Week 1 and Welcome

Welcome all. Its nice to see everyone chugging away at the drawings, despite a almost disastrous start with the technological side of the tutorial. First of all lets reiterate some general rules and principles:

1) Read and understand the brief and the weekly tasks - http://www.russelllowe.com/arch1101_2013/experiment1/reference/week_01.html . 

2) Blog all tasks before you come to class - This includes 18 sketch sections and 1 Sketchup model of the architectural space in question (space for two clients + ground floor sales area). 

3) Put your work into your blog before you ask for feedback - Dont email me with image attachments but instead upload into the blogs what you want feedback on.

Some things to think about as youre engaging with the drawing and modelling task: 

- Experiment with a mixture of ways in how you draw. Let the process of drawing guide you in figuring your sections. Half of your collection of sections are starting to look the same, so lets think about drawing from the datum (the middle of the section) out instead of from the edges in. Think about how you can manipulate what youve already got. Have you tried rotating them upside down? or looking at them from the side?

- Create models that "builds on" or "relates to" your sectional drawings rather than extruding a 3d version of your section. Keep away from the mindset that your model have to look exactly like your section. It should instead embody the qualitative aspects of it and build on your keywords in an architectural, and spatial manner.

-Be holistic: Avoid designing in fragments. I want to see a fair attempt at modelling all three spaces. A lot of students fall into the trap of pouring everything into their above-ground spaces whilst having next to nothing (or a simple rectangle) for what they envision below the datum.  

- Be mindful of how you size your architecture and create spaces. But we will be stretching these out to size in the next three weeks. If you do the work for next week then this will be the starting point of our discussion.