In Class – Orchard Commons, Forestry, Earth Sciences
At Home – Riley Park Community Garden
School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of British Columbia
Sighted Touch Investigation:
First I lead my partner, blindfolded into a 3-storey high covered courtyard, and deliberately sat him on a bench that was 2 inches too high. With his feet dangling, I documented the space:
Then I took him to a bench that was 2 inches too short, with an overgrown woody planting looming from behind.
Blind Folded Touch Investigation:
My partner lead me by the arm to the space. Even through the jacket, I am sensitive to the touch of another human being, especially another man. Even though I know I am safe, I am on alert.
I know that we are in the orchard commons. My 32 year-long develloped internal map of UBC is inescapable. It’s the same 3d model that lives in my dreams. It’s a physical conceptual space.
Drawing from the blindfolded drawing exercise, I tried to use my senses to draw the sensation through form as I would use shade values on paper to draw form, but this time at a scale far beyond the palm of my hand. This ventured into the diagrammatic, and scaled between 1:100 ish and 1:500 ish. This made me wonder what the spatial limits of human sensory perception are…
At Home Exercise:
As I was writing it became clear that sensing the environment included an emotional overlay… and though it presents itself as “reading the marks left by others”, I realized this was actually a way of reading the self I projected into the marks left by others. Much in the way that when we dream of another person, it is not in fact that person entering our dreams, but rather the part of ourselves that this person represents. In this sense, the textured experience through sight is about an extension of self into the environment.
CLASS DRAWINGS
AT-HOME ASSIGNMENT: Tuning in
AT-HOME ASSIGNMENT: Windplay
In-class sketches
Assessing movement on the staircase
Forestry Sciences
Assessing movement on the staircase
Assessing handrail for body support
Mcleod building
Assessing corridor width for human movement
Different Staircase details observed
At home sketches
In the Bus
Assessing leg support from handle rods- to stay in place when bus moves
CLASS DRAWINGS
AT-HOME ASSIGNMENT
Exploring building’s inclination, symmetrical arrangement, and location/space.
Exploring space enclosure and programmatic division.
Exploring intentional framing (view towards Fairmont Hotel)
At home:
For Section 4, I decided to draw an ornamental rickshaw I had at home. What I liked about it is the strong presence of basic shapes all over the object, such as the wheels and the cabin. Since the ornament is completely made of thin wire, except for the cabin part, the shadows were casting inside it.
30-seconds sketch
1-minute sketch
5-minute sketch
15-minute sketch
30-minute sketch