My learning portfolio
ARCHITECTURE 20 Jerry Lum
Inès Paumelle
Table of content
1. Dog House 1
7. Wall Study
2. Dog House 2
8. Intersect Study
3. Cubes in Arrays
9. Geometry of Space Studies
4. Floor Pattern Study
10. Paper Airplane Flotilla
5. Piazza Del Campidoglio
11. Lattice Work
6. Malevich Inspired Construction
12. Pavilion with Folded Canopy
Reflections
Dog House 1
Strength: ✗ I have understand how to use the basics and useful tools such as rectangle and line to be able to create different forms and shapes. Opportunities: ✗ For the next practices, I will be able to handle the basics to evolve my projects and express my imagination more easily. Weaknesses: ✗ As a first project and a beginner, my biggest weakness is that I am limited in the use of the tools. Threats: ✗As I will go deeper in the learning of SketchUp, I should be mindful of what I have learned previously.
Two point perspective
Front view
Perspective view
Perspective view
Dog House 2
Two point perspective view
Reflections
Front view
Perspective view
Strengths: ✗ Succeed to use basic tools in order to create a space that works. Plus the introduction of push/pull tool, offset.. has added complexity and make the work more attractive. Weaknesses: ✗ I should try to duplicate more the things that I have created in order to be faster in my work. Moreover, I should let my creativity expresses itself. Opportunities: ✗ Now that I know how to manage the basics and that I have learned other tools, I should keep on in order to realize more elaborate structures. Threats: ✗ See at Weaknesses.
Crazy cubes arrays
Reflections Strengths: ✗ Successfully create cube, transformed it into a component and replicated multiple times to create this complex array. ✗ Zoomed into the array, turned my shadows on, and place several human figures for scale to create a dramatic shot. Challenges: ✗ I need to learn how to use rapid visualization techniques to hand draw something similar to what I produced in SketchUp.
Crazy Cube Arrays in Space
Plan View
Plan View in Perspective
Perspective View within Array
Elevation View
Rapid Visualization
Floor Pattern Study
High angle perspective view
Reflections Strengths: ✗ Keep practicing tools like offset, layers and groups had helped me to understand more how to handle them. Plus, adding scenes and animation had created a new dimension which make it more realistic.
Two point perspective
Weaknesses: ✗ I should practice animations in order to make scenes better. And why not widen floor patterns too. I sometimes found trouble when I wanted to reproduce a pattern. Opportunities: ✗ Creating those floors patterns widen my ability in the use of SketchUp. Threats: ✗ I succeed creating scenes and animation, although it still a complicated tool to me which I still need to figure out.
Perspective view
Rapid Visualization
Piazza del Compidoglio
High angle perspective view
Reflections Strengths: ✗Creating something more steady and interesting. The evolution of the work in several steps helps in the creation and also shows the complexity. Weaknesses: ✗ I had trouble to take risk using tools that I wasn’t confident with and maybe results as a lack of originality. Top view
Front view
Opportunities: ✗I really appreciated this project. Therefore it had brought me ideas about I could recreate another existing place and Threats: ✗ I should be mindful of the details as I keep creating in order to avoid little mistakes that can twist my work and create problems as I continue. Perspective view
Side perspective view
Malevich Inspired Construction
Top view
Reflections
Front view
Strength: ✗ I had a pretty good understanding of the adding mode when I wanted to add or modify into each part from the Malevich painting support that he imported. Moreover, starting creating on SketchUp from am imported picture helped me to be more creative. Weaknesses: ✗ However I had a layer problem with one of my object related to the add mode. I shouldn’t forget to triple click whenever I want to modify a group I have created.
Perspective view
Perspective view
Perspective view
Opportunities: ✗ In class, we discovered the x-ray mode which helps during the construction. Plus, the added mode with the push/pull tool that can create another push/pull plane on a existing face. Threats: ✗ I should keep practicing my rotate tool, it is a pretty difficult tool to understand to me, I have to get better at it.
High angle perspective view
Reflections
Wall Study
Strength: ✗ I successfully designed each walls in order to create different feelings. In addition, I was careful with the dimensions to have a proportionate and harmonious work. Weaknesses: ✗ I sometimes wasn’t efficient with the use of the copy tool. By selecting imprecisely I Had to do things again. Opportunities: ✗ We discovered in class that the move tool, without preselecting what we wanted to move, could be used as a “distortion” tool and and it allows us to make more varied designs. Threats: ✗ See weaknesses
Perspective view 1
Perspective view 3
Perspective view 2
Top view
Rapid Visualization
Reflections
Strength: ✗ I found the intersect tool very interesting. It is an easy tool to use and it allowed me to play with basic geometric forms to create different ones and new ones. Weaknesses: ✗ I found the intersect tool interesting, nevertheless I still have trouble to project how I can use it for architecture and interior design. Opportunities: ✗ Intersect can looks pretty basic, however with this tool you can create more complex designs and forms and their interactions. Threats: ✗ Manipulating forms to intersect them can sometimes be tricky if I am not careful.
Intersect Study
Top view
Perspective view
Perspective view
Geometry of Space Study Reflections Strength: ✗ My successful practices with the intersect tool helped me to create new forms and spaces at the human scale and design different atmospheres. Weaknesses: ✗ Once intersecting I had trouble to figure out how I would designed, open, transformed it to make it relevant.
High angle two perspective view
Top view
Front view
Opportunities: ✗ Intersecting was useful and helped me to build basic architectural forms, such as domes, cylindrical walls… Threats: ✗ Like my weaknesses shows it, I enjoyed creating those geometric spaces, nevertheless, I had a hard time to discovering by myself and creating new forms that I can use in my design progress. Perspective view
Paper Airplane Flotilla
Reflections Strength: ✗ This activity enabled me to strengthen my rotate tool, and now I am now able to understand how it works and rotate any planes or forms I want. Weaknesses: / Opportunities: ✗ The folding/rotate tool reveals, to me, to be creative tool whenever I am doing structural design and want to give it a sharper look.
Perspective view
Threats: ✗ I sometimes forgot to use the rotate tool as a design tool; unfortunately I more often use it as a practical tool, to rotate and change in a different position than in a aesthetic way.
Perspective view
Top view
Two point perspective view
Lattice Work
Reflections Strength: ✗ By constructing the lattice, I successfully used my rotate tool to create a “lattice space” which I found interesting and that I like the design. Top view
Weaknesses: ✗ I should have used more my copy tool in order to make easier my work on the lattices. Opportunities: ✗ Multiplying and playing with the positions of the lattices can create a really interesting and complex space; embellished with the light and shadows on.
Front view
Opportunities: ✗ Multiplying and playing with the positions of the lattices can create a really interesting and complex space; embellished with the light and shadows on.
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Threats: /
Two point perspective view
Perspective view
Pavilion with Folded Canopy
Reflections Strength: ✗ I have well realized this Pavilion with folded canopy respecting appropriate dimension, the folded canopy and the use of the previous tool seen in class. Weaknesses: ✗ I spent a lot of time choosing which style, color, material I wanted to give to my Pavilion but I finally find something that I like. Perspective view
Front view
Top view
Opportunities: ✗ We have discovered in class that we can change the style of the SketchUp view. (look at the cover to see the different result). Threats: ✗ I should check all my work while I still making it to make sure I didn't’t make any mistakes. Turning the camera on different views can help me.
Perspective views