Architectural Drawing

Architectural drawing workshop is undoubtedly the most practical workshop that I have enrolled in. I learnt a lot of drawing techniques such as rendering skills which will be really helpful in my future study in architecture.





Below is the "Tea cup exercise" which we had to draw and render the tea cup in scale 1:1.
































Above is the Mock-Up for our final drawing. I think the bridge of the Botta House is certainly the most sight catching element. So I was thinking to place the plans as a horizontal line to make a coherent feeling to the bridge.







An in-class exercise which is a perspective drawing of the house that we chose. I have choosen the Botta House, which is this building has both vertical and horizontal sense. And I think the proportion of the Botta House is beautiful. This persepctive drawing was done on tracing paper, I added lots of vegetation to create a natural feeling of the house.















Above is an in-class exercise, what we had to do was to mark the correct shadow.












Plans , section and elevation which were drawn on tracing paper.



















The FINAL DRAWING of the Botta House. I really like the bridge that extending along to the cliff, so I emphasis that by colouring it. To get a balance, I also coloured the bridges in the section, elevation and plans. The layout of the plans is an imitation of the form of the house, I tried to create a coherent feeling in the drawing.

Fluid thoughts to action

"Fluid thoughts to action" is an really interesting workshop which helped me a lot in developing the sense of abstract in my drawings. Working in groups are good experience which I could learn from each other and I think we created some good work as we worked along.














This is a collage of 4 drawings from my group members' and mine: Kevin, Aaron and Sunnam. We did 4 very different styles of drawings, some of us did rough drawings, some of us have really detailed drawing. It was really a challenge to put them all together at the begining. We did quite a lot of thinking , but we decided to follow our feelings in the end. We tried to connect lines together to create a somehow linked drawing-collage. The result turned out really well, and all parts fitted together perfectly.















This was drawings of a couple of different objects. The objects have been moved once in a few minutes, which was a little bit frustrating. I found it really difficult to show the movement of the objects. I extended the paper to capture more about the movement of the objects. And I tried to do a contrast between the left drawing and the right drawing. One has a dark backgroud and clear line drawings , whereas the other has dark and messy lines and white background.














This was the drawing of looking out from the Red Center Building Level 6 's window. We did a normal view of the landsacpe that we saw, and then drew another enlarged version of it. I cut the enlarged building and paste it on top of the original drawing.














This is the descriptive drawing that we did base on our group member's description. The description that I got from Aaron was : Inside a dark , long, dim tunnel, there are lights leaking into it. There would be some kind of barrier inside the tunnel, and plants struggling. Which was quite a difficult description, so I tried to interpret it into my way. the plants are struggling to grow inside the dark tunnel and trying to get out from the holes.















The second drawing of the Sydney Opera House. We drew it in a different angle, and we moved to draw from a different view after around 15 minutes. I did create some overlapping effects within this drawing.















This is the first drawing that we did in the Fluid Thought workshop. Obviously, this is the Sydney Opera House, and I found it not as easy as I thought. For me, the curves and angles are the most difficult thing to draw , I used to be drawing more realistic drawings, so it was a bit of challenge here.

Material Modelling WORKSHOP

This is a photo-collage of my living room. I teared up the photos of the real place and pasted them together with the photos of my model. I wanted to bring the real space and the model together in order to compare them. Also, I've drawn over the paper to make the whole collage more dramatic.




























This is the model that I did to show how I'd like to transform my apartment. I'm only doing the living room since the living room is the most interesting part of my apartment. I extended the interior space and transformed the balcony into something more interesting and would attract me to stay there more often.















This is one side of the model that I transformed.




















What we were doing in this workshop was to transform a space that we have the most access to. Thus, I chose the unit that I'm living. The problems that I think my apartment have is that there are not enough sunlight coming through from the window, which makes the place cold and dark, and it is quite depressing. Also, I'd like to make the balcony more interesting since I always like to stay outdoor and enjoy a cup of tea.