Mckenna steltzner vc2 portfolio by Jesse Wetzel

LAWRENCE TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY SPRING SEMESTER 2014 PROFESSOR JESSE WETZEL

McKenna Steltzner

ARCH 1223

VISUAL COMMUNICATION 2

TOOLING

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pp. 17-19

EIDETIC tooling sketchup mixed media illustrator-ation detail drafting

PHYSICALITY pp. 20-23

methodology media matrix diagram diary

METHOD

seeing site analysis

pp. 9-13

site plan site section joiner

eideticism the eidetic image

SEEING

pp. 13-16 physicality

CRITICALITY pp. 24-25

proun construct + cornell box

criticality course/self evaluation new trajectories

p. 4

TOOLING : SKETCHUP

METADATA

tooling

TOOLS USED ANALOG Computer

DIGITAL Sketch-Up

PROJECT DESCRIPTION Project objectives: 1.

To build the Student Build as accrettly as possible.

READINGS

Learn the different tools and work flows in SketchUp.

PROJECTS

Lessons Learned:

REFERENCES

Student Building

What the difference better grouping and a componet.

When you get stick restarting is not always a better thing.

Understand what each tool did and what tool is best to use.

ARCHITECTS IMAGES

Image of the student build from google.

methodology

seeing

eideticism

physicality

criticality

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TOOLING : SKETCHUP

METADATA

tooling

TOOLS USED ANALOG Computer

SUPPORT IMAGES

DIGITAL Sketch-Up

IMAGE 1 The West Elevation

methodology

IMAGE 2 The South Elevation

REFERENCES

IMAGE 3 The North Elevation with Rain Screen

READINGS

IMAGE 4 The East Elevation

PROJECTS Student Building

ARCHITECTS

seeing

IMAGES

Images of student building from google

fig. A - West Elevation

fig. A - South Elevation

eideticism

fig. A - South Elevation

physicality

fig. A - North Elevation

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fig. A - South Elevation

criticality

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TOOLING : MIXED MEDIA

METADATA

tooling

TOOLS USED ANALOG

pencil vellum striaght edge computer

PROJECT DESCRIPTION Project objectives:

DIGITAL

sketch-up illustractor photoshop

Copy LTL drawing

Use many different mediums

methodology

Lessons Learned:

REFERENCES

Handing drawn lines look better than computer drawn lines in some drawing

The work flow from Sketch-Up to Illustrator to Photoshop.

Understand what each programs is best at. Even though a program can do a funtion does not mean it should.

READINGS PROJECTS LTL drawing

ARCHITECTS LTL

seeing

IMAGES

eideticism

physicality

criticality

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TOOLING : ILLUSTRATION EXERCISE

METADATA

tooling

TOOLS USED ANALOG Computer

DIGITAL

AutoCAD Illustractor

PROJECT DESCRIPTION Project objectives: 1.

REFERENCES

Lessons Learned:

READINGS

Exporting AutoCAD files to Illustractor.

Line weighs on a computer screen are going to look different printed. Therefore, you are going to have to know before hand how to drawing is going to be persented.

Line weights are not always the thickness of the line. To make a line reseed, a gray tone will help.

PROJECTS Barnes House

ARCHITECTS PATKAU ARCHITECTS

methodology

Show depth with line weight with a case study

seeing

MAGES

eideticism

physicality

criticality

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TOOLING : DETAIL EXERCISE

METADATA

tooling

TOOLS USED ANALOG

Computer Magizen Scan

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

DIGITAL

Project objectives:

Rhino Illustractor 1.

3. 4.

