Portfolio for Arch-2512

Alaa Rashed 900211173 Instructor: Dr. Heba Safey ElDeen

Portfolio for ARCH-2512

VIEW MY WORK

Week 1: Scavenger Hunt

Description: This exercise required us to go around our university campus, and find litter than we can use in generating a form that explains a certain emotion.

Feedback: The Scavenger Hunt helped us familiarize ourselves on our first day because we worked as groups. It also allowed us to describe a keyword physically.

01. Balanced Diversity

Week 2: Rectilinear Volumes

Description: In this exercise, we had to learn how to make neat rectilinear forms out of clay. We were asked to make three different forms which describe a specific keyword.

Feedback: The hardest part of this assignment was trying to keep the different pieces of clay neat, as clay is very easy to get ruined.

However, i loved how we could express our thoughts in physical form.

Week 3: Curvilinear Volumes:

Description: In week 3, we were taught how to make curvilinear volumes, which are very similar to rectilinear ones, however, curved. We were also asked to make three forms, each from made up of three parts.

Feedback: As the week before, keeping the forms neat was the hardest part. But this was a lot easier that the rectilinear forms because curving the clay was easier than keeping it straight. Thinking of keywords was simpler than i thought.

Week 4: Recti-Curvi Volumes

Description: During this week, we were asked to make a form engaging both recti and curvi linear forms. Also, the composition had to act as a building and have a meaningful function.

Feedback:

Personally, I did not know that it was required of us to make the form while thinking of a function, so I made an abstract form. Using different and new materials was more exciting than using only clay.

Week 5: Fragmentation

Description:

We learned this week about fragmentation, which was using a huge shape of clay and cutting it into smaller fragments to form an abstract shape. It was required us to make 2 forms, one describing a random keyword, and another describing 6th of October victory

Feedback:

This exercise was highly challenging, cutting the clay into meaningful pieces had me confused about how I was supposed to continue, but eventually, i got the hand of it.

Week 6: Concavity and Convexity

Description: We learned in week 6 how to make concave and convex compositions. We were asked to make one concave and one convex form. it was about showing how different sized forms can react with each other.

Feedback: This exercise was not hard at all. The only challenge was connecting the forms in the concave shape in a neat way. Also cutting through the block of clay was really hard to keep clean. Other than that this exercise was very enjoyable.

Week 7: Midterm Project Phase 1

Description: The midterm project was about making a children's game that is inspired from nature. The first phase was a 10*10 foam board with a small ragdoll.

Feedback:

My first idea was a water slide that would be put in the middle of an aquarium. The ball in the back represented a jellyfish, with its tails as the slide. The children would slide down onto a starfish cushion made up of pink and green clay.

Week 8: Midterm Project Phase 2

Description: During the second week, we were asked to submit the final version of the midterm project, in full size.

Feedback: The midterm project was tiring, and it needed a lot of thinking on how to relate the material to the idea, but eventually, i made a really colorful fountain and swing. i did not, however, know how to stick hard clay into foam, so that was the only problem

Week 9: Planar

Description: This week, we were asked to make a sports field using planar compositions.

Planar compositions are thin shapes that are not blocks of material.

Feedback: This was my favorite exercise throughout the whole semester. Imade an obstacle course that can be climbed or walked under. using foam planar shapes. i tried embedding the different axis into my project.

Week 10: Wires

Description: This week, we had to pick three songs and make wire statues of what these specific songs make us feel. We were supposed to use on line of wire to describe our emotions.

Feedback: In this exercise, i used three Egyptian songs of different genres. i thouht it would be a god idea to embed my feelings wiht color but then i was told that it was supposed to be made with only one wire. I tried showing the softness, raggedness, and meaning behind each song in my statues.

Week 11: Wires (Redo)

Description: This week, we were asked to redo our wires project, and also go and take pictures and videos in the Art D'egypte which took place in the Pyramids of Giza.

Feedback: Our class took this chane to make ou r own field trip to the gallery. We went around the different compositions taking pictures . The hardest part was trying to take a 360 video of our favorite wires project.

Week 12: Final Project Phase 1

Description: The first week of the final project submission, we were asked to get sketches of our idea. The idea had to be suitable to be put in the Cultural Park for Children. It had to showcase nature and heritage, and we had to think of the place it would be put in too.

Feedback: It was not a hard task My idea consisited of a mountain that would respresent a slide. It would be put in anempty green part in the park and would be 7-14 year old children.

Week 13: Final Project Phase 2

Description: In week 2 of the final project, we had to come in with a draft model of our idea.

Feedback: I tried to show what i needed to show; a mountain along the green scape of the Cultural Park. The mountain had a slide on one side, like a waterfall, and the stairs on the oppoite sides. I used clay, wre and paper.

Week 14: Final Project Phase 3

Description: In week 3 of the final porject submission, we were asked to come in with our final draft of our idea.

Feedback: i changed the slide into little pieces of wood which older children could climb on and watch the whole park from up above. i used cardboard, which was really hard to cut, but n=showed the raggedness in the mountain.