DrAW IT!: Tried to be innovative

With all drawing sorted and scanned into photoshop, some crazy idea came out of my mind. Rotating them, put the drawing in the centre.I was trying to be creative on how and where to put these elements on two A3 sheet. I ended up with something like a drawing in the middle and two plans with sections and elevation around in two corners. After printing it out, I rendering it with pencils. Basically everything is done by pencil. Although the grades was not as good as I expected, I think the skill I learned from this will serve me well in my future career.

DrAW IT!: First impression of drawing & rendering

I can remember the first impression of this architecture rendering to me was totally shocking. I can't imagine that we could actually do so much beautiful stuff with our own hands. On our first tutorial we drew some fruit and later that day I was somehow drawing my own chair at home.Unfortunately, I couldn't find these drawings because I have moved to another place and left a bunch of stuff somewhere else but the experience was inspiring and amazing.


These are some renderings I saved on my computer. I actually used the pencil rendering idea below on my own work. Because I've learnt a bit pencil drawing years ago when I was still in China, pencils are not new to me and I thought I can handle them pretty well.

DrAw IT!: Plans! Sections! Elevations!

These are the first 'professional' architecture communication method I've got hands on. Drawing plans, elevations and sections firstly are painful because all these wrong measurement and tracing fail. We were provided a sample of them however they were not on scale. Instead of tracing it over, I drew new ones all by my own hand. After I finally get used to these pencils and rulers, this started to get interesting.

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MoDEL IT!: Final - Fisherhouse 1:50

Fisherhouse 1:50 

Three floors: ground, first and basement.

The hardest thing of making this model was the planning. You really had to come up with a plan of for example how do I achieve the joint between two squares. After that, all other things were pretty much cutting and pasting. My idea is showing that these two square are one whole component. For showing that, I making each single layers at one piece which can be picked up as one. The basement are one piece. The exterior walls are in one piece with movable first floor that can be lifted up. The roof is one piece either.

One problem of my model is the thickness of the wall. I did increase the thickness of the basement. However, I did not apply that idea to exterior walls of first and ground floor. The model looks like being made of paper - non building look.

In this photo we can actually see the little black corner I built in my bedroom for photo shooting. I used my spare black board that left from my recent work in foundation studies. Worked pretty well.

MoDEL IT!: Barcelona Pavilion

Barcelona Pavilion model 1:200

The idea of the design of Barcelona pavilion is all about movement of people. These walls leads tourists to a certain pattern of movement. The walls imply people to come in one place and move to another. They will stop at the centre of the room. They will sit on the bunch and head to the store after that. Everything is under control by the thought of the architects.

The hardest part of this process of model-making is the pool. One problem I found was the bosawood pieces we could get is neither long enough nor wide enough to build a whole piece of floor. Then, I'd have to paste two pieces of wood together. The wood were easily-breakable and you really need to match the pattern of them well so they looks nice and neat.

Comparing to my later work fisher house model, this one is really roughly made. I broke some of the pieces while I tried pasting them together. Also, lots of pencil and glue marks were left on the bosawood. 

MoDEL IT!: Fisher house site

Fisher house Site plan 1:200

Most of the information used to build this model came from the site plan sheet provided by tutors. Also, I searched a couple of fisher house real-scale digital model on google 3d warehouse. They are used to measure the depth of the basement and the precise size of the house.


http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=4bc0a01e67a41a56c2864a1e440af45d

I used box board as the field and bosawood as the fisher house. Instead of using one of these two materials for the whole thing, I chose to use them both to show a colour contrast between house and ground. As for these trees, they were made of  plastic straws. They were not that much tree-like because tutor did tell us not to make the tree too 'attractive'.

And thanks for my roommates' beautiful photoshooting skill. Make a crappy model looks nice and clean. I've learnt from him and used these skills on the later project- montage it.

The photo I took for montage it.

My model making skills improved during those two weeks
The fisher house one is still not perfect but better than the Barcelona Pavilion

MOnTAGE it!: Poster