5. 6.

roof construcƟon: 1/65 mm aluminum seam rooĮng 200 mm mineral wool insulaƟon laud in Z-secƟon vapor barrier, 60 + 640 mm reinforcedconcrete ribbed Ňoor rolled glass: 262/60/7 m clear, soda-lime channel glass U value = 0.81 W/m²K polythene glass Įxing grid for Įxing wheels: 66/33 mm galvanized steel frame, 5 mm steel Ňat steel secƟon, UPE 160 mm 160 mm mineral wood insulaƟon 300 mm reinforced concrete 15 mm white plaster 4 mm steel sheet, painted low-E glass: U value < 1.1 W/m²K g value = 50% 6 + 8 mm toughened glass with 14 mm cavity and low-E coasƟng in soŌwood/aluminum frame 4 mm steel sheet, painted 19 mm laminated board 50/25 mm steel RHA insulaƟon, 2x 160 mm rockwool 19mm laminated board 2 mm galvanized steel sheet 50 mm cement board 60 mm gravel tin-plated steel sheet bituminous sheeƟng 25 mm boarding min. 300 mm insulaƟon to fall bituminous sheeƟng triple low-E glazing: U value < 0.5 W/m²K, g value = 45% 2x 6 mm laminated safety glass with 16 mm cavity + 2x 6 mm toughened galls with 16 mm cavity, with low-E coaƟng

McKenna Steltzner/ ARCH 1223 - Visual Communications 2 - Wetzel / Lawrence Technological University / spring semester

methodology

Copy a drawing from detail magazine

Lessons Learned: 1.

The white strips mean that the drawing was shrunk down and the information in the white strip is continue of the information shown.

Organizing layer while drawing will cut down on time in illustrator.

Understand what the detail is showing.

How a building is structurally built

seeing

eideticism

physicality

criticality

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METHODOLOGY : DIAGRAM DIARY

METADATA

tooling

TOOLS USED ANALOG

pencil vellum straight edge

DIAGRAM DIARY Image Annotation:

DIGITAL

rhino photoshop illustrator Sketch-up fig. 1 - LTL drawing

fig. 2 - LTL drawing

fig. 3 - LTL drawing

fig. 4 - LTL drawing

REFERENCES READINGS PROJECTS

Massing of the LTL drawing

What will be placed into LTL drawing with photoshop

What will be drawn in sketch-up of LTL drawing

The perspective the LTL drawing was orginally

What is hand drawn in the LTL drawing

Copy of an arcitects diagram (learning how to diagram properly)

ARCHITECTS LTL

IMAGES

10. Copy of an arcitects diagram (learning how to diagram properly) 11. Barnes House-Walls that are internior and exterior fig. 5 - LTL drawing

fig. 6 - Copied Diagram

fig. 7 - Copied Diagram

fig. 8 - Copied Diagram

methodology

seeing

eideticism

12. Barnes House- Different rooms

physicality

fig. 9 - Copied Diagram

fig. 10 - Copied Diagram

fig. 11 - Barnes House

fig. 12 - Barnes Houses

criticality

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METHODOLOGY : DIAGRAM DIARY

METADATA VIEWING PORT

ANALOG

pencil vellum straight edge

WHEEL

3. 4.

5. 6.

DIGITAL

VIEWING PORT

WHEEL

rhino photoshop illustrator Sketch-up

SIT ING

WHEEL

TOOLS USED

tooling

RUNNING

PEOPLE WATCHING

CHILDERN PLAYING

Image Annotation:

BIKING

SWIMMING

WALKING

13. Detail- Veiw ports for people and wheels

methodology

14. Detail- Different meterial 15. Detail- The wheels are focial point not the building

REFERENCES READINGS PROJECTS ARCHITECTS LTL

IMAGES

8 fig. 17 - BIG Diagram

fig. 14 - Detail Diagram

17. 8 house- a town inside a building 18. City Hall- The cilizens and the city hall is one 19. BIG project- Public Space is inside museum space 20. BIG project- Sking on top of a dumping site. 21. BIG project- the present and history are together. the building is mostly underground. 22. BIG Speck- What Gyre is.

fig. 18 - BIG Diagram

For Comm on i u t c

seeing

fig. 19 - BIG Diagram

eideticism

fig. 20 - BIG Diagram

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physicality

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fig. 21 - BIG Diagram

16. BIG project- The time it task to move thorugh the park

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fig. 16 - BIG Diagram

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fig. 15 - Detail Diagram

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fig. 13 - Detail Diagram

fig. 22 - BIG Diagram

criticality

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SEEING : CRANBROOK SITE ANALYSIS

METADATA

tooling

TOOLS USED ANALOG

pencil paper cardboard exato knife striaght edge glue

SITE ANALYSIS Diagram Descriptions:

DIGITAL

photoshop illustrator

REFERENCES READINGS

misallenous import- idems from around the world were pull into Cranbrook even if they did belong.

