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.

material modeling-gray card modle

this is the model I made of the apartment I live in. this is my first time to use this kind of material for model making, I found it is very hard to cut then bolsa wood. it is not easy to glue it as well, especial the glue can make it very dirty if i don't give any edges "special care". this model has two level , I did not put any internal wall for this level, but only the second level. during the making of it, i have learnd serval technichs, for example , if you want to make a wall which is 4 mm thick, u can use 1mm card for both side of the wall, and in between , u can put 2 mm foam corn, so it will have exactly 4mm walls.

Fluid thoughts to action--week three and week four-colaberative works

this is the collaborative drawing that students verbally describe the space to each other, and then draw what your partner said. it is another way to practice our drawing , although there is no real image, but in your head, you have already created a image of those adjectives.
the first collaborative drawing is about to draw a drawing with my partner together. this drawing can be seen both side, as there are two opera house which place opposite way in the drawing, the curtains represent the stage of the opera house and shape under the opera house looks like a ship, which refers the ocean environment around the opera house. we used charcoal slightly to gives a contrast to each side of the drawing. if we have the chance to make it again, we won't make it on A2 sheet of paper, i will probably make it one A1 or 2 A1. as we found all the final drawings from other student, the big one always catches people's attention so easily.






the collaborative drawing is very interesting process, firstly, I drew a opera house, then my partner think it is a dress of a women, so she drew a actress which is formed by cloud in the sky , then we draw the sea and the sun which all around the opera house, it is very good process that we can use our imagination to create some thing is not realistic but meaningful.

Fluid thoughts to action--week three- drawing of opera house

Classic pencil drawing indeed is very beautiful and can show a lot of detail, but when u stand 3 meters away from your drawing , you cold find out it it not as attractive as some drawing which used charcoal. as charcoal really give you a lot more different rang of tone then pencil can do.
As my first 3 drawings are pencil drawing, and the last one is charcoal drawing. it has such a difference that even the last one doesn't gives much detail, but it has a kind of atmosphere which create a special quality of it.
Also I found that use charcoal is much more quicker then use pencil to draw. and we can use our finger to wipe the charcoal on the drawing which create a good transformation on the tone change which can be hardly achieved by using pencil.

Fluid thoughts to action--week two and three-reserch on artists

Graham Matthews
This fancy drawing also has a really good use of tones to create the sense of space, also the smooth and gradual change of tones create the smooth feeling of the surface of the object in it. Also the over layering and the sprawl shape create the depth of it.

Kate Ward TerryI quite like the smooth of the tone change, which give the drawing a life, embodied the quality of the material.

Chidi OkoyeIn this drawing the artist had work out the dramatic shape and the layering by using the different tones to create the sharp edge or smooth edge of the object. Thus creates the sense of spacing.

Brandon Luhring
In this drawing, the artist use the black and white charcoal to illustrated the bright tone and dark tone, and give the audiences the illusion of space and surface texture. The clean edge of the white and black, which at the top right corner really suggest the highest and the lowest place.

Image credit:
http://www.modernartimages.com/bounddrawing.htm http://www.artsspot.com/archives/category/freestyle-drawing http://katewardterry.com/katewardterry-drawings.html
http://www.luhring-design.com/

Fluid thoughts to action--week two- reserch on operahouse

The Sydney Opera House is an expressionist modern design, with a series of large pre cast concrete shells, each taken from a hemisphere of the same radius, forming the roofs of the structure.
what is expressionist modern design?
Expressionist architecture was individualistic and in many ways eschewed aesthetic dogma, but it is still useful to develop some criteria which defines it. Though containing a great variety and differentiation, many points can be found as recurring in works of Expressionist architecture, and are evident in some degree in each of its works.

1. Distortion of form for an emotional effect.
2. Subordination of realism to symbolic or stylistic expression of inner experience.
3. An underlying effort at achieving the new, original, and visionary.
4. Profusion of works on paper, and models, with discovery and representations of concepts more important than pragmatic finished products.
5. Often hybrid solutions, irreducible to a single concept.
6. Themes of natural romantic phenomena, such as cave, mountains, lightning, crystal and rock formations. As such it is more mineral and elemental than florid and organic which characterised its close contemporary art nouveau.
7. Tendency more towards the Gothic than the classical. Expressionist architecture also tends more towards the Romanesque and the rococo than the classical.
8. Conception of architecture as a work of art.

image credit:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Sydney_Opera_House_Sails.jpg reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Opera_House http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressionist_architecture

Fluid thoughts to action--week one-home exerice-three place

these three drawings are the first week home exercise, I could make it better if I use charcoal to draw. and the the second one, I used the pencil drew first, after I found it very light, so I used charcoal to emphasise the dark tone, the drawing then becomes much more better then the pencil drew one. the central station one , I spend very long time to finish it. it work better to compare using pencil this time, is because I use 260 gram paper. and it can give more ranges of tones then 110 paper.

Fluid thoughts to action--week one-class practice-paper cut

this exercise is about to use a paper co lash to create a image of one or more objects. and the different darkness and different colour represent different tone from light to dark. I also used the red paper to create the edge of the tables. those scraps of paper which is dark brown and red show the shadow of the object. and I used the red paper and brown paper to show the giraffe. this is a very interesting class exercise, although it is a very simple process, but the important of it is to understanding the idea of tone, and the use of it in representing space, close and far.