FoD:R Portfolio
Yuwen XIAO (964557)/Studio 24/Emmanuel Alexander Cohen
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M1: Measured Drawing Of A Croissant
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M2: New Mario World
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M4: The Invisible City
M1: How to Draw a croissant? In this module, the measurement drawing of a croissant requires variety of representation skills includes photographing, light using, item sketching and axonmetric drawing.
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The first stage for the measured drawing of croissant is photograph, I measured the correct scale of the croissant, then took a photo on top, elevation, scan for the base, and adjust them to the correct scale on the Photoshop. The photographing location and the light using is important in this stage.
Secondly, I print out the plan of croissant then using the tracing paper to traced the scale of croissant. In terms of sketching, I break down the appearance of croissant in to texture, light and shade. First outline the obvious texture pattern with very fine pencil line sketching, then difene critical shadow line with hatching using a soft pencil, the concentrate on the small part using the appropriate type of pencils.
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Drawing
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Processing
Exterior: Photographing - Sketching Interoir: Scanning - Sketching
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Axonmetric Drawing
By study this module, I started to understand the skill of drawing with the help of my tutor. Understand the sense of depth is also good for work. Even my skill of drawing accuracy still needs to be improved, this module was given me a new concept of representation.
Also, The most important part learned in this module is how to draw the Axonometric image and explore the interior structure of the model, which is very helpful and important for my future study in design to express all the detail accurately on the paper.
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M2: Flatness VS Projection This is a quite interesting and creatively module, which trial our Spatial Visualization and the understanding of Axon metric, give us an opportunity to improve our representation skill by using technical devices and software. In this module, I try to create a city of sky of Mario’s world.
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World 24-15 Elevation view
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Tools used in the plan drawing.
This figure shows the way to draw a axonmetric of Mario’s world
The second level drawing complete.
Axonmetric drawing of the Mario’s world
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Plan drawing
New Mario’ World - The air City
The theme of the Mario’s world I create in the Air CIty. I was intend to make some creative building and item in the “city” but always related to the shape from the original images. To produce this piece, I projected the elevation templates at 45 degrees and created the first drawing using pencil. I traced the drawing using fine liner to redefine details and give it a clear outline which help me to get the best scanning result. After scanning, I traced the drawing using pen tool in the Illustrator to create a piece that wouldn’t pixelate.
In the aspect of reveal the place hidden behind the building shows in the elevation image, I use the spatial visualization to ensure every object in the Mario Word are correct to the elevation provided, then draw the 45 degrees line on the graphic paper and pu it undernaeth.
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M3: Flatness VS Projection This is the first module involves me to the 3D modeling design skills to create a paper landscape according to the terrin of Tasmania provided. This module require us to use the 3D moding software, Rhino to creates a digital model, then out put the figure to creates the model by paper.
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Analysing he shape of terrin is a significant part to achieve a beautiful landscape. In this stage, I had creates dozens of units to find the best composition to the landscape. I set the highest point on the highset place of terrin, which made it had larger tortuosity.
Terrain of the landscape.
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Through the unrolling process, I gained the way that of transfering between 3D model and 2D plan
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Paper Landscape -The Jungle The terrain of my module has a big fluctuation, which reminds me of the mountainous region, therefore it inspired me to create the overlapping model reflect the jungle. The 4 panels I used includes the triangular shape and the hollow up unit, which made the sense of the danger and sharp of the jungle.
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M4: Frame VS Field This module is the imagination and representation of the abandoned city in Calvino’s Invisible City , by using one isometric view and two perspective view.
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Invisible
CITY
Trading City: Ersilia In Ersilia, to establish the relationships that sustain the city’s life, the inhabitants stretch strings from the corners of the houses, white or black or gray or black-and-white according to whether they mark a relationship of blood, of trade, authority, agency. When the strings become so numerous that you can no longer pass among them, the inhabitants leave: the houses are dismantled; only the strings and their supports remain. From a mountainside, camping with their house-hold goods, Ersilia’s refugees look at the labyrinth of taut strings and poles that rise in the plain. That is the city of Ersilia still, and they are nothing. They rebuild Ersilia elsewhere. They weave a similar pattern of strings which they would like to be more complex and at the same time more regular than the other. Then they abandon it and take themselves and their houses still farther away. Thus, when traveling in the territory of Ersilia, you come upon the ruins of the abandoned cities, without the walls which do not last, without the bones of the dead which the wind rolls away: spiderwebs of intricate relationships seeking a form.
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“Heavan” and “Hell” The original text gives a clear sense of Ersilia: Abandoned, ruined, and covered with strings. However, this text might attract for further critical thinking: what cause the Ersilia become an ruined city? Why they are so many refugees? The culprit could be the strings, which represent their blood, authority, power, wealth etc.
The strings in Ersilia represents the pawer, authority and blood, which might be two-edged weapon that cause the pool and limitation. This might devide the Ersilia into two parts: one is occupied by the person who are rich and powerful, the other one is the asylum for pool who woder chasing the weath and authority.
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DIspite the text had give a clear picture about the Ersilia, it is suspectable that the money power exchange cause the complex relationship, otherwise the strings cannot be such numerous. Therefore it might be another part in Ersilia with the soft place and wealth, but the people live in there also restricked by the strings. This situation that Marco Polo first observed is that a pensive man seat toward the outside lonely. Even he has a great piles of money, but loss his freedom due to the complex “string�. the complex relationship is the burdensome of people.
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On the other extremes in Ersilia looks like a hell. The characters, items and texture I used in this perspective are are aming to create a terrifying sense to reflect the harsh situation of Ersilia: It is bleak and desolated, the refugees are begging for money or trying to cross through the labyrinth, and the bone are laying everywhere. Near the city, there is another “former Ersilia� which already covered with the numerous strings that impossibloe to pass among.
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This isometric illosion of the city of Ersilia shows the journey of Marco Polo. Since he was enter the city, He firstly see the “heavan” and feels fresh. After continuing walking, he was confuse of the step labyrinth. He quickly pass through it then look back to the opposit bank to see the “hell”, the dead body are crawl toward him. He was amazing and afraid, then he escape away.
Isometric View Of Ersilia
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REFLECTION After all of the four modules had been complete in FoDR this semester, several key elements of design had explored through the study of whole semester, which are useful and important fundamental skills for me as an first-year architecture students in the future design study. The first two modules involve me to convert the 2D planning to 3D planning and following model improve our 3D modelling skill based on 2D thinking and planning. In addition, after the trainning through the workshop, I was surprising that my design skills in technical and digital illustrating and modeling had a huge improvement. Furthermore, the lecture and reading in FoDR had exkent our vision and thinking of design and they provide the inspiration and way of thinking in design, what is good and what is bad. These theoretical studies built a solid frame work that I can apply my design on, and finally total understand it and gained these approach.
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