Pushing through planes- hand diagram

Pushing through planes- a single plane can be pushed an pulled.

Connectivity- education, public, and nature are connected without the whole campus.

methodology

seeing

PROJECTS Cranbrook fig. 1 - misalleous import + plagerium + 2D digital

fig. A - Pushing through plan + interpitation + 3D digital

ARCHITECTS IMAGES

eideticism

physicality

fig. A - pushing through planes + + 3D hand

fig. 4 - Connectivity + diagram + 2D hand

criticality

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SEEING : CRANBROOK SITE PLAN

METADATA

tooling

TOOLS USED ANALOG computer

DIGITAL Rhino illustrator

REFERENCES READINGS PROJECTS cranbrook

ARCHITECTS

ELIEL SAARINEN

IMAGES

SITE PLAN When visting this particular part of the site, it felt must different than the rest of the campus. This part of the site is where the libery, museum, and boys dorms are localed. Also there is a long relecting pool that lines up directly with enterences of the libery and the art museum. There are certain enterance that i was interest in this site plan. The fist one was the long incline that leads you to the round fontain. The second was the libery and art museum. They both are off center with amazying detail. The third is the alleyway between the potary studio and the boys dorm. When on site, it does not fell as flat at the topogerphy is showing. There is multiple steps and ramps. Also, on the site plan where there is heavy topography line is a massing of trees,therefore you do not relize there is a small pond inside.

methodology

seeing

The red line repersents my cutline for the section.

eideticism

physicality

criticality

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SEEING : CRANBROOK SITE SECTION

METADATA

tooling

TOOLS USED ANALOG computer

DIGITAL Rhino illustrator

REFERENCES READINGS

SITE SECTION The site section showed that the terrain is extremely flat. The site section was not as help as the site visit and the site plan. The site section showed information I already knew and experienced. I believe that it confuses more than it helps. That is the reason I turn the section 45 degrees on my edetic image, so the section no longer looked like a section.

methodology

PROJECTS cranbrook

ARCHITECTS

seeing

ELIEL SAARINEN

IMAGES IMAGES

manimal (http://www.daniellee.com/ Ox.jpg)

eideticism

physicality

criticality

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SEEING : JOINER

METADATA

tooling

TOOLS USED ANALOG pictures cardboard glue

SITE JOINER

READINGS

David Hockney is the artisted that make jointers take off. He shows. in a video he told, how a jointer allows the viewer to see differently than a video. The still images allow the viewer to pause at moments that interest them and take in the moment the way they want. They do not have to start at the beginning and work their way to the end.

PROJECTS

The moment I captured was the Kingwood Girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Middle School. The enterence to this build interested me. The way the canilever

DIGITAL camera

REFERENCES

methodology

cranbrook

ARCHITECTS

seeing

ELIEL SAARINEN

IMAGES

eideticism

physicality

criticality

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EIDETICISM : THE EIDETIC IMAGE

METADATA

tooling

TOOLS USED ANALOG

pictures paint swaches glue found fliers from cranbrook

THE EIDETIC IMAGE

DIGITAL

DEFINE THE TERM - abstract way to express literal information from site.

camera ilustrator rhino

REFERENCES READINGS PROJECTS cranbrook

ARCHITECTS Eliel Saarinen james courner

Having the paper be vellum allows transperency. Phyical object are allowed to interact with the site plan, section, and path of site visit. The photographies are enterences found all over campus. Some have more importance than others. The photo of the rusted door is located inside the playground of the early development school. The paint swochtes reperence the colors seen in the area. The red swotch in the nature brown reperences a red bridge. The fliers in the top right courner are found the natotourim, which is part of my cournell box.

methodology

seeing

Eidetic Image allows you to combinate all your exploration into one image. Therefore, you are able to see what rrelationship they have and what new finding you have.

