DESIGN
COMMUNICATION
2015
This module introduces fundamental skills for the appropriate communication of architectural design. It engages different means of visualization and expression of space and spatial ideas through architectural drawings and modelling to prepare students with the skills required in Design projects. These skills are taught through a series of freehand, constructed drawing, and architectural modelling held both outdoors and in the studio.
From the first project, we are required to engage with the site by experiencing it through a spatial sequence of your choice. While moving in sequence, you are required to record your observation and perception of the spaces and the human habitation of these spaces through free-hand sketches. This sequence must include both exterior and interior spaces. Besides that it is also developing one’s skills in creating depth and tone in a sketch, and thus refining and enhancing the ability to produce an architectural sketch that is legible.
We are given a building- Edith Farnsworth House to draw. By using the skills demonstrated and explained in the workshops, draw up the following required orthographic drawings. We are required to produce it with a site plan, a floor plan, 4 elevations and 2 sections.
In the production of the work for the Orthographic Projections assessment, we would have, by now, a fairly in-depth understanding of the architectural detail and spatial value of the Farnsworth House. In the project 2b & c, we learned how to execute an axonometric projection by generating partial of an external and a sectional axonometric of the house. These projections will be generated at a scale of 1:75 on A2-sized butter paper and finally inked on A2-sized trace. On the other hands, for the project 2c, perspective drawings are required to construct firstly, one exterior (two-point) perspective followed by one sectional interior perspective (onepoint). In constructing both these perspectives, we have the ability to express spatial idea in 3-D form, understanding of 2-D and 3-D relationships in architectural graphics, skills in drawing and composition, creativity and complexity of drawing. Also, our selection of space and exterior form is significant.