Studio Exercise 3

Stage 1: (should be completed by 12:30pm)

For buildings / built forms:
Gather together a 'materials pack' that has the various views needed to provide a 'complete' understanding of your building. This should include at least plans, elevations, sections, and various 3D views. If you are unable to find all of the representations you need online, then you will need to have a go at drawing some of them up yourself.

For artwork:
Examine your chosen piece of art and abstract it into a 3D form. Pretend that the artist has taken a 3 dimensional starting point and turned it into a piece of art - your job is to turn it back into it's original 3D form.

Stage 2: (to be completed by end of studio)

For buildings / built forms:
Analyse the various materials you have collected and provide some analytic / interpretive responses:

• use colour to represent the difference between public, semi-private, and private spaces (plan and section)
• use colour (on another set of drawings) to represent the primary, secondary, and tertiary movement paths through the building (plan and section)
• Use linework to indicate the major 'edges' and primary forms (primitives?) that can be extracted from the built form. Simplify the building to these forms in one or two 3D views
• If you are doing a bridge (ie. Calatrava), then consider creating a simple structural forces flow diagram... how does this thing hold itself up?

For Artwork:

Draw plans and an elevation or section for your artwork. Explain the process used to develop the 3D form from the artwork. Indicate the relationship between the elements in the painting and their position / scale in the 3D environment.

Note that the results from this exercise will be used within the next research and studio exercises, so make sure you have ended up with a good set of data!