Vee Valavil Week1: Castle

 Vee Valavil Week1: Castle

Design Intent: This castle is primarily designed to serve as a display in a lavish indoor museum with a outdoor opening at the top of the museum's dome.  

I was inspired by Dale Chihuly's indoor chandelier sculpture. I emulated the aspect that it is an indoor installation and the dome in the museum creates great lighting effects on the tinted glass.
End of the Day Chandelier (Dale Chihuly, 1994), Union Station, Tacoma, 2008
https://www.historylink.org/File/7754

Taiwan's High Heel Wedding Church is another inspiration for my project. I was inspired by the blue tinted glass sculpture placed on top of a circular mound surrounded by water.
Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Heel_Wedding_Church

  
Modeling Techniques: Ramparts by the gates are made to stand out to accentuate the front gate and differentiate it from the three other surrounding walls which guard the central object.
The pinnacles on top of the 4 internal mini forts were designed to create unity with the 4 external corner towers. The gatehouse position suggests to the viewer the frontal view of the castle. The center tower is designed with similar aspects to the 4 internal ground forts within the glass walls to create unity in the design.
I used rotate and copy commands. I used a Boolean union for the body of the four internal towers. I excluded the mini dome and pinnacle on top of it.

Materials: The surrounding four walls are made of pink glass for the sake of transparency. The front gate is made of cracked glass to differentiate the textures between the glass walls surrounding the castle centerpiece. The main intention for the use of glass is for it to not have any objects obstruct the line of sight for the interior mini castles. For the smaller detailed elements surrounding the the main centerpiece castle, I used a combination of metals and glass. The mini stones (connecting the four mini castles to the centerpiece) are made of light blue paint for visibility through the glass. The outer pillars are made of metals with glass tops that are sharp and pointed.