Imaginative Landscapes | Architectural Design studio VI | 2018

imaginative landscapes

The studio aims to investigate the concept of “rural aesthetics” through spatial design in Cappadocia, which is a unique natural and cultural landscape, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Rural Aesthetics has two aspects.

The first one “rural” is related with urban, nature, landscape, built/unbuilt environment, human/non-human and the second one “aesthetics” is related with experience, space-time-body relations, poetics and authenticity. These two aspects are discussed together with the mentioned concepts during the design process and the ontology and epistemology of architecture is examined through new ways of thinking, doing and representing.

During the semester, rural aesthetics were discussed and studied in three phases: The first phase was “imaginative landscapes”.

By making a virtual tour over Cappadocia through aerial views, students drew sketches of the landscape. All of these sketches were trying to catch the light and shadow created by the topography and at the final stage each student drew his/her own imaginary landscape that has some genetic codes coming from Cappadocia.

The imaginative and the predictive were discussed through readings, sketches, drawings, virtual and actual 3d models. Each student made four different physical models of their own imaginative landscape. The first one was a concrete model. In order to do that students had to think on the negative space so as to make the mold of the concrete model. The second one was a wooden model. Each student found his/her own way of doing it; like making consecutive sections with hardboard or carving a massive wooden block. The third model was a woven one. Before that, we had a workshop on weaving landscapes tutored by Fırat Neziroğlu.

Students discovered various ways of weaving and than weaved their own imaginative landscapes. The final model was a 3d printed model. By making four different models, we had the chance to discuss about the making process, the potentials of materials and their representational characters.

1_Concrete Physical Model & Topography Sketch

crosshills yusuf aras kalkan

2_Representing the character of landscapes

Sketching Practice on various landscape examples The main purpose of the very first practice on topographic surfaces is to emphasize the general formation characteristic of the lands.

Parallel to this idea, some existing topographies

had been analyzed and a figure ground like coding by free hand sketching technique had been applied. In that way, the perception of dominant and negligible features of topographic landscapes had been developed autonomously.

Finally the same technique had been applied to an imaginary landscape which became the first state of our final topography model.

3_Renders from the imaginative landscape

Modeling & Rendering Process After the works from the planometric plane of certain topographies, the process had been carried to digital 3d platform. After the revisions on the imaginary topography sketch, the 3d representation had been done by rhino.

After the ďŹ nalization of the digital model and the application of a suitable material that reects the general characteristic of the topography, the renders of the model had been obtained as above.

After the digital work on the representation of the imaginary landscape, different methods of physical modeling had been carried out. Firstly, the digital model is cut along one direction in a way that gives the varying sectional drawings out of the model. After the laser cut of those sectional pieces out of timber, very first physical model had been obtained. Secondly, for the plastic model of the landscape, CNC drilling had

been used. A plastic block had been carved out by a drilling nozzle -adjusted according to the precision of the model- according to the 3d model. Afterwards, the obtained physical model had been smoothened by the use of a sandpaper. Finally, the very last model is made out of epoxy mixture. A mould is prepared out by a timber box and cardboard material. After the mixture had been poured into the mould and left for drying, a rough model had been obtained. The errors on the physical model had been removed by a hand drilling machine and finally gained a concrete-like appearance.

2_Timber, Plastic and Concrete Physical Models

Physical Models with different techniques and materials

1_notation of the imaginative landsccapes

Unevenness Ä°layda Baydemir

2_Drawings of the imaginative landscapes

Imaginative landscapes designed with 3 reference image from unknown place. Four images has different. 4 pictures have different technical drawing. Thanks to these techniques, it creates 3D perception.

Models

3_models of the imaginative landscapes

After the designing imaginative landscape. The design was transformed into 3 dimensional models with 4 different material. The materials are 3d print, concrete, wood and yarn.

Exponential lines were used fort he notation of this topography in different elevations. Fort the spread of the project, the degrade painting technique was used. The stone quarry is a region with low productivity and no life, thus the regions that regain the efficiency by settlement of the project, plus the icon symbolizes.

