Final design

Wall solution

This is the wall I have come up with for the area which had no wall. It is influenced by the vine structure and branches of a tree. However I did not want the structure to obviously look like a tree trunk holding up the 'tree canopy' roof, so I tried to make the structure look a bit geometric. This contrasted nicely with the more natural style of the rest of the office.

I continued the vine effect up through the roof (perspex planes), to create a bit of reality to the roof structure. This shows how the roof is held up and also creates a tree effect.

The wall also provides me with a space to hang my TV from - it streams a Youtube video about a kitchen design, it is something which I found while looking at my Info-Link Journal. It is quite futuristic in the way it is presented, which I find compliments my office well - old meets new.

View from the office

The view from my office towards the water is serene and peaceful, which is the mood I wanted my office to provoke. This mood one experiences at my office is what I believe to be good for making business decisions and negotiating.

Link to blog

I added a link in my office to my blog. This is so that people in my office can see what I am working on. It is placed on the stone arch and I made it out of a blue material so that it stands out in my office. This is so that people will notice it and look at my blog :D

I made it the same material as my teleportation pad.

Weather protection

I have decided that I need to have a roof or some form of weather protection for my office. To be in keeping with my 'natural' style I have produced - I have decided to make a roof which will look like a tree canopy. So, I made an alpha channel material which looked like tree leaves and I layered them up in Second Life to make the structure appear more like a tree.

The 'actual' material of the roof would be (like the wall) transparent perspex with the tree leaves pattern printed onto it. This will create a better weather protection than not having a roof at all (obviously!) which is actually what I was considering but I realised that not having some form of roof wouldn't be functional. However, the roof I have placed on my office is not fully weather proof. I wouldn't consider my office as an 'all weather venue', I see it more as a meeting place when the weather is good.

I felt that using a natural form (like the tree) wouldn't distract too much attention from my overall design - i.e. I didn't want my roof to be the main feature.

Teleportation Pad

I have made a teleportation pad which teleports avatars to my office. It has 'touch to teleport to my office' written above the object itself - and so its pretty self explainable as to what the avatar has to do to teleport - touch it! :D

I have placed the teleportation pad in another area of Putahi so that the teleportation is worth while, not just moving a few steps.

Wall dilemma

So, I have one of my walls sorted (first two images below) but I need another wall design. I was thinking of keeping the same style of wall as the one I already have. But I found as the environment around the space where the new wall will go is different to the wall I just put in, I think that I will need to have a different style (or atleast modify the style I have now so it will work).

Space where I need to place a wall/division of some form