Communications Reflection

Communications Reflection

Architectural Communications has definitely benefited me in many ways, mostly because of the vast amount of skills that we learn and encounter throughout the three workshops that we participate in. I appreciated greatly the fact that we were given the opportunity and flexibility of being able to choose from different workshops the ones that we wanted to participate in. I guess this allowed us to not only be fixed in learning a single way of comunications but three different approaches. I was fortunate enought to have picked the three that I wanted to do, they were:

1. Material Modelling

2. Architectural Drawings

3. Fluid Thoughts to Actions

By doing these three workshops, I have definitely learned vast amounts of new things that are related to each topic. In particular, I found very interesting how communicating through 3D models can give viewers that extra bit of understanding of spatiallity of a building and what the final product of the design would really look like compared to flat 2D drawings. I essentially payed extra attention as to the number of different ways that 2D architectural drawings can be done to portray different takes on a building, and that the use of charcoal as a drawing median can produce very difinitive tones of black and white and the fluidity of the outcomes.

I do believe that this course is very beneficial not only for first year architectural students, but it helps to build better skills in communicating for effective architectually or for sole presentation purposes.

Fluid Thoughts To Action

WORKSHOP THREE
FLUID THOUGHTS TO ACTION
with Anton and Chrissie


In this workshop, we challenged ourselves to draw objects with more fluidity to create a sence spatiality, but also at the same time, keeping important detail and linework, all this done using mostly of charcoal.

The first exercise we did was to draw the Sydney Opera House.

The above two drawings were actually my first ever attempts at using charcoal. I was quick amazed by the softness of charcoal, and the ability to smudge as well as to erase . In this very first lesson, not only did I learn to use charcoal, I also attempted to protrude another view of the Opera House on top of an existing drawins. This done by more drawing, as well as the erasing and taking back of exisiting charcoal work.

The second task was similar to the Opera House task. Drawing, changing views, and adding onto it.

This next task, was at first, very unfamiliar and unusual. I had drawn a landscape at first, but had not managed to focus on a small part of the landscape and then enlarge it to cover a mass of the page. I did however, re-did the drawing with more focus, and had managed (to what i think) fulfilled the requirements of that task.

This drawing was my interpretation of an architectural space as described by a fellow architect student. The discription in general, pointed out a room with no windows, a large table taking over most of the space, with modern chairs and a 19th Centery Chandelier with beads hanging over it.

The following are selected drawings of the 42 that I did in my sketch book of different interior and exterior spaces, during daytime and night time.

Compared to the other workshops, I actually found 'Fluid thoughts to actions' the most amusing, interesting and enjoyable workshop. I had never used charcoal before this workshop, and I had never know that charcoal can actually produce such a wide variety of presentations. Although I tend to do drawings with not much line work but with more shading and rendering, I was amazed at the amount of precision that charcoal can do, by other students. I have indeed learned alot from this workshop and I would acknowledge that although charcoal is not a popular medium for conventional architecture, it is the way that we applied ourselves in drawing with a whole new perspective (such as with drawing with fluidity) that would allows us to broaden our abilities in drawing for future presentations.

Architectural Drawing

WORKSHOP TWO
ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING
with Ken and Felicity


In this workshop, our final piece of assessment was to give a presentation in the form of architectural drawings on one of the two houses available. I chose the Rose Seidler house, the house is located in the north side of Sydney and is famous for being the first modern house in Australia.

We started of by drawing a 1:1 scale of a coffee mug, we were to draw the plan, section and elavation of the mug.



We then moved on to drawing perspectives, below is a two point perspective of the Rose Siedler house.

After a series of other exercises; such as learning to draw shadows accurately and the technicality of drawing actual plans, sections, elavations and perspective, our next task was the final assessment.

In order for me to better understand the formation of the house, I decided to actually visit the house itself.

Below are pictures that I took of the Rose Siedler house.

Front View

Internal view (lounge)

With a better picture of the house in mind, I created the following drawings for my house.

3D perspective (House section only)

3D Perspective (Interval view: Fire Place)
3D Perspective (Internal View: Lounge)

3D Perspective ( Outdoor Patio)

Plan

Section and Elavations

In terms of the way I presented my perspective, I took the importance of the lines and grids of the Seidler house windows as my main layout. As for the other drawings, the plan, section and elavation, I kept the linework fine and precise, and the overall layout to be simple keeping in mind that I wanted the drawings to be the dominant figure. Particularly in this workshop, I have learnt that linework is the most important feature in architectural drawings. I rather challenged at first by the precision required for rescailing the planes that we were given, into something larger, and to out tasks purpose, with more relavant features. I also found the shadow exercise rather amusing as I have never viewed and drawn shadow like the way we were taught in the workshop. Overall, I would consider this workhop very important because being able to draw well architecturally is an important way of communicating to others, your design of an architectural space.