for soem reason theyre not in the order i set out but heres the blog

Summary

Each of the workshops, although extremely varied in approach, theory and medium, provided a scheme in which to learn communication skills which are essential in the architectural profession. The workshops also offered a lot of creative freedom with which to move, with this not always being the case in other courses, I enjoyed the liberation. Both the drawing and modelling workshops offered two different approaches to expressing and investigating architectural spaces while the architecture in motion workshop, I felt combined these through yet another medium. In this way each of the workshops I completed were linked with a common thread of providing a means with which to communicate architectural ideas with precision fluidity and spatiality in mind. These workshops have provided me with some basic and new skills on which I will build in the coming years.

First Workshop: Architecture in Motion

Final Film:

Selection of stills:

The following stills demonstrate the different techniques i tried to adopt in makign my stop motion

Oven animation - drawing using graphite and charcoal

Swallowing into oven - a combination of layering photos and drawing

Modelling - curtains, oven door, clay hands

I found this workshop really interesting, and it incorporated many aspects of the different workshops such as drawing and modelling and offered a new form of presenting by means of film. If in future i was required to integrate different aspects of a project e.g. drawings and models, this would be an interesting way to progress. Although i did this workshop first, it seems to tie the different workshops that i did together by combining and sequencing different mediums to create one wholistic work.

Third Workshop: Fluid Thoughts to Actions

Final Presentation:

Collaboration:

Some of the 42 drawings completed morning and night over 3 weeks:


I found this workshop particularly challenging for several reasons. Firstly I found charcoal to be a difficult medium to use, however I did appreciate its expressive capabilities. Secondly, whilst I understood the theory behind this workshop, in expressing movement and duration, I found it difficult to achieve this. I did notice my improvement towards the end of the workshop however there is still a lot of improvement needed in the skills which this workshop required and these could be worked on in future.

Second Workshop: Material Modeling

Sectional model of our house:

Transformative model:

Transformative actions used: partial destruction, linear wrapping

This Modeling workshop, at face value, seemed the most relevant to our architectural studies, as it is a skill we currently need and will continue to develop for professional use. The workshop required a great deal of precission and was challenging at times because of this, however even after the short duration of this workshop i found improvements in my models for design studio. Furthermore, this workshop pushed beyond the boundaries of model making that we had been introduced to and encouraged us to use different mediums, which i found particularly interesting, and creativity in model making. In doing this i was really able to focus on crafting skills.