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.

Project Statement

Please send a project title and a very short (3 sentence) project statement (call it -narrative, proposal, concept, or process) to b.rex@ttu.edu. We'll use it to help grade tomorrow.

Second Grade

We will begin the second grading process Monday morning. Please pin up and have your work up on the wall before 09h00 that day. Below is the list of exactly what we will be assessing.

1 :: 3 sets of Planimetric drawings and 3 Projection drawings of your final three study models :: 15 POINTS

2 :: 3 Paper Models / 3 Foam Models (final three) :: 15 POINTS

3 :: Site Catalog :: 10 POINTS

4 :: 1 Paper Model / 1 Foam Model (final one) :: 20 POINTS

5 :: Event Catalog :: 5 POINTS

6 :: 1/16" Plan Projection drawing :: 35 POINTS

We have a new pin up location roster. Please pin up as if you were exhibiting your final work. We have only one week left here so let's impress. The way things are most often pinned up now is not thoughtful. Line up your work with your neighbors work. Be methodical with how you pin up your work. Think of your project and how you would present it to a jury....this is the way you should always pin up.

1st FLOOR ::
Mike
Micah
Jeff
Chelsea

3rd FLOOR HALLWAY ::
Luis
Cameron
Katie

3rd FLOOR in STUDIO ::
Ryan
Andy
Frank
Eddie
Cynthia
Christina
Jordan
Phil

5th FLOOR ::
Brittney
Nichole
Edgar
John

The Rest of the Week / Notes on the past Tuesday

For Thursday let's meet first at 10h30 (not 10). I'll give a presentation about drawing. Drawing class people must be there. "Outsiders" are welcome too. It will take about an hour. Then we'd like to have a discussion about the ideas presented and then head off to lunch at 12h00.

Thursday afternoon at 14h00 both Marti and Brian will be in studio. We'll start with a short demonstration and discussion of some drawing techniques and then we'll do desk crits until 18h00 while you all work on these plan projections.

On Tuesday:
We talked about the two sorts of comprehensiveness- a) to figure out something in its totality and b) to make something thoroughly understood by others.

We also discussed the value of a narrative to the project- how a narrative attracts and gives "style" to a project but also how it gives the design decisions you've made a standard or plausibility to be measured and weighed against. A narrative is analogous to a rationale you set up to define what's rational. It can be a "World", like Italo Calvino's INVISIBLE CITIES (That's what John's "Centre d'Etudes du Monstres Urbain" is.). It can be a "Process", like the first ten houses of Peter Eisenman (That's what Micah's "Traitements de Fenêtres Existant" is.) It can be "Uses", like both Koolhaas' and Tschumi's La VIllette. (That's what Chelsea's "Bureau de Villes Divisées" is.) And there are a number of other ways narrative (a rhetorical device) can generate and support a project. We'll point them out as you deliver them to the discussion and we'll help where we can to find it with you.

The main thing you need to do is keep drawing and exploring decisions. Figure out how you'd do everything in three different ways and then see which choices "fit" as a plausible project. Very nice projects will fall out of this work if you'll make speculations about things and relationships and such in drawing the project.

stories shape drawings shape stories shape drawings (loop)

I will be in studio on Friday afternoon to do some old grading and to help when asked.