EXP 2 | Week 1 Independent Study: 3D Modelling and Rendering

In consultation with your tutor take one pair of axonometric sketches and construct them in 3 dimensions using SketchUp.

Export your SketchUp model into Lumion. Capture two images from your Lumion environment and upload them, along with the page from your sketchbook that you based it on. 

Preliminary SketchUp Modelling

I modelled the rectangular amalgamations in SketchUp in order to help me visualise their 3D massing and different axonometric views.

Front View

Rear View

Developed Amalgamation

Axonometric Sketch

Commitment to the essential and disdain for the needless

SketchUp Model

Front Axonometric View

Rear Axonometric View

Lumion Landscape Render

Front Aerial View	Front Ground-Level View
Rear Ground-Level View	Rear Aerial View

EXP 2 | Week 1 Studio Work: Architect Concepts and Axonometric Sketches

As a class group conduct some online research into the two architects chosen by your Tutor. The aim of this research is to collate 5 concepts (about one sentence each) relating to each of the 2 architects. 

Draw a series of 6 axonometric sketches exploring an amalgamation of 5 rectangular prisms. Each amalgamation should reflect a concept from step 1. The rectangular prisms should intersect with each other at right angles. Use carefully hatched lines to highlight one set of surfaces that exist in parallel planes. Some of the rectangular prisms may be 'subtracted' from others; you do not need to use the same set of 5 rectangular prisms for your 6 drawings.

Draw a second series of 6 axononmetric sketches that re-draw the first series from the opposite point of view. Use carefully hatched lines to highlight one set of surfaces that exist on parallel surfaces. 

PETER ZUMTHOR

Works: Therme Vals Spa Baths

1. Just being, can exude a beautiful silence.
2. Forming an experience through composition and presence.
3. Commitment to the essential and disdain for the needless.
4. Physicality of materials can involve individuals with the world through memory.
5. Materiality transcends the rules of composition.

Mise Van De Rohe

Works: Assorted Housing

Tugendhat House	Neue Nationalgalerie
Farnsworth House	Barcelona Pavilion

1. Less is more.
2. Interweaving fluid spaces.
3. Elementary rectilinear forms.
4. Skin and bones construction.
5. Dynamic environment. 

Axonometric Sketches

Commitment to the Essential...

Commitment to the essential and disdain for the needless

Elementary Rectilinear Forms

Elementary Rectilinear Forms

Interweaving Fluid Spaces

Interweaving Fluid Spaces

Forming An Experience...

Forming an experience through composition and presence 

Just Being...

Just being, can exude a beautiful silence

Skin and Bones Construction

Skin and bones construction