School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), University of British Columbia
In-Class:
At-Home:
I’m an avid biker so for this last assignment I decided to look at bike racks. I’m sometimes endlessly frustrated by the poor design of bike racks so I documented a few examples around Vancouver and decided to look at the design and shape of the features as well as tried to design some new shapes that might be easier to use.
In-Class Exercise:
At-Home Exercise:
This exercise for me proved to be very difficult. Most of the objects that were handed to me were objects I could instantly recognize but once I was handed an object I was unfamiliar with the challenge became even hard.
I find my blindfolded drawings more interesting than my visual ones but I had a really hard time drawing more of the two or three drawings. I would draw the sides of the object but once I was done I didn’t know what other way to draw it. I hope to be able to try this exercise again and really practice trying to draw this in different ways while blindfolded.
Blind Folded:
Visual Drawing:
Image Photos:
For the final assignment after wondering my neighbourhood I decided to focus in on residential doors. Upon first inspection I noticed is pretty much every single door in my neighbourhood was white, black or red/brown & there really wasn’t very much variation in shape and height.
My process of analysis was to first organize the images in one document on my iPad and then isolate the door shapes by tracing over top and separating the files. Without the context of the house and the surrounding objects each door looked very similar.
Course Summary Drawing:
In class activity:
Line drawings, showing the pitch of each sound
Video of grand piano sound:
By compiling three sound videos, I could recognize that the major vibrant sound is different by moving around the space while he was playing the piano.
All three sounds have the merged sound of talking, piano, and etc as the background in common.
Talking for the first clip, half talking and half piano for the second clip, and piano melody and the sound, created by hitting the keys for the third clip are the major sound for each one.
