WORK SHOP THREE - DRAWING

Drawing was the final workshop I attended, initially I had planned to undertake the Architecture in Motion workshop to finish the semester. After the lecture about Drawing a few weeks ago I concluded that it was a workshop that would be instantly useful in design and other subjects and therefore could not be missed.



After completing the workshop I definitely feel I am better equipped to both understand architectural drawings and produce my own for presentations and quick sketching.



The various concepts and methods of drawing that we were introduced to I found especially interesting. The differences between the presentation images of MVRDV or Koolhaus and more traditional architects such as Wright highlighted to me the freedom we have in communicating our ideas. While I have learned about the broad range of methods and materials we can utilize I have also enhanced my understanding of the overall quality and care in presentation that is required regardless of the method used.

In my final project I decided to concentrate on the spatial relationships within the Botta house, inparticular the way spaces are organised around the large open outdoor terrace. I wanted to produce a series of 3ds that included section cutaways that would reveal this in a way that was easier to understand than in a simple 2d section. I located a simple massing model of the building on the interweb and after a series of format conversions got it into SketchUp. I then corrected some proportion issues in the model and added internal divisions and the two main windows. I then spent some time deciding which angels and section cuts to use before exporting them as vector drawings. These I then cleaned up and simplified, then sized appropriatly before carefully tracing them off the screen. Once I had extracted the 4 3ds off the screen I had to refine inconsistencies add people, and also add some light colour for the background that would link the images and also make windows easier to read.