Foundations of Design : REPRESENTATION, SEM1, 2018 M2 JOURNAL - FLATNESS vs PROJECTION Xintong Chen
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WEEK 3 READING: LEGER, LE CORBUSIER AND PURISM
Question 1: What is Pictorial Space according to Le Corbusier? (Maximum 100 words) According to Le Corbusier, pictorial space is a space that “cannot be entered nor circulated through”. It could only be observed from a distance, and is therefore “eternally resigned to it frontality”. In this space, firstly, the object is “flat and a pure extension”. Secondly, the edges of objects are parellel if they extend in the same direction. Thirdly, the colour or texture of the objects are dipicted in an inherent appearence. In short, this is an imaginary and ideal depiction of the space, but in a sense it brings logic and measurability to the drawing.
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 promenade and prospect. They combine to be the motion in a drawing. Le Corbusier believes that the appreciation of any geometries must be “the product of motion around and though them”; and promenade and prospect are 2 main properties in this obsThey pitted against the “seperate kind of knowledge one can have a proximate space by means of rotation through it”. So for Le Corbusier, this counterpoint is between “ideation and experience” of a presentation.
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MARIO’S WORLD
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1ST MARIO’S WORLD
paper, with 2B pencil. first attempt of axonometric projection of the front of the world. completed on tracing
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COMBINED MARIO’S WORLD
Final hand drawing of the world. It was done on 2 sheets of tracing paper and connected together on Photoshop.
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WEEK 4 READING: AXONOMETRIC PROJECTION P
Question 1: Explain the difference between Pictoral (in this case perspectival) space and Projection? (Maximum 100 words) Pictorial space is based on observation. It has a focal points that evey line is supposed to congregate towards; therefore, lines are not parellel and unmeasurable. Projection, in contrast to perspectival space, is an infinite space without an end point. In this space, every line is parallel if they go along the same direction, and hence the space can be measured. Perspective records something that already exists, and axonometric projection constucts that which does not yet exist.
Question 2: Where did Axonometric projection first arise, and why? (Maximum 100 words) It arose among artists who wanted to “go beyond the art’s traditional role of interpreting the world to imagine an art capable of constructing new worlds”. They were looking for a method that is “precise and measurable”, so the axonometric projection was adopted as the ideal method to delineate the “avant-grade vision of the new world”.
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ILLUSTRATED MARIO’S NEW WORLD
Mario World with colours. Traced and Coloured in Adobe Illustrator. Lines were carefully drawn to show the tiny delicate elements in the world.
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APPENDIX
Chunk elements were designed on the paper directly while delicate parts were designed seperately and traced back on to the paper.
one tracing paper was set on top of the other, and they were placed to 45 degree to the horizontal line.
This scanning is the draft of the upper part of the world, with construction lines on it.
Complicated elements were to be drawn seperately to ensure their precision. Later they were combined to the drawing in the process of tracing with hand.
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