5_renders of the imaginative landscapes

4_notation of the imaginative landsccapes

Notation

Go and Back Again

Initial Ideas Collage

Tunahan Çelen

Notation

The interconnected elliptical lines in the upper left corner represent forest.There are very high trees and hills here. We do not know if there is anything living here. Field plain land surrounded by borders and with horizontal lines.I'm not sure what the flat land is. Maybe there could be wasteland around a river.Straight lines crossing each other represent mountainous areas. There are very high mountains, cliffs here.There is no information about the mountains and the hills at the bottom left of the paper.

We guess there is a completely cold and rainy weather there. Circles represent life there before. So maybe it shows that the mountains are carved in the mountain.The land that is bordered and hollow represents that there is a water, a river or a stream. Small circles represent the hill.

Render About Landscape

Knit Model Concrete Model

Wood Model

Initial Ideas Sketches

The drawings here were initially drawn in different shapes of the lines because of a bird's-eye view of a real area. Drawing different areas with different techniques created imaginary spaces. There is no boundary in this topography. So your imagination has no limit.

Bende mountains, hills, volcanic mountains, forests, boiling rivers, etc. I tried to produce a topography that forced the boundaries of the mind a little bit more. There is detailed information about the topography in my notation drawing.

1_general view of the topography

Peaking Isolines Öykü Tuna Beşer

2_notation drawing

My approach to describe the topography that I designed in my notation drawing is describe the design through some symbols and drawing techniques.

I am pointing to the slopes that have formed on the topography, the roughness and the shadows that form under the topography.

I pointed to places where topography rise, with shrunken lines and curves and l identified the peaks with red dots. I have showed the shadows and bright parts of the topography with plus and minus symbols.

3_models from different materials

imaginative landscape

1_notation

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2_sketch of imaginative landscape

I wanted to show the temperature differences with some colors. I wanted to show the slopes with black colors. The lines indicate the limits of mountains and slopes. I wanted to show canyons and roads with pattern. I wanted to show the mountains with the lines that appear from the perspective.

6_isometric view

3_top view

5_left view 4_right view

the land of legends

notation

nur begĂźm acar

woolen model

wooden model

concrete model

zoom in the land

zoom in the land

zoom in the land

top view

no panda in here but camels (collage)

imaginative landscape özgürcan aydın

Imaginative Landscape

After the work was done, I made drawings from three different paintings. I used cloak and charcoal in some places.

I tried different methods when doing this study.

First of all, I was shown a land topography picture to me. And I wanted to do it again without looking at the picture. It was a different experiment and of course it was very difficult to draw. It was not similar to me.

After all these three drawings were finished, we wanted to produce ourselves an imaginary topography using these experiences and we did not want to create like the other three previous drawings. We wanted to produce our own imaginary space. Our previous studies would continue this time.

drawing 1

drawing 2

drawing 3

drawing 4

In the second and third times different pictures of the land were shown. This time the picture was in front of me. I could look at the picture as much as I wanted.

I modeled the land using rhino. I could get the picture of my land from different angles through the model. I could look at the arabeside if I wanted to. I also draw the land with a method called "notation".

notation drawing

perspective view render

right and front viwe render

top view render

what does notation mean; numbers, quantities, and other entities are symbolically represented, or the system of such symbols.

I made the models of this marmalade from wooden, concrete and yarn.Lastly, I made a 3D model using a three-dimensional printer.

When I was modeling the master, I modeled the rhino program at 3 millimeter intervals. And I took the cross-sections of these places.

timber model picture 1

timber model picture 2

timber model picture 3

timber model picture 4

sections

In short, the cross-sectional model. I used Mdf. Cut these sections using a laser machine.

Finally, I stuck these sections in order.

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aginative landscape

aginative landscape

aginative landscape

When making a model from concrete, I first made my own land model negative. Because when I cast the concrete, it would fill the gaps and dry it up with a solid solid form.

mesh model 2

concrete model

concrete model

I made my mold from cold silicone and it was easy to make both concrete and silicon shape.

mesh model 1

I joined a workshop to model the yarn. I used mdf thick and wool yarn as material

3d model render

3d pr,nt model

3d pr,nt model

3d pr,nt model

I modeled it as 3D in 3D using rhino program in computer environment. Then I printed my model using a 3D printer.

waterworld

1_notation

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At the beginning of the semester, we have started with sketching three images which we didn’t know the places they belong. Through this study, we have experienced the geographical formations of the chosen sites.

