Inspirations I mentioned above:

What interested me the most was the city of Zenobia has a strong sense of stacking. With the different heights of the houses created by the piling and hanging, I was motivated to focus on creating the hierarchy depending on this difference. In the book, the author illustrated that there are fishing poles and cranes by the houses, and I was inspired to enlarge the crane to lift the house on the top to signify majesty and power. I loved this modification I did that it adds a sense of futuristic to this project and it further motivates me to change the dry soil terrains into bizarre steal terrains. By doing this, there is a strong contrast between natural resources (bamboo) and the man-made steal to illustrate the gap between the rich and the poor.

The challenges I faced were mainly with creating structures such as ladders and cranes. Initially, I spend hours trying to make 2D shapes and put them together, which was hard and time-consuming. The array tool suggested by professor Kiratli was super helpful for me to achieve that. Furthermore, I was planning to create fountains with water pouring down around the house on the top to signify wealth because water is the most valuable resource in a dry city. It was hard to mimic the flowing water that I gave up making that in this project.

For the future development of this project, I wish to spend more time experiencing different textures and the displacement map. Right now the project is a little messy and the contrast between the upper and lower society is not that obvious with the design and the material of the houses. I also wish to have more time to make each house unique so this modeling would be more interesting.

Texture Sources I used: