Rotation 3: Architectural Drawing

Week 1 Activity

This is the first in-class activity for this workshop. I have observed the cup very carefully and worked with colleagues to collect data from the cup (e.g. total height, diameter of the cup, diameter of the plate, etc.). The most important thing to take away from this activity is to always draw what we see in reality rather than draw what we think we see.

These are the take-home activities, which we are required to draw a plan, sections and a perspective of our own room.

Week 2 Activities & Submission

This is the activity from the second week. It is mainly a rendering and perspective drawing exercise, but there is also a little bit of taking the real world situation into a world of "mathematical formula", as we are required to work out where should the line end by finding the interestion with another line. Moreover, it is more about consistency rather than being artistic, as all the surfaces facing one direction should have the same line weight.



This is a 1 point perspective drawing as a take-home activity, and I selected the walkway of the Red Centre. I had some problem about placing people into this drawing as the suggestion of placing them on the horizon line did not work out. However, after consulting with tutor Felicity she suggested that it is more appropriate to draw characters on another slanted line towards the vanishing point. This worked out well.


A 2 point perspective. I like this view in particular because usually when I draw 2 point perspectives the vanishing points are at the opposite ends of the page, but this drawing has one on the left while the other in the middle. Some other problems I found as I began to draw was that there are in fact many vanishing points. However, to keep it as a 2 point I decided to make other lines parallel to each other.

Week 3 Activity & Submission

This is the week 3 in-class activity. This is mainly a rendering exercise, however, this drawing does not contain any outlines for the objects been drawn, it is in fact only made up of shapes in different lineweights and orientations. This exercise gives us an idea of another approach when drawing and communication ideas.

This is the last take-home activity which we are required to draw the Rose Seidler House into the UNSW campus. This activity tests our ability to correctly make judgements of the lengths and height of the building by only providing us with limited reference points. After all, I couldn't find any tips that may be useful when doing similar activities again in the future, but I was able to find out that the best way to make the best judgement is to step away from the drawing and look at it from a distance.

Also, I have noticed that there is in fact a huge improvement in the standard of drawing when comparing with the first week.

Architectural Drawing Final Submission

This is the final submission for this workshop, consisting of 2 plans, 2 sections, 2 elevations and a perspective drawing. I wanted the drawings to be consistent throughout, so that no drawing will dominate over the others. I have also taken the appoach of "third angle projection" and applied that to the layout, which is similar to the concept of an over-head projector, as direct the light to an object, the elevation is projected behind that object.

The Rose Seidler House

Rotation 2: Material Modelling

Week 1 Work
Dream



Machinic

Confinement

These are the first week in-class paper model activity. We were given a set of 3 words and asked to make models relating to these words without thinking. My usual practice is "hand follows head", but this time the order is reversed and became "head follows hand". (In relation to architecture this is more like the argument of whether "form follows function" or "function follows form").

I guess the lesson to take away from this experience is to always follow my first instinct as it is sometimes the most successful way to communicate an idea.

Week 2 Submission

Images of Steven Holl's Nelson/Atkins Museum.

"Moon Disks" allowing light to penetrate to the underground car park.


The Museum follows the landscape, and the material for the Museum has the property of glowing.


The Nelson/Atjins Museum is built next to the existing museum, and they contrasts with each other. For example, where the existing museum suggests heaviness, traditional and viewing landscape from the building, the new Nelson/Atkins Museum conveys a sense of lightness, modern and viewing the building from the landscape.

The folloing images are the week 2 submission

This is an attempt to express the idea of interdependency (that one thing cannot exist without the other) as well as Steven Holls' concept of architecture as a part of the landscape.

This model can achieve a better outcome by been more careful of the craftsmanship as well as taking care that the main idea is not "drowned" by other less important ideas.

Poster for Week 3

A visit to Hyde Park.

I found the skyscrapers intimidating. Therefore in the poster I adapted the cartoon style of drawing to create that effect.

This is the main setting for my poster.

The following is a part of the submission for Week 3.

This is a hand drawn poster implying the concept of routine. In this task we were asked to visit the city centre and reflect on our experience of it. I chose Hyde Park as I thought it would be a good place to go, but the impression I got is that everyone is "escaping" their everyday routine, but in fact what many of us don't realise by going to the city and have a good time is that it is still a part of our routine. No matter how we escape, we always escape in vain.