Flatness vs. Projection

Foundations of Design : REPRESENTATION, SEM1, 2017 M2 JOURNAL - FLATNESS vs PROJECTION Yilin TU

Tutor: Colby Hanan Vexler

ID: 964532 Studio: 14

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WEEK 3 READING: TITLE OF READING

Question 1: What is Pictorial Space according to Le Corbusier? (Maximum 100 words) Pictorial space is a thing “which cannot be entered or circulated through“, it is a irremediable space viewed from a distance, and is therefore eternally resigned to fontality. It is also displayed as three-fold terms. First of all, it is inscribed as a pure extension, as flat. Second, the Purists called the constellation of objects which wedge together in the insistent continuity of edges, the“mariage de contour“. Third, color and texture are managed in a manner which calls attention to the inherent superficiality of these “secondary qualities“.

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 two properties are extreme contrast between figure and ground served to pry apart the sur­face of the picture and textural integers that appear against the ground of contour that defines the object to which they belong . Besides, they are pitted against the narrow but incredibly calibrated distance.

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MARIO’S WORLD

Front elevation used as my 1st Mario World Projection

Back elevation used as my 2nd Mario World Projection

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1ST MARIO’S WORLD

Unfinished pencil work which was based on the 1st Mario World Elevation.

Insert your annotation

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COMBINED MARIO’S WORLD

Using 0.1 and 0.4 fineline pens to trace the final combined Mario World

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WEEK 4 READING: TITLE OF READING Complete your reading before attempting these questions:

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

(Maximum 100 words)

Projection could make visible the limits of the perspectival system and its arbitrariness. Besides, perspectival space only locates the viewer, but projection locates in an oblique and decentered poisition. Moreover, the image coalesces only in the moment of turning away from the painting.

Question 2: Where did Axonometric projection first arise, and why? (Maximum 100 words) Axonometric projection first arose in a military context, where it was originally used to create the three dimensional trajectories of artillery projectiles. And it answered the questions of measurability, prediction, and verifiability arise.

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ILLUSTRATED MARIO’S NEW WORLD

Finalised combination of Mario World Projection which contains texture, color and gradients

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APPENDIX

Materials: Tracing paper, pencils, set squares, masking tape, T-square.

Using 2H and HB pencils to create my Mario World Projection .

Add some details of the Mario World to fullfill the empty places.

Finally, using 0.1 and 0.4 fineline pens to trace my work.

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