Drawing Workshop

less is more.


Teacup.


The first excercise of this workshop, we drew a plan, section and elevation of a given object - the tea cup. I would say the most difficult aspect presented by this excercise was the scale, as it had to be consistent across the each drawing.

Perspective.



Fitting a perspective of the Mario Botta house into a given context (UNSW Science Square), I must say, was the most challenging activity which I encountered in this workshop as a whole. Not only because we had to determine the vanishing points in the photograph provided, but also because we had to accurately estimate the scale of things from one given dimension.

Mock-Up





Although I begun mocking up my final project on a blank paper, I learnt more from placing my rough butterpaper drawings on an A1 sheet of drafting film (which I had used for the presentation of week 4). This allowed me to visually set the layout of my page as the drawings were to a relatively accurate scale and i could experiment with layouts more rapidly.

Progress.















For every week of this workshop, we had to bring in some form of progress for our final presentation. I tried different forms of drawing - including traditional technical drawing and tracing. I found that tracing was the method I was most comfortable with as it allowed me to understand the building better than technical drawing did. Tracing gave me the ability to speculatively mass the building, determine materials and figure out what was cut in section and what wasnt.