I might suggest somehow encircling that fountain you’ve created with one or both of your remaining styles. The pagoda creates a great perimeter I feel you shouldn’t go outside of by any means. I also like how your think book is on a little path to the fountain – perhaps you could enclose the fountain in a little building resembling architecture # 2, and enclose the think book in one for style # 3. You could create a similar building across from your think book if you’d like to keep the nice symmetry you’ve got going. Overall: fantastic!
Garrison
 
Emily Beck
Emily –
When I first looked at your project I thought about those crystals Superman uses to create his ice palace. Though orange, your building reminds me eerily of said ice palace. I agree with Liz in that I really wish I could go inside your building; the interior is likely to be just as exceptional to view as the outside. Though I am not a fan of the architectural style, I do admire the way you’ve constructed this building. Is it an existing one or a product of your imagination? If you designed it, cheers! I do suggest incorporating more texture. The glass is such an excellent feature I’d like to see some more contrasting textures; I am reminded of an object similar to your project outside the modern art museum in Fort Worth. The use of glass is huge, but also there are a lot of grey and white metal beams. They might contrast well with the glass, but I would keep the orange in moderation.
Garrison
 
Margaret Sanders
Megan –
Your building is really nice. I love the use of the extended arched walkway (much like at the Blanton museum). However, I’d really like that walkway to extend past the doorway, or perhaps move the entrance into the middle of the building. It’d be nice to have to walk through those great arches to get into the interior of your building. I furthermore love the use of glass toward the top beneath the classic red tile; it makes well the argument for natural light. The overall construction of your building is very well-engineered, but I would suggest putting more depictions of your campus plan on the interior; be it pictures, or maps, or models, or whatever. Other than that, I don’t have much to critique!
Garrison
 
Ashley Powell
Ashley –
What I would suggest is making your actual building constructions a bit bigger. The things you’ve created to represent the need for nature are absolutely amazing, though. It seems I’m coming up last place in second life skills. And to the left of the tower, I’d like to see a little more texture on that building besides for the default wooden one. Look at Wright’s buildings and be more consistent with them. Is there any way we will be able to go inside any of this? I look forward to seeing the finished product.
Garrison
 
Chetna Pande
Chetna –
I love the innovative properties of your project. I had an idea for you though. Consider that diagram of the movement of the spheres over the Vedic building (I believe you’ve even used it). How cool would that be you could create those spheres?! Just a thought. Furthermore, that tower is pretty intense, but I was thinking you might be able to expand it and create a little area to walk into. Then what goes in there could further stress whatever points you have left. The natural aspect I think is well taken care of though.
Garrison
 
Pallavi Shankar
Pallavi –
There’s not much to change with your project. Very simple yet effective; I like it. As for the roof, I would suggest creating a thin square or rectangle and placing it on top of the walls for your roof to rest upon. If you look at the buildings around campus that exhibit what you’re portraying, there is a lip that hangs over and it’s pretty ornately decorated. Right now, the roof doesn’t start right at the walls and kind of looks like the top of a medieval tower. What is going on down there on the ground, too? I’m not quite sure what to make of it. And to combat the feel of sinking (that Eric commented on), maybe just place a perimeter of hedges to cover up those bottom windows. That might be easier than redoing the walls of your building. If you could somehow make an entrance, too, that’d be pretty sweet.
Garrison
 
Amanda Jones
Amanda -
Looking at my peers’ suggestions, I agree with most of them. But when I click on your directions, am I supposed to be going to script and looking at their content? Because if so, the modifications still prohibit me from doing so. I like the tour feel, but I would like a few more buildings on this little mini campus that can further exhibit traits your plan conveys. Unless I’m just stupid, I’m unable to access any of the notes within your creations.
Garrison
 
Prianka Singapura
Prianka –
I understand your project is not yet completed. I suggest doing something with the roof and interior of your building. I didn’t really follow what the roof is representing, but I would say to definitely continue in the texture you’ve chosen for it. The texture for the walls of your building could be something more along the same lines though. The two kind of clash at the moment. Inside, you could house the blue box or present more pictures as representations to accompany it.
Garrison