Learning Portfolio
Arch 20 Fall 2015 Alice Perreau Instructor : Jerry Lum
Table of contents : . First week : - Dog house in progress - Dog house 2 - Drawing simple shapes by hand
. Week 7 : - Fold a windowed wall - Folding to create architecture . Week 8 : - New iteration of the folding space
. Second week : - Cubes array - Floors patterns . Week 3 : - Different way to create stairs - Rotate copy tools - Follow me tool - Square inspired by the Piazza Campidoglio
. Week 9 : - Folding space . Out of class project . Midterm reflexion
. Week 4 : - Malevich inspired construction - Based on Malevich’s Suprematist Composition no.2 - Malevich construction no.2 . Week 5 : - Hand drawing - Experimenting walls - Geometric form . Week 6 : - Geometric spaces - Fold a Paper Airplane 2
First week : Dog house in progress
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Right side with windows problem
Two point perspective and low angle shot
Strengths : . Successfully use the basic tools, like push/pull, tape measure, rectangle, triangle, circle shapes… Challenges and weaknesses : . I had a problem with one of the window, I couldn’t make it translucent. I tried to delete all the wall to do it again but I still can’t do it. The problem is, when I select the window, the wall is selected too and I’m not able to disconnect them. . The fence is too close from the house, so the dog can’t really enjoy the outside. He also needs some furniture. . The house is too simple and classic. Some creativity is missing. 4
Dog house 2 :
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Front view View from the top
Strengths : . Successfully use the rotate copy and follow me tool. Which saves me a lot of time. . Create the stairs and use the shadows to estimate the usability of the house. Weaknesses : . The house is really too simple, it’s more like a temple than an house. I should have build a bigger and more complicated structure.
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Drawing simple shapes by hand
First 3D Cubes
Strengths : . Understand the process of drawing by hand How to duplicate shapes symmetrically
Weaknesses and Challenges : . Trying to draw with the good proportions and straight lines. 7
Different shapes in 3D
Circle and cones
Challenges : . Find objects with geometric shapes to draw for exercise. . Trying to draw without the guide lines. 8
Second week : Cubes array
Crazy Cube Arrays in Space
Strengths : . Successfully create a cube, transformed it into a component, and replicated multiple times to create this complex array. . Zoomed into the array, turned my shadows on, and place several human figures for scale to create a dramatic shot. Challenges : . I need to learn how to use rapid visualization techniques to hand draw something similar to what I produced in SketchUp. 9
Elevation view
Plan view in perspective
Perspective View within Array
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Plan view
Floors patterns
Circle pattern
geometric pattern
Vibration pattern
Hall pattern
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Strengths : . Successfully use the component tool to duplicate an opened front wall house. . Imagine floor patterns for each, with the tools previously used on other projects. . Learn how to create scenes, to edit an animation with different layers. Those layers enable you to hidden every single one as you want. Being able to do a little movie to present our work was really fun. Weaknesses and Challenges : . Create floor patterns inside an house with specific dimensions, which means adapt your pattern to the size of the room. . Delete the extra lines of the pattern without erasing all the motif himself. . Find the good timing between each scenes to have an accurate final animation. 12
Strengths : . Saving a lot of time on Sketch Up by drawing what’s on your mind first. . Find inspiration and brainstorming where each of those patterns can be used. . Thinking about how I can used the patterns to fool the eye of the potential customer. Make a room looks larger or taller.
Divers floor patterns
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Week 3 : Different way to create stairs
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Rotate copy tools
Strengths : . Create stairs and transformed them into a group. When they're in a group I can now put them together. . With the move tool I can duplicate, to finally rotate or rotate copy them as I want. Chalenges : . Don’t forget to explode the group made before, if I need to modify my stairs. 15
Follow me tool
3D Stairs and polygone tube shapes
Strengths : . Extrude a 2D shape along a 3D path in a few clicks. . Create all kind of different 3D form really easily. Draw any shapes, create the path and then follow me will create the face that I want, just by following my path. Challenges : . Trying to visualize how can looks a 3D shape by drawing a 2D face. 16
Square inspired by the Piazza Campidoglio
Final bird view perspective with shadows
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View from the top
Tools used : move/copy tool, follow me tool, circle tool, 2 point arc tool, offset tool, rotate tool, tape measure tool, paint tool‌
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Strengths : . Realized a project step by step, which give me the opportunity to create an animation to show the realization of my final work. . Recreate a real monument at human size, with proper dimension. . Be able to change the format of the circle, here 24 points to 12 points. Weaknesses and Challenges: . Don’t forget to duplicate every single step of the project. . Erase every little extra lines, or guide lines at the proper moment.
