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Foundations of Design : Representation, Sem 1, 2017 PORTFOLIO renqicao 904925 Studio 5- Siavash Malek

MEASURED DRAWING OF A CROISSANT Photo of elevation

How to measure a Croissant?

Those are the photos of my croissant. Basically I scan the base of my croissant and use the size of that scaned photo as a standard to scale all the remaining drawings and photos. This turns out to be a good way since the sizes of all of my printed drawings are consistent with my croissant.

Also, instead of measuring the actual croissant, I measure length and width of the croissant in the scaned photo and double check it with my real croissant. The measurement turns out to be more accurate.

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Photo of elevation

Photocopied scan

Photo of plan view

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sectionC

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Drawings of the croissant I use some hatching skills to draw the croissant so that we can recognize where the light comes from and the depth of the croissant.

Drawings of the 3d sections The three sections are redrawed from the scaned photos of the croissant with 45 degrees.They combined together and made the 3 d drawing .

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NEW MARIO WORLD

The making of new Mario world.

This is the final drawing of my new mario world.I changed the structure of the hidden part of some objects. The buildings in the middle part filled the emptyness of the picture and gave more volumes to the whloe layout.The color are picked from the pictures of the original mario’s world.I picked three different tones of a color from each object on the picture to create the depth.In this drawing,the left hand side is the darker side.So the light came from the north-east direction.When two objects met,the one near the front would always cover the one in the back.

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step3-combine the two sides I overlay the two drawings on anthoer tracing paper hence combine them to my new mario world.

step1-setup I use T-square and set squares to set by workspace.

I also seperate the layers from the original mario workld. The objects on the original mario world are flat, but we can still see which is closer to us.

step2-draw one side of my new mario world I project my first 2d mario world template forward at 45 degree angle and overlay the tracing paper on it. Then use pencil and set square to project lines from the template.

step3-draw the other side Final hand drawing of the new mario world

I layout my second 2d mario world template parallel to the first 2d mario world.

I add more buildings between two sides of my new mario world

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PAPER LANDSCAPE

The making of new landscape I created three 3d custom variables, each of them is composed by two triangles without the tops. The model is concentrated from one point to another, from the hightest to the lowest and then to the hightest again. The variations in the opening angles of each model and the heights emphasize the effect of the shadows. More details are discussed in the following pages.

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Details of the paper landscape Overall the model is sticked nicely although there are some burned marks created by the laser cutter

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step1-2d panelling I simply use the dense pattern from rhino, this is where I could improve. If I created more variations in this step, the whole model could be more interesting.

step2-create the models for 3d panelling I created three 3d models. Each of them is composed by two triangles without the tops. The opening angles of the triangles and the amount of the cutted tops are varied from one to another.

step3-3d panelling The height of the models are varied by curves

setp5-making the paper model This is how my final paper landscape looks. I like the effect created by the different heights of each models. The paper model also shows some unexpected topography from the original landscape beacuse there are some streaching and squeezing between the papers, espeaially the areas with high density of models. Perhaps we can use this to create more.

step4-unroll This is an example of one of my unroll surfaces.

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step4-combine 2d panel and the 3d panel I simply delete some of the 3d models, but with some consideration of the distribution of the models. The models are concentrated together from one point to another.

INVISIBLE CITY

Despina

Despina locates at the threshold between the sea and the desert. It receives its form from the deserts it opposites.The ‘mirage‘ symbol implies the area where it receives the form. There are two main characters in this city: the sailor who comes from the sea and the camel driver from the desert. Both of them see the city,despina, but they think it as a camel and a boat which can take them away. Based on the clues in the story, I interpret despina as a city like which we live, a modern city with lots of skyscrapers. It locate in the middle part of the quad, the two grey areas near it are the mirage received by the sailor and the camel driver and the two ‘forms’ received by itself as well.

ensure you include your scale bar

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This scene shows the city seen by the sailor. The sailor sees despina as a camel. I use the reflection in the sea to show my interpretation of the real city.

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This scene shows the city seen by the camel driver. He see despina as a steamboat. The city on the boat is the real despina.

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REFLECTION

Through the four modules and this final fortfolio, I was introduced to a variety of ways of representing my design.

Instead of focusing on the actual workflow of each modules, the lectures introduced lots of concepts which gave me an inspiration of the way to think in the design process.For instance, the lecture on the topic of pattern and surface gave us some introduction of developable and non-developable surfaces, so when I design my model at the beginning,I tried to make every surfaces triangular which turned out make my life easier.

In addtion to the technical support from the workshops, I develop a skill in using different softwares to manage information and hence put my ideas in practical. Especially in moudle3, I learned 3d modelling using rhino. Although what I was being taughted was just the basis, I found it still helped a lot as I exploring the software.

Overall, this subject gave me an insight into the different ways to obtain a design perfermance. In each module, the design was not only presented by a simple drawing, but through the combination of different sorts of information (like text, images, models) and the use of various kinds of techniques.(drawing, photographing, 3d modelling...) I am generally satisfied with my works in the four modules.

While my work in m3 can still be improved a lot. I should create more variations in the design of 2d patterns. And I improved my m1 work by cleaning up the background of my croissant photos in this portfolio. Although I’m doing digital technology, I gain the fundamental understanding in representing the design from this course which can be inspirative to all my following designs.

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