Action Verbs

This shows the conclusion after speculating the window project for a while.

Speculate

Meditation and Celebration was the topic for our past project. When working on this project we had to think about creating light by both celebration and meditation. Speculating came in handy when working on these window projects because it helped us think and come up with different ideas by meditating different areas that the light came in through the window. I already had the basic design, however, within the next couple ideas after speculating the design for a while I realized that their needed to be some changes. In designing many things will change because the first iterations are just drafts that need to be improved. Another way speculate can be talked about is by something that is seen ahead of time. Baudelaire “clearly anticipated the challenges modern art must face” (Weston 16) By this we see how he speculated that he must ‘set up his house in the heart of the multitude’. Ahead of time he speculated what he must do and his vision of what he wanted this place to be known as.



This is one of the drawings that I have composed so far of the Chrysler Building.

Compose


There are many things that I can relate to compositions. One of the main things we are required to compose is the Opus. This composition is made up by reviewing everything we have done throughout the week and different information that we learned from History class. Also in History class we are working on the Precedent Analysis project where we are concentrating on one building in particular, in my case the Chrysler Building in New York City, where we will compose multiple drawings of our building and create one big presentation where the way you layout your information will be critical.

This drawing began as just a pencil drawing. However, after adding color it energized the overall appearance and made it look realistic.

Energize

Last week we worked on the composition of Fallingwater, where we drew different interior and exterior view of this house. However, we began by just creating an outline that was then made final with going over it in pen. This wasn’t the end. We then worked on energizing this drawing by adding color. This enlivened the drawing and made it look real. I feel that in everything we do we should add something to it to give it “oomph” or energize to give it more excitement. A way Richard Weston talks about energizing is by using columns to raise the house of the ground. I feel like this energizes the house because it “emphasizes the cubic nature of the building by enabling the underside of the first floor slab to be seen.”(Weston 9) This way it is easier for people and cars to circulate around the house.

This is an outline of one of the walls. As you can see this section drawing just shows you the overall shape of it without it being 3D.

Shape

In drafting class we worked on reproducing both on paper and by creating a model of two rooms. I realized when recording the dimension for these rooms that it is very important to keep in mind the shape/outline of the overall room. One thing that we did was taking away the wall that connects both rooms and we had to keep just the outline and the basic shape and duplicate in on the floor plan. I feel that the overall shape of something is very important. However, when reading the handout on modernism we see how different pioneers shaped the world in a different way. For example Nicephore Niepce and Louis Daguerre produced the first negative/positive process in 1841. However later on George Eastman “invented flexible negative film and five year’s later launched the Kodak No 1 camera and roll film, initiating the era of universal, hannd[held snapshots.” (Weston18) This was one of the ways that shaped peoples sense of the world through photography.

Going from the section drawing you can say it is stretched out and made 3D.

Stretch
Working on from the floor plans and section cuts we were to extend these drawings a little further where we were to create a model. In many ways this is like stretching the drawings a little further to get a better understanding of what the drawings may be. We see through Brunel’s production lines that were widely stretched “demonstrated… that machine-tools could in principle replace most, if not all, of the traditional crafts.”(Weston12) We see that throughout the stretch of time machine-tools will affect both the social and economic outlook.



Different designers often speculate the are that they are planning on working on.Then they go further into this process and compose their actual thoughts both on paper and reality. This design that they do energizes the area and gives it a different feel. This area is then shaped to fit the main design which begins to stretch and become bigger.