The main characteristics of these images were their unfamiliar roughnesses. After we got used

to these unfamiliarities along with the sketches, we have created a new landscape by merging the chosen parts of our drawings. The created drawing was representing our imaginative landscape according to this study.

In the second phase, the two-dimensional drawing needed to transform into a three-dimensional drawing by the shadows the imaginative landscape sketch.

2_drawings and the imaginative landscape

Experiencing the Landscape

3_renders of the imaginative landscape

Digital Modelling The modelling phase was started by analysing the two-dimensional drawing. In some areas, I have created some hills and hollows. After the transition of the two-dimensional drawing into a three-dimensional model, the landscape needed more additional characteristics which are completing the landscape.

I have added water in some of the hollows, as an additional feature to the landscape. As a second subjective data, the human scale varied person to person. This project pushed us to discover the possibility of a change of the human scale variable by depending on our imagination according to the hills and hollows on the landscape.

In the modelling phase, we needed to do a negative model of our imaginative landscape as a mould of its concrete model. After the negative model dried and toughened, we poured concrete on the mould. The concrete model dried and toughened, then we have separated the concrete model from the negative of the landscape.

After the preparation of the concrete model, we made wooden models of our imaginative landscapes. While I was doing the wooden model, I fixated balsa sticks perpendicularly on top of the balsa plate. With the change of the length of the balsa sticks, I have created the wooden model of the imaginative landscape.

In the weaving workshop, we learned how to weave in different techniques. Then we weaved our own landscapes by adding three-dimensional levels on wool.

4_model images

Modelling

labyrinth

imaginative Landscape

1_imaginative landscape collage

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This valley and the hills are made up of sand piles and their altitudes vary from about 1 to 3 meters.

I created a notation to encode this topography. I showed the location of the peaks on the grid system with impairments and used the shadows of these peaks.

I expressed the altitudes in the topography with numbers.

The images should be arranged according to the text coloumns. It could be vertical or horizontal, should be in the margins. For some pages 2 of the pages can be used for just one image. Every image should have a number and a caption and the number and the caption should be written Arial 6pt.

All of the images should be placed on the Ai. file, otherwise some of the images can be invisible on other computers.

Each student can use as many pages as they want if necessary. All of the pages should be printed both sides on Enzo A4 paper and than cut it according to the dimensions 17,5cmx22,5cm. All of the pages should be on the same direction, because this is a collective work and we will put them together to make our book.

All of the design process should be included, both the images and the texts. The texts should be controlled by a proofreader.

2_notation of the landscape

Imaginative topography was designed on a grid system. Some parts of this grid system have been distorted and turned into hills and valleys.

8_perspective view of the lanscape

3_existing landscape drawing 1

4_existing landscape drawing 2

5_existing landscape drawing 3

6_ imaginative landscape drawing

7_top view of the lanscape

It was fun to model the drawing because you are not depend to the scale and you can do as low as you want.

We tried to get the top view of the three areas in Cappadocia . After that when I was producing this topography, I tried to make the topography of my dream topographically by giving the shadow and depth with the black pen method.

I have modeled the topography according to this drawing

Models

it was very difficult to prepare the mold while making concrete models because I have to think like the minus of the model and I have prepared the mold by eliminating the styrofoam.

It was very easy to make model in 3d print machine because you do not do anything at all, you just give the model you modeled on the internet to the machine that slowly builds up and a smooth model without errors.

Made from wooden model mdf plates and formed by merging many sections

11_concrete model

13_wooden model 14_wooden model

It was a good activity to learn how to express the same thing with different materials.

12_concrete model

10_3d printer model

9_3d printer model

I tried to make a model using imaginary topography using different materials. I made different models using concrete, rope, 3d printer and wood.

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We have a visual image of our land. We look and we start to see what we see. But this booth technique is a little different. We have only one material. It's a pencil. But these are pens with different thicknesses. We did an analysis based on the colors of the plans we saw.

It's like a higher or lower place. And then we started to create a plan with the method of hatching, not the method of drawing, considering the height. We started to get even better results in every plan change. It seemed better as I was doing other foreign hatching methods. Sometimes the lines, sometimes the densities of the dots, meant the elevations, green spaces or the sea on the plan.

2_different areas drawing

drawing through hatching

The expression of the 3D forms and forms on the plane always provides a significant dimension in our design. In this way, we have made the imaginary space that we have created by using different materials, both in virtual environment and real materials, in 3D. The differentiating materials in the models we created caused us to perceive the area from different angles.

