ARCHITECTURE 312 | Syllabus + Schedule | anne hayden stevens

Architectural Design Drawing 3
Spring 2008 Syllabus
Instructor: Anne Hayden Stevens ahs@u.washington.edu
Office/hours: Gould Hall 208B by appt.
Class Location: MGH 058 + ARCH 060

CATALYST SHARE SPACE | Digital Studio Support Documents linked here

Course Objectives:

To build on the skills introduced and developed in Arch 311
To advance the understanding and use of drawing as a design tool

Course Requirements:

This class is graded C/NC.
Projects listed below are optional and will frame in-class exercises.
Credit in the class is dependent on completing all of the sketchbook exercises in a careful manner.

Please contact the instructor if you will miss more than 2 classes.

Sketchbook

This quarter the sketchbook is a critical part of supporting your studio investigations. I would like you to focus this quarter on:

• documentation: adding date/location/notes to each sketchbook session.
• drawing quality: focusing on careful drawings.
• structure: revealing underlying structure of space and built elements

A Lamy or other fountain pen is required for use in the sketchbook projects. A fine point is recommended. These are available for purchase at the University Bookstore.

For each drawing session in your sketchbook, make sure you include:
 + Date/time/location
 + reflections on the site/observations
 + Diagrammatic representation of the site/condition you are observing

Studio Locations

We will be working in MGH 058 and Studio 060 this quarter. Please refer to the posted schedule for daily locations.

Course Schedule Subject to change and additions, particularly in weeks 8-10

Project 1: Typography and Drawing

Select a piece of architectural writing that has influenced you or could potentially influence your work on the upcoming studio project. It can be any length, but a piece that is a paragraph or two will allow you to explore a wider range of typographic conventions.

You will be combining this text with scans of your pen and ink drawings from yournew site. The focus of this exercise is looking at the use of page design and the vocabulary used in designing the relationship between text and images. We will be looking at the way you present the text and image to create a clear sense of hierarchy and meaning.

Your final piece will be an 11x17 page composed of between one and five drawings and your text.

Project 2: Spatial Sequence

Using your current design project concept, design a spatial sequence of three to four drawings that moves us through your site and into your building. You will begin with three dimensional renderings and work with them in Photoshop to create a convincing spatial sequence utilizing the body, conventions of perspective, and the editing vocabulary of drawing (erasure/layering/abstraction) . You will experiment with including diagrammatic/schematic and material elements in the drawings.

Your final piece will be a series of 300 ppi images plotted at the size of your choice on a single sheet.

Project 3: Light

Using your current design, we will use photoshop and three dimensional renderings to explore expression of light conditions. You will choose an exterior and interior view of your design and develop the perspective with visually convincing and accurate lighting.

Your final piece will be two 300 ppi images plotted in color on a photographic paper.

Project 4: Site Section

Using your current design, express the tectonic character of your design through a site section. You will develop a piece in Photoshop and Illustrator, utilizing both vector and raster elements, that expresses your design through choice of materiality, scale, volumetric expression, and site conditions.

Your final piece will be a plot of the site section at 1’: 1/8”  or 1’ : 1/4” scale.

Sketchbook project descriptions

Built at the Water's Edge/Vancouver field trip Sketchbook assignment:

During your field trip to Vancouver, develop studies for two sites that you visit.

• Plan and Building Section
  + with notations about uses/program
  + include the building's surrounding terrain in both drawings
• PLUS
• Interior Perspective with shading to indicate lighting conditions
• OR
• Study of a building detail

Bathers by Painters: A Color and Compositional Study

View these SLIDES and select a painting to study.
You will create two studies in your sketchbook:

one compositional study in ink

• carefully draw the frame of the painting into your sketchbook
• map in the compositional elements (hl/perspective/major shapes)
• map in lights and darks: articulate hierarchy
  

one compositional study in color

• use color pencil or other color media
• using complements and leaving the lightest lights empty of pigment, build the warm/cool color and light use in the painting.
• add additional colors to create a synthetic replica of the painting.

Studio Handouts

Linked here are the sheets distributed in the digital studios. They are linked as .PDF files.

Vector Based Work
InDesign
Drawing with Illustrator
InDesign and Typography
Composition and Poche in Illustrator

Raster based/Photoshop Work
Working with Layers
Collage and Selections
Working with 3D Renderings
Working with Light and Color
Image Adjustment/Levels & Curves
Sections