Foundations of Design : REPRESENTATION, SEM1, 2017 M2 JOURNAL - FLATNESS vs PROJECTION Francis Robert Burne Thompson (757 758) Anneke Prins
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WEEK 3 READING: LEGER, LE CORBUSIER, AND PURISM
Question 1: What is Pictorial Space according to Le Corbusier? (Maximum 100 words) According to Le Corbusier, pictoral space is a space that can only be viewed from a single angle and distance. The space cannot be entered as you would room and neither can the space be moved through. This results in a space that is entirely frontal and can suggest, but not posses, a quality of depth. In pcitoral space, a space retains its shape and view point regardless of the position of the viewer
Question 2: The Flatness of Le Corbusier’s painting’s are attributable to two properties. What are they? And what are these pitted against?(Maximum 100 words) Le Corbusier’s paintings possess a pictorial frontality that results from two properties of the painting. Firstly, the composition and arrangement of the objects have no space between them, through which a background could suggest depth. The objects are simultaneously positioned so that the front of the object is parallel with the face of the canvas. Secondly, Le Corbusier did not use black in any paintings and instead used varying amounts of white lead to create contrast. Black was avoided because it so often is used to suggest depth by casting shadows and sillhouettes. These two properties are pitted against the work of Gris, whose use of black showed objects pushed further back into the canvas and arranged with space between, as a “metaphor for the mutual externality of one object to another within three dimensional space.”
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MARIO’S WORLD
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1ST MARIO’S WORLD
Initial drawing of the background elements from Mario World including sectioned pieces
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COMBINED MARIO’S WORLD
Detailing beyond first combined drawing. Area below the clouds detailed as well as characters and blocks added
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WEEK 4 READING: AXONOMETRIC PROJECTION: NEW GEOMETRIES AND OLD ORIGINS Complete your reading before attempting these questions:
Question 1: Explain the difference between Pictoral (in this case perspectival) space and Projection? (Maximum 100 words) Pictoral perspective is a form of representation that is intended to emulate the real world and reproduce images and objects as seen by the eye in real space. This is done by aligning all parallel lines towards a vanishing point that mimics the effects of the horizon. Projection on the other hand represents parallel lines as parallel as no vanishing point exists. This allows projected representations to be measured and analysed in ways that perspectival images cannot.
Question 2: Where did Axonometric projection first arise, and why? (Maximum 100 words) Axonomic projections were first used in the calculation of trajectories for ballistics before it was then adopted in industry and engineerings areas. Axonomic projection was used because it favours consistency of measurement rather than eye-faithful representation
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ILLUSTRATED MARIO’S NEW WORLD
Colouration of the finalised drawing with the addition of shadows, patterns and textures
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APPENDIX
Laying out the ground plane of the second image
Close up of first worl image showing height markers as measured from bottom of the image, used during extrusion
Addition of height by extruding tree bases upwards
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