architecture drawing-fianl

this is my final drawing for Botta's single family house. my initial idea is to use perspective drawings to show the different level of this house, and the house can be separated into 6 piece when bull all the strips down, so it will gives u a idea how does this building being constructed. and the idea of space can be seen clearly in the drawing. this is my first time to use tracing paper, i quite like the quality of it. it is very good when u draw on the opaque paper, and look at it though a tracing paper on the top.
from this work shop , i have learned a lot of techniques , such as to draw a thing in A2 and use scaner to scale it into A3 then it will become a very good quality drawing as the line work is very clear and sharp. also tutors has introduced a lot of drawing tools which will save as a lot more time.

architecture drawing-class exercise-shadow

this exercise is about to build up a shadow casting on a building, this can help us to understand how the shadow located on the building's facades. so we can know which room is good to use for different function

architecture drawing-class exersice-prespective drawing

perspective drawing is a very good to show the space and 3 D of one building, it gives audiences a idea or a atmosphere or the depth of the building, it is different from the parallel projection, it looks more real then that, as perspective drawing follow the rules of things close to you is big and things far away from you looks smaller, though this exercise, I have learned how to use a photo to assist you to draw a perspective drawing, it is very useful, thanks tutors

architecture drawing-class exersice-cup

this drawing exercise is to draw the coffee cup's pan/elevation/section, the scale is 1:1, it looks like it is very easy to do, but actually, it is very hard, firstly we can not use bow compass to draw, secondly it is not a object that we can measure every thing, curve lines is very hard to draw exactly the same as the cup. so if you want to have a precise drawing, then you need to really work on your observation, this exercise really encourage us to practise our observation skills, and it is the skills that a architect should have. if there is no measurement for an object, then you don't know how big it is ?!!

Group model--water bottle

it is a very interesting model making as well, we decided to make my water bottle out of TV board. when make it , we found it is very important that you have a suitable tool, as this model need to cut a lot of circles, before we just cut is by hand, but we found it very difficult to have a circle which is perfect. after we used circle cutter which is great! thank goodness some one designed this little useful tool for the world!! >=<

material modeling-final modle

this is my final model. the action I used is linear wrapping and subtracting. In my opinion, the architecture is just about to make a space add to another or subtract from another, the theme of this model action, is to assume the hold house as a space which contains many different shapes of space. by subtraction of those spaces to get a completely new forms of architecture. the linear wrapping is about to create a sculpture around the house then to have a focus on what in the middle of the wrapping.

material modeling-balsa wood modle

this is a copy of a grey card model of one student. for this model, I am much more confident then the grey card one , as we have been asked to use balsa wood make models for our studio. I have already familiar with it. our tutors also teaches as some techniques of making balsa model. she said if you really want to get a beautiful model, u need to sand every piece of your model. also because balsa is very soft, so when cut , it's very easy to cut askew. the technique I learned to cope with this is-you have to stand up and make the knife straight and cut toward to you but not cut from left to right or form right to left. I also learned how to use pins cleverly in making balsa wood models.