the final project: rose seidler house . . .

The final assessment for this rotation was extremely enjoyable to compete. I found the Rose Seidler House (Architecture: Harry Seidler) interesting to learn about and despite its relatively square like appearance it contains many crucial architectural concepts such as the free standing fire place which have come to be in a wide range of houses today. It was indeed time consuming drawing the plans, sections and elevations onto my three A2 sized sheets however it taught me many important aspects of architectural drawings such as title headings, north point, rendering walls so that one may differentiate what is in section and what is not. That was an important lesson i gained from this workshop. When drawing a section one must explicitly highlight by blackening out etc what is in section so that it is seen by the viewer. Overall it was a great assignment to work on. Below are my three A2 posters: 

The 1st Poster (Far Left of Composition - Contains Plans):

 

The 2nd Poster (Middle of Composition - Contains Sections + Elevations):

The 3rd Poster (Far Right of Composition - Contains 3D Perspective Drawing):

rendering and shading . . .

This was the 3rd week of this workshop and we began by exploring light and shade and the effectiveness that shadows and darkened patches bring to a drawing. We were told not to draw lines but rather shade or render to build up a perspective. It was an attempt to get us to think about the textual / tonal value of an object. I was thinking more about how to draw an image without lines and my first attempt of a doorway ended badly. Below is my second image of a staircase, in which i have attempted to highlight light and shade in the image as best i could...

 

The second exercise of this week, was the most challenging and time consuming. It involves transferring the Rose Seidler House from the plans, sections and elevations we were provided with onto an image of the lawn opposite the architecture building. This involved obtaining an image of the lawn and by layering tracing paper onto this, furthermore copying the house onto it. The difficulty of this task was reduced by consulting with my classmates etc. It was difficult since the image had to be drawn to scale. I was just beginning to understand the idea of two point perspective, so my attempt was average. In the end i had to look at an actual image of the house however i managed to complete the task eventually...

3D perspective drawing . . .

This was an extremely interesting exercise to complete. I do engineering with architecture and haven't had much experience drawing objects, in various perspectives so it was a new experience for me. It was initially slightly confusing to comprehend the concept of 'vanishing points' however by the end of the drawing I understood the concept well. 

Once we had completed this exercise the more challenging task was set, in which we had to sketch a building or place in the univesity using our knowledge of perspective and vanishing point. I found it hard to start the drawing as a whole, not knowing where to begin yet. Below is my attempt...

the cups . . .

Our first drawing activity for this workshop involved drawing a given teacup as a:

- plan
- section 
- elevation 

It was a good introductory exercise to familiarize ourselves with three such important views of an object, all of which provide important information. I found the 'section' drawing to be the most difficult concept to wrap my head around. Below is also a perspective image where we had to sketch the cup from our own perspective.