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FOD:R PORTFOLIO Semester 1, 2017 Brock Smith 835203

Studio 04 Ray Ali

MEASURED DRAWING OF A

CROISSANT How to draw a Croissant The humble croissant assumed the role of still life subject for Module 1, Foundations of Design: Representation. Measurable orthographic views of front, top and side were attained through photographic study and hand drawings were produced through tracing techniques to represent the outer surface and form of the object. This process was repeated for three section cuts which revealed an interior study of organic voided formations. The module culminated in an axonometric projection as a measurable representation of the tangible form.

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THE NEW WORLD OF

MARIO Race for the Cloud Cup. Mario and Luigi take to the skies in Cloud World; a magical representation of the new floating city of Mario. Two 2D representations were projected to form the strict elevations of the new world, however the space in between plays host to an exciting interaction presented to us only from the advantage of the isometric viewpoint.

New World of Mario: Hand Drawing

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Beginning Axonometric.

Projecting measurements from first Mario World to create the axonometric pictorial space

Second World.

Second Mario World is projected and cloud bases are formed

Pen Overlay.

The pencil drawing of combined Mario Worlds and there interaction is complete; pen trace to be scanned is in progress

Time to Scan.

Pen trace of combined worlds is complete and will be scanned and introduced to digital platforms

Digital Drawing.

Creation of digital drawing in Adobe Illustrator; colouring drawn features with live paint bucket New World of Mario: Digital Drawing

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PAPER

LANDSCAPE Introduction to Panelling This module required the penalization of an existing topography, mapped digitally to extrude from, with the intention of creating pattern and surface representative of the topography’s distinguishing characteristics through studies in developable geometries

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2D Panelling.

Forming meshes and surfaces from topographic points with Rhinoceros Digital Platform; applying 2D panelling to topographic surface.

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Custom Curves.

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Experimenting with and developing custom 2D panels by manipulating custom, variable and rotating curves through curve attractors

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3D Panelling.

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Experimenting with and developing custom 3D panels manifested as developable extruded geometries in Rhinoceros

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Panelled Surface.

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Developable geometric panel is applied to surface; defined vertically by offset points illustrating trends in falling surface topography and arrayed in accordance with fall directions defined with offset curve attractors

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Physical Manifestation.

Unfolded Developable Geometries in Panellised Form

Folded and fixed 3D panels join with 2D panels to create a tangible representation of the panelled topographic surface

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INVISIBLE

CITY Cities and Desire: Dorothea The University of Melbourne Old Arts Quad plays stage for Marco Polo’s Invisible City Dorothea: “There are two ways of describing the city of Dorothea: you can say that four aluminum towers rise from its walls flanking seven gates with spring- operated

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drawbridges that span the moat whose water feeds four green canals which cross the city, dividing it into

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nine quarters, each with three hundred houses and

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seven hundred chimneys. And bearing in mind that the nubile girls of each quarter marry youths of other quarters and their parents ex- change the goods that each family holds in monopoly-bergamot, sturgeon roe, astrolabes, amethysts--you can then work from

Transition in Time Live Music Perspective Views

these facts until you learn everything you wish about the city in the past, present, and future. Or else you can say, like the camel driver who took me there: “I arrived here in my first youth, one morning, many people

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were hurrying along the streets toward the market, the women had fine teeth and looked you straight in the eye, three soldiers on a platform played the trumpet, and all around wheels turned and colored banners fluttered in the wind. Before then I had known only the desert and the caravan routes. In the years that followed, my eyes returned to contemplate the desert

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expanses and the caravan routes; but now I know this path is only one of the many that opened before meon that morning in Dorothea.”

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Market Place Perspective.

The outer edges of the city enact an intriguing meeting of uninhabitable desert and a bustling working class market; a noisy, crowded and chaotic affair who’s frequenters’ desires are limited to the essentials of day to day existence

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Old Quad Digital Model.

Orthographic drawings provided the base for modelling old quad with Rhinoceros

Characterisation.

2D characters, created in Adobe suite, are imported into the digital 3D space and aligned to create perspective scene within the 3D model and a render the perspective representation is taken

Collage.

Conceptual imagery and textures are placed utilizing workflow between Photoshop and Illustrator to layer meaning to the representation

Layering.

Nubile Girls Perspective.

Amongst drawbridges, green rivers and 300 hundred houses with 700 chimneys, the city’s nubile girls marry into families of desire who hold monopolies over the commodities of amethyst, sturgeon row and the bergamot. Represented in immaculately carved marble, the affluent context found in the inner city affords its residents the privilege of education and wonder and they ponder life’s largest questions by studying the stars with their astrolabes.

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Imagery created in multiple digital platforms are collated to visually illustrate the invisible worlds of Dorothorea.

The croissant provided a great, and often entertaining, study of the importance of orthography views such as plan, elevation and section in representation. Projecting the characteristics revealed by these drawings to create an axonometric drawing engages the science behind creating a representation so deeply essential in designing in the built environment.

Mario’s new world provided and excellent platform for my development of the truly essential skills of digital drawing, production and workflow. Prior to this creatively engaging exercise I had produced projections by hand but had no experience using Illustrator and throughout this project my skills and confidence in digital production is improved immensely.

Before undertaking this module I was blissfully naive to the techniques of panelisation but after stumbling initially with the technical intricacies of the digital processes I took great pleasure in learning about developable geometries and surfaces and am actively excited about their place in my future studies. I enjoyed manifesting the project physically with the folded paper model which through its production, cements the ideas of surface and pattern and the initial catalyst for this type of representation; to build complex surfaces.

Conceptually this was the most intriguing module from my point of view. I relished the chance to represent Marco Polo’s vivid narrative in an architecturally bound visual form whilst simultaneously improving on my new digital skills, in particular workflow between various platforms.

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