VISUAL STORYTELLING THROUGH

Digital Perspectives

Taking advantage of Rhino’s built-in ray tracing capabilities, we created rendered perspectives of our overall project. Just as our digital paraline drawings, we focused on showing scale, function, and circulation throughout the spaces. This was achieved through postproduction work in Photoshop.

Site Model Making

Due to the nature of our steep site, building a clean site model effectively representing change in terrain proved to be difficult with the allotted time. Despite, the challenges, the team pulled through, thinking of creative ways to physically tell our story: fashioning trees out of sticks and wire, shrubbery out of trace paper, and utilizing the laser cutter whenever possible.

Strengths Weaknesses

- Unique design due to unique circumstances.

- Clear drawings and graphics that effectively communicate the design

- The site model lacks in cleanliness and fails to effectively convey the qualities of the site.

- The team didn’t allot enough time for make various iterations. More options should have been explored.

- This is the first large scale project I’ve done that was larger than a single story house.

- Learning how to digitally model terrain is an important skill as most sites are not perfectly flat.

- Learning how to effectively communicate with team members and stay on track.

- Keeping all files necessary for sharing in a team project organized can be difficult.

- Making sure all team members are on the same page can be difficult.

- Inefficient use of model making material is of concern when certain materials are not recyclable.