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FOUNDATIONS OF DESIGN: REPRESENTATION

M4 FRAME vs FIELD CHUYIN QI 1020385 Studio 20 NICOLA LEONG

WEEK 9 READING: TITLE OF READING Question 1: What are Durer’s rules for perspectival projection?

Durer sets out three rules for what a perspectival projection is. The first is that perspective includes the idea of “seeing through“. And all paralles share a similar vanishing point. The second one is abot portion of picture plane, which can be worked out for them receding into the space. Last but not least, allographic prctices is another issue that producing mutiple copies instead of author’s direct intervention.

Question 2: Describe homogenous space?

Homogenous space is space that keeping static and infinite space constructed with the assumption. It is defined that contains no things outside of the context and rarely express ideas.

In ralation to perspectival projection, homogenous space is the space that is consistant to itself and space which cannot be limited to boundaries. Moreover, Points are vacant before actually used to express the ralations, which makes their homogeneity to be questioned for their existence and meaning.

As the matter of fact, homogenous is said to be “unreal“ world and has some limitations due to its region that is constructed with many possibilities of central perspective.

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INSERT YOUR CITY NAME HERE Invisible City

Every scene I create is based on my story. In the second chapter of “invisible city”, the author points out the boring and lifeless atmosphere brought about by urban expansion and urban assimilation. In his first tone, the author describes what he sees in “trude”, which is very similar to the city he lived in before, even though he does not feel that he has left the place where he once lived. Therefore, the characteristics of boredom and recycling have become an entry point of my design.

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OLD QUAD Base Isometric

At first, I didn’t particularly understand the concept of Isometric mapping. According to the teacher’s instructions, I have derived the first picture which is not very perfect. But from this picture, I have come to understand what I need to add to express my ideas. In the meantime, I used real-time coloring and other functions to add color to the design. At the same time, I have filled some unnecessary gaps.

BLANK ISOMETRIC

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OLD QUAD

Isometric with Notations

At first, I didn’t particularly understand the concept of Axonometric mapping. According to the teacher’s instructions, I have derived the first picture which is not very perfect. But from this picture, I have come to understand what I need to add to express my ideas. In the meantime, I used real-time coloring and other functions to add color to the design. At the same time, I have filled some unnecessary gaps.

Among rhinos, I made some scattered bricks to resonate with my inspiration. In the movie Inception Space, the heroine realizes that his world is actually a dream, and the scenery around him begins to collapse.

In the post-production, I added some shadows to the pillars to make the pictures more stereoscopic and to distinguish different things better.

ISOMETRIC WITH NOTATION

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PERSPECTIVE 01

ANALYSIS

When the author gets off the plane and sits in the car to see the scenery, he only sees the same scenery as the city he went to before. Perhaps at first, her mood was full of expectations, but when he arrived at the rooftop, he saw people hurrying around the city, doing the same thing as the city he had been in before, and he began to feel numb about the surrounding environment.

From the side he could see the city, which is made up of small houses, large and small, with countless commodities on display, just as he had seen them before.

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PERSPECTIVE 02

ANALYSIS

The author is on his way to the hotel. After acrossing town, he has already guessed what is about to happen -- people are trading goods next to the hardware store, laughing and chatting. Maybe they are used to talking and smiling and live in a city they can never leave. Some of them sit down to drink, and some of them drive by in carriages. The author could even see his hotel not far away, but apparently he doesn’t want to stay there all the time. He wants to leave because the whole city is a replica.

However, the driver tell him that all the cities were the same and he begins- to feel lost.

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WEEK 11 READING: TITLE OF READING What is the difference between autographic and allographic practice?

According the reading, Autographic and Allographic are actually two different forms of art. In fact, both of them are included the notations. However, Autographic practice has direct interaction with author and arts are established from outcomes. Moreover, with the development of different interprettions on the notations, allographic produces contact without direction to author.

In all, Nelson Goodman actually provides a different distinction and classification betwwen these two ptactices.

Question 2: Why do architects need new representational techniques?

With the continuous innovation of modeling technology, people’s design methods have become diverse. Not only can we see things from different angles, but also we can fully understand and absorb the ideas brought about by design. In the past, people could use representation style to describe relatively abstract ideas. Nowadays, we can have new technology to strengthen the connection between city and city, architecture and architecture. At the same time, some invisible things could be seen in with the increasing number of using new representational techniques.

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Module 4

Final Isometric

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M4 APPENDIX

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APPENDIX Process

Stage 1- 3D Modelling on Rhino First of all, we continue to learn about the modeling function of rhinos. We use different instructions to master how to accurately use the elevation of the plane map to build a three-dimensional model. Unlike before, this model mainly gives us a basis for design. That is to say, let’s first create the most basic model, and then use the modeling techniques we have learned to modify it.

