Learning portfolio by Gale

Learning portfolio 1

Dog house Prospective view of Dog house which was the first assignment in our class. It was a great experience and introduction to Sketch up.

During class we started practicing hand sketching. My first try was not quite good, and Jerry recommended us to draw vertical and horizontal straight lines, and also circles at home.

Then I practiced at home connecting dots, drawing vertical and horizontal lines, and also practiced drawing circles between those lines.

These are the steps that I went through to get the design my dog house

Strengths:  Learned how to work with Push and Pull tool to make the roof, window, and door which was pretty easy and fun  Window and door design  Coloring the house using paint Bucket tool  Using offset to create window frame, and really enjoyed doing frame to the window, looks really neat Challenges and weaknesses:  I am not really comfortable with using Move tool. I learned that I should select whole thing first and then move the item. Otherwise the shape distorts.  It was a big challenge for me to add measurements, because I have no idea about feet and inches

Crazy cube arrays in space

Perspective view

Perspective view within Array 8

Plan view

Elevation view

Plan view in perspective

Strengths:

 Successfully created cube, transformed into components, an replicated multiple times to create this complex arrays.

 Zoomed into the array, turned my shadows on, and place several human figures for scale to create a dramatic shot  Learned how to duplicate boxes  Learned how to add components, and made a “story”  Successfully added shadow, and it turned more realistic

 Used different camera view and leaned how to export 2D picture Challenges:

 I need to learn how to use graphic visualization techniques to pen draw something similar to what I produce in SketchUp

 I had some struggle using Orbit tool 9

Floor Study

Floor pattern research It was really fun and useful exercise. Usually it is hard to design something directly, but when I start drawing them, I can explore more ideas as I go further.

Perspective view of floor studies

Strengths:  Practiced a Move and Copy tool which I did not get in previous class  Mastered in Push and Pull tool to create the roof  Used Tape to draw repetitive pattern of the floor  Used Bucket tool to color my floor Weaknesses:  At first I did some mistake in my wall and copied that wrong model all over, so my whole houses looked weird  Had a hard time to take a good shot, because the patterns were disappearing when use my rotate tool  Had trouble to place Steve on the floor. His feet was keep disappearing  Had a trouble to move my copied version by red axis

Challenges:  Use Move and Copy tool  Move through right axis  Create new design  Take good shots

Opportunities:  Practice the Move and Copy tool more. It seemed quite useful  Sketch the pattern on the paper to discover new ideas  Follow Jerry faster

Piazza del Campidoglio

Parallel projection from top view showing all the steps

Zoomed in view from top the last two steps

Prospective view

Elevation view

Strengths:  Learned how simplicity can lead to complexity  Introduced with Rotate tool  Practiced how to rotate and copy at the same time  Learned how to do the stairs at the end of the class  Understood how to use Follow me tool  Learned how to use Offset tool  Learned how to use Arch tool Weaknesses:  Had trouble with stairs first  Good 2D shots

Challenges:  Work fast  Use of Rotate, Arch, Offset and Line tools  Practice stairs using Line and Follow me tools  Create complex shapes

Opportunities:  Practice Follow me tool  To work fast I need to know the shortcuts of the tools on the keyboard

Malevich inspired construction and Picasso inspired tower

In class we worked on Malevich inspired construction which was quite fun, but in fact that I did not merge the trees in one layer, I had trouble with using software. It was keep crushing because of my acres of forest, and I started my new tower at home

This is Picasso inspired tower that I did at home. It was a lot of fun

The left view of the tower in parallel projection

Perspective view with Steve

The top view in parallel projection

Perspective view showing the dramatic shape of the tower

The front view in parallel projection

The perspective view of waving walls 18

Strengths:  Had a lot fun  Mastered in Line tool, and finally understood what Jerry meant by “retracing”  Learned how to import photo  Used Bucket tool to color my buildings  Played with different shapes  More practice on Push and Pull tool  X-ray view is mind-blowing and useful Weaknesses:  Had a hard time with putting my pieces in Group  It was really hard to choose ground color. It turned really bright and really dark sometimes  Combination of colors  Learned how to make an animation, but was not as good as expected  Had some trouble working with Two Point Arch

Challenges:  Using Line tool to retrace the shape  Using Arch tool to create waive  Color up the tower  Designing even more complicated shape using Push and Pool tool  Grouping the shapes

Opportunities:  Work with X-ray tool to find out what is behind and inside  Practice more the Arch tool  Be careful with colors. I will use water bucket next time instead of coloring them blue  Understand the “grouping”

Paper airplanes It was really an interesting class. We learned how to fold a paper airplane on Sketch Up. I experienced different Styles and I really liked the Genetic CAD style, which turns my airplanes black with white stroke. This tuned out to be really masculine, so I tried to make a story. I displayed fog, and also imported JPG images of war. This piece satisfies my a lot. Fog blinds my airplanes into the background image, and decreases the brightness.

