Aung Jessica Htet Thiri M2

Foundations of Design : REPRESENTATION, SEM1, 2017 M2 JOURNAL - FLATNESS vs PROJECTION Jessica Htet Thiri Aung (917890) Ben Waters + 07

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WEEK 3 READING: TITLE OF READING

Question 1: What is Pictorial Space according to Le Corbusier? (Maximum 100 words) Le Corbusier states that every objects has rigid frontality if they are viewed from a distance. One can know the shape of the real object only by the prior knowledge of the object. Moreover, the approximate distance of an object can be determined by rotating the object. The contrast between frontality and rotation is similar to the difference between imagination and reality. According to Le Corbusier, architectural composition depends on either formal or latter. Therefore, for Le Corbusier, pictorial space is actuality of the live perspective.

Question 2: The Flatness of Le Corbusier’s painting’s are attributable to two properties. What are they?

And what are these pitted against?(Maximum 100 words) Firstly, the objects in the paintings are contoured shapes of the frontality of the real object. The faces of the objects are transformed to create illusional depth. The other reason for the flatness of Le Corbusier’s paintings is that the distance between the objects become the representation of the connection between the appearance of the object and real object. However, this continuity makes the texture of the objects distinct from the contoured ground of the objects.

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MARIO’S WORLD

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1ST MARIO’S WORLD

Insert your annotation

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COMBINED MARIO’S WORLD

Scanned Hand-Drawn combined Mario World

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WEEK 4 READING: TITLE OF READING Complete your reading before attempting these questions:

Question 1: Explain the difference between Pictoral (in this case perspectival) space and Projection?

(Maximum 100 words) Pictoral space is the limited, closed space ;whereas projection is infinite. In projection, the object and its representation exists in the same plane or volume. In addition, projection can extends either backwards or forwards to create the depth. Moreover, perspective has fixed point. On the other hand, the view point and vanishing point of the projection are at infinity. Perspective is a record of the existence of the objects while projection constructs the objects. Another difference between perspective and projection is the concepts of time: perspective has single point of view,which seems like record of frozen time while projection represents the objects in constant motion.

Question 2: Where did Axonometric projection first arise, and why? (Maximum 100 words) Axonometric projection was first emerged in eighteenth and nineteenth centuries at engineering schools. The axonometric projection extended the use of geometry and scientific root for architecture.

For scientific architects, axonometric projection is combination of perspective and orthographic projection, which portrays the measurability of the objects. Therefore, the origin of axonometric projection is connected with construction and consistency of measurement, based on technical and abstract concepts.

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ILLUSTRATED MARIO’S NEW WORLD

colored mario world

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APPENDIX

Drawing equipments

First world projection

second world projection Combined mario world with pen outline

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