Blog 10

Sketch Journal 08:

proposed location for toy's viewing tower.

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I drew a few perspectives of where my toy will be located on the site my group chose.

My tower will be located on the stone wall in the middle of the site. On the stone wall, my toy will be able to look over the lake and also have a wide view around the area. Besides that, the stone wall is quite high compare to the deck besides the lake and hence, my toy will have better view from the top as well.

Blog 10: completed! ;)

Blog 9

Sketch Journal 07:

ideas of viewing tower for my toy character.

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My chosen character is Hijikata Toshiro from the anime, Gintama.

Based on his characteristics, I came out with an idea for his viewing tower::

These 3 ideas are the very first idea I came up with.

It was inspired by elements I found on the site.

Unfortunately, it was unrelated to my toy or my site.

Then, I tried designing his viewing tower based on his characteristics.

Again, it was rejected because all of my designs were too literal.

After that, I tried doing something different but it turns out to be still too literal and also unrelated to my toy.

Last, idea. I suddenly thought of doing something 'sharp' as it represents my character's cold exterior which made others to not dare to approach him. I tried sketching things that is related to 'sharp' and i chose SWORD.

blog 9: completed! ;)

Blog 8

Sketch Journal 06:

site plan, plan, section, elevation

We were given a floor plan and an elevation of a house.

We need to rescale both the plan and elevation to a scale of 1:75.

Both the pictures below are the product after rescaling:

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This one is done using pencil.

This one is done using felt pen specified using line weights.

Before that we were taught about line weights and also different type of lines.

These are a few sketches of it::

Blog 8: completed! ;)

Blog 7

Tutorial: Scale & Perspective

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We were taught how to use scale ruler by Ms. Norma.

She gave us a small paper which is the one below:

We were asked to rescale the above plans to a scale of 1:25.

After we had rescale everything, we need to also come up with the left view of the structure.

Below is the picture after rescaled::

Not only that, we learnt how to draw one-point perspective as well.

I did a simple one::

Blog 7: completed! ;)

Blog 6

Trip: Taman Tasik Shah Alam

Group: Le Corbusier

For our project 1, we went to Shah Alam Lake Garden for site visit to do our site analysis. When we first arrived at the lake garden, without hesitation, we started strolling off to find a suitable site to build our viewing tower for our selecte

d toys.

A few steps from out drop-off point, we found a site that can be considered.

This is a picture of the first site we found. This site is located on a higher level compared to other parts of the ground. There are also trees all around the site. But after discussing for awhile, we decided to look around before deciding on our site. That's why we went on walking around the lake garden. Not long after that, we found another location which might be suitable for our site.

A view of the 2nd location. Trees all over the location as well as insects. It's on a higher ground surrounded by bushes. Unfortunately, the site is too big for us to get a 15m x 10m measurement. We couldn't include all the elements we wanted within that measurement. Therefore, we moved on to search for another site which is more suitable.

We walked further through the lake garden. Finally, we found another location.

This location is located right beside the lake. The ground of our site are covered with bricks, thus, there's not much soil or trees can be found there. After a small discussion, we decided to choose this location as our site. So, we started to do our site analysis. We measured, took pictures, researched and even interviewed a worker

of a restaurant near our site.

Views into our site:

Views from our site:

View of our site from the other side of the lake:

After a long day doing our research, a rest is a must!

We sat down on our site, have a drink and compiled the information we got.

Additional:: a sketch of the perspective with thumbnails.

Blog 6: completed! ;)

Blog 5

Sketch Journal 05:

to produce a site plan, thumbnail(s) and perspectives which can be found in Taylor's. The site has to be measured and drawn up in scale.

05: Site Plan & Thumbnails

My group chose our site in front of Truffles which is on the ground floor beside the outdoor amphitheater. We measured the site for 10m x 15m. Above is the image of our site plan in scale of 1:50 which is 1m:2cm. At the side of the site plan, i drawn up 5 thumbnails from the site.

05: Perspective 1

This is a one-point perspective of our site. This perspective is taken from a view outside of our site.

05: Perspective 2

This is a three-point perspective of our site. This perspective is taken from a level above our site which is at the top of the staircase looking down of the site. Although you can't see everything in our site (e.g. the building), but it covers more than 80% of the site.

05: Extra

This is a draft of the site plan according to scale.

Blog 5: completed! ;)

Blog 4

Sketch Journal 04a & b:

o4a - to trace one site plan, plan, section, elevation and perspective of the chosen architect's work

04b - to collect drawing templates and trace

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For my group, our chose architect is Le Corbusier.

He is one of the pioneers of what now called as Modern Architecture.

I chose he's Sainte Marie de La Tourette.

These are a few images of the building:

04a: Site Plan

This are the site plan of Sainte Marie de La Tourette. I found this in the website: http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Convent_of_La_Tourette.html. Although it does now show the site very specifically, but it still shows briefly on how the site looks like. This site plan is not in scale because i was unable to find the scaled drawing of the building neither on the internet nor the books in the library.

04a: Plan

This is the plan of Sainte Marie de La Tourette. I found this in the same website where i found the site plan. This plan shows the cell floor of the building. There are cells separated with walls as shown in the plan. This plan is not in scale either.

04a: Section

This is the section of Sainte Marie de La Tourette. Found on the same website as the site plan as well as the plan. I couldn't find the section in scale so this section i'd traced us not in scale.

04a: Elevation

This is the elevation of Sainte Marie de La Tourette. I found this on the website: http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~kcoleman/Precedents/ALL%20PDFs/Corbusier_LaTourette.pdf. There is four elevations of the building. The north, south, east and west elevations. This is not in scale.

04a: Perspective

This is the perspective of Sainte Marie de La Tourette. Found this on the same website as the elevation. This perspective is not very complete as it only shows half of one of the side of the building. But it does shows the monastery of la tourette has panes of glasses on the exterior faces allowing light to penetrate, for air to circulate, as well as to provide view out to the woods.

04b: Drawing Templates

I found a few drawing templates online and traced it on butter papers. There are a few symbols of the furnitures, doors and windows as well as symbols to show how air flows, drainage and heating.

04b: Drawing Templates

These are the 2nd page of my drawing templates. The table on the left shows some professional architectural symbols. On the right, i traced 30 different symbols of different species of the trees.

04b: Drawing Templates

This is my 3rd page of the drawing templates. All of these are different types of textures and patterns of floor. There are tiles, stones and surface.

Blog 4: completed! ;)