FoD Module 2 Flatness vs. Projection - Mario World by Jiaxin Sun

Foundations of Design : REPRESENTATION, SEM1, 2018 M2 JOURNAL - FLATNESS vs PROJECTION Jiaxin Sun

(927490) Talia Stoch Studio 9

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WEEK 3 READING: LEGER, LECORBUSIER, AND PURISM

Question 1: What is Pictorial Space according to Le Corbusier? (Maximum 100 words) According to Le Corbusier, Pictorial Space is a space that cannot be entered or walked through. It is a space that give the audience a feeling of viewing from a distance. It is reflected on objects through flat and two-dimensional and these objects can only be viewed from the front.

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) The Flatness of Le Corbusier’s paintings are attributable to two properties, the first one is his view of the objects as pure extension and as flat. They are viewed completely frontal and two-dimensional. It is also attributed to the insistent continuity of the edges which purist called “marriage to contour”.

They are pitted against ideation and experience. Visitors cannot rotate and move through the object itself, therefore they have a lack of certainty of the object’s existence.

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MARIO’S WORLD

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1ST MARIO’S WORLD

Here is my first scanned drawing of Mario’s world. At this stage there is no element that has been added.

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COMBINED MARIO’S WORLD

Here is the combined Mario world. I traced it with 0.1 and 0.2 finelinen pen and added more elements to make it more interesting.

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WEEK 4 READING: AXONOMETRIC PROJECTION Complete your reading before attempting these questions:

Question 1: Explain the difference between Pictoral (in this case perspectival) space and Projection?

(Maximum 100 words) The difference between perspective and projection is that perspective is a representation of something that already exists in reality. On the contrast, projection shows objects that can only exist in ideality instead of reality. Another difference between them is that perspective uses fixed vanishing points to create a three-dimensional space while projection moves the vanishing point to infinity and that makes all the lines parallel.

Question 2: Where did Axonometric projection first arise, and why? (Maximum 100 words) Axonometric projection was first utilized in the military setting in the early 20th century. It was used to record three-dimensional trajectories of artillery projectiles. After that it is used in measurement and graphing. It allows more complexity in representation and construction. It is also an instrument to create new worlds that is very different.

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ILLUSTRATED MARIO’S NEW WORLD

The idea of creating this Mario world is inspired by the broad water area between the front and the back world. With the concealed land form and tall mountains, this can be a haunt of a group of pirates. On the ground level there are golden coins, wooden deck and wooden vets that containing treasure and wine and other life supplies. At the bottom of the sea, there are treasure chests and hard rocks.

In the center of this world there is a floating pirate boat with black sails. Pirates reserve their war trophies and hidden treasure they found inside the high mountains.

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APPENDIX

Equipment: T-square, set square, pencils, fineline pens and ruler.

Llinework in process. Printed Mario worlds and tracing paper aligned at 45 degrees.

Linework in process.

Draft of two Mario worlds putting together.

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