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WB3E Representation Techniques

 

Two-Dimensional

Architecture is primarily concerned with three dimensions. The profession of the architect, however, produces mainly two-dimensional representations and explanations of space. This seminar engages such two-dimensional instantiations of space, consulting and exploring basic and more complex drawings as the architect’s main means of communication. Simplification and effectiveness will be our focus, coherence and memorability our goal. We will dive into various media – drawings, collages, photographs – and use them to analyse an object that we treat as if it was a piece of architecture. We will also consolidated our two-dimensional production in a specifically designed layout, communicating three-dimensional characteristics in two-dimensional form as precisely as possible.

 

Personal Item

Please bring a personal item to bring to our first meeting on Monday 7^th April. If it is too large to bring, please provide photographs instead. The item or object should firstly be of importance to you. It should furthermore be sufficiently complex and consist of multiple elements, i.e. a pencil wouldn’t qualify. Ideally your item should be – in some way, shape or form – related to architecture, your studies, or life as a student of architecture.

 

Our weekly sessions will consist of a mixture of short lectures on various representation-related topics and a lot of in-person desk critiques. We will develop highly controlled two- and three-dimensional drawings, but also engage in free-association-generated collages. Sessions will include the development of colour-codes, material textures, functional layouts, as well as precise presentation vocabulary.

 

Submission

The final submission takes the form of a multi-page booklet in pdf format uploaded to CampUAS containing, amongst other things, the following drawings:

Booklet

-          Axonometry, object in context

-          Axonometry

-          Axonometry, materials textures

-          Axonometry, colour codes

-          Axonometry, explosion

-          Axonometry, detail

-          Layout

-          Collage interior

-          Collage exterior

-          Photos

-          Project description, text

It will also comprise an oral presentation thereof.

 

Literaturliste

-          Atelier Bow-Wow, Graphic Anatomy, TOTO, Tokyo, 2007

-          Foreign Office Architects, Phylogenesis: foa’s ark (engl. ed.), Actar, Barcelona, 2003

-          Neufert

-          Werner Blaser, Mies Van Der Rohe – Die Kunst der Struktur, Artemis Verlag und Verlag für Architektur, Zürich und Stuttgart, 1965

-          El Croquis Nr. XXX,

-          EMBT-Enrique Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue, Work In Progress,

-          Gerhard Mack, Herzog de Meuron – 1997 – 2001, Das Gesamtwerk Band 4, Birkhäuser, Basel Boston Berlin, 2009

-          Thomas Jocher, Sigrid Loch, Wüstenrot Stiftung (Hrsg.), Raumpilot Grundlagen, Wüstenrot Stiftung (Hrsg.), Ludwigsburg und Karl Krämer Verlag, Stuttgart+Zürich, 2012

 

 

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