Foundations of Design : REPRESENTATION, SEM1, 2017 M4 JOURNAL - FRAME vs FIELD wenzhao Sa
(848005) Anastasia Studio 27
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WEEK 9 READING: PERSPECTIVE AS SYMBOLIC FORM
Question 1: What are Durer’s rules for perspectival projection? (Maximum 100 words) Dürer invented several drawing machines to teach perspective and he explained the concept of perspectival projector as “seeing through”. The perspectival projector enables people create a three-dimentional space in a planar medium, which is similar to a window reflects the positions of objects in the real world. And this image in the surface is represented by drawing a group of transparent lines which are intersected and disappered in the same point. And we call this point “vanishing point”. These lines and the“ vanishing point‘ forms a ”visual pyramid”, which imitates how eyes work in the real world. This makes the perspectival projector method scientifically accurate.
Question 2: Describe homogenous space? (Maximum 100 words)
The homogenous sapce is preciously and rationally imaged by adoptinging the mathematical and geometrical techiques. And it in some way is not restrcited to a ”given space“. It’s functional reality instead of a subastantial one. The scintific“scale” is an essential part of creating a homogenous space.
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INVISIBLE CITY: ANASTASIA...
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OLD QUAD ISOMETRIC
South-east isometric view of Old Quad
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OLD QUAD ISOMETRIC WITH NOTATIONS
Old Quad isometric view with notations showing Macro Polo’s journey in Anastasia
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QUAD PERSPECTIVE 1 + 2 Annotation. Anastasia is a dramatically hustling and bustling metropolis and extremely visual appealing as described by Carlvino. In this case, I tried to avoid limiting the view in a very narrow and fully interior space. In this view, Macro sitted down in the first level on the opposite shore, and he could see everything happening in the most representative central area of Anastasia. He could see the ongoing feast holded by arabic millionaries and merchants, the gondolas hugging the shore and kites flying in the sky.
Annotation. This view mainly presents the senario in the second floor which is in the opposite side of the first one. In this view Marco came to the other side of the canal. People are busy cuttering gems. This view is directly related to the first one. And this change indicates the tarck of Macro’s movements. Similar to the first one, this view provides a board and open view. The difference is that when Macro standing at the this floor he had a better view of the whole picture of Anastasia. And we can also experience the prosperity of this dreamy city.
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PERSPECTIVE SCENE 1 + 2 Annotation. When Marco Polo just arrived Anastasia in the late night, the candles on the wall almost burnt out. Howere, the night life in this surreal and opulent city was just began. there was a grand feast holded by the merchants and millionaries in this city. These people were gather and having a very delighful conversation. The clothes and accessories they wear looked expensive. A young and beautiful waitress brought golden pheasant which was cooked over the fire of seasonal cherry woods. There was a large table with a wide variety of cuisiens. Gondolas were already pulled inshore, But the merchant ship was just leaving offshore. Macro felt the city was extremely attractive.
Annotation. In the second day, Macro ferried across to the opposite bank. He went up to the second floor, and the view here in the second floor is totally different from what he saw yesterday. In this floor, people aremainly from a lower social class. They are busy cuttering the gems and the kitchen where the pheasnats were cooked looked in a huge mess. Two dogs were scrambling for the rest parts of dead pheasant. Although the room filled with beautiful jewels and the blazed piles of golden coin stacked in the table. marco felt sad to see this huge metropolis and its people stuck in the apathy. They were just the slavery of money and their life were totally controlled by the capitalist.
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WEEK 4 READING:
PRACTICE ARCHITECTURE, TECHNIQUE AND REPRESENTATION -----MAPPING THE UNMAPPABLE ON NOTATION Question 1: IWhat is the difference between autographic and allographic practice? (Maximum 100 words) The autographic and alographic are mainly distinguised from each other in the capability of being reporducted. Autographic refers to the artworks producted by the authors who is legally owned the copyright and have contracts with people who uses their works. So It is not editable in any forms without the permission. Such as paintings and sculptures. However, the allographic can be reproduced through the noatition. Such as the music, performance. Since once the form of these types of arts changed, the derivatives are considered not reproducing the original edition at all.
Question 2: Why do architects need new representational techniques? (Maximum 100 words) Since Architecture is neither allographic or autographic. The architectural designs nowadays are expected focus more and spend more efforts on the form of structure and the consistence in line with people’s social, cultural, identical needs.Architects need new representational techiques to specifically enhance the coherence of architectural design with social science aspects and to reflect human’s physical and mental conditions in this era.
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FINAL DRAWINGS CITIES & DESIRE 2: ANASTASIA 0
1m
2.5m
Key Day light
5m Student Created Symbol
night light Large Step
Candlelight
positive & delight
heavy & down
Regular Step Small Step Difficult Step City Sign
Canals
Physical Link Feast
To better reflect the real senario in this line script with notation, I added a range of icons which functioned to refelct the position, the events, different people and items. I also use some lines to reflect the movements of Macro. There were 3 types of light (daylight, nightlignt and canddle light) to enhance the visual experience of this script. Meanwhile, for adding some musical elements to imporve the audio sense, I use two Alphebets icons to represent the D major and e minor seperately, which reflected Macro’s emotional change in the whole narrative as well.
Perspective 1
Perspective 2
Final drawings
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APPENDIX
CONCEPTS 11
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Research map
The selection of my figures in Annastasia is based on my re search of the original edition of Marco Polo’s travel. I found Anastasia highly matched some descriptions about the lesser Armenia, Persia, and many other Mediterranean regions, which Marco recorded in the very begining of his journey. Apart from thses images, I also added the gondola, which is a representative public transport in Venice to add a strong Venice feeling since in the “invisible cities�, Marco has explained him self that every city he talked about was originated by the im pressions of Venice in his mind.
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Hand drawings
Quick free handdrawing
Persepctive 1 origin
Perspective2 origin
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Perspective 4 origin perspective 3 origin
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Design concept of notation & images
Notation table
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Image concepts
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image sources
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