Artichoke Measured Drawings

Measured drawings: Exploring panel and fold in the artichoke Week One Virtual Environments

Anna Petrou - 586090

Elevations This drawiing is to scale, measured through tracing a scale photograph.

The elevation helped me to understand the three dimensional nature of the leaves or “panels� and how they fit together.

110mm

110mm

LEFT

Elevations This drawiing is to scale, measured through tracing a scale photograph.

This elevation was helpful in understanding how the panels comprise to create a single object and the way they overlap and join. It was also helpful in understanding the circular form of the structure.

105mm

TOP

Section

94mm

47mm

69mm

This drawiing is to scale, drawn freehand and measured using a ruler and reference points.

Drawing this helped me understand the structure of the artichoke in that it is an object made from many layered panels rather than being a solid object.

Leaves

30mm

LEFT

FRONT

81mm

51mm

81mm 50mm

These drawings are to scale, drawn freehand and measured using a ruler and reference points.

I drew these elevations to get an idea of the nature of the individual panels which the artichoke structure is comprised of. This drawing focused on the regularities of the structural components, which is why I chose such a regular leaf to draw.

The leaves are each 3 dimensional, symmetrical objects which curve - lending to the circular form of the artichoke as a whole.

Transparent This drawiing is to scale, measured through tracing a scale photograph. The drawing is a combination of tracing and freehand drawing.

I drew this to further understand how the panels fit together to form the artichoke. It is easy to see the overlapping of the layers by making the leaves transparent.

Exploded This drawiing is to scale, drawn freehand and measured using a ruler and reference points.

I wanted to think about how the leaves overlapped and closed in on each other and did this by exploding one of the surfaces of the artichoke. This picture also makes the irregularities in size of the leaves apparent.

Outermost leaves

This drawiing is to scale, measured through tracing a scale photograph. The drawing is a combination of tracing and freehand drawing.

These drawings, although rough, showed me the irregularities of the components which make up the structure. It shows the slight differences in shape and size which occur in the formation of the artichoke. A particularly interesting aspect of these drawings is that they show that the leaf sizes actually increase as you get further into the structure.

Innermost leaves