Process of digital outcome - sketch up

Making my digital creation was quite a challenge. I used Sketchup and Procreate to develop my digital outcomes. In this blog, I will concentrate on the digital outcome using Sketchup.

Using SketchUp was quite challenging, even though I had used it in the first term for my project. The difficulty started from the round shape of my building, which made the design process more complex, requiring multiple restarts to achieve a good, perfect circle shape. The most challenging aspect of creating the model was constructing the dome, which involved experimenting with various tools and repeated restarts to achieve the final result. When finalising the project, I had to make adjustments to my design because certain features of the building were difficult, almost impossible, to add using the software.

I began my design by making a circle shape on the floor and then used the push-pull tool to elevate it into a 3D shape. After that, I created another circle and elevated it to form the fence. I drew two perpendicular lines in the inside of the fence using the pencil tool and removed the part in between the two lines to create the pathway. 

After that, I used the "follow me" tool to create the semi circle behind the main building.

Then I made the Dome. To do that, I used the circle tool to form a circle on the base, used the 2 points arc tool to draw a line across the circle on the blue access and divided the arc in two equal parts before using the "follow me" tool to drag half of the arc around the circle to make the dome.

After the dome, I added windows and I tried several tools to make the arched door but as I was not able to achieve that, I changed the design of my door to two simple sliding doors.

Following that, I used the different tools to finalise my design and used the warehouse on the software to get the materials needed for the centre.