WORKSHOP 3 - DRAWING AND RENDERING

The significant aspect of the Avalon House is the landscape. I choosed black and white scheme because a dramatic drawing of the landscape could be achieved from tonal variation of pencil. Its hard to achieve it using colour pencils. Furthermore, trees also is one of the important element in the landscape. I choosed a very soft green colour by using soft pastel. The reason behind this is because to prevent the colour of tree to outshine the landscape. Apart from that, another aspect of my drawings is the composition. What I want to portray here is continuity and unity of a presentation drawing. The part that i found in the making of the drawing is how to control the tonal variation. Plus, I do not know hot to draw shadow in architectural drawing.

THE SITE MODEL OF FISHER HOUSE

What I found difficult in making the model was to cut the contour. In this exercise, we were given a choice to choose a selection of material to differentiate different element of the side. The materials that I choose were Balsa for timber,boxboard for the contour, wire for the trees, and corrugated box for the rock. while for the creek, I peeled off on of the layer of the boxboard to get a textured skin.

THE FINAL FISHER HOUSE

Fisher House by Louis Kahn has a very interesting approach of design principle. He used classical grid method in most of his design. In term of making this model, I find it difficult to make a craft detail model at a large scale. Much caution have to take in making the model. Balsa has been the main material for my model and I manipulated the use of it to describe different part of the house.

CHURCH OF LIGHT

The significance of Church of Light by Tandao Ando is how he conveys light into the building. Its a very unique church. To make the model of the building is not that difficult. However, I find that to capture photographs and deliver the meaning of the building is a bit tricky. I play with natural light and shadow in photographing the model.