It's been a while

So, the past week has been full of movie nights, studio, wood shop, and studying. That didn't leave much time for anything else. Here's a little something that I worked on in wood shop:
The edges are square, I just tried to crop out the background because the picture was a little crooked. Anyway, I made the frame and box myself here. The depth of the bottom is 2", and the depth of the top is 10". The assignment for studio is to design a room for a collector, and we were allowed to choose our client. Mine is a collector of measuring instruments. I decided to focus more on distance and length instruments. This box represents how measuring distance is relative, meaning that distance depends on how each person perceives it. I didn't have enough time to finish this yet, but hopefully it will come together some time in the future. What I like about the box is that it actually looks like the X's go back into the distance.

My professor calls perspective drawings "lies" because really it's just a flat, 2 dimensional piece of paper that slanted lines are drawn on. Here's a collage of some cool sidewalk art pieces that fool the eye into thinking that there's actually depth on a flat surface:

The trick to these is that you have to be looking at them at just the right spot, or else the art will appear horribly distorted. Here's a comparison between looking at a piece from the right and wrong angles:

Tests coming up..

So, I've got a few tests coming up. It doesn't help that all classes coordinate their test dates within the same week. There's a GEOG 122 (American Scene-basically U.S. history without the government) test on Friday the 23rd, a GEOG 160 (Mapping Our Changing World) test on Tuesday the 27th, and ART H 201 (Ancient to Medieval Architecture) is Friday the 30th, with the essay portion due the following Monday.

I'd be lying if I said I'm prepared for any of them. Well, time to get my act together and focus on those. The next post will be more about architecture things.

Uffizi done

It was due at 5:30 yesterday, and I think I did a solid job with it.

Unfortunately, the image is a little bit blurry, but you can make it out pretty well. I purposely didn't render the left side, and you can see the Palazzo Vecchio way in the back. The plan of the Uffizi and Palazzo is lightly penciled in also.

By the way, grades were given back for studio. I've got an A so far! I'm at a 92%, so I need to keep that up. 

New studio assignment, finishing VisCom

Well, our assignment for studio was introduced on Monday. It seems like it's going to be an interesting one also. My section has been charged to design a room specifically for a person who obsessively collects items of a certain type. My person collects measuring tools, so I have to do a bunch of research about all kinds of ways to measure and that includes ancient methods. Well, I am going to narrow it down some, but that's the gist of it.

For VisCom, things are close to being done. Our perspectives of the Uffizi in Florence, Italy are due at the end of Thursday's class. Here is more or less what we're drawing:

Okay, so mine isn't going to look that good, but it's on its way.

Hanging out, art museum, switching studio professors

It's about now when I'm really feeling like a regular college student. Since things are slowed down at the moment in studio and VisCom (our projects for that are due Thursday), I've played soccer right outside Stuckeman, the architecture building, a couple times in the past few days, which is much more than usual. Also, I'm going to finally get a haircut and probably throw a football around with a couple people later. For studio yesterday, we took a "backstage" tour of the Palmer Art Museum right on campus of the offices and how things work. Then, we were able to check out their graphite exhibit, which was incredible. I wish I remembered to get pictures because some of the things really were awesome. Also, we are switching up professors. The architecture students are split up into four sections, and there is a professor for each, and we are going to have each one by the end of the year.

VisCom starting up again

So, over the past week, everyone has pretty much put VisCom work in the back of their mind because of all the studio things we had to do. Basically we have to do a relatively large one-point perspective for Tuesday. It shouldn't be much of a problem because we are going to get our Halloween costume project for studio tomorrow, and usually the first phase of projects is light. Crits yesterday went pretty well; not much was said about mine, unfortunately. There won't be any new pictures for a while it seems. I'll find more about the next studio project tomorrow.

Done

So, for the past few days I've been working pretty hard getting things done. Here's the evidence:

Elevation and Entrance plan with shading.

Campus plan with the added path.

A completely new one that shows the inside of the windowed wall (a Sbarro pizza eating area):

Elevation/section with more brick showing and it shows more than the last one.

There still is VisCom to do, but that's for Thursday. I have my crit tomorrow for studio, so I'm going to dress nice for that. But as for now, I'm going to relax a little (yes, just a little).

Working toward Sunday

Sunday at 7:00 p.m. is when the arch 131s project is due! I've been getting my work done and so far I seem to be on schedule. I have finished (just about) a couple drafts and I think they're pretty decent:

I still need to shade the plant areas in and make some lines darker, but other than that this one's done. Here is an elevation and the entrance plan at 1/4" = 1'. Notice the additional single door I added in that little corner as well as the path which you can see better in the site plan below. I also moved the location of a four person table along with three two-person tables near the bottom of the page along the wall.

Shaded in and looking pretty, here's the site plan at 1/8" = 1'. The tree drip lines are drawn here, and the path going downhill from the sidewalk is a real good addition because my goal is to increase the amount of people who use my space, which is the reason for the added door also.

More to come! I still have two more drafts and another perspective (or two) including my additions.