Foundations of Design : REPRESENTATION, SEM1, 2017 M4 JOURNAL - FRAME vs FIELD Yixuan Liu
870661 Hana Nihill Class 22
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WEEK 9 READING: PERSPECTIVE AS SYMBOLIC FORM
Question 1: What are Durer’s rules for perspectival projection?
Durer’s rules are: 1.All perpendiculars or “orthogonals” meet at the central vanishing point. 2.There is a common vanishing point for all parallels(in whatever direction they lie). 3.Any portion of the picture (the location of the eye is known) is calculable from the preceding or portion because the equal dimensions diminish progressively as they recede in space.
Question 2: Describe homogenous space?
The homogenous space is not ture and constructed by people’s imagination. It is a plane to determine the positions of all the elements.
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HIDDEN CITY: Olinda
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OLD QUAD ISOMETRIC
HIDDEN CITIES1 : OLINDA
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Isometric of the old quad
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OLD QUAD ISOMETRIC WITH NOTATIONS HIDDEN CITIES1 : OLINDA
Key Perspective1 perspective2 Transition of space Passage of time Characters Movement of people and horses
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Old quad isometric with notations
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QUAD PERSPECTIVE 1 + 2 Perspective 1 In the story, it says “if you go out with a magnifying glass and hunt carefully“ you can find there is a city, which is extremely small. Therefore for this perspective, I set the camera on the edge of the old quad and tryed to create the scence that Marco is using the magnifying glass to look through the city from outside.
Perspective 2 In the story, it says “the old walls expand bearing the old quarters with them, enlarged, but maintaining their proportions on a broader horizon at the edges of the city.“ So, this perspective is about the new city inside the old one after it expanded one year later. In order to show the city expanded with their propotion, the target point of the camera is the same as perspective1 but I move the camera forward.
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PERSPECTIVE SCENE 1 + 2
Perspective Scene 1 In this scene, there are some elements like antenna, garden(birds, trees and sculpture), pool, streamers, kiosks and horse-racing ,which appear in the story. In this scene, people are walking around the pool and the garden. These people are also symbols of the old city and this is a kind of comparison with the new city in perspective2. In the background of this scene, there is a shoe. I tried to use the shoe to highlight that the city is as small as a grain of sand.
Perspective Scene 2 All the elements that appear in scene1 are exist in this scene as well, because the new city contains the same features as the old one. The differences of these two scenes can be found from the locations of items, the picture of the background and types of characters. In scene2, the “garden“ is placed at the back and horses are moved to the forground. The black horse on the right part is just the one on the back of scene 1. The reason of this is that the new city borns inside the old one and enclosed by it therefore things in scene 1 can be seen here. It is also the reason of why I put the picture of scene 1 in the background. For characters, those baby horses and baby are symbols of the new city, they represent the new life and there is a new Olinda
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WEEK 4 READING: MAPPING THE UNMAPPABLE
Question 1: IWhat is the difference between autographic and allographic practice?
Autographic: It can not be reproduced. Artist/author interpretation. Perspectives/ mapping/sketches. Allographic: It can be reproduced. Notations/ set of instructions. Plans/section/elevations
Question 2: Why do architects need new representational techniques? Because of the updating social systems and representational perceivings. Architects need new representational techniques due to those technological and social changes.
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FINAL DRAWINGS HIDDEN CITIES1 : OLINDA
Key Perspective1 perspective2 Transition of space Passage of time Characters Movement of people and horses
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Perspective 1
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Final drawings
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