Culminating ProjectFor you culminating project the following needs to be done:
Please note - all papers must have first and last names clearly written on them. January 9, 2017Here's what we have covered so far:
Drawing and SketchingWe sketch to convey ideas quickly. Sketches can be quick and lack detail, or be elaborate and show a lot of detail - often in what are called 'callouts' - or annotations designed to bring attention to an area of your sketch and explain/show it in more detail.
What Makes a Sketch, a Sketch?
Eleven attributes that make sketching valuable and important. Sketches are:
Quick - We don't need to spend a lot of time mulling over our ideas.
Timely - Its super easy to whip up a sketch in the middle of a meeting to help describe an idea.
Inexpensive - All you need is something to write on and a pen.
Disposable - If the idea doesn't last, it doesn't hurt to recycle some paper.
Plentiful - It only takes a couple hours to jam through 40 or more sketches.
Have a clear vocabulary - When someone sees a sketch, they intuitively know its just an idea or a "what if'."
A distinct gesture - Sketches are loose and invite conversation and collaboration.
Have minimal detail - Don't sweat the details, just get your idea on paper to spark something with your team.
Have the appropriate level of refinement - The rough feeling of a sketch helps keep the conversations broad.
They suggest and explore rather than confirm - We can ask questions and start a conversation about the problems at hand. We decide on details later.
They are ambiguous - Sketches leave ideas open for misinterpretation and give people the chance to read into them further. This often leads to even better ideas and make people feel invested.
Even if you aren't good at art, there are tricks to sketching:
techniques:
tricks to lettering
Exercise:grab paper, try 5 squares, circles, ellipses, stars
Use bounding boxes that are all the same size. Come up with your own font by making the rectangles different sizes and fit the letters of your first name in each box. Determine if you want to have solid or empty letters.
PerspectiveWhen considering perspective we consider 2 possible vanishing points in this course. A vanishing point is one of possibly several points in a 2D image where lines that are parallel in the 3D source converge. We typically only examine 1 and 2 point perspective in high school (1 vanishing point or 2).
  Try this!Step 1:
Set up your canvass. Make sure you know the MAXIMUM EXTENT that your drawings will occupy (e.g. make sure your objects fit in the overall box). After this make sure that you draw your vanishing point lines. Not all 1-point perspective drawings have vanishing points in the dead center of the drawing, but if they do, you can simply make a large 'X' and the crossing point is the vanishing point.
 Setting up your canvass by determining scale, and overall dimensions
Step 2:
Place your faced objects at the appropriate coordinates (sometimes it helps to further subdivide your page into halves or even quarters to ensure placement of the objects is correct. All X and Y coordinates are face-on to the viewer with NO perspective. All Z axis (i.e. going into the distance) lines disappear towards the vanishing point. Ensure all lines are light so that when you erase eclipsing lines you don't have heavy traces over your page.
 Setting up your objects of interest
Step 3:
Carefully erase all lines that are eclipsed.
 2-Point Perspective 
Non-PerspectiveThe other view that we examine in this course is that of NO perspective which can be useful in attending to either measurements or detail. Non-perspective drawings we will consider are orthographic drawings (simple 2D of the face of an object with absolutely no perspective) and isometric drawings (which show 3 dimensions, but with no perspective).
Orthographic projections and ElevationsAn orthographic drawing is one where there is no perspective and you are only showing the face of an object. Often labeled as the elevation (e.g. front/top/side/back) orthographic drawings usually come in a 3-pack Front/Top/Side which together form what is called the orthographic projection. These are used quite frequently in manufacturing of objects since each face can be shown in some detail without the distraction of perspective.
An elevation simply looks like this:
  Isometric and Orthographic SketchingOrthographic projections from isometric sourceAs we said earlier, one of the benefits of working on an orthographic drawing is that there is an unchanging scale as long as you continue to work in the same units. To that end, you need to understand measurements and scale.
Rulers and SCALE
 Imperial system vs. Metric systemThe metric system is a very straightforward system where units of measurement for length/distance simply operate on factors of 10. E.g. 1000 m = 1 km and 1000 mm = 1m. Your whole life you've been taught metric - however, there are industries around the world which use the IMPERIAL system of measurement.
For example:
Here is a look at the IMPERIAL SYSTEM, as it is used to measure LENGTH (or distance):
Some common examples of these units include…
Imperial Units
Examples
The division of ONE inch (and thus any inch) is broken down into whatever divisions you want. Mostly commonly we break down into halves, quarters, eights and sometimes in this course sixteenths.
 ScaleSometimes when we draw, if we were to draw everything in the real world on paper we'd have to use a GIANT sheet of paper (for example, a FRONT ELEVATION - see below). Because the scale of such drawings are often smaller than life-size, an architect's scale features multiple units of length and proportional length increments.
Common scales in architecture are (note: the two columns do NOT show equivalence in measure):
This house is probably drawn at 1:50 or 1:100 (SI) or 1:48 (Imperial)
 Complete the following on a blank piece of paper:
 Assignment #2 - Orthographic ProjectionsComplete the following orthographic projection worksheets using the 1 square is equal to 1/4 inch.
Part 3 of the assignment - you are to frame a wall using one 8' 2"x4" (remember that wood shrinks 1/2 inch). Your wall must be 2 feet wide, you decide the height but can't use more than the one 2x4. You are to create an orthographic drawing of your wall to scale.
Evaluation
Dec 13, 2016Dec 2 - group survey
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