Week 10: Final poster and Beginning of montage

The advices given by the tutors was applied to the new poster and it has looked more organised and more 'professional'.

Montage it!

Model

The aim of this model is to create a sense of 'comfort space'. This model's form is inspired by the 'Cubico' image in the hand out. My thought was to create a sense of space in such a way that it shifts with the time of day. For example, during day time, the bottom interior of the building will be dark, while the upper half of the building will be lit by the sun. On the other hand, during the night, the top of the building will be dark and the bottom interior of the building will be lit by artificial lights. The vertical backdrop of this building also gives a sense of scale while in that space. It implies that the subject inside this area is relatively smaller than the building. On the facade of the building, I aim to make it opaque by using tracing paper for a medium of transparency. My aim was for the subject to feel introverted when in the back drop of the building and upon entering the building, the person would be overwhelmed by the city view and business of the city.

Week 9: First poster

The aim of this poster was to convey the renders in such a way that they can be presented neatly on one page. Firstly, all the layers of the renders of the elevations and sections were layered and tweaked with to achieve this effect. The site plan was then placed behind these images and the plan and perspective was aligned in such a way that the plan will line up with the perspective drawing.

Things that need to be changed we that the title should be shifted, the line work offsets should be removed, the site plan needs to be solid, and the images need a sense of scaling.

Week 8: Final renders

Perspective render of the Magney House shows the most detail for the house. A combination of pen work and graphite work was used in this render to create a rendition of the Magney house. What could have been added to this image was people to give it a sense of scale.

Pencil render of the East elevation. 

Colour pencil rendering of the East elevation.

Mechanical pencil render of the North elevation and South section. The aim of this image was to show that different type of pencils achieve different effects. Although only evident in the original image, the Mechanical pencil gives finer details as it is more sharper.

Colour rendering is used to separate the different types of materials and sections. It is also used as a mean to give 'colour' to the image to bring it to life.

Soft wooden pencils were used in this render to give it more 'darkness' as compared to the mechanical pencil render. This will then be overlayed on top of one another and will create a layer of sharpness and fuzziness.

Week 7: Plans and elevations

Drafts of sections and elevations

Week 6: Drafted plan an sketches

Plan Section and elevations for the very first exercise.

Drafted plan of the Magney House

Week 5: Model poster

This poster was made with a sense that architectural communications is communicative. This is, on can start from a site map and work into a model to suit the site or, a model can be worked into a site and the site is carved from the earth. The idea of this poster is to guide the readers linearly, by making an imaginary vertical line. The audience follows the images downwards but is also able to move back up the image hence promoting communication. 

Week 4

Model of the Fisher house on a scale of 1:50. In an honest point of view, this model is not really that great. There is detail lacking, building form is in correct. Generally, I have learnt that you will need the correct tools to be able to model. Despite this, I have gained valuable skills from this module and have further applied them in the third module of this course.

Week 3

Site model of the Fisher house. Advice given were to not use colour in a model as it distracts the person from the actual site.

Cut away model of the interior of the Fisher house

Week 2

Model of Barcelona Pavillion on a scale of 1:200

In class exercise extruding a 2D image to a 3D model and manipulating its structure