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!
Thank you to @herverisson for the image submission! This building in BLOCKTOWN is based off of the White Tower of Thessaloniki. The Tower is a historic fixture of Northern Greece, rebuilt from a Byzantine fort in 1430 A.D.
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
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.
An Experiment in Building Community
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.
Let's get building!
Wow, looks really nice :) It would be a great piece for a chessboard :) I'm honored to be mentioned in your work! Keep it up!
Thanks for your awesome idea! Glad you enjoyed it :) stay tuned at more buildings get added in.
Every town, no matter how modern, needs a castle, if only to see from afar.
Agreed! This one might need a bit more height to it then... The skyline of Blocktown is coming into shape.
Thanks to @herverisson for the fantastic image submission >
Great one @voronoi.
Thank you!
nice. hey, would you mind to export some of the 3D models in STL format? i'd love to print them.
great work thanx for sharing :) keep going
Thank you! It'll be interesting to observe as more and more buildings are added :D
Great idea! I think I have to reactivate my rhino skills ;)
Yes! Awesome @ithink break out those command shortcuts!
:D
The town is looking really great. Most of the structures are angular or linear so this adds some dissimilarity. Can't wait to see what is next!
Thanks Jodie! :D
I'm guessing something like this would be impossible?
Hah @roused, difficult! But never impossible :)
I'll get on it...!
Wow, that's freaking amazing, I never dreamed it would be possible. LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT!