Assignment

Assignment 3 – Mapping

03, Laureen Stokes Leave a comment

I started by doing a series of sketches to get a sense of the space, followed by two maps.  The first was in plan, documenting the pauses of people inside the gallery (it was not easy to observe movement because of the layout of the shelves).  The final version looks at my movement up to and through the space.

Roof plan with courtyard landscaping.

Orthographic sketch of the courtyard.

Orthographic sketch of building massing.

Approximate section with orthographic projection.

Plan view map. Green lines represent my movement and pauses; red lines are the movement and pauses of people I observed.

Orthographic map showing my approximate movement into and around the building.

 

Chris Rothery – A3

03, Chris Rothery Leave a comment

I got inspired to map an anthill from watching the movie A Bugs Life with my roommates this weekend. Luckily I live across the street from a park so it wasn’t hard to find a good bunch of ants to study from. Starting with a plan view didn’t feel appropriate for this cube because the real challenge was going to be the multidimensionality of the imagined tunnels of the anthill. Getting the heights of the tunnels moving around in space was the biggest challenge overall but I’m pleased  enough with how it turned out.

 

I also took the chance to draw the beaty museum. Mapping the space was fun enough, but I became interested in the geographic diversity of the samples in the museum. The map of the earth overlaid on the museum was drawn completley freehand from memory and you can see how detailed my world geography is on the west coast of North America, and how far it devolves into the very simplistic shapes representing Africa and India.

These in Class Exercises represent an attempt to map movement and temporality. I was also sketching an idea for the Beaty Museum drawing, in class but by the time I got there I wasnt so intrested in that part of the idea anymore.

02, Assignment, Renata Kisin, Students Leave a comment

In class exercise: drawing axo cubes and my living room

Attempt #2 at living room perspective (after class) *left incorrect as person is floating

Basic cubes with shading

3D objects with shading (cubes, cylinders, olive oil bottle)

   

SESC Pompeia Factory in Sao Paolo by Lina Bo Bardi (not near my home but came across it during GP research and was intrigued by the geometry)

Assignment 02

02, Assignment, Emma Gosselin, Students Leave a comment

In-class exercise: An analytical sketch of my room. I learned from this exercise that adding a person before adding anything else in the room makes it easier to get the relative proportions of things more accurate.

Experimenting with what the skeleton of this vase would look like, and where light hits objects. 

A field trip to Cathedral Place. I’d passed this place before but had never been inside, so it was fun discovering the courtyard. I walked around the block and inside the buildings while taking photos. I drew it partly from memory and partly from referring to my photos to see where the parts connect. It was hard to get the big picture without walking far away from the site and looking back at it. I struggled with representing this in 3D so I started by focusing more on the plan/footprints first. 

The site in 30s, 1 min, 2 min, 5 min, 15, and 30+ min. The first four show the whole block while the last two focus in on the half the block that I found most interesting. In the last drawing, I got a bit lost in the details of trying to represent the grade changes and consequently lost clarity and some of the scale was off.  Quick drawings with fewer lines seem to be more successful for conveying information with clarity and to force you to prioritize what information to include without overthinking it. What stood out to me about this site was the complex grading and repetition of sitelines that overlook archways and triangles.