project | 1a on-site sketching
This assessment introduced students to visualization and expression of space through on-site sketching activity on campus.
Students are required to engage with the site by experiencing it through a spatial sequence of your choice. While moving in sequence, students are required to record your observation and perception of the spaces and the human habitation of these spaces through free-hand sketches. This sequence must include both exterior and interior spaces. Students are required to capture/emphasize the following aspects of the built environment within the site to demonstrate your understanding of space:
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Solids and voids: Form, Skin, Structure
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Opening/aperture; openness/enclosure; inside/outside; light/shadow
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Rhythm in architecture
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Details
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Textural effects/Materials
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Landscape/Setting
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Scale and proportion (Relation to human and other surrounding built environment)
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project | 1b tonal values
This exercise is designed to build upon the previous assignment; in developing one’s skills in creating depth and tone in a sketch, and thus refining and enhancing the ability to produce an architectural sketch that is legible.
Based on the selected image, produce four variations of a tonal value sketch. Students can vary the sketches in the hatching type and medium. Examples of hatching types include stippling, cross-hatching, one-directional (hatching) and scribbling. Students may choose to use are pen, pencil & color pencil or mixed media.
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Project 2 | Brief & Marking Rubric
a | orthographic projections | plans, sections, elevations
Students are to utilize the given images of a simple building to be drawn up. By using the skills demonstrated and explained in the workshops, draw up the following required orthographic drawings. In this first part of second project, students will include sufficient evidence to show that you are competent in a range of architectural drafting skills.
The following evidence should be presented:
A draft out architectural drawing on butter paper as an evidence for this assignment consisting of:
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floor plans
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front, back and both (left & right) side elevations of the given building
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2 x cross-section view of the building showing floor and roof construction.
The project evidence may be produced in pencil at first, and ink it up for the final submission.
Requirements:
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ground floor plan
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elevations (front, back, left & right elevations)
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cross-section
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longitudinal section
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site plan (optional @ a smaller scale)
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b | axonometric projection
In the next exercise, students will learn how to execute an axonometric projection by generating partial of an external and a sectional (internal) axonometric of the house. These projections will be generated at a scale of 1:100 on A2-sized butter paper (for construction) and finally inked on A2-sized trace.
Following the demonstration in the lecture, use pencil and butter paper to generate an external axonometric drawing of the Farnsworth House. Students are to refer to your orthographic drawings and the documents for measurements and information throughout this exercise. After having confidently constructed your drawing in pencil, proceed to trace your final ink drawing on tracing paper.
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c | perspectives
This assessment introduces perspective as a mode of communication in architecture. Students are required to construct firstly, one exterior (two-point) perspective followed by one sectional interior perspective (onepoint). In constructing both these perspectives, students are to demonstrate the ability to express spatial idea in 3-D form, understanding of 2-D and 3-D relationships in architectural graphics, skills in drawing and composition, creativity and complexity of drawing. Also, your selection of space and exterior form is significant.
Two-point perspective:
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Identify a external view of the building which interests you. This view can be selected from existing drawing and/or photographs. (You need to ensure that there is sufficient information to assist you in developing this one-point perspective).
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Construct a two-point perspective grid on a piece of butter paper. Things to consider here include: where to place your picture plane, what is your viewing angle and your stationary point. This construction will be facilitated during studio tutorials.
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Using the information of the space you have selected, draft a two-point perspective using the grid. (Place the butter paper on top of the constructed grid to construct your drawing).
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Ink the perspective onto a piece of A3 tracing paper. If your drafted drawing on the butter paper exceeds A3, reduce the drawing to fit A3 size before inking it onto the tracing paper.
One-point sectional perspective:
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Repeat the steps above.
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However, for this perspective, you are required to first select what internal view you would like to sectionally cut within the building. You will also construct a one-point perspective grid rather than a two-point grid.
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