Project 2: Design

Project 2: Design Design Folio

Esther Francis

Swinburne University of Technology School of Design + Architecture Architecture Design Studio 1 (Communication) 2023 Semester 2 Studio leader: Linus Tan

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Swinburne University of Technology School of Design + Architecture Bachelor of Design (Architecture)

to cite: Francis, E. 2023. ARC10001 Architecture Design Studio 1 (Communication) Design Folio, Swinburne University of Technology

ARC10001 Architectural Design Studio 1 (Communication) Project 2, Design Folio 2023 Semester 2 Studio leader: Linus Tan Unit convener: Linus Tan All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by means, electronic or mechanical, including photography, recording or any other information storage and retrieval system, without prior permission in writing from Swinburne University of Technology.

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Table of Contents

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Learning summary

Progress feedback

Phase 1: Idea

Phase 1: Idea

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Week 1A Design idea

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Phase 2: Situate

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Week 1B Interpreting precedent studies

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Phase 3: Explore

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Week 2A Notating idea to studies

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Phase 4: Execute

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Week 2B Designing through section

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Week 3A Developing design

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Week 3B Assessing our work

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Phase 2: Situate Week 4A Site building, 2D and 3D

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Week 4B Site annotation 3D

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Week 5A Site representation

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Week 5B Process framing (verbal)

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Posters Idea + Situate

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Explore + Execute

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Behind the scenes Appendix 1

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Phase 3: Explore Week 7A Physical modelling

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Week 7B Photographing light and time

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Week 8A Perspective collaging

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Week 8B Transition diagramming

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Phase 4: Execute Week 10 Design development

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Week 11 Design resolution

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Week 12 Design refinement

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Learning summary: Week 1

Design idea Architectural Language is a tool of which a designer can use to best distil ideas in a translatable form. I learnt that I could examine my environment and experiences not just though my own internal visual perspective and its visual products, but also though a vocabulary. This enables me to better externalise visualised thought, allowing another platform from which I can analyse my thoughts, ideas, and potential directions though. Architectural language therefore allows me to better explore and understand my own thoughts, and communicate them with greater clarity, both verbally and visually.

Musi-tecture Terminology in two groups: Terminology and Sources of Inspiration

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Interpreting precedent studies Precedent Studies often fail due to ineffective visual communication of connection to concept.

This can be improved by using visual continuity, encouraging the viewer to compare and visually understand a concept. Diagrams and sketching over precedents is an effective to draw attention to aspects that support and communicate your concept. The more this can then be re-enforced throughout precedents allows for a stronger link to concept. By keeping the same layout, the viewer is able to quickly understand the linking concept due to this continuity.

Precedent Study Image

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Precedent studies with highlighted sections, outlines and notation.

Precedent Study Image

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Learning summary: Week 2

Notating idea to studies Line drawings and annotations are particularly important in diagramming, as they aim to visualise connections between different mediums and ideas. This visualisation allows for more clarity, and could work alongside or as a self-standing communication tool.

Lines give the diagram visual connection, allowing one method for continuity whilst not limiting differentiation with different line styles, shades and colours.

Draft Idea Poster include Paul’s Dream Piano Music and Notation

Annotations are capable of completing the process, by labelling the connections that have been made, enabling the reader to label the concept, idea or emotion.

Draft Precedent Study poster including a patchwork of precedent images

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Designing through section Sections are an important tool for design. Rather than focusing of the layout and circulation of space, which designing in plan allows, by designing in section one is able to explore spatial qualities, light and materiality to a greater extent.

Draft posters 1, 2, and 3, and three hand sketches of sections

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Learning summary: Week 3

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Draft Poster 4: Design

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Assessing our work It is important to communicate ideas visually and textually explicitly, so that designs are understood as they were intended. By receiving feedback and assessment I am able to understand what is or isn’t clearly and explicitly communicated and how to improve for future work.

