Next phase

So, for arch 131s, we've started a new phase of our assignment. The students are to "intervene" on their site and change things around the way they see fit. Once we have our ideas and all, we're supposed to do all our drafts over again showing the changes. Here are a few pictures of what my site/door actually look like:

So, the topmost picture is of my perspective drawing I put up earlier, and the middle picture is of the other perspective drawing I put up. The bottom one is just a nice shot with my door hidden behind some draping plants.

I'm still in what I call the brainstorming phase of the assignment; all these ideas are coming and going and actually visiting the site helped me realize what I can and can't do. I'll probably visit tomorrow as well, even for a little bit. My sketch book is really being used right now as I have filled seven pages in the past two days of just rough sketches and some notes.

For VisCom, I finally finished my temple drawings and here they are:

The upper is the axonometric (axon), and it has a section cut 1/3 the way up the columns, so it shows the naos (inside room) and where each of the columns are placed but still retaining all the correct dimensions. Note: these aren't perspectives because they don't have vanishing points, so they still keep their proportions except when it comes to irregular angles such as the roof on the isometric (bottom). The difference between axon and iso is that axon typically keeps right angles at right angles, and iso widens that angle, to give it the illusion of being more of a perspective. Look closely at the nearest bottom corner and you can tell the difference in angles.

Although it's been a while and these got considerably smudged (a brief photoshop editing session couldn't even make it look nice). The reason for what look like smudges on my other things is because the only table that's low enough for me to take photos on is really marked up. Monday is going to be my section's first trip to the wood shop! I'm excited because I really enjoyed the class in high school.