Assignment 01: Documentation I
By using analog and digital methods, I documented the East Falls Bridge, through a site plan, detailed sketch, four images of the bridge, and a collage. By using analog and digital methods, I was able to communicate elements of the bridge--materiality, connection, detail, and light quality.
Site Plan and Detail: With the detail, I tried to communicate the connection and precision with the bridge's construction.
Four Pictures: I captured the bridge with different qualities of light, bring out the materiality of the bridge through the contrast of light and dark shadows.
Collage: I was inspired by the depth of the bridge, and tried to capture this void, throught the overlap.
Assignment 02: Manipulation
Of the many pictures taken while on the East Falls Bridge, we had to use Photoshop, to edit out material we did not want, and emphasize elements we wanted to bring out, of four photos. Then a "Before" and "After" layout was created, to show these changes more distinctly.
Tree Removal: With this image, I wanted to remove the trees, as it took away from the focus on the bridge. After, I brightened the sky and the bridge, so that the bridge would naturally pop, showing the interesting color of the bridge.
Beam Pattern: I was most intrigued by the pattern created by the beams, and wanted to bring this out as a patterned silloute over the bridge and sky, using the colors, tan, black, and blue to bring out each other.
Tunneled Void with Detailed Railing: Still interested in the perspective of the bridge, I brought out the orange in the side walk, the dark shadows in the railing, and the dark shadow void in the back, to have the eye run between the rail and the shaded area of the bridge, to experience this tunneled void of the bridge
Road Sign: By darkening the framework of the beams, blurring the background, and rotating the image, I was able to put emphasis on the road sign.
Assignment 03: Collage
Using a mylar overlay, I drew a detail of the textural qualities of the East Falls Bridge sign. Then, I imported it into Photoshop, to selectively render the mylar overlay with the rest of the image, for the digital portion. For the analog, I took the mylar drawing and physically put it over the image, cutting out parts of the mylar.
Digital: Overlaying the mylar drawing for the sign portion, I cutt out the green part, the lettters, and the numbers, to show their natural quality and color that graphite can not show, as well. I darkened the beams so that they would tie together with the darkness of the sign, creating a seemless, multi-modal rendering.
Using the mylar overlay, I cut out the areas of the green to let it appear stronger and not transparent, like the rest. Keeping the mylar on the rest of the image, the focus becomes the rendering done with graphite.
Assignment 04: Texture
Taking a perspective of our case study house, I drew an analog perspective of the Berkowitz-Odgis House by Steven Holl. Once hand drafted, I took it into photoshop to render the materiality and texture of the house, using image underlays and opacity. By adding vegetation and a human figure, I was able to communicate scale, showing the relative size veranda, the iconic element of the Berkowitz-Odgis House.
Assignment 05: Representation I
Picking a miniature screw driver, I hand drafted it, creating a set of six drawings: two elevation, one section, one plan, one axonometric, and one section axonometric. After, I used Illustrator to compose a layout and add dimensions.
Assignment 06: Representation II
Similar to Assignment 07, I digitally drafted the screw driver in Illustrator. I used line weights and tonal greys to communicate depth and to show construction lines. I filled my sections and additionally added text and dimensions.
Assignment 07: Vectors
Using Illustrator, digitally rendered a self portrait of myself through means of strokes and fills, in this vector based program. I did a detail of my eye, as there were many variations of greys around and in my eyes that created a three dimensional quality.
Assignment 08: Documentation II
Picking a concept of materiality, I drew four colored sketches, took a series of four photographs, and then constructed a multimedia collage. With this concept of materiality, I constructed images that showed various materials in one image, whether they were overlapping or next to each other.
These four color rendered sketches were done with color pencil to distinguish the distinct features of the each material in each image.
This series of four images were photographed, post-processed in Photoshop, and then displayed in a single page layout.
This multimedia collage was constructed from digital photographs which were post-processed to be black & white and color and from color pencil renderings. These were combined to create one collage.
Assignment 09: Constructs I
Working with my Design II project, the Berkowitz-Odgis House, I created a digital site plan, a sectional perspective, and an exterior perspective, through the use of layering images, lines, and hand drafted drawings.
As the view shed, due to the location of the site (Martha's Vineyard, on the Vineyard Sound), was the most important element of the site, I constructed a site plan that showed not only the large scale of the site, but the view associated with it.
Constructing an interior sectional perspective, I chose a location with that also documented this view of the Vineyard Sound and wetlands.The chimney and outline of the perspetive were hand drafted and collaged with a photograph and textured images.
The exterior perspective shows this view that one may see approaching the site. This view shows documents the house in a practical use. The shadows and land contours were outlined through hand drawings.
Assignment 10: Constructs II
Three images were taken and post-processed to cut out the background and any model construction mistakes. Tools such as brightness and contrast, warp, lasso, etc. were used to enhance the detail and readings of the Berkowitz-Odgis House model. Two pages were constructed--one of the before and one of the after.
Assignment 11: Narrative I
Noticing many of my images from this class had blue within them, I created a light color scheme that reflected this. By using images I took from the Barnes Foundation and creating a repeitive graphic, I was able to create a portfolio to display all my work from this semester.
Assignment 12: Narrative II
Working with a partner, Gerald Morgan-Brown, we created a presentation board for the Blur Building. Using images found online, we displayed this images on a board, using InDesign for text and graphics. Additionally, a short paragraph was constructed to tell a bit of history and context about the building.
Assignment 13: Recover
Picking an existing novel, The Time Machine, I created a book cover that displayed icons associated with time--clocks and gears. The book cover was printed and mounted to a novel, to then take photographs of it in context with a person, in context with a scale figure, and by it's self.
Book Cover
Top: Book with scale figure
Middle: Book in context
Bottom: Book with person
Assignment 14: Graphic
Selecting an architectural university, Sci-Arc, I created an architectural lecture poster for this university. With the school's interests in mind, such as techtonic forms and texture, I reasearch not only to learn abput the school but the architects that may speak for this topic.
Assignment 15: Perspective
Using my visitor's center I created in Design II for the Berkowitz-Odgis House, I constructed a sectional perspective of my enterance that leads to the important element of my design--the hallway. With a concept of circulation that was important not only to the Berkowitz-Odgis House, but my visitor's center, I also created an hybrid image of an exploded axonometric and analysis diagrams, to show the translation of these important elements to the visitor's center.
Sectional Perspective of Visitor's Center
Hybrid Image of Exploded Axonometric and Analysis Diagrams
