Course Reflection

ARCH1142 Architectural Communications has not so much taught me new skills, but rather guided me to discover and develop my own skills. I find the exploratory nature of the course to be incredibly helpful as well as enjoyable.

In Atlas of Colour I was taught basic colour theory, but more useful than the theoretical breakdown or examples in architecture, was the excercises in applying what we had learnt, developing our own favoured colour schemes, etc. Despite it's heavy workload, the colour workshop will probably continue to be of the most help in the future, and as an often overlooked element in architecture, this workshop has lead me to a new degree of consideration for colour.

Fluid Thoughts to Action was a workshop of true exploration. We were encouraged to discard the rigid rules of traditional architectural drawings and instead try to capture spaces and objects as they were experienced, rather than what they ought to look like, as well as seeking 'the bigger picture'. The 2 sketches per day truely honed my eye to see the important elements in a space, as well as finding a real comfort in spontanious drawing. This workshop guided us to free our drawing styles, achieving less literal and systematic drawing which is able to communicate the space even better.

With Fluid Thoughts developing a freedom of expression, the Drawing workshop now called for the bigger picture to be focussed. Not only capturing the 'feel' of the space, but depict every detail to precision. Most useful in this workshop was the increased understanding of architectural rendering and linework. With little prior experience with that (ARCH1102 calls for unhatched, single line weight drawings), i found the tasks outline here, not as restrictions but options, interesting and educational (in a free, discovery manner). Also worth noting was how much the previous 2 workshops assisted in raising my standards of presentation!

To re-iterate, the best part of the course was the amount of freedom of expression the students have, developing our own techniques, our own schemes, our own styles... All of these are vital in communication as they'll assist in reaching a "comunicatee" on a much more personal level.

Drawing Final Submission

For my final submission I attatched my drawings onto blackboard, and it was at this stage where i constructed the fold-down frame for the perspective.

For this, my skills in drawing 2 point perspectives were very much refined. Also, i practised and experimented with different line weight and application of textures to my drawings...

Perspectivex

Since i was away in the second week, i was privileged with a bit more time to do this, to be presented with the rest of the outputs in the final week.

As there was an idea of transplanting the building into an environment, i decided to place the environment on one piece of yellow trace, and the building on another, then layering them with a fold down frame with the building sheet attatched (see image for clearer explaination).

Drawing Start/ Cup Ex

For our first class we were given a mug which we had to draw plan, section and elevations for...

Final Submission

Here we have my works presented in consertina format, as well as David whom i caught in a Bruce Lee pose just as he was wearing a yellow and black sports jacket like in Game of Death :D

14 drawings pt3

In this final installment of 14 Drawings, we were to do half interiors, half exteriors.

The ones depicted here are outside Acer Arena before the sublime Judas Priest performance, The Entertainment Centre whilst having ice-cream at Cold Rock, the interior of the International Wing Chun Academy, and inside my girlfriend's room...

In this final installment of 14 Drawings, we were to do half interiors, half exteriors.

The ones depicted here are outside Acer Arena before the sublime Judas Priest performance, The Entertainment Centre whilst having ice-cream at Cold Rock, the interior of the International Wing Chun Academy, and inside my girlfriend's room...

Collaborative 2

The crew...

This excercise required us to select a wall and design a mural which would communicate the room back to its user. We selected the vertical parts of the stairs and decided it would give the user what that part of the room did not have, a window. We designed it such that the user would be able to see what is behind that 'wall'...


Blind corpse... kinda....

I selected a part of my landscape/window drawing and sent it to Heidi, who sent it to Chris... etc.... When we collaborated, we put them all together and drew around it, everywhere. I really like its narrative and its surreal style, and the nature of charcoal allowed us to smoothen and... 'fluidify'....