Dancing With Architecture #2

Running Through architecture

 

Mole skin Gel Pen sketches

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

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.

2 more quick sketches

 

Operational Drawings

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

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

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

Dancing With Architecture

Dancing With Architecture

 

Buildup of idea through Orthographic to Perspective

Layout templates from for the first year media studies in the Architecture Association. Working from a rough orthographic up to a more resolved perspective and idea quickly. Start to finish roughly 6 hours. The aim is to explore ideas, and transfer these from orthographic to perspective to discover more about the design.

 

Starting with 3 basic shapes building up into more detailed objects

 

 

Transfer of shapes from orthographic into perspective, while building up the concept of the objects and inserting possible contexts.

Taking the original shape and creating a basic perspective construct that can be drawn over.

Working up the idea within the specific perspective view. How people move through space, potential alternative programs etc.

Final Perspective.

Giant mechanical Robot Orthographic

Here is an image I did for a demo in the Painting Architecture media studies course at the AA. Photoshop. – A giant mechanical robot.