Academic Portfolio. First Year

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tion relative to the creature’s instrumentality (what it creates and how this instrument acts in its creation and what processes might be involved). The second part will involve a team effort to produce a drawing synthesizing your individual research into a large comprehensive, evocative and expressive drawing. This drawing will play further upon the creature as an instrument or instruments, its narrative (process or processes) and should demonstrate the way in which a place is created through them. The drawing should make sure of multiple views, repetition, the effect of time or motion and should be thought of as describing an complex set of operations -, a story or stories that where several thread together in its creation. Team-work and shared authorship is critical – most architecture is produced by teams not individuals. Note: - You are NOT to make representative drawing of the animals or their habitation, rather, you are to draw from what the techniques and methods of analysis that you and your colleagues engaged in the research phase – that is to say, you are NOT to be limited to your own work or methods used in the previous exercises.You may certainly build upon that work of those methods if it is appropriate, but you should experiment with other techniques and approaches. - You must develop a critical sense of the drawing and a rigorous process for its construction. - Your drawing should utilize multiple points of views; plan, section and axonometric drawing in combinations that are appropriate and useful in re-presenting the adaptive and instrumental aspects of your animal. The use of multiple views, notation, dashed lines, etc. to show movement or change should be utilized. Line weight and construction lines will be important descriptive and evocative elements of your drawing. Architecture is often articulated by sets of relationships, i.e. between one bone and another, between skeleton and skin, between one extremity and another, etc.… Take note of the ways in which your creature may set up analogous relationships. - Architecture is not a final product, is the result of the process. Your drawing should represent the different processes related to the creature’s activities and involved in the creation of the structure. - When analyzing the habitation the notion of unit and collective should be considered and demonstrated. In doing so different strategies of aggregation may come out and should be classified and represented.

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