Apkconcepts

Dancing With Architecture #2

alexpkaiser — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:37:58 +0000

Running Through architecture

Anatomy and Architecture #1 Spine

alexpkaiser — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 16:35:53 +0000

Anatomy and Architecture #1 The spine. Examining the skeleton and relationship to movement.

Mole skin Gel Pen sketches

alexpkaiser — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 01:32:52 +0000

A little to much of a lack of updates in the last month – here are a series of sketches that i did today with the new found love of the bic gel pen – it works really well with a brush pen, the ink is quite loose and creates great wash. More, perhaps intellectually challenging stuff coming soon, (for myself at least!…….).

Wearing Architecture #1 Vantage Point

alexpkaiser — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:37:01 +0000

A sketch playing with the idea of being able to prop yourself outside buildings in order to get better/higher view to draw. There are balconies, windows and so on, but there is a tendency for them to be private, inaccessible from the inside – instead, how about introducing a series of external waypoints to create invisible infrastructures for those willing to discover them. The idea of manipulating high edges/surfaces of buildings and extracting these into individual spaces that are not easily accessible. Not space for the masses, but spaces that reward effort. If you are willing to get a serious injury in order to experience something unique is it worth it? Perhaps a sort of ground based skydiving, or mountain climbing. Inserting unique tailored programmatic areas (Drawing vantage points, best place to see the sunrise, watch a parade….) around london to be found by anyone willing to push a bit harder to get there. As the quantities of these build up we could see the introduction of spatial geo-caching, iphone apps that beam down locations in your vicinity and allow you vantage points that you have not experienced before. As for how they are built – perhaps that’s another sketch.

When buildings attack. Or at least get up.

alexpkaiser — Tue, 31 May 2011 21:18:38 +0000

2 more quick sketches

Overlay Madness

alexpkaiser — Tue, 31 May 2011 21:09:42 +0000

Intensifying spatial discovery through overlay.

The Architect

alexpkaiser — Mon, 16 May 2011 21:19:13 +0000

WIP

Operational Drawings

alexpkaiser — Thu, 12 May 2011 22:12:50 +0000

Again…. Combining multiple perspectives, orthographics and other projections to catalyse thumbnail sketches. Drawing not only the formal, but the choreography/dynamics and the invisible. Soon I will update with a little more description one one image.

Multiple Projections Moleskin

alexpkaiser — Sat, 07 May 2011 19:12:40 +0000

3 Drawings – 1 Plan, 2 perspectives projected from the plan in 2 different directions. Top down, and 2 point. Each is exploring a slight variation in the other drawings. The Third drawing is beginning to look at multiple timelines within one drawing through framing.

Fun method of creating them – if you are using a moleskin the pages are just thin enough to allow you to trace over your previous image. Skip a page and draw the first drawing – then you can go back one page and trace over the sketch and on the flip side of the original page trace and develop the sketch also. – So you can explore one drawing twice more and do x-ray/projections/clean line drawing etc.

Pencil Architecture Projection Sketches

alexpkaiser — Fri, 06 May 2011 00:23:26 +0000

Here are a couple more sketches. Exploring the interplay between plan, section and elevation – Scale, extraction of the diagram, and translation to different projections.