Future Master Plan

This is the future master plan of UNCG's campus.  As you can see in the bottom right corner, there is the Gatewood and Cone building parking lot that will eventually be turned into a parking deck.  Behind the Gatewood building will be a grassy area with trees and a pathway.  I brought up the idea that once the parking deck is built that we could move the concrete structures to the grassy area.

Floor Plans, Lettering, Line Weight, & Poche

Here is a floor plan from our book.  The darkened areas show where the walls are and I have put details in each room.Here is the Venturi House with lettering on the left.  I have to say it was very difficult with all of its weird angles.  It look longer than I thought it would.  For the next ones I had to make sure I planned a little better.

I am very proud of this elevation of this house.  Some of the dimensions worked out kind of odd after I measured them from the book since it was hard to get an exact measurement.  

Direction arrows and Scales

These are orthographic views of an object.  We had to figure out the last view using the drawing.  It is harder than you think.

Here are circles that have north arrows.  We were practicing and making up different designs for north arrows to use in the future.  The bottom half is showing different scales you might put on a drawing that shows what scale you used.  There is a border that is three-fourths of an inch and the bottom is a half inch.  The right side shows the title, your name, scale used, date, class, and page number(s).

Contour and shading exercise

In drawing yesterday we had to do a contour drawing of our desk and then shade in an area of the drawing.  I shaded in the three drawers, the flower, and part of the glass vase.  I found this exercise a little difficult to draw.

Site Plan

This is a site plan of my house from Google Earth.  I have drawn my own site plan of my house in the one below the Google Earth plan.  The dotted lines around the property line, the landscape is shown, and the house is in a more bold outline.

Topography drawings

This second drawing we had to do was to make the topo-lines  darker and the building lighter.This first drawing we had to make the building dark and the topo-lines light.

Dialog

Dialog is created by two spaces that have a commonality and interact with each other in some way.  In my dialog project your eyes make you scroll upward to see the second party that is involved in the conversation.  The skewers connect both rectangles creating connectivity and interaction.

A sense of space is defined by the two rectangles made out of bristol board that are two defined and clear spaces.

The idea of system is generated by having two parts work together to make a whole.  The rectangles connect and the skewers go through both of the rectangles creating togetherness/working together to make a whole.  Also, the rectangles are different sizes, yet the same shape creating scale, which creates a system.

Having both rectangles touch one another and the skewers going through both rectangles in an upward motion makes them connect in conversation/dialog.

Scale is utilized by the rectangles being the same shape, but different sizes and the skewers are the same length a part and in length moving in the same direction.  It looks like the bigger one is eating the smaller one in conversation.

Two-dimensional images add to the understanding of the project because it shows details that the model cannot.  It shows detail about spaces and different views.  It shows the process of how the parts of the model relates to other parts or sides of the model/project.

All of my initial ideas didn't work with good because they were not well crafted.  I came up with about 10 ideas until one worked that was able to be well crafted.  The first iterations had radiating skewers, so I kept that idea and had the skewers going upward radiating up and out.  The second iteration had a big and small circular space, so instead of circles (that didn't work), I used rectangles.  In one of my last iterations, I had the skewers crossing each other and after I finished my final I saw that the shadows of the skewers made crosses just like that earlier iteration did, which I thought was very cool!