Learning Portfolio
ARCH 101 Professor Jerry Lum Theresa Bernardo Project: Learning Portfolio
Learning Process Class Learning Experience Week 1
First day of ARCH 101 class and I realized that it was Professor Jerry Lum again. I’m thinking I’m all in for the ride, learning everything from him will be very informative. First project: Is to make word message and collages to communicate who we are.
Week 2
From all our collected collages, we have to build a sign. The sign should capture attention of passerby’s and to be hanged with push pins on the classroom wall. In this class I have learned how to distinguished myself and be creative, resourceful for what materials I have around. I am looking forward to learn more design elements and methods in this class.
Week 3
What’s my sign represented myself who is a curious and the enlightened traveler. You can see thru the collages and the round eye ball the places I’ve been and seen from the past and recently. This sign will always represent the person who I want to be and embraces my travel benefits.
Week 4
Second project: A Journey of Discovery: in search of lost wonder. I felt like I was one of the layperson, but I welcomed all the critiques given. When I got home, I just inserted all the feelings I had felt as I remembered while again looking at the images. I realized that this project made me identify all my feelings in correlation with the pictures.
Week 5
Third project: Wall Construction Iteration #1 – The project was to build a wall relating to what we saw interesting and remembered while we were at the “A Journey of Discovery: in search of the lost wonder” moment. As I turned to my trustful magazines, I clipped a picture of 2 people resting their backs on a red colored wall this became the beginning of what my design intentions are and to relate and develop design languages. I can see a very hard and complicated “Wall Project” transforming.
Week 6
The narrative and the design process – Required reading was the “Analysis of Maya Lin’s Viet Nam Memorial Narrative” and activities were to develop our narrative design process and solutions using design language vocabularies. Iteration #2 – Using our narrative and design process we need to develop another iteration that demonstrates progress and challenges.
Week 1 – Project 1
Week 1 – Collected Collages
Week 1 – Assembled All Collages
Week 2 – “What’s Your Sign”
Week 3 – “What’s Your Sign”
Week 4 – Project 2
The Transamerica Building 1. Q: What was felt specifically? What is the mood of this place? A: I felt very curious and excited as if it was very new for me. I have been living in San Francisco for 33 years and have not been inside or as close as I was from the building. I have sense an absence of noise and bustle, even though I was at the heart of a very busy street. 2. Q: What was sensed using all five of your senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste)? A: I was overwhelmed by the grace and symmetry of the building, while hearing the street traffic and maybe a faint sound of the famous cable car. I also observed and touch the unique heavily built building and imagined how strong and sturdy it’s structure. The building is surrounded by restaurants and other shops along the streets. It has a distinct smell of a busy street and also a kitchen smell radiating from the surrounding restaurants. A taste that I can almost describe as different cultural cuisine. 3.
Q: What are the essential and major physical aspects and qualities contributing to what was spatially experienced? A: The skyscraper has become an icon and is recognized worldwide. It’s contributing source of a great pride to San Francisco.
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Q: Conclude with a set of hypothetical “recipes” or patterns for “cooking up” various evocative place. A: My concluding recipe would be: A huge amount of an obelisk-shaped and the same amount of an architectural masterpiece.
“I felt the heighten feeling of curiosity and excitement because of the architectural masterpiece.�
“I felt the grace, symmetry of this strong iconic skyscraper.�
“I saw similar patterns, uniquely oblique and heavily built structure�.
“I felt the calmness and the welcoming feeling because of it’s surrounding flowers and plants”.
“I felt the inviting openly space and a sense of great pride inside the building�.
Wall Construction Project
Wall Construction Project
#1 Iteration The narrative and the design process:
What are the most significant aspects and qualities of your constructed design? The most significant aspects are the red walls and individual images that derived from the method of Collage. The qualities of my constructed design have come from incorporating pictures from magazines, manmade cardboards and hanger boards. All material used from what I have around the house. What will a first time viewer of your work see and experience? The first time viewer will see and experience an emotionally confused reaction, a notion of sadness or maybe a picture of a cold truth about the human life. The facial characteristic of the images may remind the viewers of a man and woman experiencing difficulties with their personal emotions. What does your design primarily represent? From my initial design, it primarily represent a back resting wall or it could also be a deep thinking wall. What are the details of what your audience will see and experience as they engage to your work and how these details relate to your metaphors? As viewers engage to my work, the audience will see and experience creative design progression with romantic curves and shapes, bright colors as necessary and geometric forms.
Iteration #1 Added more detailed image (flowers), curvilinear canopy and table.
Iteration #1 Added more detailed image (drink glasses), rectangular canopy and table.
#2 Iteration Hierarchically complex and dense: I unified my parallel walls with cut to length hanger boards for structural stability. Elongated the height by embedding a colored awning for both images. I have decided to make my walls personal for a strong structured wall that relates to a strong nature of a male and on the other side for a delicate and an elegant but also a stable wall structure of a woman. Introduction of new parts with perceivable relationships to others and to the whole: Inspired by the masculine and the feminine wall concept my wild imagination was released. I have introduced the curvature shape for the delicate wall and rectangular for the strong wall. The assembly of a long tubular shape above the walls represents their friendly communication access. Successful use of repetition and rhythm: Again from my initial wall design, I stayed consistent with my primary design intentions which is a resting wall and could be a deep thinking wall. Perceivable “conversations� between connected and proximally close parts: Along with the friendly communication access, the use of elements of curvature and rectangular for the cut out miniature tables and supported by the consistent use of the hanger boards create a feeling of a spatial awareness. Your constructed design has multiple meanings: My wall construction has multiple meanings and it opened a very wide imaginary impressions of an endless playful scenes.
Iteration #2 Introduction of hierarchy and new parts (higher canopy and long tubular shaped conversation access).
Iteration #2 Introduction of hierarchy and new parts (higher canopy and long tubular shaped conversation access).