"LEPIDOPTERA"
Lepidoptera (/ˌlɛpɪˈdɒptərə/ LEP-i-DOP-tər-ə, from Ancient Greek lepís “scale” + pterón “wing”) insects that includes butterflies and moths
imogen briggs
Fashion, Object, Space
22.10.2020
background and history
THE INTENDED EXPERENCE
The McCraith ‘Butterfly House’. Built in 1955, on the Mornington Peninsula. located 1-3 Atunga Terracee, Dromana 3936. Most commonly known as the ‘Butterfly House’, its structural features reflect a triangular framing or butterfly like shape. The house is a significant example of modernism in Victoria. The McCraith house was designed for ‘Ellen and Gerald McCraith...in the office of Mornington Peninsula architects David Chancellor and Rex Patrick’ (Heritage Council Vic, n.d). This house embodies the creative architectural response of post WW2 and the society on the Mornington Peninsula.
I chose to reflect and respond to this amazing piece of architecture in an experience that inhabits both a personal refection and a contemporary fashion experience. Through research and development to create my own virtual experience of the Butterfly house while in times of the pandemic and restriction. enhancing the abilities to communicate on an online platform with worldwide accessibility without movement.
Following on from my own definition of 'What defines a fashion place and space' ;
'A fashion place and space can be physical, visual, written or digital space. The environment conceptualized within the design industry allows for this interpretation of perspective. The primary factor is what the space holds. The combination of fashion and architecture, both real and online, provides experiences that play with individuals’ abilities to explore their own definition of fashion. These concepts suggest the modern world’s unique blend of reality and virtual places that continue to elaborate the fashion space has no boundaries. Space or place where passion is provoked, and inspiration is drawn from, have deep symbolic meaning and are found in a variety of settings. In this sense, a fashion location would be defined by its capacity to draw from experiences and reactions to creates new, while simultaneously helping one reflect and enjoy. By breaking these limits of public and private settings we produce worldwide accessibility of space without movement.' (Briggs,2020)
I wanted to display an digital space that communicates the living experience online through a fashion and architectural response. Following key details from the actual floor and house plans of this house, I creates this 3D model to do that.
The fashion pieces have been designed to reflect both the house and the butterfly, looking into the shapes, colour and balance the house embodies. They have been designs to resemble a deconstructed cocoon of the butterfly, while also incorporating the triangular design pattern that is through out the house. While doing this, the experience follows the actual sun rise to sun set of the 27th of November located in Dromana on the Mornington Peninsula. This accompanied by soft, gentle sounds of the beach and birds that are commonly heard throughout the day.
THE DEVELOPMENT
THE INTENDED OUTCOME
To complete this, I constructed a small scale replica of the house to understand it foundations and structure in Adobe dimension, taking advantage of the textures and light to enhance a real life setting.
Following this within Sketchup 2020, I produced my own model of the house to its measurements and rendered it to create this virtual experience in an emotive, homily way. This was furnished with assisting assets from the 3D warehouse within the program, to complete its red interior and blue table tops.
Whilst developing this model, I produced my fashion objects to be inserted into the house. Fully prepared in Abode Dimension with rendered textures to be then converted to STL files to be appropriately placed into the model.
The heads seen in the House where sculptured by me in Blender 2.90, then also finished and rendered in Adobe Dimension.
For the house to be complete and rendered, the model was taken into Rhino 6, where the animations could be captured. Unfortunately due to computer issues the outcome couldn't fly through the model. However the small video above was creates to produce the same experience intended.
This being, A representation of what life embodies on the Peninsula with the sounds and sun through the warm and cold months of the year. While addressing contemporary fashion outcomes created from a reflection of the 1955 house on the Mornington Peninsula.
*3D assets either created by self or used from sketchup online library '3D Warehouse'