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Week 4 : Malevich inspired construction Based on Malevich’s Suprematist Composition no.2
Roof plan view, superimposed on Lithograph image
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Strengths : . Create an abstract 3D building based on a 2D image. . Successfully used component and groups tools, to push/pull every single part on his own. . Create interesting shadows Bird view with shadow
Weaknesses and Challenges : . Using straight lines, to follow irregular lines from a painting to have a minimum of coherence on my building. . Being careful about the different selections, to make groups or components. . Don’t forget to explode groups or components before painting and redesign the structure. Perspective view
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Malevich construction no.2
Bird view in perspective
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Perspective view
Roof plan view
View from the left roof
View from the front roof
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from behind
Strengths : . Successfully used all the tools that we used since the beginning. . Incorporate a background and an environment to create a realistic animation. Weaknesses and Chalenges : . Make the right choice of color, shapes, windows‌ . Erase precisely all the extra line without deleting all the structure. 24
Week 5 : Hand drawing
Hand drawing walls to help visualize and gather ideas before creating them on Sketch Up 25
Strengths : . Understood the process of creating different geometric form by using other one. Chalenges and weaknesses : . I still need to practice how to draw a cube. 26
Experimenting walls
Strengths : . Create a multiple of different shapes, thin, thick, high, low, really quickly. You can have a really different feeling depending of every single one. Challenges : . Find interesting openings to play with the lights and shadows. 27
Geometric form
Strengths : . Create every different kind of geometric shapes, in a few click, and multiply them as many times as desired. . Successfully using follow me tool to create every shape faster.
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Strengths : . Merging two simple shape to create a much more complicated one. . Successfully used scale tool to reverse or extend a face. Challenges : . Select and erase only the right line.
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Week 6 : Geometric spaces
Strengths : . Merging two geometric form such as a simple cube and a sphere can create a complete room. . Successfully used the section plane tool, to move a face back and forth. Challenges : . Do not forget to intersect faces with model, to be able to erase what you don’t need. 30
Fold a Paper Airplane :
Strengths : . Be able to reproduce a familiar paper folding on Sketch Up. . Successfully used styles to add stylistic effects on the creation. Challenges : . It takes me some times to successfully used the protractor and rotate tool to folded a specific part of the structure. 31
Week 7 : Fold a windowed wall
Strengths : . Being able to duplicate one simple form a bunch of time and folding it as much as I want. Challenges : . Using the rotate tool with precision isn’t that easy at first. It took me some times to understand how to fold only one part, in the good direction. I had to get used to select first, click on the edge and follow the line that you need, then click again to fold. 32
Folding to create architecture
Strengths : . Create a first drawing on a simple sheet of paper that you can fold however you want. . This folding looks like a structure such as a roof. You can now add walls to support and create an architecture. Challenges : . Find the inspiration on the first fold. . Try to have the right angles, by using the protractor tool.
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Week 8 : New iteration of the folding space
. During this week we worked on our portfolio and learn how to get better views and shots to import on it. I looked at all the work that I did from the first week and change some of my pictures. I also used styles and paints to give more feeling into each one of the creation. Otherwise I let some of them intact because it also shows the progress and the differences between a skeleton and a final or temporary aspect. I’m also able to create a little animation of my work, for example if I want to show the integrality of a building to someone, I can just click on play such as a movie. Which is great is that you can integrate a person in each of your scene, to add a scale and a feeling of your digital environment. 34
Week 9 : Folding space
Strengths : . Create a space by only folding . Successfully used the rotate tools
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Modeling terrain :
Strengths : . Successfully used sandbox tool to modeling a terrain . Being able to hide the grill by going into window and soften edges. . Changing the size of the grill before starting to give dimensions. It allows you to have different curve in your terrain. Challenges : . I used sandbox tool in one of my other project but I had difficulty to find a nice curve. Now I know what to do. 36
Out of class project :
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Midterm reflection :
Today, I’m glad to say that I’m able to create any kind of structure and environment in sketch up. I still need to learn and practice but I have a lot of keys in my hands already. Whenever I have an idea in mind I can create it with this wonderful tool. It allowed me to visualize any of my thoughts in architecture or in design. It also can be helpful when I want to build a model or when I want to show one of my project to someone. The hand drawing it’s something that I need to practice every day to get better, but now I can draw more easily something geometrical and with proportion than I never did. First because I understood and visualize the techniques and second because I tried even if it’s not good, I keep trying. It helps to express ideas before putting them in sketch up even if for now it took me more times to draw than to build with sketch up.
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