Studio Course Project 2 Old Design Ideas

Project requirement: 

Design 3 pairs of "L" shapes in Minecraft. My initial idea was to craft 3 sets of Ls, each pair in their own world, which means that they are separate ideas that do not intervene with each other. 

Design #1: 

Like I'd mentioned in my previous post, this design took inspiration from traditional Japanese Torii, and it explores the "ground-object relationship," as the Torii is constructed with architecture written in 4 different languages. (Chinese, English, Russian, and Japanese.)

Old Design#1

Design #2: 

A pair of L shaped stairways, connects the ground level to the subterranean.

Old Design#2

Design #3: 

This one's a bit of a personal project, which expresses my internal fanboyism towards Game of Thrones. I intended to explore the sculptural capacity of Minecraft by constructing 2 mini-sculptures: a lion representing house Lannister, and a direwolf representing the house Stark. As a noobie who's just started learning how to use the Adobe suite, it took me a long time to pixelate a lion and have it roughly projected into pseudo-3D-ish state. 

Old Design#3

Studio Course Second Project Development

Project description: to design 3 pairs of letter Ls in the game Minecraft.

This is the concept of my first design, I name it The Shrine. 

It consists of two L shaped structures, each of which depicts the word "architecture" in four different languages, namely English, Chinese, Russian, and Japanese. 

Perspective Drawing

This design is inspired by Japanese Toriis, Toriis are structures that are placed on the pathways to Japanese Shinto temples. 

A Japanese Torii, image courtesy of panoramio.com

Steps of the making process:

I printed out pages and pages of grid paper and did my pixelation process of the four words on them. 

English and Russian

Mandarin Chinese

Japanese

I didn't went ahead and construct my design in Minecraft immediately after my first draft. Rather, I built a 3D model using Rhino. Aside than the first picture in this post, which is the perspective drawing, here are some other 2D line works:

Elevation from the right 

Front Elevation

Plan/Bird eye view