Course Overview
Introduces graphic representation as an explanatory design tool. As a means of communicating one's design intent, this exploration is to be simultaneously open-ended and rigorous as the students work through a process of curiosity, discovery, (self) criticism and understanding. The course will be structured around a series of drawing exercises, building in complexity. The emphasis will be on the making of meaningful representations.
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Learning Outcomes
At the end of this course the student will be able to:
- Utilize drawing as a tool for thinking and re-thinking design decisions, enabling exploration and refinement of the design process.
- Represent ideas/ concepts using various graphic techniques.
- Observe, as a pre-requisite for putting pencil to paper, the surrounding environment with a sharpened sense of perception.
- Draw the site/situation relating the shape of public space as formed by the structures.
- Produce figure-ground/ground-figure drawings.
- Sketch the natural and built environment including plantings, site, structures, and materials.
- Organize collected observations and data through graphic means such as diagrams, charts, graphs, and lists.
- Produce site analysis drawings which incorporate topographic information, maps, sun path diagrams, wind, vegetation, photographs, sketches, drawings.
- Utilize constructed perspective drawing as a working tool to study formal, spatial and material qualities of spaces and structures.
- Use shade, shadow, colour and texture to communicate the materiality of things.
- Sketch the human figure in proportion to the surroundings.
- Construct composite drawings/collages with hand drawings, maps, photographs, and computer generated images.
- Work in teams to resolve certain graphic problems.
- Use available resources, such as instructors, mentors, library (books, magazines, journals, photographs, slides), and internet, to research graphic precedents.
- Study historical roots of measured drawing including geometry, projection, and measurement.
Effective as of Fall 2003
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