Bell Tower [BLDG 0011] : 3D Modeling Fictional Architecture

BLOCKTOWN is a community art project powered through your comments and engagement. It’s an experimental game of city-making, a digital Madurodam. With each post, a new layer of buildings will be added to the Town. Your photographs, quotes, stories and feedback are the raw materials that drive construction for each new layer.

A New Character!

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Thank you to @marty-art and @steevc for suggesting a tower! This building in BLOCKTOWN was inspired by a couple of comments (left a ways back) about "every town needing a proper bell tower." @marty-art had included an image from San Marco Campanile, a distinguished tower in Venice Italy. But since the image wasn't entirely whole, I did a bit of architectural improvising. Venice is a city halfway below water, I thought it would be fun to model a Tower that looked both right side up and upside down.

Take a look at the design process (below) assembling and modeling the Tower structure, beginning with the 2D image submission and growing the 3D modeled character.

How to Play

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Take a look at the announcement post, here. Each building and landscape element of BLOCKTOWN will be derived directly from your comments. Photographs, quotes and stories will inspire their own design logic and manifest themselves as 3D characters within the Town.

If you'd like to participate beyond image comments, download the Rhino template file I've prepared on Github and assemble a custom building of your own. Once you re-upload it, I'll add it in.

> Github 3D File Download. Click here! <

An Experiment in Building Community

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^{Through this project - I hope to engage in a broader dialogue with fellow Steemians about their own sense of place and placemaking. These types of game-structured conversations are a fascinating way of learning more about what a person defines as his or her “community.” It’s a way of connecting to one another through the geographies we are deeply tied to and knowledgeable of. In a world of links, likes, upvotes and IP addresses, it’s exciting to find ways of bridging the digital divide and connecting with those on the other side of the screen.}

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Let's get building!

- Take a look at the announcement post, here. -

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