Finished Poster 5: Develop. Shows a section of a doorway

Finished Poster 4: Design, includes 16 sections and orange terminology

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Learning summary: Week 4

Site Mapping I found it difficult to balance the information on the site map, as there was information on elements that were not only visual. I found communicating not only the landscape, but also other elements such as wind forces, water direction and views difficult. I have learnt that symbols, lines and arrows are tools that can communicate this.

An array of natrual landscape images

Site analysis in Isometric A disadvantage of using an isometric projection for site analysis is there is a required direction to analysis the site though. This make it difficult to explore and understand other angles and sections of the site. However, compared to mapping, isometric projections allow for greater understanding of the site, water and wind direction and views due to the 3D nature and the use of human scale.

A screenshot of rhino showing a draft site

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Add image here 91.5x65mm Lots of red, pink and black lines arrandged in a swirly circle patten

First Draft Contour Map

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Draft Isometric Projection of a section of site

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Draft Isometric Projection of a section of site

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Learning summary: Week 5

Site representation Though making and photographing my site model, I found that it is difficult to correctly communicate the site when photographing. By taking lots of photos I was able to record the model, however this recorded the model and not the site and concept. By focusing on certain aspects of the model, such as the slope and cliffs I was able to better communicate the site and model into 2D. Lasercutter File, a contour map with red and blue lines in a pattern of red, blue, blue, blue

Two photos: The left photos shows parts of lasercut screenboard, and the right shows parts of glued together lasercut screenboard.

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A Photo looking at the almost complete site model vertically

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Process framing Using the framing, naming, moving and evaluating techniques I learned how important it is to continuously connect your design to your concept. By structuring along the lines of framing (in context of the concept), naming (words linking the concept, design and presentation), moving (how is it linked to concept) and then evaluating (how well is it linked), verbal presentations are able to continuously link the concept and design clearly and explicitly.

Presentation I found the presentations that were most engaging included regular audience interaction, such as eye contact, interacting with models and pointing and specific elements on the visual presentation. However, the presentations were members read directly from their notes were less engaging. Techniques such as having notes on when to look up from notes, when to interact with audience etc. seemed to be beneficial.

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A screenshot of a workshopped presentation script

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Learning summary: Week 7

Physical modelling Modelling digitally, although often more accessible and more economical, takes away part of the reality of design, as one views the model in 2D representation of 3D only. Physical models, in contrast, allow the designer to move and understand the space whilst also being able to perceive in 3D, rather than an interpretation of it. Therefore, a combination of both digital, and also physical, modelling is beneficial for allowing a greater option of design opportunities, and also understanding and exploration of the design.

Four photos of sketch models, made of black foamboard and screenboard, all with a breadtag bent to represent a human figure

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Photographing light and time Light and Shadows, as well as how they are affected by time, is extremely important to designing spaces. When light and shadows are overlooked, designs become susceptible to lighting that veer contrastingly to the concept and design intentions. Light and time is explored using models, as only once the design is in 3D are the light and shadows able to be explicitly perceived and altered.

Light and Time Studies

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Learning summary: Week 8

Perspective collaging To ensure that the materials and textures used for collage rendering were inline with my intended atmospheric design and adequate for the space, I initially brainstormed the heaviness that I perceived should come from different elements of my space. I then brainstormed how warm or cool these elements should be, and then lastly their texture. Using this brainstorm, I aimed for materials that meet these qualities, starting with weighting as most vital.

Draft Perspective Collage

Transition diagramming To communicate a hierarchy of information, I used differing weights and tones, so some appeared sharper than others. To differentiate ideas, I used a variety of line types and shapes, such as outlines, solid fills, gradients and dashed lines. I put the information that was most vital to my concept as the most prominent of these, solid fills, and then next most important information with the next prominent, etc. With this method I was able to ensure my diagram conveyed my ideas and concept.

