Connecting music and play, Songscape is made to provide an opportunity for people to have fun, be creative with music, and create new sounds and songs, while building a community.

Songscape is inspired by the song REM by Ariana Grande. I chose this specific song because it combines a dreamy, calming effect while still having different layers of sound to use for the design. Sampling these sounds gave my playscape the potential for fun and creative experiences, bringing together harmony, beats, and rhythm throughout the space. My vision for Songscape was to translate music into architecture.

once the person steps on this platform their will be a sound based from the song at 2:27

the overall shape of the stairs is created from the design + looks of the songs graphic score

slides are vocal slides that happen throughout the song so when someone slides down each time there will be a different vocal slide

0:19

0:40

1:47

2:17

3:30

time stamps show what time each slide happens

seesaw goes from 2 different notes (don't know yet-fill in later) which represents the point in the song that Ariana sings "Wake up, wake up, wake up"

Monkey bars represent continuing beat throughout the song, which shows in the playscape by going around the entire park

shows in graphical score with repeated curves

Bb (Bb G Eb)

Wizard Chess, from Harry Potter

Dejarik, from Star Wars

Fan-made Yugioh AR app

Precedents

Creatures

Characters

Fire Elemental

Class: Generic

Characteristics:

• Medium Attack
• Medium Health
• Ability to set teams on fire.

Crystal Elemental

Class: Defensive

Characteristics:

• Low Attack
• High Defense
• Ability to grow walls that hinder opponents

Digital and AR Demos

The Augmented Reality demo effectively links each tile to its "holographic" character however the concept of the game still need to be integrated.

The digital demo allows people to understand and enjoy the concept of the game without needing the interactive board

Grid of Images

Demonic Sygil

Class: Offensive

Characteristics:

• Extremely high attack
• Extremely low health
• Ability to damage entire opposing team

Grid of Images

Fire Elemental

Wind Spirit

Class: Support

Characteristics:

• Low Attack
• High Defense
• Ability to heal your entire team

Crown Tile

• When the crown is captured game ends
• When the crown is captured the team who captured the crown also gains ten points

AR Demo Videos

Augmented reality tests before patches and additions

Left Video: Only renders one creature at a time

Right Video: Creatures render lightly off the anchors

Board Prototypes



Final Rhino Files

This is the final board file. It showcases the board itself in addition to the phone holding stand.

This is the final spray paint stencil file which showcases the stencils for the inside and outside of the bubble letters.

Spray Painting Pictures

Final Photos

Market Strategy

Stage 2: Release AR app and open up preorders for a physical board product run. Expand the characters and offer more boards for more AR games (Chess, Dungeons and Dragons, etc). Eventually get our boards in toy stores and Amazon

Stage 1: Put Digital app on the market with a paid expansion pack and advertising to raise money for Xcode and a better Augmented Reality Engine. Through direct comments, experimental updates, and game modes, get customer feedback and improve the game for AR release as well as grow social media pages to line up potential Beyond the Board buyers.

Richard Elmore

March 2nd,1944 - February 10th, 2023

Combining my prior interest in sustainability and the built environment, experience in the RRC, a desire to strengthen rhino + modeling skills, and Richards dedication to education reform, I decided to take an everyday classroom and redesign the space to create a sustainable environment that allows for engagement with the outside world, collaboration, and connection.

What does it look like to try and design Net-Zero spaces in hot arid climates?

Research:

Earthship School in Mexico

Hygroskin Pavillion

Armadillo house

Site Location: Navajo Nation

Weather:

Winter - Low of 10 degrees

Summer - High of 90 degrees

In the Navajo tribe wind is believed to be the temperament or representation of living beings

In the era of the anthropocene, we must account for damage to the Earth and the repurcusssions

Initial Sketches:

Ventilation and thermal cooling

Initial Rhino Drafts:

Finalizing Rhino Work:

previous project

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inspiration image

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School has always been stressful, and with the added weight of the covid-19 pandemic, the pressure put on students can feel like carrying boulders across an ever-moving finish line. Our group hopes to help lighten the load carried by students by implementing the School Sanctuary soundproof tent into school settings and help relieve stress built up in school life. Our group hopes to provide a sanctuary of safety and security in the ever-changing school landscape.

Our research was almost entirely on materials and how those materials affected sound. Our research helped us decide which materials would help provide proper soundproofing. The other part of our research was about what the tent could benefit from in a more technical sense. Such as, would sound canceling speakers be a better method of sound canceling then say building the tent out of materials with a high STC rating . We also researched different types of foam and fabric, and different techniques of layering materials to create soundproofing panels.