I enjoyed the freedom of the edetic image and the ability to be so hands on with the image.

eideticism

physicality

criticality

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PHYSICALITY : PROUN

METADATA

tooling

TOOLS USED ANALOG cardboard glue

DIGITAL

REFERENCES READINGS PROJECTS Cranbrook

ARCHITECTS

PROUN A proun explores one idea. My idea was entrances. The entrances at Cranbrook, especially the ones at the boys high school, on massed walls that only allow you to see a small glimpse into the school. Onces you are inside the school you are able to see everything.

methodology

The important of having only one material allows you to focus on the one idea. Cardboard is a great material to use. Cardboard has the ability to have different textures and transparency. Because the corrugation is facing the same way, you have the ability to look completely through it. seeing

Eliel Saarinen

IMAGES

eideticism

physicality

criticality

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PHYSICALITY : PROUN

METADATA

tooling

TOOLS USED ANALOG cardboard glue

PROUN

DIGITAL A proun explores one idea. My idea was entrances. The entrances at Cranbrook, especially the ones at the boys high school, on massed walls that only allow you to see a small glims into the school. Onces you are inside the school you are able to see everything.

REFERENCES READINGS

PROJECTS Cranbrook

ARCHITECTS

Eliel Saarinen El Lissitskiâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s studies

IMAGES

fig. A - IDEA + METHOD + MEDIUM

methodology

seeing

fig. A - IDEA + METHOD + MEDIUM

eideticism

physicality

fig. A - IDEA + METHOD + MEDIUM

criticality

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PHYSICALITY : CONSTRUCT

METADATA

tooling

TOOLS USED ANALOG

found bricks clay wax bristel rocks

DIGITAL

REFERENCES READINGS PROJECTS

CONSTRUCT A construct is a 3D diagrams of an idea. A construct does not have to literally look like what it is trying to represent. Abstraction allow the idea that is being explore to shine through.

methodology

The idea being explored in this construct is the flow of people must go through the entrance but after people have to ability to flow freely. Having the ability to have what material to create the construct allows the construct to grow, but at the same time makes it hard to considerate on one idea. seeing

Cranbrook

ARCHITECTS Eliel Saarinen

IMAGES

eideticism

physicality

criticality

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PHYSICALITY : CONSTRUCT + CORNELL BOX

METADATA

tooling

TOOLS USED ANALOG

Found brick

DIGITAL

REFERENCES READINGS PROJECTS Cranbrook

ARCHITECTS

+ CORNELL BOX Within the construct is a cornell box. A cornell box is found items from the site that help tell a story of the site. My cornell box was a dumdumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s shopping bag, string, rocks, two bricks, and a pine-cone. All these objects brought back memories from the site. Each item has a specific relationship to Cranbrook. The shopping bag was found by the soccer fields. The string was found right outside of the girls middle school. The rocks, brick and pine cone represent the continuous nature throughout the campus. Without the cornell box within my construct Cranbrook is literally not present.

methodology

seeing

Eliel Saarinen Joseph Cornell

IMAGES

eideticism

physicality

criticality

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CRITICALITY : NEW TRAJECTORIES

tooling

COURSE CONCLUSIONS This course has challenged me to push myself. Visual Communication is the ability to express what you are think no paper clearly enough that someone else is going to understand your thought process. Every project that was given in this course had an obstacle I had to overcome. These obstacle were learning the program to trying to express my idea clearly. Everything I have learned in this course is going to allow me to focus on my idea and how to explore it instead of learning programs or work flows. Another important lesson I learned through this course is having many low res images of ideas at first and then refining them to high res images. Being able to get all idea out at first and then being able to focus on one for the majority of your time.

methodology

seeing

A lesson that I learn that is going to help me not just through college but through my how life is been you are stuck just produce, produce, produce! Having a good idea in your head is going to be good unless it is a physical thing that people are able to understand your idea. My favorite project in this course was the jointer. I like to use my hand more than computer programing. This allowed me to use an ‘old school’ technec on a ‘new school’ idea. I would like to use this idea though my whole career. I want to use my hands on talent in a ‘new school’ way.

eideticism

physicality

criticality

McKenna Steltzner/ ARCH 1223 - Visual Communications 2 - Wetzel / Lawrence Technological University / spring semester