Great Session - Thanks guys

Thanks to you all for a great semester. I hope you've all learnt something along the way. I have enjoyed myself very much and I wish you all the best for the rest of your degrees.

I was pleased with the final presentations and I am sure you will agree that the guest critiques were very helpful and inspiring.

You will hear from me via email to student accounts with your grades for the final submission.

Cheers

Felicity.

Countdown to final Presentation

I look forward to seeing some exciting sketch designs this week guys. Make sure you bring scaled accurate sketches to class this week. I want to see plans and sections working in tandem. See you Wednesday 2pm sharp for 15 minute one on one reviews.

READ DOWN FOR IMPORTANT STUDIO INFO.

Example photo stitch up (perspective)

Example of photo stitching collage. Igualada Cemetary. Enric Miralles. NB: Your photo stitch up is in elevation.

Example site analysis drawing.

Studio Wednesday 26th May. Project 2

Hi everyone.

A good site visit on Wednesday last week and hopefully you have lots of ideas to present this week.

In terms of determining your narrative for this project, you will need to look at the work of one or two specific artists as a way of understanding the environment and capacity for display and architectural engagement with such works. We will discuss this as a group so you will need examples and prepared thoughts.

You will need to bring the following to class this week:

NB: All drawings are to be to a consistent scale (1:200/1:100/1:50)

Drawing are to be done in pencil or black pen as basic line drawings.

1. SKETCH PLAN OF SITE

• This must include surrounding buildings, parks, trees, dimensions of streets, traffic poles and other important geographical information.

2. CROSS SECTION

• Cutting across the side through the middle. Showing maybe a couple of buildings either side and their approximate height

3. LONG SECTION

• Down the length of the site. Showing neighbouring buildings and/or roads and parks across the street from the site. Neighbouring buildings should be shown in elevation down the side of the site.

4. STITCHED PHOTO STREET ELEVATION (or hand drawn elevation)

• As discussed at site this involved walking down the King Street and taking photos directly facing your site and neighbouring buildings. The photos can be overlapped together to give you a street elevation. Print this out roughly to scale and bring to class.

5. STREET IMAGE

• One photograph street perspective of the site for drawing over in class. This needs to be a large photo of the street view of your site. A4 minimum.

This basic set of drawings should be created for you to begin your design work. I expect to see these drawings from all of you with an accompanying sketch design. You will be asked about your narrative for the project and your attitude towards the brief regarding contemporary art. Sketch models and precedent studies are also highly recommended.

Please also bring A3 tracing paper, A3 sketch paper, drawing mediums, scale rulers and other materials for an in class drawing exercise.

See you Wednesday!

Project 3 - Site Meeting

As discussed in class yesterday we will be meeting next Wednesday 19th May at 2:30pm at Berkalouw Bookshop at #6 O'Connell Street Newtown.

Please bring

• Site plans for annotations (to scale)
• Camera
• Tape measure
• A3 Sketch pad/paper
• 2B/4B/6B pencils
• Artline 0.4 and 0.6 pens
• Other mapping tools

Project 3 - Artist's Gallery, Shop + Residence

Hi everyone and here's to a great project number 3.

We are going to meet for 2 hours this week to go through the project brief in detail and plan our site visit next week. The tutors are having a parity session at 4pm for Project 2.

I would like you all to bring all project material and information you have gathered already. We will go through the outline documents in detail and you will need to bring your sketch books and laptops to begin your work before we go to site.

Our site visit will be next week meeting at 2pm in Newtown. The details of this visit will be discussed in studio this week.

See you Wednesday

FS.

IMPORTANT > NARRATIVE

Hi everyone. I am looking forward to seeing some imaginative work as we meet today after the study break and long weekend. You have had a good amount of time to analyse, ponder, draw, model and explore possibilities for assignment 2. I have received some narratives and research from you over the two weeks and some good drawings and sketch models have come through.

I would suggest that you all take plenty of time to formulate clear and well written narrative sentences. Some of the language coming through is convoluted and unnecessarily wordy. The idea is to ‘translate’ the emotive reading of the painting into activities so that there is a design brief. Remember Xing's example about the tall man in a tower who enjoys stamp collecting... it is uncomplicated but gives parameters to create a design.

example: "A heart broken woman spends her days and nights in her house atop the headland. She writes constantly... recounting stories from her past. She hovers at the edge, gazing out over the crashing waves below."

This narrative clearly sets a scene and allows us to imagine a place. It gives parameters for a design. Remember to imbue your text with strong sense of story and character.

Project 2 - Room + Narrative

Wednesday studio discussion was very thought provoking and you have all chosen very interesting paintings for this next project. I would like to see you uploading your chosen work to your blog and writing some words about your interpretation of the work in the next few days.

***Read the outline very carefully:

...'You are encouraged to uncover the original narrative of the assigned painting, or to superimpose a narrative onto the painting, and then to 'materialize' this narrative into a 'receptacle' that is inhabited by human figures'... (page 6)

We do not have class next week however, you will need to upload the following to your blog by next Wednesday.

• A couple of paragraphs and drawings about your interpretation and reading of the painting. Include research information.
• Some draft narratives and perhaps a final narrative sentence or short paragraph with an accompanying explanation.
• Some parti drawings, plans, sections or models of early designs for your space.. these might be ideas about a particular window opening or feature of the room. You are welcome to collage/montage your ideas... think outside the box in terms of presentation and finding a way into this project.

When we reconvene on Wednesday 28th April you should all have this work well and truly underway with progress on your final model, as a mock up or practice model.

***Upload to your blog

You are welcome to email me your narrative and I will give you some feedback. Upload your progress work to your blog and I will have a look at it and send you some thoughts.

FS