Prece-TENTS

Our group has worked for the last month to figure out a logical and achievable way to help kids in schools reduce their stress and feel safer and more relaxed in their school environment. And although we feel our work is already ripe with takeaways we feel that in order to truly get the value we want out of this project the next step would be to build a full-scale model of our School Sanctuary

Sound Proofing Flap Prototype.

-Layers of dense fabric, Cotten, Rug insulator.

Afterlife of Toys

In this studio, we created toys that were made to be composted and reused after they were done being played with.

Our original final product was made using mostly paper pulp and cardboard.

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Goals:

• Create game that is both engaging and complex
• Educational element
• Interactive and competitive (inspired by bee qualities)
• Game board represents beehive

Gamification of Concept

Group:

Name & Name

PROJECT NAME

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Project Description Slide

Apiarian is an interactive board game for all ages which allows users to learn about bees and how to help them as well. The afterlife of the board game is giving off a positive note for the users and the environment since the pieces are eco-friendly and can be composted, recycled or reused.

Beehives:

• Beehive cells are hexagonal
• All bees are responsible for well being of hive

Bees:

• Individually collect pollen to contribute to hive
• Take nectar from core of bee colony and pack it away in individual cells to turn to honey

Qualities of bees and beehives

Final Work --GIF (Optional)

Object of the game

-the first to collect x amount of honey jars wins!

The main goal of Apiarian is to be the first to collect 15 of their own honey jars! In this game, honey is the main objective and is the most valuable for points.

While trying to obtain honey, you must send your bee swarm out into the field to collect pollen for your hive. Once you collect enough pollen you can expand your hive by building a honeycomb that will produce honey, given some time.

Object of the Game!

Bee Player Piece

3D Printed PLA

Pollen Piece

Laser-Cut Cardboard

Queen Bee/Disaster Cards

Printed Cardstock

Honeycomb Pieces

Molded Paper Pulp

Bear Piece

3D Printed PLA

Honey Pot

Cast Bioplastic

Game Components

Stacked images

Queen Bee & Disaster Cards

Manufacturing Process

Honey Pots

Rhino Model of Mold

Silicone Mold

3D Printed Positive

Three Images centered

Grid of Images

Manufacturing Process

Honeycomb

Three Images centered

Packaging Design

Packaging Design

...to beee continued :)

Thank You!

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Project Description Slide

Bubble wrap, plastic bags, cookie sheets. We use these items and then discard them without another thought. The pollution from this is immense. We have been creating Biodegradable bubble wrap out of homemade bio plastic that degrades quickly underwater. We have also experimented with edible cookie sheets creating thin pans of edible bioplastic so that no crumb is left behind and there is nothing to throw away.

Edible Bioplastic

Grid of Images

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Final Work

After designing the 4 slides described in slide 6, show off your final work here

Final Work (Detail)

Group:

Name & Name

PROJECT NAME

Senate Simulator is a VR experience that transports you into a simulation of the Senate where you attempt to assemble and pass a bill in a representative sample of the current Congress. The game allows you to piece together a new version of the Green New Deal. With the bill assembled, the player has the opportunity to present their bill to see how many votes it would receive. If your version doesn't pass the first time, you can then go back with a different version and try again.

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DeskPack is a compact foldable backpack that folds out into a workspace for college or active students and for people with active lifestyles. the Deskpack allows for good organization and ergnomics.

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This is the first prototype of the desk pack.

In this version, I focused on folding patterns and different ways to store things in the backpack

Two Images

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Three Images centered

Stacked images

Final Work

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The Monolith is designed as a way for people to de-stress and be swept away into a whole new musical experience music. It has a mysterious feel to it, sort of calling you in through it’s strange and alien shape and the LEDs. The idea is that some stressed out college kid would get curious enough to walk up to it and as they got close the LED would turn on revealing what looked to be a control panel and it would start emitting a low humming. Then as they put their hand to the control panel they would feel the vibrations and would try to find out how they could manipulate them.

Thesis

Sketches

LED Lights up when someone approaches

Precedents

Generative

Algorithm

Musical Notes

Drum/Beat

Background Hum

All below 1k hz (human range of hearing through touch)

Block

Diagram

The Electronics

LEDs

Control Panel

Outer Decorative Panels

Connecting Brackets

Brackets

Vibrating Side

Panels

Control Panel

Structural Frame

LEDs

Panel LEDs

These projects were based off of the Listening Rooms studio. The goal of that studio was to create spaces for expression of music and to reimagine the concept of "venue". These projects accomplished this by recontextualizing the spacial and interactive qualities of a venue.

Listening Rooms