The site installation focused on depicting societal participation in the natural landscape around. The group chose a landscape including a tree and a green field. Later examining our resources, we used the elements of wind, light, and shade. Wind was an important depiction of the group’s landscape due to the ideas created.
A naturalistic perspective on humanizing nature was a windchime in the group’s case.
Constructing cubes and cylinders is a creative process to engage the individual to learn about various techniques leading to the same product. the process included numerous materials: chipboard, cardboard, basswood, plexiglass, and concrete. Each resource provided a different challenge in which students would find various techniques, glues and knives to tackle the same project.
Repetition, light, color, shadow, are all important principles to design. This project unified the defining principles to create a colorful space. Firstly, a pattern was made from ink which was was oriented in different ways to make various designs. Choosing a color palette, the next step was to create a plaid which transitioned to a colorful pattern from the previous step. Lastly, creating a paper design, it was then colored using the color palette. Learning in this step-by-step process was important to developing various design principles.
Topography, distance, contrast, and line weight. These principles of design are in no way less important than the previous elements. This project emphasized 3D from a 2-dimensional pattern. Here, students chose a textile design that they used to create a 3 Dimensional space. This fabric was specifically monochrome and used mainly whites and black of different thicknesses. The three-dimensional object represents a reproduction of a piece of the textile design.
Using classical art, this project emphasized abstract ideas. This way, students took a piece of art and made a wooden space from the derived drawing. This project focused on my having a different perspective on art by reusing classics and creating an individual’s own perception of a piece of art.
Using the previous project, students read about a fictional city from the book “Invisible Cities” and applied principles of one of the cities to their wooden space. Elements of elevation and, hierarchy and chaos were introduced into this project. The beginning of this project included concepts and diagrams necessary to get to the final product.
Creating the wooden model is difficult to imagine without drawings and concepts of the elements of the city from the book. However, once all concepts are final, the complete model looks like a small landscape for people to travel through, conversate and live. This project was the most beneficiary to the work ethic, organization, patience, and overall presentation of an Architecture Student.
