ARCH 1142- Architectural Communications- Fluid Thoughts To Actions Workshop

ARCH 1142- Architectural Communications

Completing these three very different workshops has been an insightful and helpful experience for me. I have learnt a number of different skills from, hand crafting, to computer graphics, to binding to drawing and painting all very useful in assisting me in communicating my architectural ideas for both uni and in my future career. Having previously had very little experience in all of these fields especially in that of drawing and painting I have found this course useful for opening up ideas about many possible ways to communicate my designs.

Useful relationships I have drawn from all three workshops:
Each of the three very different workshops have inspired me with ideas about how to communicate my ideas. They have all given me fresh insights into the endless opportunities for communicating designs. All workshops had a hands-on component, the modelling workshop primarily all hands on, the atlas workshop with painting, binding and creating of a 3D tunnel experience and Fluid Thoughts to actions through drawing and painting. In a world that is becoming increasingly computerized these basic skills almost feel more important as they require a deeper level of consideration of where one is to make their mark (there is no control "z" on a pencil!) . This hand, eye cordination can then later be translated onto computer technologies. I feel learning these basics will greatly benefit my skills in Computer Aided Design in the future.

ARCH 1142- Architectural Communications- Workshop #2- Atlas of Colour

Atlas of Colour was a challenging but very interesting and enjoyable course to undertake in this communication series. I found this workshop particuarly useful in opening up ideas of both colour usage and presentation that I had not previously thought seriously about, especially in relation to communicating my architectural designs. This course enabled me to consider the power colour can have in communication and its effectiveness if used in the right proportions. This workshop also challenged my minimal skills in Photoshop and Indesign and encouraged me to really think about using these programs most appropriately to communicate my ideas. For example, creating a book format that has a sequence and is both intriguing and providing of the information nescecary for a client or fellow architect to follow. This new method of book binding and creating a tunnel experience like that of the model making workshop has provided me with new skills for cleaning illustrating my ideas.

ARCH 1142- Architectural Communications- Modelling Workshop Weeks 1-4

This model making workshop that I undertook with Nicolina and Catherine allowed me to explore communication methods in a very hands-on style. I found this workshop challenging, as it required us to create physical spatial experiences out of simple materials, using our hands. This workshop helped me to develop my collaging and cutting gluing and communicating skills all of which will be useful both in and outside of this architecture course.

Access to Draft and Final UT2004 and SketchUp models

draft 1
http://files.filefront.com/13920313
draft 2
http://files.filefront.com/13920295
final:
http://files.filefront.com/13920560
SketchUp:
http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?

Evaluations

The Final Design

The Final Dining Table

Final Lift for Obama

Final lift for Prada

Dining Table Idea One

For my clients, Prada and Barrack Obama their meeting space will be a place to discuss and organise a campaign to help reduce domestic violence in American families. Both Prada and Obama believe in the support and importance of family. Prada will use her power of influence to help design a campaign that people will respond to and Barrack Obama will use his people skills and ability to communicate with the public to ensure the campaign encorporates many peoples ideas in how they wish to help. This table is in its intial stages, holding the idea that these two powers together can make a clean working whole.

Experimenting with Elevators

Lift two- Prada in Sketchup

Lift one- Obama in Sketchup

Textures relating to movement

Images of UT2004 environment

H-shaped prisms

Draft model in UT2004

Unreal Tournament Images 1

This is the sketch I based my model on

In this model I was experimenting with applying my F shaped prism developed in my studio class.

Mash-up of articles

Strength and influence

Obama had American society breathless when earlier this year, he told the teeming masses, Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin the work of remaking America. Madonna, the one they come to see above all others, has London theatre society waiting for the moment where she sets a new course from her own Hollywood persona to “intelligent, scrupulously disciplined comic acting”.

Prada, action-orientated, and accountable, has once again altered the course of fashion, reports intensified interest in placing the fashion house on the Milan-stock exchange bringing it Up For Grabs. Miccucia Prada’s decision, is an evolutionary leap, involving a new generation offering an important bellwhether.

To compete, when the critics report back about a lack of confidence in the economy, Obama needs to turn heads again, by appearing energized and focused on the challenges of strengthening the economy, rebuilding American industry and restoring confidence in our integrity at home and abroad.

For Madonna, it is the foundation for growth, for Obama, it’s the power to lead the public, and for Miccucia Prada it is setting the pace of fashion that provides them with influence in an evolutionary economy.

1. Derek T. Dingle “President Obama: our new chief executive pledges to remake the nation.” Black Enterprise 39.8 March, 2009 http://find.galegroup.com.viviena.library.unsw.edu.au/itx/printdoc.do?contentSet=IAIM (accessed May 11^th 2009)

2. Matt Wolf “Madonna to materialise and already adored” The Australian April 17, 2002

http://global.factiva.com.viviena.library.unsw.edu.au/aa/default.aspx?pp=Print&hc=P, (accessed May 11^th 2009)

3. Suzanne Kapner “Prada Goes Shopping” Fortune September 1, 2008

http://proquest.umi.com.viviena.library.unsw.edu.au/pqdlink?did=1534460821&Fmt=3&clientld=25620&RQT=309&Vname=PQD (accessed May 11^th 2009)

The letter F explored in 18 one-point perspectives

Link to final model on filefront

My final model can be accessed through the following link:

http://files.filefront.com/13706898

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Final Captures of my Exp 2 Model

Meeting Space Image 1 Meeting Space Image 2:
These captures of the meeting space (the platform and shelves with tunnel for Alfred Nobel and the open topped prism for Jacques-Yves Cousteau) clearly illustrate a way for Cousteau and Nobel to meet, whilst still retaining their own personal space. The shelves provide Nobel with a place to organize his dangerous chemicals or other materials before meeting Cousteau and the tunnel/ramp provides him with time to gather ideas before meeting with Cousteau to discuss them. Similarly the stepped ramp of Cousteau's environment enables him to dive deeper into the environment, with the result of uncovering new ideas from collaboration with Nobel.


Textures in Jacques-Yves Cousteau's Lab (light, dark):
These images illustrate direct relationships between my model and the electroagregation quote. It depicts Jacques-Yves Cousteau's multi-leveled lab space with an open space at the bottom where the final discoveries can be made. The open ceiling of this space also allows him to look back up and reflect on the process of diving deeper to get there. The floor is textured in each of the spaces (which get larger/open up like that of the ocean floor as one progresses down), the textures progressively go from light to dark, emphasizing the feeling of diving deeper into the sea (further from natural light). On the bottom floor the texture incorporates open glass panels, emphasizing the process of uncovering shipwrecks when underwater.



Textured floor in Alfred Nobel's lab 3 (dark):


This capture clearly identifies the relationship of Alfred Nobel’s lab space to the electroagregation quote. This view, looking up from the bottom central space allows one to view where they have come from, bringing together the ideas from each different separate compartment and then as a result create something truly magnificent. In Nobel's lab space, three textures have been used, progressing from light to dark on the floors of the first three lab spaces emphasizing the division of thought and its development the further into the environment one ventures.