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Add image here 91.5x65mm Hand Sketch of Circulation ideation

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An edited texture of twisted wires

Handsketch of circulation ideation

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Progress feedback: Phase 1

An array of precedent studies, with highlights, outlines and notation

Week 1

1. What design actions did you take?

Draft Poster 1: Idea

Week 2

1. What design actions did you take?

Finding Precedents on ArchDaily

I started to create posters communicating my design directions

2. Why did you take such actions?

2. Why did you take such actions?

Particular Architectural elements were the same as what I identified from the music

To create a clear process brief for future development

3. What aspect of progress work can be improved or needs to be changed?

3. What was clearly communicated solely from the presented progress work?

Framing in terms of music rather than of the Architecture, for strengthening concept

Chosen images and Terminology

4. What now needs to be explored, designed, or tested before the next studio?

Aim to strengthen the connection between the concept and architecture

4. What aspect of the progress work can be improved or needs to be changed?

Typography and Visual Composition 5. What is missing or not considered in the progress work?

Mark ups are missing, boarders need work, and descriptions are lacking. Link ideas with rounded lines to improve clarity

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Precedent Image

Edited Image of Precedent

Week 3

1. What design actions did you take?

I changed the saturation of the images and the colour of highlights and lines to be more consistent. I also edited sketches.

2. Why did you take such actions?

I edited colours to increase visual continuity, and outlined, highlighted and edited images to strenghten the links to my concept.

3. What was clearly communicated solely from the presented progress work?

The grayscale images allow for focus on highlights and call outs.

4. What aspect of the progress work can be improved or needs to be changed?

Adding orange accents and terms for the section sketches. Adding color to music notes for poster 1, swaping the angles of poster 3, increaseing 2023 Semester 2 Studio leader: name

the gap for readability for poster 4, and explore light in poster 5.

5. What is missing or not considered in the progress work?

Weave together images for poster 3, reduce desrciptions, and create clarity on the focus of each section and what it is exploring. In both poster 4 and 5 human figures aren’t included for scale, and poster 5 lighting isn’t explored.

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Progress feedback: Phase 2

Photo of a Natural Landscape, including cliffs, waterfalls, and winding creek, and steep slopes

Draft contour map

Week 4

5. What is missing or not considered in the progress work?

1. What design actions did you take?

Drafted contour lines based off a natural environment beneficial to the ideas that have been chosen for exploration, development and contour.

2. What was clearly communicated solely from the presented progress work?

Contours are uneven, so visually confusing.

Focus on annotations rather than site design.

Week 5

The aim of communicating cliffs

1. What was clearly communicated solely from the presented progress work?

3. What aspect of the progress work can be improved or needs to be changed?

Communicates the type of site designed, and clearly communicates cliffs.

Scale and annotation are missing. Can improve cliff communication.

2. What aspect of the progress work can be improved or needs to be changed?

4. What aspect of the presented work is not working, and in their judgement, why not?

Annotation of water features, light/sun direction wind and views needs improving. Also colour for communication. Missing people, and trees that give scale, and arrow and lines for clarity of communication of different aspects.

The hidden lines are confusing and don’t communicate clearly.

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Photo of the hollow body site model

Finished poster 3, showing 5 photos of the hollow body site model

3. What is missing or not considered in the progress work?

Different line types/colours/weights for markers needs to be considered.

Week 6 Posters 1 requires improved hierarchy of information. The colours are competing, so we need to reflect on what information is most important. The legend can be improved, and hatches could be added. To improve the hierarchy of information, adjustments to lineweights, thicknesses and colours can be improved.

For Poster 2, smaller, finer hatches are required.

The isometrics need added thickness at the bottom, and soil composition added to this.

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The scale of humans to plants needs to be considered, as a reed is the same hight as a person. Lineweights and colours can be improved, and adding an outline of the base is needed. The views have also not been explored or anaylised.

For the process framing, being more specific with reference words can renfoce your concept.

Add notes on audience interaction, and hand over clarity for vebal continuity and clarity. Can swap out interesting with design oppotunities.

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Posters: Idea + Situate

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Posters: Explore + Execute

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Behind the scenes

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Four photos of models. From top to bottom, Site model with human figure and representational screenboard, Site model with human figure and representational screenboard, photo of Station 1: Contour model and photo of Model Layout.

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Photos of hand sketches

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