We started our class trying the folding technique using Rotate tool. At first it was quite confusing, but after practicing few times, I understood how to use this tool. Seems fun, but looks like all of us having bad day :D , and we moved to folding airplanes which was much more interesting

Top view in parallel projection

Perspective view from back of the airplanes

Left view in parallel projection

Front view in parallel projection

Then I practiced different Styles

Strengths:  Experienced Rotate tool  Learned how to change the Style  Had fun a lot  Learned really fast  Taking good shots

Weaknesses:  Confused a little with rotation tool  Don’t know how to turn back to my first version

Challenges:  Fold the paper  Experience different styles

Opportunities:  More experience on rotation tool  Try different styles

Pavilion with folded Canopy

First we started folding the roof

The front view of the pavilion

I made some the pallets transparent

The right view to show the beauty of folded roof

Perspective view from the back in order to show the roof transparency

The top view with beautiful floor pattern 26

Strengths:  Mastered in Rotate tool  Did better animation  Put the previous parts in layer that I could let then disappear without deleting them

Challenges:  Folding roof  Create better animation  Discover the design of the pavilion

Weaknesses:  Later realized that I should have add all the columns in one layer, because it slowed down by software  Trees were driving me crazy. They were placing below the red axis, and looked awful in parallel projection.

Opportunities:  Work with layers  Discover my own style without copying directly from Jerry

Floor plan of my house 28

Perspective view 29

First floor 30

Living room 31

Dining room 32

Dining room. I spent a lot of time to make the cup board. I am so happy that it looks exactly same as it is.

The perspective view of second floor. The first picture from right is my room, the smallest in house. It also has window, but I did not include.

I also tried different styles, and I loved it. My favorite is the sketchy one. It looks like hand drawing, and I like the darker finish of every line which look so natural.

Strengths:  Learned how to use tape in real life  Realistic  I learned a lot about the standard sizes of door  Learned to create furniture  Took better shots  Became more comfortable with inches and feet  Learned to draw floor plan sketch by hand Weaknesses:  It took so long to finish furniture, because they are really detailed  Computer was keep freezing

Challenges:  Create furniture  Measuring by tape  Drawing floor plan by hand  Working step by step

Opportunities:  Work with tape  Learn more about inches and feet  More hand sketch  Making plan before start on Sketch up  Knowing the standard sizes

Photo Match 38

The photo match of Reinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gallery was really fun class. It was a lot like being a detective. I really loved the way to guess and predict from images. I added more that was not on the photos.

This is what I got generally. The perspective view 40

Top view with shadows on 45

Exploring different styles and taking different shots were the best part. I loved the black and white style

Strengths:  Learned how to use Photo Match tool  Guessing predicting  Taking good shots  Creative  I understood that if I want to do photo match, I should take good pictures in real life

Challenges:  Being a good detective  Comparing  Predict the construction lines  Thinking creative

Weaknesses:  I was sick one week and I stood behind a little, but I was so glad Jerry helped me to catch up

Opportunities:  Matching every photo that I like

Final report My final report was inspired by Nicolas Lee. I found the house plan in www.houseplans.com It was a lot to finish to do my final report. This house has 2 floors and 3 bedrooms. It took me days to finish. I regret a lot, but I am super happy that I finished. I thought it will be easier because all the measurements were online. This is modern styled house. I loved this huge window in Great room. I learned a lot from this project. For instance, I learned to read the floor plan, to calculate floor steps basing on the height of the floor and more. It was challenging.

Great room and the lovely shadow 53

Bathroom and toilet in the first floor 54

Great room 55

First floor. Sight from bedroom 57

Emphasizing windows, second floor

Second floor plan 59

Exploring different styles 60

Strengths:  Used everything I learned  Created layers and groups  Mastered in making windows  Learned to make stares based on the height  Enjoyed 3D components  Took better shots

Challenges:  Creating tons of windows  Applying all the measurements in the floor plan  Being familiar with standard sizes  Creating landscape  Working step by step

Weaknesses:  Choose really hard one  Too many windows to finish  The components were keep appearing upside down, and it was freezing every time when I scale them by -1

Opportunities:  Practice more

This course was just an inspiration for me like a big step forward to my dream. Now I look back to the dog house. It looks so easy and funny. I am so glad that I learned a lot and skilled in Sketch Up. I am quite confident that I can create the design on Sketch Up which has always been in my head. The most fun part was my final assignment. Even though it was hard, I was able to show all my skills on it. The biggest lesson that I learned was split the tasks into smaller parts, and updating portfolio each week. In my next design studio class, I will accomplish it. Cant wait to take design studio class next semester.