Once the feeling that each item felt was different, we were once again aware of it. Even though the actual land we built in the virtual environment with the realism of weaving was the same, we had different perceptions. The realism of the donation was different than all the other materials. Or the feeling of being cold and hard on the concrete used by the other materials did not feel us.

3_different material models

different model techniques

Proposal Landscape

photos and sketch from cappodocia

another but the same

view from red moutnains

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While creating imaginary landscapes, we first worked on different sketches of topographies that we do not know about.

After taking the molds of the models, we made them 3 dimension again with concrete, wood, weaving and 3D printer methods.

Then based on these, we made a drawing of the new land we created ourselves and modeled on the computer.

This provided us with a very useful impression of the spirit and ontology of vacant spaces.

models and sketches

What We Did?

notation drawings and sundown in landscape

collage of site

sĂźleyman aras

Start of the Project Later that same land, the use of wood to learn the techniques of different materials, concrete, mesh and we try to do in the three-dimensional printer environment. We sent our three-dimensional model of the printer. We made our preparations to make other models in the writing stage.

sketch of imaginative landscape

We started drawing sketches of some aerial photographs. We use different techniques in each drawing and sketches out among ourselves, we organized a jury after. After talking to missing portions we did wrong and we begin to imagine our own land. We draw our own land within a certain scale and talked over.

We’ve made three-dimensional computer modeling once you have decided to become final.

Notation preparing my drawing, drawing pictures I took from the model and the first sketch I used my photo rendering. After receiving pad from each individual drawing techniques bringing the layer on top and by complete the drawing notation.

notation of imaginative landscape

We draw from one side of the ongoing process of model making, we started drawing imaginative landscapes of our notation. Presentation in the notation, we learned the drawing techniques and representations.

negative model of stone dust

First we start with concrete. First, i needed to make a positive model my land. I prefer clay to dry land for a positive construction. I went through that i received after i was done with stone powder clay with water in certain proportions. Previously spilled onto the stone powder clay mock-up i got into my mold and waited thirty minutes to dry. I was sure that after release from the mold dry. I took the slow-motion clay stone dust from the model. I used wooden sticks to remove the clay in fine detail. I finally achieved my negative terrain model. Once put into the negative model of a mold again, I poured the concrete into the mold that we prepare together at school. After making sure that the concrete all over the vibrational motion i left to dry for three days. At the end of the third day, I have provided the tools necessary to remove the template and seperation began. I finally get my concrete model after seperating carefully. All the details were passed to the concrete properly.

details of wood work model

First I cut pieces of mdf, eighteen centimeters in lenght and width of two centimeters thick.

Plates ara wait in mixed overnight because very hard pieces of mdf. I softened in vinegar, water and milk mixture. I waite two hours and then wood glue to adhere aid apparatus torture. And then I started with dremel land carved carefully after removing torture. It was ready to land model wood chipped the result of a six-hour operation.

render photo from top

mesh terrain model

left elevaiton of side

right elevation of side

render photo of landscape

Imaginative Landscapes Notation

Ruins Efe Palas

Ruins

So I’ve decided to create landscape a bit worn like Cappadocia. Cappadocia is a perfect example for a creation of a landscape. Weather conditions,water all of the natural thing could create space in Cappadocia thats why I’ve designed my landscape a bit worn.

Imaginative Landscapes Renders

Imaginative Landscapes Sketch

Imaginative Landscapes Models

Imaginative Landscapes Models

Ruinst is a short therm work in studio. Purpose of it is create a landscape by imagination. So I take references when I’m creating the landscape and I wanted to create an abstract look to it.

Notation helped a lot when I’m creating landscape. Notation showed me negative spaces of landscapes and possibilities.

1_imaginative landscape’s view

Fluctuation Melike Ă–zden

Imaginative Landscape

1_3D render of landscape

2_plan of concrete model

3_plan of landscape

4_notation of landscape

The forms of accumulation which are very young and perhaps changing day by day with the eruption of the old eras and under the influence of orangeish tones up to the farthest point that our eyes can reach. unfit for living conditions of living things. It is quiet, calm, according to whom it is horrible. droplets of fine grained sand.

1_view of concrete model

2_view of weave model

3_view of concrete model

4_view of mdf model