Workshop 5: Storyboarding - (Re)presenting representations

    

Week 1: The concepts

Week 2: the beginning 

Sketchup by Belal Bezri

Week 3: Esquisse

Week 4: Final Submission

By Belal Bezri

I found this workshop to be really enjoyable and interesting. At first it seemed very confusing and i was worried that it will be Workshop 3 all over again. However even though it was similar, it was also very different. I was lucky enough to be partnered up with a really awesome person who I seemed to get along with easily. We shared pretty much the same ideas and with the ones that were different, we managed to reach a compromise. Ideas were easily to come by during the workshop but it was implementing the ideas that was difficult. However in the end, I believe that we did our best in Implementing our ideas into a good model. Overall, I really enjoyed the workshop, but less on day one where the presentation totally blew my mind away and i was left pretty much dumbfounded.

Workshop 1: Architectural Drawing

Week 1
Layout: Teacup

Week 2
Perspectives,

One point

Two point

Week 3

Shadows 

Rose Seidler

Week 4

Major Project, the Rose Seidler House

Photo taken at the site

Perspective

Plan/Elevation/Section

My experience in this workshop can be summarised in a few words: surprising, calming, intimidating and inexperienced. From the very first week, I could tell that I lacked skills in drawing compared to the other students, those that are primarily Architecture students. However I still found all the exercises to be enjoyable and somewhat calming as it allows me to relax. Many of the exercises also happened to be surprisingly time consuming, as there were many different and difficult techniques that I had to learn each lesson and implementing these techniques takes time. The many drawing techniques taught by the tutors include the different ways to show a 3D aspect of an object such as darkening lines, shadows and perspective drawing. 

Workshop 3 Experimental Modeling

Submission 1

The public and the private  + blur
An amalgamation of ideas inspired by text and an architectural item.

Submission 2
The Urban. The living organism of change. Inspired by a wandering within the city.

Submission 3

(De)Construction, Representation of ideas gathered throughout the workshop

I found this workshop to be extremely confusing and difficult. Modelling the abstract is not exactly what I'm used to. It was very hard for me to grasp what was required in the first exercise as I was pretty much in the dark to what was wanted. However after the first and second week, I began to feel more relaxed and began to enjoy creating models, but still very much in the dark most of the times as the tutors were very vague about what they wanted or expected.