Marisha Aya - week four

Heya guys! sorry for the late post for week three studio work :/ had a few issues with the laptop but it's up and running again!

Below are two images from the weeks charette activity, the second one being the one I edited slightly after a bit of discussion with Marie, about how even the smallest of additions to a drawing can bring it to life.

Just a heads up, the image is sort of divided vertically through the middle of the page (imagine an imaginary line) where on one side, the side with the cube, has been rendered naturally, with the shadows being the darkest and the areas where the light hits the surface being the lightest. However, on the pyramid side of the page, this normality has been reversed, so the place where the shadows were cast appear to be the lightest areas. Sorry for the confusion, I just wanted to experiment with this contrast, and looking at the two images, a very uncomfortable vibe is created, particularly when the eye travels to the junction of the pyramid and the cube and focuses on the contrast of the shadow cast on the cube by the pyramid and the natural shadow of the pyramid itself. 

 As can be seen, where the pyramid ends and where the cube begins is hard to distinguished, so, I added a little more shadow to the cube where it intersects with the edge of the pyramid, using the contrast as a means to bring the pyramid 'further out' visually.

I have also attached the section drawings that I have completed so far. I found these drawings to be very challenging and time consuming in particular, perhaps because of the precision and accuracy required for them; something we have not practised over the previous weeks. However, I do think it was a good activity for us in terms of actually learning how the space is segregated within the model itself and how all these individual 'slices' forms the final model in the end when layered one upon another (refer to last image).

paper model sectional

wooden model sectional

Compilation and layering of the wooden model sectionals to visually understand how each section related to the other and how they all 'fit' to become one unit.

Let me know what you think =)