Architecture Portfolio
Dana Freedman
Fall
2022
of Contents EX 01: The Animate Inanimate - pg. 1 EX 02: Mapping Space - pg. 3 W EX 03: Form - pg. 5 PROJ 1: Sequential Experience - pg. 7 Selected Works - pg. 13
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EX 01: The Animate Inanimate
Through this exercise, understand the language of 3D representation through 2D means, drawing as a constructed artifact, and experimentation with capturing animation and change through 2D drawing techniques.
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EX 02: Mapping Space
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EX 03: Form
Explore architecture’s exterior appearance and conceptualize 2D and 3D strategies through a rulebased process. Develop a relationship between mass and void through physical and digital representations, and expand understanding of architectural objects as a set of geometric language conditions. Finally, begin digital modeling and visualization skills.
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PROJ 1: Sequential Experience
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Be able to organize, evaluate, test, and refine the design of a sequence of spaces appropriate to the exhibition of the works contained. Represent architecture both digitally and phyiscally. Combine the consideration of architecture’s outward appearance with the experience of the spaces created. Continue to conceptualize 2D and 3D strategies through rulebased processes while developing the skills necessary to produce form and space.
I choose Issey Miyake’s staircase collection, which took place during the fall and winter of 1994 to 1995. This collection was characterized by a staircase or ziggurat-like form. Panels formed the body of the garment, creating a staircase effect on the sides, front, and back of the dress. Miyake’s innovative pleated fabric allowed for flexibility, easy care, and simple production. Miyake did not consider himself a fashion designer, as he believed that fashion goes out of style too quickly and he wanted to stay relevant in history. In an interview with the New York Times, he stated, “I am most interested in people and the human form”... “Clothing is the closest thing to all humans”.
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When starting to brainstorm my pavilion, I wanted to try and encapsulate Miyake’s ideas about the relationships between fashion, architecture, and human form, as well as highlight the staircase structure that is prevalent in his collection. I noticed the versatility of the staircase and its ability to change and adapt to its surrounding environment, taking advantage of its proportionality, geometry, and ability to change scale. Similar to how a staircase guides you from one floor to another, I wanted to give my pavilion a sense of flow from one space to another. Symbolically, a staircase represents a journey. My pavilion brings the viewer on a journey through different levels, spaces, and heights as they experience Miyake’s collection. The spectators are able to gain a different perspective, both literally and figuratively, by moving around my pavilion, similar to moving up and down a staircase.
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Selected Works
Develop graphic, Wspatial, and conceptual skill through a series of pre cise drawing exercises, and improve spatial acuity and visual thinking through drawing. Effectively use drawing as an instrument of observation, description, analysis, and projection. Improve the capacity to “read” an architectural drawing in its diagrammatic, formal, and spatial proposition.
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