Site Plan

Elevation

The actually image isn't quite as dark as this but the files always end up a little darker when compressing them to fit them onto the blog.

Axonometric Drawing with Site

Window Diagrams

3 Interior Views

Pod development

Not finished

Back Space

I've been working on visualising some of the interior scenes of my building. This is inside the rear section of the building. Fairly dark, I want the space to be filled with steam from the coffee machines throughout the room. This particular space is designed for the occasional visitor and the spaces that follow are to become more dramatic as the materiality, furnishings, light and steam will start to distort and reflect the stronger caffeine available in those zones. This is because the program of the building now revolves around the idea of a series of spaces that are for stronger and stronger caffeine highs with a more distorted architecture to reflect this.

Exploded View

Returning To The Window

I have also been returning to my window project and spending time creating a three dimensional version to help illustrate my proposal more clearly. These are 2 early renders where I have begun to define some of the individual elements but there is plenty more I have added since and I will upload the progress soon.

Adding To My Axonometric

I'm still adding different elements to my axonometric in preparation for a model I'll be hoping to get laser cut over the next week. This is a little pile of the pieces. Still lots and lots more to add :-(

new section

Pioneers of the Downtown Scene, New York 1970s

Performance artist and musician Laurie Anderson, choreographer Trisha Brown and artist Gordon Matta-Clark were friends and active participants in the New York art community, working fluidly between visual art and performance.

With the city as their backdrop, canvas, stage and inspiration, this exhibition is the first major presentation to examine the experimental and often daring approaches taken by these three key figures, both individually and collectively, in the burgeoning arts scene in downtown New York during the 1970s.

New York City provided a powerful context for the work of Anderson, Brown and Matta-Clark.

exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery
3 March 2011 - 22 May 2011
http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=11398
thanks to Elena Gakoumaki for the link

Development of Dwelling and Cinema Spaces

VITO ACCONCI

BARTLETT SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE - INTERNATIONAL LECTURE SERIES 2011
18:30 - 20:30
This week:
Friday 25 February: VITO ACCONCI | NB: New Venue: Christopher Ingold Auditorium | "From Words to Action to Architecture" (introduced by Peter Cook)

more details here: http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/events/lectures/lectures.htm

More Work Uploaded to

http://adamshaplandart.tumblr.com/

Artists

These are a few of the artists that I have been looking at recently in my project:

http://www.jonathanbrilliant.com/

http://www.baptistedebombourg.com/

http://www.norikoambe.com/

Some Axo

New York Parks 1880

http://adamshaplandart.tumblr.com/

drawings collection

a collection of drawings submitted to an architectural blogger. This is a useful source for inspiration on different drawing techniques:
http://drawingarchitecture.tumblr.com/

drawings database

A useful tool: Architectural CAD drawings database with details
http://www.hb2.tuwien.ac.at/dbase/ddb/index.php?rr=382356

LINE

Extract from Lebbeus Woods' blog:

"Even though I am best known for my drawings, and have spent many years as a teacher of architects, I have never taught drawing. The reason is that each person who wants to draw should devise his or her own way. It makes no sense to teach a method or style of drawing, because drawing is a way of thinking, and it would be wrong to didactically teach a method or style of thinking. Each person must learn from the drawers—and the thinkers—who appeal most to them, and then devise their own ways. Originality—in drawing and thinking—is important, for the same reasons that individuality in all matters of existence is important: it confirms the wonder, and the terror, of the human condition."
read more here: http://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2008/05/05/line/

D. Libeskind, Micromegas, 1981. One of the greatest architectural drawings in line.