Postscript to portfolio 2012

Q UESTIO N 1 路 A PLAN O F THE STILL LIFE In the area directly below the image, project the plan looking down at each element of the still life as cut through from the level of the line indicated.

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Anastasia Podolskaya

A Q UESTIO N 2 路 PO RTRAITS A) Self Portrait B) Self Portrait in terms that have no reference to the body

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Anastasia Podolskaya

B

Q UESTIO N 3 路 THE GRID Redefine the grid in black and white only using the following marks: points, lines, planes, intersections and/ or erasures.

Name

Anastasia Podolskaya

Floor Plan

Elevation I

Elevation II

STAGE 1.1 Translated into a physical model different parts of drawing as elements of elevation and/or floor plan.

STAGE 1.2 Explored the solid/void relationships in three dimensions.

STAGE 1.3 Arranged multiple elements based on a level of rhythm, order, and logic.

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Anastasia Podolskaya

Q UESTIO N 4 路 FRAGM ENT Rip, tear or cut a critical fragment from any drawing you have ever made, and position that fragment on this page.

Name

Anastasia Podolskaya

Q UESTIO N 5 路 SCALE A M EM O RY IN PLAN Given the square area above, consider the square as a site and the grid as a measure. Construct the plan of a place important in your memory using these tools. Give it a working title and write one sentence inspired by this memory.

W orking Title: Text:

Name

Audition

Stairs and stairs behind me, and I am so small, facing for the first time a director of the biggest theatre of my country ... a sculptor and sort of a dad.

Anastasia Podolskaya

Sverre Fehn, The Skin, the Cut and the Bandage …This means that in the skin of the earth you find the rings, you find the objects, you find everything that is important for writing the story about your past. Diagrammatically, we have a person, the visitor, and objects (a bowl, perhaps, and a boat). W hat to do with these things? You must help that person; you must make a horizon, a floor, for him. Then he is safe. He doesn’t go to hell or to heaven; he is in architecture. Now he wants to be with that object. You as the architect, create the horizon. You work with the horizon or the skin of the earth, and shape it to reveal the object where it lays. And the boat; it too will find it's place where it has been landed in time....

Q UESTIO N 6 · LITERARY CO UNTERPART Choose one of the texts on the following page and draw a plan or section of the space and elements you envision as the counterpart of the selected expression of architecture in written language.

Choose one:

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The Golden Bowl by Henry James The Skin, the cut and the Bandage by Sverre Fehn Espèces d'Espaces by Georges Perec

Anastasia Podolskaya

Q UESTIO N 7 路 M O BILE O R STABILE Select a mobile or stabile by Alexander Calder and draw it or any detail of it.

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Anastasia Podolskaya

Q UESTIO N 8 路 O RDER: STRUCTURAL INTERSECTIO N O bserve a structure such as a facade, a frame or an order. Draw an intersection.

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Anastasia Podolskaya

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9 Arthur Rimbaud: Love has to be reinvented.

Total Eclipse (2005)

Q UESTIO N 9 · ECLIPSE Capture an eclipse.

Name

Anastasia Podolskaya

* Любовь [lyub ‘ ov’] noun (f) Love

Q UESTIO N 10 · W RITING PRO JECTS

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The following words have meaning in an architectural vocabulary but have additional implications in other spheres of thought: PLAN

BO UNDARY

PASSAGE

W ALL

PLINTH

CO LUM N

O RDER

FO RUM

CHAM BER

These words are both physical and mental; concrete and literary.

Choose one and elaborate.

those eyes which closed voluptuously, slowly in almost painful impulse… anticipating… full of hope or hopeless, intense or full of tears rainy eyes, those sadly dead or deadly sad, and blue ones now arctic … those were a window to the soul, then there was constructed wall

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W hat elements do you read in these plans? W rite two sentences below each square.

Top view of the property showing rooftop, stairs, walls, fences and dividers, door opennings, materials of construction. This site plan reveals the circulation and landscape conditions of the space.

Name

Anastasia Podolskaya

Looking at the grid I suggest that this is a floor plan of a building showing a two-bedroom apartment with 2 bathrooms and one guest washroom, bar-table, windows and doors. Outside on the North-West side of a structure is a part of site plan showing vegetation.

Birds eye view on repetitive spaces, and other urban elements (streets, walls, square) organised on a coastline. This plan can be an urban site plan for one or both previous drawings.