Public Project View :: LTL

Representation Techniques :: Tom Ngo

John Hejduk :: Wall House 2 Project, Isometric

Lewis Tsurumaki Lewis :: Representation Techniques

Even they still use extension lines!  Please note that yes these are perspectives.  The choice is yours whether to draw an oblique, isometric, or perspective, but your choice should privilege a view that best describes your project.  The drawing should also show the ideas embedded into your project.  Read the project diagram portion of your final drawing list, this diagram must describe programmatic elements (specify types of program, such as the scale, intensity, path/place etc), event spaces and their cycle, and tectonic systems (structure, material difference, components etc).

These are drawing techniques that can be used for your project diagrams.  They are done in perspective of course but similar techniques can be used for your project diagrams.  These have incredible detail and your projects do not..... no worries, you have program, structure, place space, path space...etc, etc..... just have fun, but please use extension lines..... 

Project Summary

3 Sentence Project Narrative
a project title and 3 sentence text.
media: typed out in .doc format

Project Diagram
3 different each developed from the catalogs on:
programmatic elements
event spaces and their cycles
tectonic systems and components
media: graphite on 36” by 36” vellum

1/32"=1'0" Project Model (Tectonic Configuration)
Model in a new site model exploring these fundamental conditions:
Enclosed vs. Defined (spatial)
Surface and Mass (formal)
Projecting Space Out and Projected Space In (contextual)
media: foam, white museum board, and piano wire
model scope:
1/16"=1'0" Plan Projection Drawing (Urban Place)
Projection drawing exploring the status of:
project to its surroundings (both above and below ground)
particular contextual elements that shaped or are impacted by the project
general internal structures and sequences of the project
media: graphite on 36” by 36” vellum (fill sheet)

1/8"=1'0" Plan Projection Drawing (Building Section)
Projection drawing with substantial sectioning that explores the status of:
Skeleton : Held / Holding / Holder (structural)
Skin: Transparent / Translucent / Opaque / Thick (enveloptic)
Physiognomy: Place / Transition / Path / Servant (programmatic)
media: graphite on 36” by 36” vellum (fill sheet)

Public Project View
Using your own photographs or perspective drawing insert your project into the site using either hand drawing or digital media in a series of views of and from the site.
media: graphite, printer ink, and/or collage on 18” by 18” vellum or printout

Project Catalog

On Thursday at 14h00 we'll have a discussion of this exercise. You will make three diagrams from these catalogs. Make three catalogs by interogating your models, narratives, and projection drawings using the following categories:
programmatic elements (specify the types, scales, and "families")
event spaces and their cycles (specify the cycles, frequencies, durations, volume, and "families")
tectonic systems and components (specify the structures and envelopes from element to component, to assembly, to bay/frame/branch/unit, to zone)
When necessary waterboard your work to gain the necessary information.

New Modeling Exercise

You should be in studio every day this week. A lot of you "failed" at making developments or engaging the coursework in the project this past week. A few were behind and seemed to have used the week wisely fro catch up. A few used the week, as it should be, to develop a project already seeing good development. We'll be in and out grading, teaching, and reviewing your work all week as well. If you want to work together on this then you should ask.

For the next few days please develop the project through a new 1/32"=1'0" scale model made of foam and paper (it can include some piano wire, if you want to use it to show linear elements but it should be made up primarily of foam and white paper stock).

We ALL will meet Tuesday to review these models, to get the final work list, and to hand out these 2/3rds grades.

Our final day of studio in Montréal is next Monday. We'll do studio clean-up and key hand in on the next day right after lunch. If you are bugging out then you will be expected to do your clean-up before you leave.

Stop work on the drawing class completely. An email is forthcoming to all of you in the drawing class on how we'll wrap that up.