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!