ID SPACE – Connecting Space

My Work We were tasked to add another room next door to the workspace we have designed so I added a meeting room where my client can meet his clients and discuss business. I have included a small kitchen area with a sink, some worktops and a fridge so he can offer his visitors a […]

VECTORWORKS – Introduction to 3D

The first thing we did in this lecture was to recreate the room we originally did in Vectorworks from a plan but in 3D. This is a screen shot of my plan which has been done in 3D, it includes dimensions on it and a scale. I have chosen not to blog all the 3D […]

DRAWING – Interiors in Perspective and Life Drawing

In this lesson we had three tasks to complete. For the first and second we did observational drawings from photographs from the computer screen. Mine are below: In the third task we were asked to draw a perspective drawing from a photograph on the computer screen. This is below: For private study we were asked […]

WORKSHOP

After doing numerous inductions in the workshops we spent some time as a group getting to know the workshop in our own way to get used to it. We had two sessions in the workshop, in the first one we were asked to just use materials with the machines to change them in some way […]

ID SPACE – Measured Space

Doors First we looked at the size of doors, the average size of a door is 900mm width and 2100 height however this can be changed with the room two examples of this is above. It is very uncommon to create a door smaller than that of a grown man however there are exceptions such […]

THEORY – Modernism 3 Case Studies.

Mies Van Der Rohe. Mies Van Der Rohe has divided the United States with his architecture as some find that his buildings are stripped from everything that gives it character whereas others say it is architecture in its purest form. Personally I agree with the latter as his designs really appeal to me due to […]

THEORY — Model Making

This was the other half of the lecture that went with presentation. It was a very short lecture where the tutor flicked through some examples of models, the reason he went so fast through the lecture was because he had previously shown us the models in other lectures such as The Church of Light in […]

THEORY – Colour

In this lecture we looked at designers that use colour in their work I am going to look specifically at FAT (Fashion Architecture Taste) because they are large enough to specialise in Architecture, Urban Design and Interiors and they also use colour in many different ways. They have created some bus shelters which are black with […]

THEORY – Presentation

This theory lecture was only a short lecture as the lesson included two lectures and looking through all of our blogs. It went through the basics of ways to present our ideas. The first example is a map for Alton Towers and the have used this style of map to present the layout of their […]

SCETCH UP & VECTORWORKS & LASER CUTTING

During our IT lesson we were set four tests which incorporated Sketchup, Vectorworks and Finally laser cutting, the aim of the tasks was to create a visual on Sketchup of how we would like our outcomes to look, after this we needed to draw up the individual parts to the models in Vectorworks and finally […]