3D Assignment: Design a simple dwelling using the sketchup free online app suitable for the Crane Wasp technology and approach to materials. The key to reducing frustration as always a take time to work through the tutorials b keep a note book at hand and note tips and tool functions as you watch the tutorials specific to the online app good basic tutorial 1 and good basic tutorial 2 If you want to go deeper here is a good advanced tutorial for curved shapes, this tutorial uses the desktop install but the basics work in on-line app as well. As the Wasp projects use curved walls this will be helpful curved shape tutorial 3 The purpose of this assignment is encourage the association of ideas images and forms in a 3d virtual space. As you are all aware we spend part of our lives operating in such spaces so this exercise could be seen as supporting a fundamental condition of contemporary visual literacy... and... it will help you get set for studio Final: Workbook 2-3 pages photo and upload to UM Learn Folder Print and paste different views of your project into your workbook along with a 50 word personal observation relating to the potentially industry changing transformations tools like sketch up and house printing represent. Questions: Almost any question you may have can be solved with a google search This program is widely supported by on-line tutorials The tutorials linked above above will be sufficient to complete this project Note the full install of the program is slightly different than the on-line app so in many cases the tutorial suggested here are a good place to start Rules Do not create an ordinary conventional dwelling You must build all elements of your project with the tools available to you in Sketchup Do not import other peoples work or 3d objects You should print several views of your work to better explain your creation