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    Representation Studio presentations

    HS Solie
    Dec 7, '11 4:46 PM EST

    Today was the final day and showcase of our Representation Studio, a 2nd year grad student wide course focused on representation and its various methods and techniques.  

    from the syllabus...

    "Here in Taubman College, the discipline and program of Architecture are at a
    crossroads with regard to representation. Amid rapidly-changing sets of personal
    and professional media practices, the Architecture program needs to rethink its
    representational conventions."

    Since there are over a 100 of us 2nd year students, we were broken up into smaller sections focusing on more specific representational interests.

     

    Christian Unverzagt section

    Wireframing. This section will pursue and develop a disciplined approach to the
    construction of measured drawings through various drawing analogues, such as
    metal wire assemblies. It will do so via forms of projection traditionally used for
    architectural production, including orthographic and perspectival methods and seek
    to expand those methods through others often characterized as deviant from those
    of the classical viewer, including parallax and anamorphosis. It will seek to expand
    the domain of drawing and include digital tools (Rhino and Illustrator), hand
    drawing, and techniques of light gauge metal fabrication including bending,
    soldering, and perhaps welding(!). The subject matter will be the wire chair, a
    prime example of a material assembly that supports the body and engages the eye
    in a way that is simultaneously repetitive, economical, layered, and flattened and
    speaks to the capacity for systems to expand the capability of a normative element.

     

    Kyle Reynolds section

     Real Fake over Fake Real. This section will question the popular misconception
    that contemporary digital media can effectively produce realism through
    representation. For inevitably, the bias of media brings expression to every act of
    representation, even those assumed to be literal documentation, and more skillful
    practitioners recognize this. As a way to explore alternatives to the realism trend,
    this section will apply a series of projective techniques; Camera, Collage, and
    Cartoon; to the interpretation of eight canonical houses of the 20th century. You
    will be asked to become more casual about moving among media (Rhino, AutoCAD,
    Illustrator, Photoshop, Hand Drawing, Photography and Physical Models). Casual,
    however, should not be mistaken for careless. Instead, the intention is to develop
    precise mastery of techniques, fluent translations of objects and images, better
    intuition for expressive bias, and quick projections of attitudes and ideas. The final
    project will be an interpretive collage, across chosen media.

     

    James Macgillvray section

    Point.  The section will look at what could be called “no vanishing point” systems
    of projective drawing. Beginning with Piero della Francesca and what Robin Evans
    calls the “Other Method,” the section will learn firsthand through drawing a simple
    object how this method works without a vanishing point in the distance between
    the eye and the object. Further, we will look at how this method carried over into
    the descriptive geometry of Gaspard Monge and Girard Desargues. The subject
    matter for these representations will be a lo-tech motion capture of an everyday
    movement; using camera and some ping pong balls, students will document in plan
    and elevation, the points of a simple bodily motion. This will be the raw material
    for the drawings and further manipulations. Although we will be looking at hand
    drawn techniques students will be required to prepare drawings in AutoCAD.

     

    Tsz Yan Ng section

     Assembly. While parametric modeling and iterative transformative modeling
    techniques have shifted the way we look at components of prototyping, fabrication,
    and construction, the complex ways in which we still rely on drawing as ultimately
    the communicating device is still paramount. As we enter the age of global
    production whereby drawings are sent half way around the world, clarity to
    communicating design intentions and fabrication processes are key to architectural
    production. This section will investigate, through the production of a horizontal
    surface, the various ways in which complex assemblies are drawn, described,
    fabricated, and packaged with comprehensive directions for final assembly. In
    teams of two, each group will select an assembly system, made up of a limited
    number of varied and related units, to examine communication techniques of
    diagramming 2D+3D and production of coordinated sets of directions for making and
    assembly. Final submission will include prototypes and a formatted comprehensive
    set of drawing

     

     

    I was lucky enough to be in this last section, Ng section, will post soon with images and information on our section's individual presentation.

     



     
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