MAP: LIGHTTOWER

[chiquita]

Hi everyone,

I recently had an idea about a map. It's going to be kinda different, mainstream will be vertical using small floorsizes.
Imagine the staircase in Krause Labs. Central shaft surronded by stairs. Arround the stairs, 3 objectives on 2 floor plus 1 garage. If you reduce the maps down to a minimum, contentrate it plus stress it's nature, you get a lighttower.

Main object will be a narrow spiral staircase, which links 3 multileveled rooms together. To keep it balanced and interesting there will be a direct connection between rooms.
A third element is going to be a opened central "shaft" for fast if you rush or slow (with camo) motion.

With place, typ of rooms and movement in the map I hope to generate a specific athmospehres wich fits well to the place. Something new will be the situation always having a "corner" becuase of the small map size.



Only problem will be time. I'm on holidays atm but preparing for exams. I will have only 1 week after exams but it will be a busy week (another teamwork I have to do, plus preparation for next project and last but not least private stuff) Maybe I'll have some time at the start of semester which won't be that busy.
If I manage to get 1 or 2 study collegues, it should will take us 1 or 2 weekends until alpha version.

I work with sketches, 2d (ArchiCad, Vectorworks) 3d (Cinema 4D, SketchUp, FormZ and recently did a work with CATIA).

I don't know how ps has progressed, but hopefully it's ready for map balancing checks.
Actually I'm really out of time, but there are two reasons why I'm doing this:
-fascination of SvM
-wanna use this work for portfolio



Sketches coming soon...

Feel free to give imputs, before I start with details!



PS:
If you are interested in recent done works, I can show you 2. But be prepaired, it's CAAD (computer aided architectural design). 2 hours per week lecture plus 2 works each semester. Compared to rest of my study, that's a joke and nobody likes it nor puts any efford in it.
1st project: done within 2 weekends
2nd project: 1 weekend
http://wiki.caad.arch.ethz.ch/Bachelor07Student/Foobar

If you wanna see other work, pm me.


sketch rendering: staircase

fullsize: http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/26/lighttower4hm7.jpg

[goodkebab]

- i am on holidays to.

The real asset chiquita will be being able to model the assets.  I know your are purely architectural so may not be able to texture.  If you can model it....hmmm....then we are talking business.

[chiquita]

First sketch...

more stuff coming soon