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Foundations of Design : REPRESENTATION, SEM1, 2017 M4 JOURNAL - FRAME vs FIELD Mengping Huo 1 980794 Talia Stoch, 22

WEEK 9 READING: TITLE OF READING

Question 1: What are Durer’s rules for perspectival projection? (Maximum 100 words) The description of perspective in Durer’s rules is that “planar, transparent intersection of all those rays that fall from the eye onto the object it sees”. The first rule of the three rules for perspectival projection is all perpendiculars meet at socalled central vanishing point. Furthermore, it can be found the second rule is that all parallels in whatever direction have a common vanishing point. Lastly, equal dimensions diminish progressively as they recede in space.

Question 2: Describe homogenous space? (Maximum 100 words)

Homogeneous space is a fully rational, infinite and unchanging space. All its elements, the points which are joined in it, are “mere determinations of position”, possessing no independent content of their own outside of this relation. Their reality is a purely functional and not substantial reality. A pure mathematical homogeneous space is different from visual and tactical space.

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INVISIBLE CITY: MAROZIA

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OLD QUAD ISOMETRIC As shown in the story, there were two periods or two cities have been mentioned. The earlier period was like, some people were fighting for foods like rats, but some people were like swallows which have the ability to fly. And the second period was like a nearly perfect world with some darkness as well.

As first, I had no idea how to visualize the city. But it can be said that the city can be associated with both the idea of Utopia and chaos world. The Utopia which is an imagined community processing perfect qualities for its citizens can be seen in the second period of the story. And for the first period, there is no doubt that it is chaos. But for the relationship between two periods or two worlds, the story mentioned that “Marozia consists of two cities, the second is the one about free itself from the first.�

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Isometric drawing without notations

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OLD QUAD ISOMETRIC WITH NOTATIONS The second floor has been built, which could be easier to show a different period of this city since environments have been separated. I don’t need to place the figures in perspective 1 and then hide them to do the next perspective. Furthermore, the Marozia can be separated into two different worlds, and the relationship between them, different but related, can be shown in this isometric because of the different floors and stairs. The upper space can be used to portray a nearly perfect city since the height is domination.

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QUAD PERSPECTIVE 1 + 2

Perspective 1

perspective 2

Considering the consistency, I added some lines on the wall in order to make it seems have bricks on it. For the stairs, in order to remain accuracy, I used 20cm as its height since it’s the most suitable height for people.

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PERSPECTIVE SCENE 1 Considering the description of passages: “ passages like packs of rats who tear from one another’s teeth the leftovers which fall from the teeth of the most voracious ones”, rats can associate with greed. The author used the description of passages to illustrate the personality of the people during that period.

They not only fight for food, but we also can point out that they fight for women, status, even blood.

It can be found that there is a vampire as the main character in perspective 1, which can be helpful to demonstrate the idea of chaos. Not only poor people but the rich are greedy as well. It is reasonable noting that rats can also symbolise the rich who do not care about the fighting among the poor. Maybe they are capitalists who earn money from the poor, or rob money from them.

Regarding textures, I changed their perspective to make them look “real”, especially for the texture of floors and columns. I also change the colour of the linework in order to make the perspective view more natural. It is worth mentioning that the edge of every object is not sharp in my work because I think it might make the view unnatural.

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PERSPECTIVE SCENE 2 The story said that: “the inhabitants of Marozia will fly like swallows in the summer sky.”

I think the swallows symbolise the people who are totally different from rat-like people.

In other words, people who are selfless. I order to compare, I used the angel to illustrate people who are selfless. They are willing to share food with someone who needs those things. I used the figure of killing the satan to illustrate “clearing the air of mosquitos and gnats” and used some angels who are playing music in the picture to indicate a relaxing atmosphere. Some accommodating people can be found in both perspective 1 & 2, and they are used to show the pure quality of human. The people who “get off the ground flapping their batlike overcoats” can be seen in perspective 2. In a personal perspective, they are not people who can fly by using “batlike” overcoats but who are indifferent and offish. The demon behind them which is used to symbolic the darkness of their thought also can be seen in perspective 2. In short, the main purpose was making those two perspective views look more natural.

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

Question 1: IWhat is the difference between autographic and allographic practice? (Maximum 100 words) Autographic arts depend for their authenticity upon direct contact of the author.

Allographic arts can be produced without the direct intervention of the author. Autographic arts establish outcomes, such as paintings and sculptures, while allographic arts use notation to reproduce the authenticity of works.

Question 2: Why do architects need new representational techniques? (Maximum 100 words) The traditional representations were designed to describe stable and fixed objects. However, the modern city is formed by ‘Visible and invisible streams of information, capital, and subjects interacting in complex formations”. Therefore, new tools or techniques that can “engage time and change, shifting scales, mobile points of view, and multiple program” are required to enable architects to work more effectively within the immaterial networks and systems that comprise the city in the 20th century.

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FINAL DRAWINGS

Final drawing of the isometric view and perspective 1 &2

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DEVELOPMENT

The first experiment in the workshop.

Vesion 1 for the perspective 1

Vesion 2 for the perspective 1

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