Session 3 - Architectural Drawing

In-Class drawings:

The above is a perspective drawing of the Botta house. I have chosen not to use any rendering for the building because the form of the building itself is already interesting enough to catch the attention of viewers. I have also added details of the brick using pencil but outlined the building using a pen, which provides a bit more detail to the drawing in compensation of the absence of rendering. To express the depth of building in the drawing, I have drawn three human figures (2 downhill, 1 uphill) at different depths. This not only gives clear indication of the scale of the building, but more importantly express the tranquility and loneliness of it.

This cup rendering task is probably my best drawing for this session. In response to the objective of presenting a plan, section and elevation of a cup shown in class, I have approached the drawing with a more graphical method than a technical method, where the outlines are faint and the form of the cup is expression through the rendering. Most of the measurements are guessed and it was a very satisfying process to solidify the shape and depth of the cup through memory instead of exact measurements.


This is a draft of the ideas for the final presentation of this session. The top shows one idea where one vanishing point is situated at the centre of the page and the drawings would stretch out from the centre. Other ideas experiment on the different layouts of the drawings in 2D.


A rendering exercise of the Healey house by Neville Gruzman. The time spent on this exercise was particularly short and I don't find the exercise as useful as it was meant to be.




Final Presentation:

The approach for this presentation is to place the drawings in a logical sequence but also exhibit the sloping element of the Botta House. The plans, sections and elevations are all places in a sloping fasion which references the slope section at the bottom right corner of the whole drawing. And by sequencing, the plans are lined from the bottom floor to top with a hierarchy of placement. The plans then leads directly downwards to the east and north section, and the building completes a whole rotation by adding the west and south elevation at the side with the same hierarchy of placement. Lastly, the elevation leads directly to the perspective drawing right below. This particular sequencing is to exhibit a journey of the process thinking of the building, where plans lead to sections, sections leads to elevation, and finally elevation leads to form.