According to the plan of the palace provided by the teacher, we extend and increase the thickness between the lines. After that, he showed a three-dimensional effect. Using different instructions, we gradually achieved a quarter of the old Quad effect at the University of Melbourne. After making it, we transformed a quarter of the objects symmetrically by “mirror image” method, and finally formed a complete Old Quad map.

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APPENDIX Process

Stage 2- Understand the story and think Every scene I create is based on my story. In the second chapter of “invisible city”, the author points out the boring and lifeless atmosphere brought about by urban expansion and urban assimilation. In his first tone, the author describes what he sees in “trude”, which is very similar to the city he lived in before, even though he does not feel that he has left the place where he once lived. Therefore, the characteristics of boredom and recycling have become an entry point of my design.

First, I decide to analyze the time of the city. Based on what I saw about the book, I learned that the author used the tone of the past to reflect the city scene in the post-industrial era. So I set the time for the Industrial Revolution.

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APPENDIX Process

When I think about how to create an inner city, I rethink what the author wants to say. Calvino’s thinking about the city lies in the meaning of a moment, which can reflect some problems of the city. Perhaps the fifty-five cities he wrote were just a problem; perhaps they were an infinite hidden problem. In his eyes, the symbolization of the city, the similarity of the city, the disappearance of the city memory, the city replacement, survival and death are all the misfortunes of the modern city. Perhaps I can decipher one of them, but I don’t want to push this article into my personal will in a definite way. Only symbols can bring infinite imagination space.

Later, I divided the article into two parts. Part of this is what the author has seen in his car----- passing houses and towns of all sizes. The second part is about the scenes the author will encounter when he is tired of, including the hotel he is going to visit and the people he sees in the hardware store talking. Of course, the author also hoped to leave this boring city immediately, but at this moment the driver told him that every city is the same, you can never escape. Although there is no afterword here, I guess the author must be confused, and he is faced with the choice of whether to leave by plane or continue to the hotel. In a word, the author was confused by his powerlessness in trying to get rid of the shackles of seeing the city being affected. ​ ​ ext, I began to think about how to set up the scene. One source of inspiration is N Inception. In the plot of the film, when the heroine realizes that what she thinks is the real world is actually the dream world, the dream world begins to collapse. In addition, when the protagonist aligns the glass door with the glass door, the palace presents an infinite repetition of scenes in the mirror. It also helps me understand the phenomenon of continuous cities.

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Stage 3- Setting up perspectives First of all, I decided to set the background of my first scene as the city background. Because the author’s first state of time was that he had just arrived in the city and was in the daytime. So what the author sees is some street scenes. Secondly, I set the scene where the author had just arrived in the city. After that, I began to collect the material I wanted. I have collected photographs of some workers and extracted them for use in my scenes, which can form a scene of people’s dull life in the city. Then I came up with the idea of setting the first scene on the rooftop square. People walk up the stairs from the ground block to my first perspective. At the same time, the protagonist can also clearly overlook some scenes of big cities from this perspective.

In this perspective, I lift the roof to form an open scene. And because in the article, the author mentioned the square in the city， I set up the square in the city on my “rooftop”.

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In the second perspective, I set the background as a palace leading to the airport. In the right of the background, there is a man in the store, which is the direction to the hotel. Meanwhile, my timeline became the night of the day. After people left work, the whole site seemed to be relaxed. But the nun was still sitting in the same position, looking around at the scene, which forms a dynamic and static contrast between space and time. In addition, there are hardware stores in the distance where people are talking carefully. I express the author’s confusion about going or staying through the palace in the distance and the stores leading to the hotel on the other side.

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Stage 4- Drawing my Isometric Map First of all, I divide the floor of my model into three steps in rhinoceros, and there are bricks collapsing at the edge. This is to reflect my understanding of space disintegration in Inceptional Space. The theme of my story is the city of circulation, so my time line and the main character’s flow line are like a circle. Afterwards, I combined two pictures of pespectives to cast a shadow over the most crowded places. Secondly, according to the direction of the arrow, I indicated the course of people’s action - they preferred to move in the direction of crowds.

I once saw a movie called Dungeon. The author uses the third person tone to describe the hero’s life underground after the earth was polluted. This story always comes to mind when I design. Similarly, in an invisible city, I can see that the author satirizes a series of life in the city and leads people to want to flee, die, or numb. In the second chapter of the story, I understand the continuous city. In fact, in every work, the author’s ideas are interlinked.

At the same time, in this design, I feel more about how to describe a space. If we only design a space out of thin air and don’t know why he designed it like this, then no matter how good the space looks, it will be soulless. ​ Perhaps we can not fully understand the meaning of space and space, but this assignment can give us a preliminary understanding of design vividly.

The stories we read are like our thoughts. We need to present our thoughts to people, so that people can understand the meaning of the book more simply, and let us understand the interoperability between two-dimensional and three-dimensional.

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