Over the course of the last week, I used a digital pen to record the strokes I make when drawing/sketching. The most interesting drawings were a series of sketches done for "The Facade" class, a course dedicated (as the title suggests) to learning how to more effectively design building facades. The title of the assigment was "The Difficult Whole," in that we were to design a building facade consisting of either 4 bays, 3 to 4 stories tall in horizontal format, or 2 or 4 bays, 4 to 6 stories tall in vertical format. The challenge was in that there is no clear center (as with a 3 or 5 bay format), and that is comprised of components that aren't grounded, that threaten to "rip apart," but has an element that tethers the composition together. The sketches recorded using the digital pen are my efforts at developing this "difficult whole." After the drawings were downloaded, I imported them into Adobe Illustrator and did some simple renderings, to emphasize the different materials, i.e. to distinguish the windows from the solid masonry, for instance.
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I really like seeing the incremental efforts to create variations on the ideas. Adding a dark tone for the glazing brings out the most crucial pieces of the compositions and the using black lines to bring out the highlighted ones also works well. Overall, the sheet would be more unified and easier to read if you grouped similar facades together in a quiet matrix. That is, the six small horizontal facades should be together in a 3 x 2 grid next to the large final one and its axon, and similar for the vertical facade. That way we can grasp the study more quickly.
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